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I sat down with Kensuke Yoshitomi yesterday to talk a bit about Lunar Knights, Kojima Productions upcoming sequel of sorts to the GBA franchise Boktai. After showing up embarrassingly late, we got down to rapping about how glorious the Nintendo DS is.
The DS version is drop kicking the solar sensor for a very specific reason—kids in Scandinavia complained that they couldn't play the game due to lack of sunlight.
Kojima himself told Yoshitomi that he was concerned about towheaded boys and girls to the ultra-north getting their vampire slay on and that they should make a new game. Fortunately for them, the solar powered gimmickry has been dropped, in favor of blowing into the microphone, stylus shmupping, and 2D role playing.
I hadn't really given the game much consideration until we started talking, but it's starting to sound like a must have. Interviewing developers is easy, but when genuinely nice guys show the coolest aspects of their games it's often hard on the wallet.
