Kura5 - Project Boktai3D

3D Boktai Fan Game that uses local weather data instead of a solar sensor. Download the full game on itchio!

[kura5]

Kura5's final chapter (and ergo full release) is now available to download on itchio.

It's been a journey ya'll.

[kura5]

Mid-Dungeon Resting

[kura5]

「XUnity Auto Translator」対応版のKura5が公開されました！

リアルタイム自動翻訳で遊ぶことが可能になりました。

機械翻訳は時々誤動作することがあります。これを見たら… CTRL+ALT+Tで翻訳のオン/オフを切り替えます。

ところで、翻訳ファイルが保存されているので自分で翻訳を変更したり、同じ環境さえあればその翻訳ファイルを配布することも可能です。

最後に、CTRL+ALT+0を押すと翻訳サービスが変更されます。

ダウンロード

[thehmn]

I’m sure you’ll all be happy to hear that Hideo Kojima is living his best life after leaving Konami. Not only did he get to frolic around with Mads Mikkelsen, he also got himself a sub. You think I jest but...

Translation: Refn is a kinkster who use his movies to express his kinks. He knows Kojima is a kinkster too who also puts his kinks in his games and that he’s going to use Refn for something that turns Kojima on, and Refn thinks that’s hot. Their’s is a relationship you probably shouldn’t dig too much into.

+ Bonus: confused and scared Kojima fanboys

[thehmn]

I don’t know why this post is suddenly getting so much activity again, but I’ll use it as an excuse to tell you all that Hideo Kojima calls this grown ass man who’s a head taller than him Refn-chan

Japanese artists are almost always a lot more chill than their art makes them out to be. Kojima is one of the few who’s exactly what you’d expect him to be.

[thehmn]

It gets even better people!

Refn has described his and Kojima’s relationship as very intimate and highly erotic but not sexual (meaning they do something but they don’t fuck) and if you cross reference their interviews and the stuff they make each other do in their works it becomes abundantly clear that they’ve had long, in-depth conversations about their kinks and fetishes.

But they don’t speak the same language.

Refn can’t understand Japanese and Kojima’s English is very limited, so for all their conversations they need a translator.

Enter Saito.

Saito has been Kojima’s translator for years and years and Refn has joked that their arrangement is really a threesome because Saito has to translate every loving and dirty word between them, and Saito looks like the most resigned man in the universe.

He looked like this way before Refn even entered the picture. Nothing can shock this man anymore.

[thehmn]

You can actually see Saito in action as “the third guy” here (gif by fanhanlon)

While Kojima and Refn are hugging you can see Kojima tell Saito to whisper something to Refn.

Not gonna lie, even I was surprised by how close Saito has to get sometimes. I think I understand the look on his face a little bit better...

[thehmn]

This suddenly got a lot of new reblogs and likes. Is it because these two are at it again?

Something that’s super sweet btw is that Saito isn’t always around so Kojima and Refn have learned to just be comfortable in each other’s company without talking. Refn especially has talked at length about how amazed he is at having that sort of relationship with anyone where they can just chill in silence at a restaurant without it being weird.

Also, for some reason Kojima keeps giving Refn medication? Kojima has posted a fair few photos of Refn holding Japanese over the counter medication and Refn holding up pills and swallowing them as if to prove that he’s taking them? But hey, whatever works for them I suppose?

[dvandom]

Mind you, at the line, “Kojima has a sub,” I would also have been unsurprised to find that he has his own submarine and spends his spare time just tooling around and occasionally popping up to freak out fishermen at the docks.

[thehmn]

I wish I still had the clip but after an interview where everyone are walking around on stage and most of the microphones are turned off Kojima says something to Refn, Saito opens his mouth, close it, looks back at Kojima, sighs, turns to Refn and says “I can’t translate that right now” and Refn gets this curious look of “Oh?” on his face but Saito holds his hand up like “I mean it, not on fucking stage”

Why do they have such perfect comedic timing? This is way better than if Saito had just assumed his microphone was turned off and said whatever inappropriate thing Kojima was trying to tell Refn. I hope Saito is paid well because he isn’t just a translator, he’s trying so hard to save what little modesty these guys have left.

[thehmn]

When this post took off again I was kinda nervous about reading it because I worried I embellished too much for comedy but no this is literally just what they’ve told us about their relationship and done in public. So to the people who can’t tell if this is made up, no. They just be like that.

People also worry about their wives and while I can’t tell you what Kojima’s wife thinks because she’s very private I can tell you Liv Corfixen, Refn’s wife, is supportive and even had a scene with Kojima in Too Old to Die Young where she watch him torture/punish a businessman and she appears in Death Stranding 2 as Heartman’s new girlfriend who doesn’t mind sharing her boyfriend with another man.

We all know Kojima loves putting references to the real people the characters are based on in his games so it’s really sweet that Liv appears as a scientist who’s more knowledgeable about water and it’s connection to the afterlife than Heartman who’s otherwise the smartest person in the game and she keeps asking the guy she’s sharing her boyfriend with to look after him and be mindful of his health because Refn is pretty honest about his health being bad which is probably why Kojima is always feeding him meds, and Refn calls his movies/shows his own personal porn where he gets to film all the horny stuff that turns him on and apparently he really wanted to see Kojima cut a whimpering man with a katana while Liv looks all cool in the background.

They both have a ton of respect and love for her so I don’t think we have to worry about Liv in all of this. If you want to worry about anyone let it be Saito.

[thehmn]

I thought Kojima’s photos of Refn with the meds were lost to time because he only posts them to his instagram stories but luckily other people actually document their claims and took screenshots.

I remember thinking the carton was milk but yet again it was Kojima showing off that he’s giving Refn herbal medicine. This specific one is apparently for headaches, flu, colds, and allergies.

Two things; I don’t remember the tablets being that big. Please tell me they’re supposed to be dissolved in water because otherwise that’s adding sadism to the powerplay.

Second, it never occurred to me until Death Stranding 2 that Kojima isn’t just making Refn pose with the meds to show off but that Liv is probably on his ass about making sure Refn is doing okay. That might also explain why he post so many candid photos of Refn eating. He’s proving that he’s keeping his sub healthy and nourished.

The relationship is just way sweeter than I thought. Like I knew Refn is colorblind and can only really tell colors apart if they’re contrasting but I had no idea that’s why Heartman wears blue and orange. Not only are they contrasting but there’s no such thing as blue/orange colorblindness. Kojima made sure Refn could see his character properly.

I remember a Danish interview with Mads Mikkelsen where he was asked about Kojima and said “Oh yeah, he’s a fan of me but he fucking loves Nicolas. They love each other. It’s kinda weird but like in a good way for them” You made Mads Mikkelsen uncomfortable. Good job guys.

I’m so fascinated by them because it’s the sort of male relationship people don’t think exists in real life yet here they are.

It’s like the relationship between Simon Pegg and Nick Frost who had to share a single-person bed for nine months when they were young which made them realize they love cuddling so they still share a bed when the mood comes over them to this day and they started holding hands when they were happy (they made up after a big fight and walked hand in hand through town while laughing and crying) or got scared (when they went ghost hunting in old ruins at night, and when Quentin Tarantino invited them to a strip club but it ended in a tense situation with a gang so Pegg and Frost held hands to calm each other) and when Frost’s mother died he collapsed on the hotel room’s floor and cried for Pegg to come hold him. All those stories come from Nick Frost’s own biography.

Kojima and Refn are a more eccentric and kinky version of that. I just love that Refn is this controversial kinky weirdo filmmaker and as he said himself “I didn’t know how to be anything else so I just leaned into it” and then he meets fellow kinky weirdo Kojima in London who sees this tall lanky white man who makes dark violent movies and went “Oh my god you’re adorable! I shall call you Refn-chan because you’re such a babygirl!” and instead of getting offended Refn liked it and they’ve been Saito’s problem ever since.

I see people in the tags call them the most public queerplatonic relationship though I’d argue Pegg and Frost came first, we just didn’t have a word for it yet. But yeah, I see why people are tagging it as story and/or character inspiration because sometimes real life is just more weird and wholesome than fiction.

[anakiwa520]

比我預計的還要大，居然能塞四本

予想以上に大きくて、なんと4冊も入る

It's bigger than I expected！it actually holds four books!

[anakiwa520]

A gift for a friend

友達への贈り物

[itsjustmyunpopularopinion]

Boktai - The GBA series that has Kojima's fingerprints all over it.

A set of twin brothers, split by conflict, one serving the sun, the other serving the darkened Immortals (for his own reasons).

Stealth action (sneaking, sound-luring mechanics)

...and a solar sensor on the board, created to absorb sunlight to charge your weapon - The "Gun de Sol" - as well as to charge the "Pile Driver" system, the only method capable of destroying an Immortal, typically making up the secondary half of each boss fight (Phase 1, boss fight proper, each with their own unique mechanics. Phase 2, dragging the coffin they leave behind from the boss chamber to the Pile Driver outside, leading to an Immortal Purifcation sequence - You charge the Piledrivers while the immortal fights back with one mechanic.

...So long as the sun's out. The Piledrivers will *not* function without sunlight hitting the sensor.

Imagine Kojima just taking your gameboy advance away and telling you to go the fuck to sleep.

[corruptedbunny-multimuse]

((based on that "you guys look nothing alike" meme))

[arunafaulkner]

One day.. I’ll do Annie.

[kura5]

Kura5's final chapter (and ergo full release) is now available to download on itchio.

It's been a journey ya'll.

[kura5]

its almost Halloween so please go play funny vampire game thank you

[kura5]

I had a dream of a kirby and the amazing mirror style spin-off for boktai where you'd play as Django, Aaron, Sabata or Lucian based on what game was in the gba slot or DS slot/save data. It was using the 3d model you made for django. Just thought I'd share

Thank you for sharing o7

[skiesofdeception]

Konami can't get me because then they'd be forced to acknowledge that Boktai exists.

Charms and stickers can be found HERE

[bonediggre]

BONEDIGGRE BYTE-SIZE [01] — BOKTAI: THE SUN IS IN YOUR HAND (2003, GBA, Konami Computer Entertainment Japan)

A little introduction to both "Bonediggre Byte-size," a numbered series of shorter-form (under an hour) VIDEOS ESSAY on VIDEOS GAME, and "Boktai: the Sun is in Your Hand," which is a COOL GAME that YOU SHOULD PLAY. Or don't!

[chicken-hat]

Ik you said AMA about Emil and Annie but I feel like I'll just melt into incoherent ramblings.

The writing and characterisation is soo good. It's also a bit funny how Emil, in that one scene where he said he felt like he was babysitting [Valravn], was like, this immortal took part in killing your family but is somehow more of a mess atm? Btw the entire, soul walk section made me go crazy insane bonkers. (Also, the Lopter being kinda Valravns toxic ex was galaxybrain. I divorce ship them(anti ship them? Idk. If it was a mundane AU I'd encourage Valravn to get a restraining order but those don't exist or would work with Immortals I assume so murder it is.)

I am Very glad that in the dark route Annie stops Emil/Valravn from eating Patience... I felt SO BAD for everything Patience and the huntresses were SUCH a hateable villain faction. Like, propaganda, they're not there to help but to control, but some crave such order in chaotic times, the hypocrisy and bias... I was genuinely upset af at some of their dialogue, same with the NPC's agreeing with them... The fact that so many NPC's also went through arcs is such a neat detail, and of course not everyone will change for the greater good in times of fear.

Also to tell you the truth I sometimes pronounced Emil's name like how the dad yells in Emil i Lönneberga which completely derailed conversation with my sibling in the moment (who actually played the game, I was doing the little sibling thing).

Annie is so. Shonen protagonist going through hell coming out on the other side somehow better off (still having suffered but like. Got catharsis?)? Like, baggage was shed(and piled up but now with new support) and she managed to forge and deepen bonds and AAAAA she deserves a vacation... I Know she also went out to do vigilatism and help fellow witches, but by god she deserves a week or more chilling at a nice warm beach... Maybe on her way to the temple with Bianca, those girls deserves a nice beach picnic date <3 . Knowing Annie she'd find and solve some weird conflict, or perhaps it'd find her and she takes it by the horns.

Actually I guess I got an actual question that's not the ravings of a lunatic, Annie has expressed an interest to the beach, or at least the idyllic one in the cinema, but is that her ideal vacation? And what'd Emil's ideal vacation be?

[kura5]

heyyyyyyy sorry for sliding in all of a sudden (greatly enjoy the game its sp good) but you said its ok to ask questions if you're stuck right? I have 2, related to the old man who wants crimson drink. Some (all?) of his info leads to stuff, but i don't understand how the names in the aqueduct work, inspecting them yields no extra info? do i do something w/ the water? same for the leaf w/ wind. am i just supposed to wait for a specific weather? hint pls i'll draw fanart (i will do so regardless)

hello hello totally fine

Here's the hint sheet you're looking for "Weird Lady" and "Zed's Quest"

[kura5]

Like to be pedantic the vagrant man isnt a quest in and of himself he just provides hints for greater overworld secrets

[kura5]

"can yer believe this shit emil"

[kura5]

heyyyyyyy sorry for sliding in all of a sudden (greatly enjoy the game its sp good) but you said its ok to ask questions if you're stuck right? I have 2, related to the old man who wants crimson drink. Some (all?) of his info leads to stuff, but i don't understand how the names in the aqueduct work, inspecting them yields no extra info? do i do something w/ the water? same for the leaf w/ wind. am i just supposed to wait for a specific weather? hint pls i'll draw fanart (i will do so regardless)

hello hello totally fine

Here's the hint sheet you're looking for "Weird Lady" and "Zed's Quest"