I hope Yo-Kai Watch lives on in some form
Yo-Kai Watch Smarpho(smartphone) is coming very soon, as Level-5 continues to mine the well of formerYo-Kai Watchpopularity. The mobile edition will be released on July 10 in Japan, which is basically right now in JST. It’s 1,220 yen if you grab it before August 16: at which point it’ll revert to the permanent price of 1,960 yen. That’s basically six bucks off if you get it early.
So what is it? Well it’s actually just a re-release ofthe original game; the game that started the craze in Japan, and the attempt at domination in the west.
If you’re somehow in the unique position to play this, do it! There’s a reason the first title (and subsequent games) caught on, as the main series is actually a pretty fun JRPG romp, with several unique mechanics and a very vibrant cute world. For 10 bucks you can’t really go wrong, though the original has dropped to around that much on 3DS, so you have options.
There’s a lot moreYo-KaiWatchin Level-5’s future too, with several spinoffs in the works. Sadly,Yo-Kai Watch 4still hasn’t been localized, and Nintendo (who has been handling it in the west) has seemingly given up on this series. Level-5’s western HQ is also shuttered, so the chances of the fourth entry actually seeing the light of day outside of Japan are very slim.
You can’t say that Level-5 didn’t try. I saw a ton of merch flood many US stores around the release of the first game overseas, and the team completely reworked a new anime series to appeal to an older crowd. It just didn’t work out.You can read up on the whole history ofYo-Kai Watchhere!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHuxYhlTyC4
