History VideoGame / Boktai

* UndergroundMonkey: Used in all four games, though sometimes coloration is used as a hint to its [[ElementalRockPaperScissors elemental affinity]]. This is more egregious in ''Lunar Knights'', where many enemies are colored solely by affinity - namely, the Ghouls, Vorns, Slimes, Hounds, and Klorofolun come in different colors on this alone. The Slimes, strangely enough, are the only ones in this group that come in [[LightEmUp Sol]] flavor.

* BraggingRightsReward: The "Infinite Battery" in the first game. In the [[BonusDungeon Azure Sky Tower]], you had to get all the Emblems. So complete the Solar Tree; beat the game once, and then a random emblem from entering the tower. ''THEN'' you used SocializationBonus with your army of friends who got different random emblems - if two save files both had the same emblem, neither file would get anything, even if one file already had all the emblems. The Luna Emblem comes when you got all the others. The Tower is initially 12 floors long; and each floor (aside from the three mini-boss floors spaced out through the tower) requires you to fight a key to the next via one of the enemies wandering around. At the top you can get the best frames depending on which emblems you have; and if you had the Luna Emblem you can fight the [[BonusBoss Silvery White Knight]] for the Phantom Frame. These are all useful, and aren't the bragging rights reward. Beating the tower (regardless of whether or not you fight the boss) adds 3 floors to the tower. Keep doing this until there are 99 floors. This will require doing the tower 29 times; and with each run having more floors; you're going to travel ''1665'' floors (12+15+18...93+96+99 floors). ''Then and only then'' you can beat the Silvery White Knight and get the Infinite Battery.

** The [[UnwillingRoboticization vampire brides]] Laura and Carmilla are expies of the Solar Bank and Dark Loans clerks from ''Boktai 2''; Carmilla pulls double-duty as a [[CompositeCharacter composite]] expy of the original ''Boktai'' Carmilla.

** Lisabeth, with her brown hair, white blouse, and blue apron, seems like a younger copy of Lita; she even has hints of being a LoveInterest for Aaron.

** Alice is an expy of Zazie, and even inherits her RedBaron title of "Sunflower Girl".

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Ringo]] holds down Dainn in ''Boktai 2'', so that Django can purify them both.
%%** Depending on which ending you get, any combination of [[spoiler: Carmilla, Sabata, and/or Otenko]] in ''Boktai 3''.

** Inverted in ''Lunar Knights'', where Bea wears a BareYourMidriff FormFittingOutfit and Alice wears a tank-top and short-shorts, but the villains are all decked out in heavy clothes.

** Aaron (jp. "Django") and Lucian (jp. "Sabata") are expies of the original Solar and Lunar Boy, Django and Sabata. Each of them has a [[SuperMode Trance Mode]] resembling the original Django's Sol and [[spoiler:Vampire]] transformations from the original trilogy.

* CluelessAesop: The ''Lunar Knights'' finale gives what it thinks is a HardTruthAesop by insisting that all lives are precious, vampires included. This is both (A) thematically irrelevant to the ideas of vengeance and justice motivating the characters and (B) wholly undercut by waiting until the last minute, after declaring every other atrocity-committing vampire worthy of execution, to justify ''their boss'', who brutally conquered the planet specifically to save vampires, gave them free reign to bedevil mankind, and made a [[UnwillingRoboticization vampire's bride]] of Lucian's loved one. Dumas is just as deserving of death as his subordinates ''if not more so'', and it's a little late to start talking about the value of vampire life when Dumas is the last one on the planet.

* CluelessAesop: The ''Lunar Knights'' finale gives what it thinks is a HardTruthAesop by insisting that all lives are precious, vampires included, which is both (A) thematically irrelevant to the ideas of vengeance and justice motivating the heroes all game and (B) wholly undercut by waiting until the last minute, after treating every other atrocity-committing vampire as worthy of execution, to justify their boss, who gave them free reign to torment mankind, brutally asserted his own rule over the planet, and made a [[UnwillingRoboticization vampire's bride]] of Lucian's loved one. Dumas is just as deserving of death as his subordinates ''if not more so''. To start talking about the value of vampire life is completely off-base.

* CluelessAesop: The ''Lunar Knights'' finale gives what it thinks is a HardTruthAesop by insisting that all lives are precious, vampires included, which is both (A) irrelevant to the themes of vengeance and justice motivating the heroes all game and (B) completely undercut by waiting until the last minute, after treating every other atrocity-committing vampire as worthy of being slain, to defend the vampire lord that gave them free reign and kidnapped at least one vampire bride himself.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: Klorofolun is a rather interesting translation for "Chloroform"; this enemy type would be more appropriately translated as "Chloroformin'" in ''Lunar Knights''.

* BraggingRightsReward: The "Infinite Battery" in the first game. In the [[BonusDungeon Azure Sky Tower]], you had to get all the Emblems. So complete the Solar Tree; beat the game once, and then a random emblem from entering the tower. ''THEN'' you used SocializationBonus with your army of friends who got different random emblems - if two save files both had the same emblem, neither file would get anything, even if one file already had all the emblems. The Luna Emblem comes when you got all the others. The Tower is initially 12 floors long; and each floor (aside from the three mini-boss floors spaced out through the tower) requires you to fight a key to the next via one of the enemies wandering around. At the top you can get the best frames depending on which emblems you have; and if you had the Luna Emblem you can fight the [[BonusBoss Silvery White Knight]] for the Phantom Frame. These are all useful, and aren't the bragging rights reward. Beating the tower (regardless of whether or not you fight the boss) adds 3 floors to the tower. Keep doing this until there are 99 floors. This will require doing the tower 29 times; and with each run having more floors; you're going to travel ''1665'' floors (12+15+18...93+96+99 floors). ''Then and only then'' you can beat the Silvery White Knight and get the Infinite Battery.

** A class of frames (Spear-type) can do this.

* CrossOver: With Capcom's VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork series. [=ShadeMan=] is a BonusBoss in the second game, whose defeat earns the player [=MegaMan=]'s Mega Buster. Also includes a trope name invoking battle mode called [=Crossover Battle=] where each respective game races to defeat [=ShadeMan=] in their own game's rules before the other. This gets inverted in Battle Network 6's Japanese version and Shinbok, where The Count is the BonusBoss in Battle Network 6. [[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork MegaMan.exe]] can also appear in Shinbok's motorcycle minigame either as a cameo, or as a playable character instead of Django. (If you equip the right armor pieces) Crossover Battle also returns in Shinbok, with the same mechanics as in Zoktai, but with the Count as the boss.
** ''Lunar Knights''' Japanese version had one with ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce'' where Aaron and Lucian ran into Geo Stelar tracking down a rampant Taurus Fire.

** [[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork MegaMan.exe]] helps Django out in ''Boktai 2'' and ''Boktai 3''. There's crossovers in the ''Battle Network'' games too.
** There are Wifi-instigated crossover events between Boktai DS and [[VideoGame/MegaManStarForce Ryuusei no Rockman]], though these were removed from the English localization.
** There's an old amnesiac in Boktai 2 and 3 that is implied to be [[VideoGame/MetalGear Solid Snake]], himself. In Lunar Knights, one of the items you can find is the "Cool Bandana", which will automatically use a healing item should you die and was said to be once owned by a "legendary soldier". Of course, all three GBA games and Lunar Knights were made by Hideo Kojima, further adding fuel to the speculation.

* KillSat: The Sunflower in ''Lunar Knights'', which channels a WaveMotionGun of sunlight called the Purifex Cannon much like the original Piledriver, but can't reach them on the ground due to the sunlight-blocking [=ParaSOL=] technology; thus the protagonists have to fly the Immortals up to the Sunflower to purify them point-blank. [[spoiler:The Sunflower eventually gets employed in a more classic manner in the final battle with Polidori, creating an opening to allow the protagonists to destroy his true body.]]

* KillSat: The Sunflower in ''Lunar Knights'', which channels a MotionWaveGun of sunlight called the Purifex Cannon much like the original Piledriver, but can't reach them on the ground due to the sunlight-blocking [=ParaSOL=] technology; thus the protagonists have to fly the Immortals up to the Sunflower to purify them point-blank. [[spoiler:The Sunflower eventually gets employed in a more classic manner in the final battle with Polidori, creating an opening to allow the protagonists to destroy his true body.]]

* KillSat: The Sunflower in ''Lunar Knights'' has all the aesthetics of one, but operates differently from the traditional trope. It channels sunlight used to purify the Immortals, but can't reach them on the ground due to the sunlight-blocking [=ParaSOL=] in the way; thus the protagonists have to fly the Immortals up to the Sunflower to purify them point-blank. [[spoiler:The Sunflower eventually gets employed in a more classic manner in the final battle with Polidori, creating an opening to allow the protagonists to destroy his true body.]]

** Aaron (jp. "Django") and Lucian (jp. "Sabata") are expies of the original Solar and Lunar Boy, Django and Sabata.
** Nero the Terrenial is an expy of the little black cat named Nero from ''Boktai 2'', reimagined as a being similar to Otenko ("Toasty" in the west).

** The [[UnwillingRoboticization vampire brides]] Laura and Carmilla are expies of the Solar Bank and Dark Loans clerks from ''Boktai 2''; Carmilla pulls double-duty as an a [[CompositeCharacter composite]] expy of the original ''Boktai'' Carmilla.

%%* TheDragon: Perrault. [[spoiler:And later, Dumas.]]
%%* DualBoss: Edgar and Virginia Poe.

* RightHandCat: With her talents at summoning chimerae and piloting a HumongousMecha, Perrault is not only the Right-Hand Cat of TheDragon, but also his BattleButler.

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Lita nearly ''kills'' Django in ''Shinbok'' after he says he forgot who she was, though she tries to make it up by giving you numerous items. Granted she tries to justify it by calling it "shock therapy" to get Django out of his amnesia, but...

* NonstandardGameOver: ''Boktai 2'' is pro at this. Fail to piledrive Django in time, bite Lita at night, agree to join forces with the big bad or fail to draw enough sunlight when Jörmungandr swallows you.

* RollingAttack: Golems attack by doing this; luckily for the player InertiaIsACruelMistress.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Django wearing his father's crimson scarf, which becomes [[CapeWings wings]] when he turns into a vampire, and Sabata wears his mother's blue scarf.

* FrickinLaserBeams: The Gun Del Sol can be capable of firing beams depending on the equipped parts.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: There's a brief section of Boktai 2 where you play as Sabata, [[spoiler:Dragging Django's coffin in order to purify him with the Pile Driver.]]

** ContinuingIsPainful: In the second game, you lose 200 ENG from the bank every time you die (though thankfully any items you've used are returned to you).