The Return of Yo-kai Watch
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- čas přidán 30. 03. 2024
- Yo-kai Watch had a meteoric rise to popularity, then disappeared just as suddenly... but could this quirky monster collecting series be making a comeback?
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I miss this franchise…
We miss this Franchise
Same. This was and is my childhood!
A level 5 franchise I miss is LBX
Same
Same, this was a fun series.
The fact I not only played Yo-Kai Watch back in 2016 and watched the anime, but I'm nostalgic for it which makes me feel completely old at age 20 💀💀
I only watched the anime, but haven't played the games and the fact that the series is 10 years old feels like the clock grew its wings.
@@poweroffriendship2.0the games had BRUTAL parts, but most of the game was fun asf
Didn't it first release in 2016 outside of Japan anyway
@@Muffib4448 Pretty sure, I just remember that way my introduction
@@Muffib4448It actually got released in 2015 in North America and 2016 in Europe
I would pay extra for yokai 4 in english, i wish they would see this and see all of us in the comments missing the game, we dont WANT to emulate it, we dont WANT to have to mod our switch. :<
Like i know SOME japanese but not enough to translate a whole game for myself lol
Same with medabots/medarot
@@cearlach32And LBX! We never got the sequels!
@@juliannocartagena2007I got LBX when I randomly found it in a Walmart, and freaking loved it. Still do, I haven't 100% the game yet, but I wanna finish it, then do New Game +
Same here buddy especially seeing a new game in BBQvil
Same! But also I want Gera Gera Po Rhythm!
Pokémon: I thought you were dead..
Yo-kai watch: My death was greatly exaggerated.
MEGAMIND????
GenuIne Reaction: Sounds more like YOU asked Pocket Pair to release a distraction in the meantime!
PalWorld, look it up!
It barely hanging (not saying in a mean way)
Haha
Our hearts are still out there for Jibbs. What did they do to my poor boy?
he aged
I wish yo-kai watch returns it's been so long
He got a beast form.
Shadowside Jibanyan is best Jibanyan and I will not accept any slander
Yeah!
As one of the few people with an English, physical copy of Yo-kai Watch 3-
This is genuinely one of the best game series EVER made. Any of the games coming to Switch in English would be the best moment of my life.
I say this with 100% sincerity: Yo-Kai Watch 3 is my favorite game of all time.
Oh why hello fellow PT fan. I've seen you before!
Only a limited amount of copies were sent to europe and I was lucky enough to get my Hands on it.
I believe Yokai watch 3 to be one of if not the best 3DS game available. So many hours of content packed into a single Cartridge. Its music is so good as well.
yoo me too! I genuinely had to put the game down because I was expecting Yo-Kai Watch 3 and got a game with beautiful 3ds visuals, in depth battle mechanics, an extremely lengthy campaign, essential the entire hub world of the first two games plus new ones, and such an extreme amount of side content I don't even know how they fit in. With so many discoveries in the game (I was literally crying the first time I went through a door and they sent me to some horrour movie type location instead of a regular challenge) it blows every new third party game out of the water...
I could've gotten a physical copy but I didn't think it would be taken off the shelves too fast so I got the digital version on my 3Ds before the eShop closed
As a person whose favorite Yo-Kai Watch game is in fact the third one, I can agree! It's one of my all-time favorite games, too!
Yo Kai watch has better modern games then pokemon
Yo Kai Watch was actually an incredible series. I'd love to play more of it
Im still holding out hope for Yokai Watch 4 being officially localized, but Im glad there is at least still some way to play it.
same
dont think its gonna happen but hopefully
We’ll see what happens. But for now the Google app does a good enough job of translating the copy I recently bought.
There is interesting things to note, the Chinese localization that recently released has several "localization-isms," and LEVEL5 is clearly interested in audiences outside JP nowadays. Not to say anything is guaranteed, but I do believe supporting their recent releases could make them confident enough to try finishing the English localization, at the very least.
@@flainfanhow do you get it
Remember where you came from. So many CZcamsrs started their careers here. Johnnyawesome, Abdallahsmash, and orange too. Can wait for Ghost craft!
1:27 Not shutting down but reducing to a skeleton crew, at least one person has been keeping the lights on over there.
I used to watch yo Kay watch all the time
The fact it’s coming back is making me sooo nostalgic
WE BACK BABY
WE SO FUCKING BACK YEA 🔥🗣️🔥🗣️🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️
That intro.. it’s beautiful. I’ve missed that melody so much.
Thanks for making this video! It was serendipitously timed with my own purchase of Yo-Kai Watch 1 for switch and 4++! I was a little nervous about the prospect of modding my switch for the fan translation, but you made it look pretty easy.
I remember coming back from school, powering my 3ds and playing Yo-kai watch 2 all while watching your playthrough.
Brings back memories ❤
As a big fan of the 3 mainline Yokai Watch games, there's two big reasons why the series dropped off as hard as it did: Advertising and Release Schedule. Yokai Watch's advertising wasn't really the best, a lot of the Japanese overeccentric humor doesn't really jell well with American demographics, so it probably floundered a bit in that department, but the games were overall pretty solid and the games built a cult following because of it. Now, the bigger issue was how they handled release schedules: Yokai watch 1 came out in North America on November 6th, 2015, according to wikipedia. Yokai Watch 2: Fleshy Souls and Bony Spirits came out September 30th, 2016, 329 days after the first game came out. Then, instead of releasing Yokai Watch 3, they instead released Yokai Watch 2: Psychic Specters on September 29th, 2017, 364 days after the base version of YW2 came out. 2017 was also a big year since that is the same year the Nintendo Switch released into the world, and that was going to spell the end of the 3DS since that fulfilled the mobile gaming niche as well as the home console niche. So, instead of releasing YW3 again, they decided to throw the spinoff game Blasters into the mix on September 7th, 2018, 343 days after psychic specters, and then on February 8th, 2019, 154 days after blasters, we finally got YW3. For comparison, when Yokai Watch 3 finally came stateside, the switch was just a month shy of 2 years on the market, the 3DS was just a faint memory of the past at that point, which was a shame since we got a lot of good titles at the end of the lifespan.
The fact that Level-5 wasn't being aggressive enough with their release schedule was probably what killed it in the long run since they stuck with the yearly release schedule almost until the end where they realized they had to rush whatever they could out the door before Nintendo Axe'd the 3DS line in 2020. When these games were coming out, people were clamoring for more, the second game delivered just that, but then they took a year to effectively release a content patch that only had a 5-month turnaround time for the Japanese release. Blasters also probably shouldn't have came out in the states, as they probably should've just gunned down getting both Psychic Specters out in like 6 months, and then follow that up 6 months later with Yokai Watch 3, as that would've at least came out while the 3DS still had some relevancy. It's such a shame, too, I really loved the series playing it at the tail end of Middle School up until I graduated in High School.
Awesome breakdown! Tbh I feel they could've skipped the dual versions of Yokai 2 in the west (like they did with 3) Especially with the confusing localized titles, I mean how you go from Sushi and Sashimi to Bony Spirits!? 😅
@@MunchingOrange According to the titles of Yokai Watch 2, Ganso and Honke, Ganso means something similar to Ancestry while Honke means Head Family, which could indicate the past and modern themes they were trying to convey in the story of those games. Not entirely sure how Sushi and Tempura tied into YW3 other than just some general theming with the characters, other than that, nothing super concrete. I firmly believe that Blaster's could've been axed since YW3 had a fully functional blasters mode with online multiplayer already, and I just have no clue why it took them a full year to release what was effectively a patch for the second game.
Oh yeah, fun fact: Yokai Watch 3 was effectively delayed in the States. Forgot to mention this, but Yokai Watch 3 was actually delayed, because a certain game for the switch was planed to come out the same exact day on December 7th, 2018. That game was Super Smash Brothers Ultimate. Now, the most Bizarre thing happened in that they delayed the game, but that delay ONLY applied to North America, which didn't get affected at ALL for the European release of the game, they got the game Same-day as Smash across the pond. I was furious, because I really wanted to play it, I had pre-ordered the physical copy, and they just decided to drop it with a completed English script in foreign territories with no way to play it on a region-locked US 3DS. I remember getting my physical copy at the gamestop before going to school, they opened the box to a grand total of one copy, and nothing else was stocked ever again, it was kind of a magical experience to witness. I still have it to this day 5 years later.
Another fun fact: There's actually another Yokai Watch Spinoff that never came stateside despite the push for Blasters, and it was a Koei Tecmo game that was a Yokai Watch-flavored retelling of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Yokai Sangokushi was a strategy game where you took over different parts of the Yokai Watch 1 world map and defended them from the other warring kingdoms. The story is supposed to be loosely based on the actual war of the three kingdoms in China. Curiously enough, according to the wiki, there was another sequel to Blasters that also never came stateside, so there's a bunch of lost games in the series we straight up just never got.
I legit thought this was an April Fools joke 😭😭
It is the 31st
Haha good thing I didn't upload this tomorrow
@@MunchingOrange technically that was jibanyan shadowside and whisper shadowside
@@robplaysstuff6029yeah but it’s still Easter
@@robplaysstuff6029time zones exist
I think the anime's lackluster reception added to them not localizing the game, which is fair sibce while I liked Shadowside they REALLY lost what made thr yokais so good when they made them more "darker".
Sadly this meant Nate never met Jibanyan and Co again in the future and we don't know what happened that led to him forgetting them
There was plans to localize it, but then L5 Abby had a little thing where they went bankrupt lol. It doesn't help that the game didn't do the best in Japan; the movie and anime did quite well. Which is likely why they decided to do an adaptation in the form of Yo-kai Watch 4.
Oh my God Nate can actually fight yo kai in the fourth game...... He's becoming an SMT protagonist I'm so proud of him. Also I got around to playing the second game and I'm having a blast with it.
Man anyone else who loved Mo’s videos when they were kids, feel like they were about to tear up watching this video. I swear kid me had the best taste in “favorite CZcamsr”
Yokai Watch 4 is the Ni no Kuni 2 game a lot of people probably wanted.
10:29 There's also a Mark Orckerberg who took over Yopple after Steve Jaws was exposed because Steve didn't originally invent the Yo-Kai Watch Model Zero, Nate's (full given name Nathan) grandfather Nathaniel Adams did. Hidabat actually founded the Yo-Kai version of Amazon from Nate's closet (his Japanese name is literally just Hikikōmori, an extreme shut-in) before he eventually sold it too because he was already the second richest Yo-Kai at the time after Steve Jaws and owned a whole bunch of other businesses across Springdale, some of which were human buisnesses.
You were a huge reason I got into this franchise with the first game and I’ve loved it since. Thank you so much and welcome back to the franchise!
I love this franchise so much, I'd be overjoyed to see it come back
Fun fact - yo kai watch 4 did get released outside of Japan, but it is now exclusive to both Japan and China.
Munchingorange, you made me love this series by releasing your first video on yokai watch. I have been a fan ever since. Thanks for all of the wonderful memories.
yo kai watch was peak
"was"...nah "is"
Something you probably might not know about is that level 5 NA stated that all future releases, including Yokai watch will have an international release, this means that Yokai watch and the Professor Layton series, even newer titles like Deca-Police will be officially coming back to the west.
Yo Kai watch is truly an underrated franchise, hopefully Level-5 revives the franchises. Now that their kinda back in the West
and now yo-kai watch 2 is one of the most coveted games on the 3DS.
Bit of a side tangent, I was completely uninterested in the game back when it released, but my family got it more me as a birthday gift.
I. fell. in. love.
This was also the game that taught me about Japanese yokai as a whole, and the influences they had in other media.
I remember trying to figure out which Pokémon were actually based on the things, then I remembered mawile. Turns out, there was a side character in this movie I watched beforehand who also had a mouth in the back of her head. A quick google search later, and I found that both of those two share the same yokai inspiration. Thus, mawile has been my favorite Pokémon ever since.
This brings back so many memories you know I discovered this channel by watching your yo kai watch lets play
Cool to see you're playing Yo-kai Watch 4! Fun fact: this combat system is actually taken from the Yo-kai Watch Blasters series of games, which is both a series of sub-games in each mainline game, and its own spin-off series where you can play as the Yo-kai! The ability to play as Nate and the others was added in this game.
Also, there is actually another Yo-kai Watch game on Switch that released afterwards in 2020, called Yo-kai Gakuen Y. It has a COMPLETELY different premise, but has a combat system that is similar and even better than this one! You should check it out!
Happy Yo-kai Watching, and hope you enjoy!
You were the person to introduce me to yokai watch when you played the demo and i never looked back after that so it's great that you came back to play the game after all this time.
hi dude, thanks for the video
you can actually dodge with A button, but it will cost stamina, hold B will enter running mode even during battle so remember using those to dodge
holding R with enter yoki absorb for you to use yokai Mana skills, L+ A (i think) will be the pin for party AI to attack on the same enemy. looking forward for new vids cuz i'm in love with the franchise and glad there's big youtuber making a video
Please continue this series if possible, It’s so sad we never got this game so it would be cool if we could experience it in some way
7:50 Yo-Kai Watch 4: Homie Side and Yo-Kai Watch 4: Man's Laughter. Releasing world wide on June 9th 2069.
This was my favorite game as a kid. All the characters had so much personality and dynamic in each series and it only got better during the sequels. I hope this makes a comeback, Im literally getting 4 on Ryujinx now
So good to see something on Yo-Kai Watch again. I’ve known about these Japanese exclusives for a long time and I’ve always been so sad they never got to localise them.
I WOULD LOVE FOR THIS TO COME BACK!! PLZ I WANT YO KAI WATCH BACK
8 years ago i watched your walkthrough of yokai watch while playing their 3ds titles and was an instant fan of your way of narrating game characters with different voices, damn its been long 😅
Yo kai watch 4 seems like a Ni No Kuni, Yo kai Watch crossover fever dream. As cool as it looks. I personally want more games in the old top-down style.
glad to hear the translation is finally done(?) or atleast in a playable state, when i heard about it you could barely get through the first quarter of the first quarter.
I first started watching your content with the Yo-Kai Watch play through, and I am very happy that it’s coming back
I’ve played the first yo kai watch as a kid and I still like playing it even as a 14 year old now
So cool !! consider myself subscribed , def will be watching the Ykw4 playthrough, also I had some questions (just out of curiosity)
Do you own/ have played any of the other Ykw games? like Ykw2, Blasters 3?
not a question, but just wanna say I'm very happy to see Ykw videos, specially of Ykw4 (4 is pretty good tho personally I think 2 & 3 are better in some regards) also I think this is the biggest channel that has played Yo-kai watch as of late,
I love this series so much… I played it back when the first game came out in America on release, and then I played the second ones on release and I just kept playing all of them! One two and three and all the mainline games! Just recently I started blasters! I love this series and I really hope it comes back… this is one of my all time favorite games… I always look for new things I can do to enjoy the games! I really hope yo Kai watch ends up making more English content! I miss when they use to do that and have all these fun promotions and I use to watch the anime at my nanas house! I’m hoping for it to come back! I have so many good memories with this game!
I loved your original series, hell I even come back to watch it sometimes, and I'm so glad you revisited it, you should def play 3 at some point
1:51 Well in the west it was slower and that caused the momentum to die down faster. We currently live in a hype culture of "buy product, then get excited for next product" supposing it's not a live "service" game anyway in which case it's more like "buy product, then get excited for every update promised on our roadmap" though that has proven to not work nearly as well.
Yessssss! This is my whole childhood coming back
Currently a Yokai Watch event happening in FFXIV. Can get alot of the characters as pets and Jibanyan as a mount 😃 Active until July
Ooh that's awesome!
cant tell if we are so back or we will never be back at this point
It’s about time a massive CZcamsr covered yo-Kai watch. This should give the fandom massive traction for at least awhile. Thank you munchingorange❤️
I LOVED the games, played the first one and both versions of the second one. I was not fortunate enough to get the 3rd game :( but after coming back to play the 2nd game again after about 4 years Im tempted to try my luck and get my hands on the 3rd part.
I fucking miss this game series SO much. At some points it was way more fun than any Pokemon game
growing up i had a love hate relationship with this franchise (Tbh it was mostly love i just was a dumb kid who pretended to hate it because i didn't want to be "disloyal" to pokémon) but nowadays i have grown to love this franchise what makes it hurts so much more that it's gone everywhere but Japan
I love how realistic this franchise is. By the workable trains, to the epic plot
Also, there was a FFXIV crossover with this series where you could get medals to trade in for Yokai minions which you carried into battle to get more medals that gave you cool weapons shaped like the Yokai. That was my first FFXIV event and I want it back.
THANK GOD YO KAI WATCH IS BACK! I MISSED THIS SERIES SO MUCH.
I didn’t watch anime as a kid, but if I should count one, Yokai Watch was my childhood anime. I even learned the choreography- while people were busy with Pokémon I was busy with this
You don't know how long I waited for you to finish Yokai Watch 2...
I'm so glad you're back :)
That gameplay is very Ni No Kuni which, funnily enough, was also developed by Level 5 as well as Studio Ghibli. It was one of my favourite game when I was younger so It's nice to see the gameplay style making a comeback since I wasn't the biggest fan of how they changed it for Ni No Kuni 2.
Yeah the first thing I thought about was how similar it is to ni no Kuni, I'm playing it on switch rn btw haha
Yo-kai Watch 4++ was actually built off of Ni no Kuni 2, then the adaptation of the sequel series, Gakuen/Y School Heroes, was built off of 4++, and then now the newest Inazuma Eleven game is built off of Gakuen
MO I just wanna say thanks for bein one of the last cool classic CZcamsrs man. I've been watching since 2012 and now I'm 24 still watching. Keep it up!
Man I miss these games, i didn’t know there was a fan translation :D
im so gonna binge this
I remember in like 2018, in the little school shop, everyone was buying the yo-kai's. I was one of the few who had collected them all. I didnt have the watch, just the tokens. One day, i was forced to give my yokai's away to my cousin, since they started collecting them. And now, all of them are in the bin. My cousin burned my binder, and tokens. Because he couldn't get the watch. I wish i didnt give it away.
2:44 You mean like how White Knight Chronicles was a spiritual successors to Dark Cloud? Oh no, it's already doomed.
Yo-Kai Watch was pretty interesting
It is good to see Yo Kai watch again. I’m getting nostalgia back when I was a little kid watching the anime in the summer.
I LOVE YOKAI WATCH!!! This was also apart of my childhood and I loved the games and series ❤
man, i remember seeing this game for the switch and getting excited to play. thanks for digging it up lol
I grew up watching your playthrough of it and the sequels, along with Johneawesome. I'm hopeful that with Professor Layton coming back, there will be hope for Yo-Kai Watch, too.
Also, I laughed so hard at Orange dancing and twerking! 🤣
This franchise Diserved more
Bloody hell I want it
I forgot, Nintendo Treehouse gradually took over localization and they localized the third game entirely themselves. Level-5 Abbey going into maintenance mode had nothing to do with it. Besides, we are getting localizations of a couple of upcoming Level-5 games without Abbey anyway.
14 yo YW2 player here, and idk why it makes me feel old af. Though im gonna mod my Switch for sure to play that masterpiece of a game
FINALLY ONE OF MY FAVOURITE GAMES IS BACK.
Is the english localisation 100% complete?
How do I mod my switch for this?
Are there any good videos to show me how?
Will it permanently mess up or damage my switch in any way if I do mod it?
I love Yokai Watch, and for my birthday, I really wanna get Yokai Watch 4, but the problem is I don't speak any Japanese, so this modding is a life saver
12:08 Well they're like this in the anime too. Though in the anime, Yopple has been known for selling various models and as a parody of Apple, of course their tech is incredibly trendy and popular. Not sure what the deal here is though.
HECK so the yokai detective are actually from the Yokai Shadowside series, and the weird Yokai like the hungramps one are also related to that. There’s a whole anime on it.
Yo-kai watch will always be my favorite game no matter what and I really hope that one day, we'll be able to see it come back
Hey, I play Final Fantasy XIV and there is a Yokai Watch event happening now in the game! You can get Yokai as well as Yokai Watch themed weapons for your character!
I remember this Collaboration, in Yokai Watch 3 you also could get Final Fantasy stuff like Mogry as a Yokai, or Jibanyan riding on a Chocobo.
I got 4++ a year ago but didn’t wanna mod my switch and I LOVED IT. I had so much fun playing it and I still play the Busters mode occasionally. I love this series so much!!
Man being a Yokai Watch fan, this really made me so happy to watch
Man the fact that we lost the switch port chance still kills me! I love this series so much still i had even figured out how to get into the japan google play store just to get some of the yokai watch games over there even though i cant read a lick of Japanese.
The third game is super cool too. I only played like a couple hours of it but I'm pretty sure that's where you see more of those powerful humanoid yokais that you saw in that first cutscene.
Yeah they are also menchened in yokai watch 1 and 2 too
17:08 Maybe it was ぶち (buchi) but without the I?
no one realizes how a little opposite yo kai watch is
in pokemon,you catch them
in yo kai watch,you turn them into your homie and let them go
pretty oppposite right
I miss yo kai watch
I'm halfway through the English mod. This series gives me so much more nostalgia than Pokemon. Anyone console gamers with just a Macbook can even play it. Runs over 30 fps on my 2020 Macbook pro.
Please play through this in a series, I would love to see you play Yo-Kai Watch again.
5:51 These are Zazel (the servant of Enma) and Enma himself
Hyped for ghost crafters
A Five Below near me had tons of copies of Yokai Watch a while back, and I regret not getting a copy now.
Not that it's extremely expensive, but a 3ds game, especially Yokai Watch, for 5 dollars seems like a steal now.
I have really fond memories of this series, it is such a shame it was never localised. I first got into it watching your videos on it, it's really cool to see you playing it again.
On one hand, its nice to see the series make a return.
On the other hand though, they ditched what made the first 3 games so unique and enjoyable: the battle system.
Now its just a final fantasy game
10:02 Nah man, it's the modern version of Gegege no Kitaro's finger gun, obviously lol
seeing this really made me jump lol, you’re series on these games were my favorite to watch and I hope you continue Yo-Kai Watch 2 one day!
I went to a Christmas event last December where they did drawings for prizes and I was lucky enough to have the first number. Sort of in the back of the pile was the yokai watch toy from 2016. I picked it up so fast! Never expected to find something like that there lol
This is the best April Fool's Day ever. I've been waiting for an English version forever
16:15
there is a dodge , you just press b while moving and you'll do a roll
0:37 RIP Dark Cloud I guess.
Dude who remembers Yokai watch wibble wooble that shit is like a core memory
I was so happy to see a yokai watch video on my reccomended tab