What a joy to play. I really missed the game series that gave the option to make my entire inventory chocolate covered and got surprised with how much I liked the original ideas it puts on the table.
I liked how Emil as a character its not "just" a vampire, instead of being an egotistical inmortal he is more like someone from a different culture that is just enjoying the situation more than he is showing.
In gameplay he takes the good parts of the vampire from the second game and the parter sistem of Lunar Knights, while also adding an alternative way of purification, all of that in a natural way.
Annie is more on the generic side on the boktai series, but hey, if it isnt broken dont fix it. I like her personality and the chemistry betwen her and Emil, it kinda bugged me that she speaks differently than the other people and that gave me a feeling that she dosent entirely belongs on san miguel, but going by some hints like how she gets called a witch that may as well be on purpose.
It blows my mind the weather system, not just because its an original substitute to the solar sensor, but because I expected only to work in places like the USA and Europe, but it took me by surprise when it worked in a place like Chile.
I only found two bad things:
The summons on Annie, because they feel too good and there is no reason to not have them on all the time, it feels like they sould have cost over time on "on use" instead of just when they are summoned.
There is not an option to choose wich enemy you lock on, this gets specially bad with many enemies on screen, not really a problem with Emil, kind of a big deal with Annie.
Other than that i had one hell of a time with Kura5 showing that this is a work of love to the series with things like the mandatory MMBN crossover, the Django headband/glasses being on Doomy, and many more.