What is the general consensus of those who played? Any particular likes or dislikes that stood out to you?
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What is the general consensus of those who played? Any particular likes or dislikes that stood out to you?
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>check the price of the physical
It had a very small batch of physical copies made for overseas. Likely because they didn't expect to sell many as it was the end of the 3DS's lifespan around when it released.
>Didn't even know it or Blasters came out in the west until they were already sold out.
>Meanwhile Psychic Specters was on every store shelf.
Some 3DS games are comically expensive in west despite not being that old. The last Professor Layton for it is also in triple digits, used.
It was bullshit. Knowing how many copies of the first games lingered around, I figured I would be fine picking up a physical copy on release day without a preorder. They were sold out day one. Never played YW3 because they clearly didn’t want me to.
Really sobering to know im not the only one with this experience. I was hyped as frick too
It wasn't really that surprising
>by this point yokai watch was long past it's peak
>end of the 3ds lifespan where pirating 3ds games was super fricking easy
I knew a friend who preordered it at gamestop and the only copy that they had was the preorder
Best game on the 3ds, bar none. Best combat in the series, most content and secrets. Only thing which was was a loss from the previous entries, was the absense of Showa 40's area.
I don't like the dub voices and the usual crank-kai daily restrictions but I like Inaho (better than Fumi) and the kid you that you befriend, also this OST
The dub voices weren't great, but I do still stand by the fact that Joey D'Auria was the best voice for Whisper across the board for me.
The one thing I hate about the dub is the little quotes and quips in-between dialogue that blasters started. I gotta turn the volume down when characters start talking cause it's nothing but noise
She cute
her moe form is better
I think she looks better with the glasses
sexo
The grid system was an absolute improvement and it should have been expanded upon rather than discarded
It still baffled me the way they went with 4's battle system. Probably would've saved them so much time just translating the grid system to 4 than making a whole new system again.
The new girl character sucks but everything else is such an improvement it doesn’t matter. Also there’s just a second game in it how can it not be great.
I think it's a bloated mess. One of the worst cases of feature creep I've seen in anything. The main campaign is bogged down to absolute shit so you can get 4 different unfun spinoff games crammed into the cartridge. You do get two overworlds with plenty stuff to do but basically no dungeons, it relies 100% in comedic setpieces and wacky minigames, sometimes even to the detriment of having boss fights, and takes way too long to complete. I think the final dungeon is one of the most laughable of any game I've played, it's basically 50 floors of repeated rooms. It's just very fricking boring to play, and that's saying something for the series. I think 1 and 2 are better games.
Incredible soundtrack though
Oh yeah. I forgot about how awful the final dungeon was. I don't know what they were thinking with it rather than an appropriate final dungeon.
Most likely ran out of funding or time, for the insane amount of content the game has, it has shit like that, couple closed off old areas, or that foreboding mansion being nothing but a single room and a dancing minigame, or that daruma tower being nothing but a bunch of rooms too, meh.
Maybe they ran out of space. I think it is the largest by file size game on the 3ds.
Yeah, that I understand, it's got the zombie spinoff, the dungeon crawler, the other dungeon crawler with the demon monsters, all those japan areas and a new overworld on top of it, god knows how many monster models... Not many regular dungeons either except for that underground castle, the Zombie Superman's dungeon was just the spermarket turned into an obstable course, recycled content left and right, it's got just too much shit in it for its own good man, they should have chilled a little imo.
There was an extra touch-related thing to befriend Yokai easier I think. I'd also say it's easier than 1.
Sweet. I had a good time with the first game. I think my party was Impass, Komane, Komiger, Jibanyan, Cupistol, and Cynake.
First game was a lot of fun for me. I remember a friend telling me you can befriend Snartle like any other Yokai, then spending a whole afternoon grinding him before a watch upgrade so then never taking him off my party. I also got fricking Eterna from the Crank-a-Kai crazy early, she was so useful to have lmao
Don't bother playing any mainline yo-kai watch unless you have a mental age below 12. They are awful
So aside from the school game what spinoffs does it have?
Blasters and sangokushi
Blasters/Busters
blasters, sangokushi, they also have a mobile game called puni puni but its only available overseas
Favorite game of all time, while I like the amount of stuff in the after game like new yokai and bosses I’m pretty bummed that there’s no infinite inferno which is infinitely (hah) better than the tower of zenlightenment. And considering how much power creep there is in this game I’m surprised we can’t use our new tools on Kat Kraydel
I liked 2 a lot more but 3 was legitimately fun. The biggest complaints I have are the number of times you have to fight the exact same bosses with seemingly no level increase, and the fact that the story dragged on for a long time in some parts. They could've cut down a lot of the quests and condensed it a little to avoid having to run around all over the place just to complete a chapter. This is an issue with the English version, but I think they fricked up by trying to localize it in a very 4kids kind of way. It makes the American setting within the context of the original story awkward. Everything else about it was fairly charming and I'm glad I played it.
Can you befriend yokai in 2 and 3 easier than in 1? Most of my complaints are how easy it felt at times, and how hard it was to befriend yokai (especially the ones in post game that have long fights).
2 and 3 give you plenty of options to increase the chances of befriending Yo-kai. 3 ekks it out though with the Forbidden Fruit you can farm in the Blasters mode which will make Yo-kai want to be friends a 100% guarantee.
2 made it easier because there were extra ways to do it and 3 made it much more trivial. 1 is the only place where it's an absolute slog filled with suffering.
Easily shits all over the other entries in the series.
YW4 felt like a step down in some ways but it was a solid game on it's own.
I really liked it on the gameplay front (Blasters T being it's own whole thing was especially really fricking cool, bonus for giving you the insta-recruit food in droves if you were good enough), but I was hugely dissapointed with the Yo-Kai themselves. In the first two games where were a fait bit of designs based entirely on wordplay (most obviousl example being Slicenrice's Japanese name of Onigiri Samurai), but most of them still drew from folklore/myth anfd adapted them into the sometimes cute, sometimes cool, mostly weird designs that gave the series it's charm.
In 3, MOST of them are Japanese-to-English wordplay or stereotypes just turned into Yo-Kai with little to no actual cryptids. If you told a random joe of the street the basic premise of the franchise and then told them there was a game set in America, their mind would instantly move to shit like Bigfoot, Paul Bunyan, Chupacabra, maybe even more obscure shit like the Cactus cat and Teakettler, etc. In the end, however, the MOST we got was Little Charmer being kinda sorta based off of the Jersey Devil and it's a massive letdown.
Still, it did introduce a ton of my favorite Yo-Kai (El Gutso, Kyubot, Whyvern King, Asura) so I can't really say it was all bad. Just a lot worse than it should've been.
> their mind would instantly move to shit like Bigfoot, Paul Bunyan, Chupacabra, maybe even more obscure shit like the Cactus Cat and Teakettler, etc
This is one of my peeves gripes with the American Yokai, they're all such a bunch of stupid goobers based on burgers and bacon and shit, they could have done way more, but the fact none of the ones you mention got a Yo-kai is criminal. Isntead we have living ice cream and capeshit. The shameless X-Files spoof kind of made up for it for me tho kek
It is a Japanese game first and foremost, with 0 international fanbase. The Japanese children wouldn't get references to obscure Americana culture.
I was reading Kitaro the other day, and it had count Dracula's grandson as a Yo-kai in it. Hell in the actual games there were western inspired Yo-kai like devils and vampires though, and they even dipped their toes into Egyptian stuff a little.
>Japanese children wouldn't get references to obscure Americana culture
Neither would they have gotten the X-Files or Terminator references yet there they were, c'mon man, not even bigfoot?
Then wouldn't this've been a perfect chance to introduce it to them? Surely getting the info that America isn't all burgers and fireworks and copious mounts of graffiti that say USA would've been cool for all those kids, and no more alienating then all of the stereotypes turned into Yo-Kai that already populate the game. Searching into foreign folklore/myth because a game you liked featured it prominently can be very effective-hell, I'm loathe to make this comparison, but look over at Pokemon and the amount of cultural influences they poured into the designs of regions like Alola and Galar that the (mainland) North American and Japanese fans ate up
On first glance, I would agree with you. However, I also really doubt it too. UMA (cryptid stuff) stuff is pretty well known in Japan. They are the ones that like putting in the Flatwoods Monster and Mothman into games sometimes. I don't think I've ever seen a western game put in the Flatwoods Monster. In fact, the only cryptid thing I've seen is the Red Dead Redemption DLC. I would argue they like that stuff more than we do based on how much I see it show up there versus here in the states. Not sure why that is, but I appreciate it.
I love the yokai watch games in general
I have an absolutely moronic amount of playtime in blasters
Of course Ganker didn't care about youkai watch. There's very little porn of either girl
That's because Yokai Watch brand coomers are mostly shotagays. Me, I just wanna watch these two dorks flirt.
>Flatwoods monster
Oh dude, you're so right, the japanese are crazy about that thing, it's in Zelda, Space Harrier and a bunch of other videogames, and also in Keroro. Fricking hell, Keroro reminds me, one of the main characters is a paranormal buff and he's all about american cryptids.
She's so smug there
Most of it goes to either the boys or Insomni.
has a yokai watch thread ever hit 400 post? even the blizzeria poster is gone
Unlikely. Yo-kai Watch discussion and presence have kinda been dead for awhile.
Pretty sure there was one years ago right after Covid lockdowns that hit bump limit (presumably because everyone in it had nothing better to do). I can't remember what was in it for the life of me, though.
Actually I just found it. Not bump limit like I remembered, but 440 posts
https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/500763075/
>Forgive me for bringing up Smash autism, but this has to be said
I really fricking hope Jibanyan gets in, not because of really anything relevant to Smash itself, but because Level 5 is so fricking slow at localization and by the time YW4 comes out nobody is going to give a shit unless it gets some extra promotion somewhere.
This games deserve more attention than they get.-anon2020
damn the fact they didn't even get a spirit despite Sakurai following the CEO of yk on twitter is sad
The literal only chance it has is if it's a "Switch 2" launch title here in the states alongside being a "premium port" with all of the content included on-cart like 3's localization was.
That would be the best case scenario. Since it seems like L5 is trying to clean up their act with a seemingly good line up of games releasing that are also coming West, it would be nice if they threw in a definitive version of YW4 for us.
Doubt it.
Yokai-Watch is basically dead at this point cuz Level 5 is pants-on-head-moronic.
maybe on /vg/. i remember there was a yokai watch general there for a while.
Some beginner questions for Academy Y
Where can I get weapons other than Cowtco?
How important is the hunger meter?
Up to how late can I stay up?
Sorry I'm using this game to learn Japanese so I may had skipped the tutorials on these things. I'm still on the demo because I wanted it physical
why y-jam out of all is because it's on the switch? yk4 is better even has a blasters mode as dlc (10$). Any way you can stay up until midnight and to get weapons there's a gacha crank in one the schools that also provide armor or you can have human blizzeria craft it. Usually, the hunger meter is for quick henshin mode here's you enma genderswap btw
Yes, and there was a demo that immediately had me hooked. Also thanks for the info! I'll definitely check yk4 in the future
I thought it was fantastic, easily the best game in the series.
I just wish the new Yo-kai were actually based on American mythology instead of it all being food, sports, and dumb puns.
Also I felt they kinda skimped out with Bada-Bing Tower being mostly the same floors.
Still, this game lets me get my girl Chatalie to S Rank, which is already a huge bonus cuz you couldn't really carry D-Rank Yo-kai with you to the endgame in the older titles.
The means to make lower rank Yo-kai into higher ranks pretty cool. It gave you the ability to still use you favorites until the endgame and beyond.
It also made stuff that would otherwise be complete shitmons in competitive pretty damn viable. My favorite strat was ranking El Gutso up to A and then kicking ass with it on ranked due to it's ability. After baiting movement with a previous Soultimate it's own cleaved through S-Ranks like a knife through butter
>My favorite strat was ranking El Gutso up to A
Shit, meant Ranking it up to B. The entire point of the strat was to get access to the ability while not eating into one of the two the A Rank slots that it's evo would
Best game in the series and one of my favorite games of all time. There's so much content, the story is great, the dub voice actors are charming as usual, even if the localization does get a bit moronic in the US version. It was one of the last 3ds games I played before i put the console down, and I still remember it vividly, shame we're probably never getting the series in the west again any time soon.
>last thread I made devolved into dicky posting
I mean it kept the thread alive but there was hardly any discussion
Unfortunately I don't think there's enough interest to get a genuine thread going.
Does someone have an image of all variants of the main cat monster
>Does someone have an image of all variants of the main cat monster
It's literally impossible to do that and stay within the image size limit without making each one so small it's unrecognizable
I just checked and you guys weren't over exaggerating LOL
Ya'll have an image of a good collection of the most unique jib clones?
Unfortunately not. I dunno where you'd find that sort of thing short of just scraping the wiki and making it yourself
I don't think there's an image that lists all the Jibanyan clones.
You'd probably have to buckle down and make that shit yourself.
For me, it's baddinyan
Dude's such a badass.
That kick hits like a frickin' truck.
The lengths they had to go to justify this guy and Thornyan existing while also keeping Jibanyan as a unique recruit in all of the games post 1 is funny
For me it's Shogunyan. Snartle + Shogunyan = You win, at least in 1.
Does anyone have QR code dumps to share? It's been years since I've played so I only have really old bookmarks and saved folders leftover.
I have these two to share:
YW3 QE codes: https://www.guiasnintendo.com/0a_NINTENDO_3DS/yo-kai-watch-3/guia-yo-kai-watch-3/bancos-codigo-qr.html
YW1 & 2 post office passwords: https://yokaiwatchfans.com/wiki/Passwords
At this point I'm just curious if there are more codes out there that I never found.
Odysseynyan
I remember there being a site that hosted a frickton of QR Codes and Passwords for all 3 games but some homosexual Youtuber who was affiliated with Level 5 ratted them out (they were technically "not released" and for the Japanese version, even though they still worked just fine for the US version). Got all of them removed and I don't think they were ever put back up
I did some looking and found some old ones I held onto.
YW1 QR codes:
https://mega.nz/file/sX5SzD4D#SjWbQ0d-qqnkhPU5hIi2P-dACMKE5CIWQjCeogvzdeo
YW2 QR codes:
https://mega.nz/file/lDhH1bLJ#-Ft-4gxgH3Jj5QV3rfsS2ES92xtuRQBgtLLOLfwbdsA
YW3 QR codes (these are the same ones that are in my previous post but in case you don't want to keep going back to that website):
https://mega.nz/file/sCRTQKiB#csLibIJ66kZu8Y06zkTfhybfiB7PgVdsAYiEU2H2A2k
Some folders are labeled as (used) that was just to keep track of which ones I had already scanned. You can still scan them normally.
https://imgur.com/a/HJxSx
https://imgur.com/a/1JRrF
https://imgur.com/a/cpXC2
https://imgur.com/a/zKPBq
These are ones where the bookmarks I still had work. I used them while 100%ing the first game. If you want I can screenshot the QR codes of medals I own since I have like 30-50 of them including some of the Yo-Motion medals.
Yes, hit us with the motherload
Keep the thread alive for a bit, I'll get them then. I bought those binder Yokaipedia things so I need so pull them out of their plastic prisons.
This little bastard always put a smile on my face, along with tomnyan
We posting our favorite -nyans?
It's probably gotta be Robonyan F. I really like the color scheme and the animations, plus it wienerblocking Solar Enma's bullshit on 3's ranked ladder moved it up a ton in my rankings.
Second is probably Tomnyan. He's such a blatant "this is the stereotypical American" caricature that it legitimately looped back around to charming
This one and robonyan were on my final team in the first game
Do you mean actual recolors, or just cat yokai in general?
Because cat yokai is like an MC thing now.
There's like a million Jibanyan clones, if someone had it they'd have to catbox that shit.
I'll never get Pandanoko.
It's okay, you and I can suffer together. The guy who tied that to Streetpasses is a dick.
I only ever played the second game
Is that the real Sighborg Y?
Didnt even know they localized it.
>just remembered they made an evolution for Snartle in 3 and that it's entire gimmick was that to balance out it's moronicly high Attack it'd only attack what's right in front of it
Man, 3 really did have some cool as frick general Yo-Kai. It's a shame they dropped the ball on inspiration for the 'Merican ones.
I know it's readily apparent that Brutle has a huge attack stat, but is there any place that has good info on yo-kai's stats? The wiki never seems to have any data.
I wouldn't know myself, but here's probably a Japanese Yo-Kai Watch wiki out there somewhere that's upkept far better than the English one
3>2>1>4
>yw4 english release was announced years ago
>no news
>level-5 trademarked an english title for the yokai watch school game
>no news
Where did it all go so wrong?
-5 trademarked an english title for the yokai watch school game
This was probably because they started releasing official subs for the show a while back
no playable katie, shit game
You can play as her in those couple of sub-quests.
i guess its a little better than a shit game then
You can play as her in a few sidequest, and you can visit her world anytime.
You just can't do much there, lol.
please be something good
The frick is this?
Oh, it's something Hino tweeted out. Actually neat, hope it's a new game or something.
new yokai watch project. the level-5 ceo posted that image when the anime ended back in march. it's why people thought something yokai watch related would be announced during their live stream a few months ago. next best guess of when they will actually reveal it is for the 10th anniversary next month.
on the day Hino (CEO) was announcing a level-5 direct he said there could yokai watch news related and tease this image honestly no yokai watch is fine been waiting for a new Inazuma 11 and the still haven't gave us yk4 this is way longer than yk3 which was 2016 in JPN and 2018 in US
This is thee next Yo-Kai Watch mascot. How does he make you feel, anons?
looks frickable but I need the full image soon
I loved it personally, but I must be an alzheimers patient because I can't remember any of this or any game I played in the last decade. I remember feeling like the switch between protagonists interesting, but was disappointed that it was mandatory rather than two campaigns. The new designs were all good for the most part, food yokai nonwithstanding
Okay, here's all the first series of medals I own, it's more like 70 but who's counting? I didn't sort them by type or that would have taken forever so deal with that but it should be more or less even I think? The final row are duplicate medals I had with my Medal Moments toys so they should still work despite that. Someone please scan the blurriest of these so I know they work just fine, the middle ones near the top-right should be the best ones to test.
I'll get the Yo-Motion stuff I have in a bit, I gotta free them from their plastic prisons as well but I only have like 10, maybe 20 of those.
I'll scan, but which game are these for?
They for sure work on western 1, no idea if they work on 2 or 3. Picture related is the small amount of Yo-Motion medals I have which should work on 2 onward? Not sure if they work on 1 but they came out after 2 did.
For YW3, the coins in seem to be all rusted coins (scanned just fine) while the ones in
are just different colored coins.
Moving on to YW and YW2 now.
Neat, glad they all worked and I hope someone finds some uses for them.
gives colored coins in 1 and colored coins in 2
doesn't work for 1 but gives colored coins in 2
Fricking gargaros I didn't change the system's clock you schizo.
I've tried to play the series a few times but always get filtered by the classic pokemon dividing the game into several versions bullshit.
wtf is the sword Nate uses in the intro movie? does that ever come up in the game? I'm 200+ hours in and have never seen it
Where did everything go wrong?
When they decided to do the Pokemon release formula, but at 10 times the speed.
Complete oversaturation of products causing burnout in record time in Japan, horrible marketing stunt that kneecapped any chance at major early success in the West.
Around YW3 when they had no idea what they were doing and slammed Japanese kids with roleplaying toy after roleplaying toy, game after game, and mobile game after mobile game.
>pumping out games at record speeds
>rebooting the anime at the peak of it's popularity to be an edgy show for teens instead of a goofy comedy for kids
>terrible world wide marketing strategy and they also said they wanted to make the west their primary market and eventually release games there first
Kat Kraydel is fricking bullshit.
She absolutely is, you can go into that fight with a full team of maxed out S-Ranks placed as optimally as possible on the wheel and still get fricked because she decided to lock your wheel and then inspirit all of your Yo-Kai. The fact that she had a rare drop was absolute shit too, especially there's an obnoxious as frick Dark Souls-esque boss run back to her every time
She's such bullshit I still haven't beaten her to this day.
Dumb fricking spider b***h raping my party in half.
do you people really play that kid's game
all video games are for children.
No, we're all just playing an elaborate trick on you.
Nah, it's all just japes.
Yokai watch 1 came out in 2013. So some people here likely did play it when they were kids
I thought it came out in 2005, or do you mean the localization?
Localization
i was gonna mention that, i played the game 10 years ago when it came out but even then it just felt like autist baby game, so i dropped it
i probably still have it on my 3ds
i just realized the 3rd came out in 2016 on the 3ds as well, i assume you guys are the bronies of YW?
>3rd came out in 2016
see
>a 10 year old who played yokai watch on release is 20 now
Time marches ever forward and stops for no one.
I thought it would be better to learn moon with the kid stuff.
one day yokai watch will make a comeback and we can have comfy yokai watch threads. if digimon can do it so can we.
At least people have been doing translation patches to keep things alive. Did that Blasters uncensor ever get finished when the iso site died?
Maybe one day Level-5 will come back to Earth and unfrick themselves.
You guys got any favorite soultimates? Either for looks or utility. Usapyon's is pretty cool even for just a basic big beam attack.
I like Fool's Paradise, just a scene of a flowery field before a set of jaws clamps down to snap the illusion.
If we're counting boss Soultimates.
It definitely counts. Bosses got a lot of cool soultimates you normally wouldn't see with some if you know what you're doing to stop them unfortunately.
For naughty brats just cause of the name
more hailey
the 2nd should have had the improvements of the 3rd, and then make the next one like the 4th
finished all, along with the first busters game, high potential if it wasn't so orientated for the really young
I only played YW1 but it didn't seem anymore 'orientated for the really young' than Pokemon. Other than perhaps it went for the cartoony style right off the bat instead of Pokemon going for the cool edgy style originally.
Chatalie can fit so many fricking dicks in her mouth it's unreal.
almost too much content