Can I play and fully understand this without playing 1 first? 2 looks much better to me and seems to have villages unlike 1. 3 just looks weird
Can I play and fully understand this without playing 1 first?
Can I play and fully understand this without playing 1 first? 2 looks much better to me and seems to have villages unlike 1. 3 just looks weird
Anon, when you read a book, do you open it up at any page in the middle?
There are a lot of sequels with a mostly self-contained story and arc of tension
No, it directly continues where the first game ends.
2 is a lot better. You actually get a sword and other weapons and a cool transformation. You just have your dumb taser in 1
Story is irrelevant and shallow so this hardly matters. Many people started with or only played 2
>2 is a lot better. You actually get a sword and other weapons and a cool transformation. You just have your dumb taser in 1
This
1 doesn't have a sword?
Please answer this anon
Your only weapon in Boktai 1 is the Gun Del Sol, but you can customize it with gun parts found and dungeons, and with certain parts you can turn it into a laser sword or sorts. It's a just a short-ranged, sword-shaped beam that comes out of your gun and stays glued to it (so you can stab enemies in the butt or swing and spin around while standing still), so don't expect to become a solar jedi with it.
It's essentially a worse version of Boktai 3 (both gameplay-wise and, funnily enough, lore-wise as well), everything about the game is toddler-tier easy but often the game feels like a chore.
>dungeons have very few puzzles (compared to Boktai), but maps are often too large just because you have a dash ability
>said puzzles are all toddler-level easy (and I suppose toddlers are the game's target audience)
>enemies barely fight back but they have just enough HP to waste your time, and every now and then you find yourself in "trap" rooms (kill all enemies to proceed)
>despite being more combat-focused than Boktai games, most weapons are kinda mediocre (Lucian's starting sword is deals good damage and is very versatile so you will be using it most of the time)
>Boktai's coffin and purification segments were replaced by an awful bootleg Star Fox mini-game
>Boktai's sun gimmick was replaced with a mostly pointless weather system (though I guess that doesn't mean much if you are emulating the game)
>gotta grind levels and weapons if you don't want to deal with even more annoying HP sponges
>you play as a literal cuck, and the secret ending reinforces it
But the sword's combo animation looks kinda cool (for a DS game using GBA assets), I guess.
Not really, all three of them are direct sequels, but the first game is very light in terms of story: aside from the adventure itself, you learn about the setting, Django and Sabata's origins, and the connection between Sabata and Carmilla. These things are briefly mentioned in Boktai 2, but it's not like you "need" a lot of details: you can ignore the stuff you don't understand until it clicks in your head and you just "oh, so I guess that happened in the first game" all the way to the credits roll (like any other sequel when you don't feel like playing the original).
But the third game's story and setting are a bit confusing if you didn't play Boktai 2 because the third game refuses explain shit (the very first thing you do in the game is a boss fight with the big bad).
>2 looks much better to me and seems to have villages unlike 1. 3 just looks weird
That is because Boktai 2 is an action RPG, while Botkai 1 is a stealth game (kinda like Metal Gear but with a talking sunflower instead of a CODEC). The gameplay/controls are similar but the game design are very different.
Botkai 3 is also an action RPG and is fairly similar to Boktai 2, but they replaced the connected world with motorcycles and a world map.
why would you skip 1? it's the best game in the series. 2 adds a bunch of rpg elements that dont gel with the core gameplay at all. 3 got the balance just right but the pointless motorcycle levels and lack of an interconnected world made it feel very 1 step forward, 1 step back. Don't even bother with lunar knights, it's a fucking slog.
3 fucking sucks dick, back to baby difficulty of the first game with shit new mechanics. Everything good in 3 is just reused stuff from 2. First game is alright but very one dimensional and easy, ok for a first title but Boktai 2 is the best.
1 is a perfect mix of Zelda and Metal Gear, its brilliance is in its simplicity. 2 took a stealth/puzzle solving game and tried to turn it into an action rpg, adding systems to encourage grinding fights on top of a foundation of the exact opposite of that sort of thing. As lackluster as some parts of 3 are at least it tried to get the series back on track.
2 had actually well designed dungeons and overworld and varied mechanics, but I don't expect a zelda/mgsfag to pick up on that, not enough hand holding.
>Don't even bother with lunar knights, it's a fucking slog.
Do you mind elaborating?
I've got it on my R4 and was thinking about trying it.
I'm pretty sure this is another thread by this guy
who appears to want to play Boktai and wants to skip the first game but needs a reason so he keeps asking and ignoring the obvious advice to play the first one first.
Don’t skip the first game if you like MGS
I played 2 before 1 since it was easier to find physical back then. Still need to beat 3