Trivia / Boktai

• Acclaimed Flop: The first two games received solid reviews from professional critics, but sold very poorly internationally. This was mainly because they were released during fall seasons, despite absolutely requiring sunlight in order to be played.
• Divorced Installment: After skipping Boktai 3 for international release, Konami decided to distance the fourth game from the franchise by marketing it outside Japan as an unrelated game.
• No Export for You:
  • Boktai 3 was briefly listed on Kojima Productions' English website as Boktai: Sabata's Counterattack, but ultimately remained a Japan-exclusive release.
  • This is also applied to a Boktai 3-related sidequest in Mega Man Battle Network 6 that had MegaMan spanning the Graveyard area at the end of the Undernet. Not only was the sidequest removed, several of the areas the player had to traverse were removed wholesale from the game's code and certain items were relocated and downgraded - which left players wondering why Bass, who has nothing whatsoever to do with bats, was left holding the "Bat Key"? And why was the prize so darn lackluster? That said, this was less Executive Meddling like with Lunar Knights and more because the game was so big that it took up all of the GBA cart's space. Some things had to be cut in localization^note English dialogue is generally bigger because Japanese uses less characters per word than we do letters for English, and unfortunately the Boktai content was one of those things. We did get the e-reader jobs and Protoman FZ for free, though.
  • The Japanese versions of Lunar Knights and Mega Man Star Force could link up and unlock bonuses in each others' games (including a new Terrennial in Lunar Knights), but despite the fact both were localized English, they can no longer link up. You can still get the bonus cards in Star Force through Action Replay, but it's a bit buggy. The data for the Terrennial was completely removed, though.

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