My guy, I loved Yo-Kai Watch when it first came out. My brother and I looked forward to it coming out after watching the first episodes on Disney XD, but I sorta fell out of it when it seemed a bit too repetitive and not as entertaining to me. More so it became like a pass time kinda thing, so I loved it, but not as much as I should. I do, however, LOVE the cameo and connections i've seen. The connection being that Level-5 is the same company that made the video game for "LBX" on the 3DS, and I LOVED that show and game so much. Little robots doing battle, and you control them! Basically gunpla, but robots. Then, in an episode of "Cardfight Vanguard," Nate and Whisper (or whatever Nate's japanese name is) show up during a concert at the card shop, meaning that Buddyfight, Cardfight Vanguard, AND Yo-Kai Watch all happen in the same universe! Well, possibly, since there is the whole "different reality" thing that came about, but eh. Basically, I feel glad you made this video, because this was part of the first bit of my teen years, and last bit of my childhood. I also want you to know that you are not alone in remembering this gem of a show and game when it came out. I honestly thought it would overtake Pokemon and Digimon, since they started to use an artstyle similar to Yo-Kai Watch's to appeal to a younger demographic (aka, "Pokemon Sun and Moon" and "Digimon Applimonsters"), but I was sorely mistaken that it didn't happen. However, I don't regret a single bit of time spent in enjoying this show, and I will always come back to see some sorta content of it, so if you ever do a playthrough of it, lemme know. I wanna see it. Keep up the good work, LaiyenZ. Nice meeting you, btw. ^^
Yokai Watch does have the potential. I just wish more people were willing to give it a try when it came over to the West. Much like you I also fell in love with the franchise when I discovered the anime.
I figured the franchise dying had something to do with the limited numbers of yokai to produce. Everything went downward when they had to come up with the later yokais, which were a hit or miss in comparison to the earlier ones
@@danjoshgamingz4805 yeah that too, for a while the yokai merch were everywhere, if only i could get my hands on them during that period, strangely my town doesn't sell a single yokai watch merch despite the merch boom. At least i can still buy them off people on shopping websites, got myself a handfull of medals and some figures
Fr. When it first was advertised on Disney XD, when i was in 5th grade, every friend I talked to said they wouldn’t watch it because it was obviously gonna be worse than pokemon and a ripoff.
I think one of the reasons it failed Is because everyone compared it to pokemon and never got to stand on its own so the expectations were set too high
Yeah, I hate when people said it was another Pokémon ripoff even tho it was so original, battle systems, fusion, the story, everything about it felt like a breath of fresh air when that game first touched my 3DS
@@somerandomguy8541 It has been over a month, but I think that's what I meant. Over in the West they mainly saw Yo-kai Watch as a cash grab opportunity just because it was doing better than Pokemon at the time and wanted in on that as much as possible.
@GottaFistDemAll sorry for replying so late I just noticed you commented but yeah I really wish they would have not treated it as the pokemon killer even though it's completely different
That game was my childhood, really we need to do something to bring back, they need to see how we care about that franchise #saveyokaiwatch (hey the people are liking my comment that's nice)
@@lunalycanroc8267 I literally am waiting for my friend to find his 3ds, because I have an extra copy of Yo-Kai Watch 2 Fleshy Souls, and I just want people to have access and have fun with the franchise
I love yo-kai watch so much! Level 5 is coming back in the US, and after seeing all the games they announced in yesterdays direct, I have a little bit of hope that yo-kai watch 4 will be localized
Gosh, I adore the Yo Kai watch franchise. Yo kai watch and Yo kai watch 2 fleshy souls were the only games I had on my 3DS XL growing up. Clocked hundreds of hours on each. Still have both of those save files, all the memories...
fr when I was a kid I played 170 hours on the original ykw2 then exported my game to the third version and played for 200 more hours i also played ykw 1 for like 90 hours and ykw3 for like 120... my parents never gave me enough attention
I loved the first Yo-Kai Watch, it was a pretty great game considering around the same time I was really fascinated with monsters from around the world. It’s a shame that the franchise never really found a large audience in the west.
people were turned off by the automated turn based battle system honestly is using a menu any different then just having the game pick the moves you were going to select anyways?
I love Yo Kai watch, I’ve loved it since I first seen the trailer for the first game. The second game was the first game in a while where it took me MULTIPLE DAYS to beat the final main story boss, which I can’t say about other monster catching games (side eyeing literally every pokemon game since x/y) and it makes me so sad when, even nowadays, some people write it off as another pokemon clone. It had some of the best story writing that kept me invested through the whole game, and the endings of both Yo Kai Watch 1 and 2 literally made me tear up. I’m really glad that Level 5 as a company is making a return in the west with the new professor Layton game, and I’m really keeping my hopes at a reasonable level that they’ll localise YKW4 and the YKW1 remake in the future, preferably before the heat death of the universe.
It's really nice that there are content creators making videos about Yo-Kai Watch! Hopefully videos like this convince the western audience to give Yo-Kai Watch a chance!
Fun fact: Yo kai watch 3 has so much content that it's one of ,if not THE biggest game on the 3DS, and at the same time it's one of the rarest to find in physical, since it was a limited production.
i got into it cuz of the anime too. from then on i’ve collected all the localised games, yes ALL of them, including every version. this franchise is WAY too underrated, man. we need to bring it BACK
I recall seeing the English dub of the anime on Disney XD, but it sadly ended too soon, and the games after the first two games never got any releases in America. Yo Kai Watch just sorta came and went.
This might be the first time I saw someone get into the series via the anime. I watched an episode on Disney XD, and absolutely loved it. I didn’t have a 3DS at the time. But I bought one specifically for Yo Kai Watch. And I have so much nostalgia for it. I love the series, have all the game, and even imported the games from Japan (I know you can buy them digitally. But I wanted the box). And deeply wish the series might come back with the return of Level-5 to the west
1 minute in and you have already named a multitude of my fav franchises from childhood, so yes, I also enjoy this trope- Pokemon, Yokai Watch, Viva Pinata, Dinosaur King and Fossil Fighters are all absolute bangers, hell yes. God, this just makes me want to get back into yokai watch. Loved the first game, sadly never finished the second. There's still so much content I need to consume, man
I remember liking the show a lot. Lots of unique characters & yokai with their own little quirks & the cool ways they built up the world & how to use yokai was awesome.
i remember looking in the eshop on the 3ds and saw a demo for a game callt yo kai watch and gave it a try and after playing it for a few times i knew i had to get the full game yo kai watch was a huge part of my childhood and still is and after watching the last direct i have hope we get to see a return of yo kai watch by level 5 games these series wil always be a part of who i am whisper jibanyan and all my other yo kai friends i hope to see you all again one day
I recently found an old yo-kai watch magazine type of thing from 2016 and it was really weird seeing it say "this game is the beginning of a worldwide phenomenon" which also makes me a bit sad that it never got popular because yo-kai watch is my 2nd favourite franchise ever (first place is xenoblade) and I highly recommend watching the anime if you haven't since even without my nostalgia bias, it's really good and actually has a good and funny english dub
Bro if professor Layton can come back why not yokai watch we need to bring it back in the west I NEED to play theese games on switch 3ds was my freaking childhood and I need it back
I'm also a fan of this game it started with the anime on every weekend and then I saw this guy named johne who played the game and he was the one of three people that played the game and it made me wanna play it to
One thing about yokai watch that gets me when compared to Pokémon is how much more detailed,immersive and memorable the relatively small world of the games are whereas in Pokémon even in the newest release they just feel super artificial and not lived in at all. YW got my imagination going and had me hooked despite its “smaller scope” nature
too many people compare every “monster fighter/collecter” with pokemon. it hurts them all in the long run. it made me so mad in 2015 when ign wouldn’t shut up about yo kai watch being the pokemon killer
I’m glad you’re talking about this b/c I love the Yo-Kai Watch franchise! 😁 Now that Level 5 is coming back to the US, I rly hope they localize all the YKW games on switch!
I really miss it. I remember buying the game day one thinking it was a shameless Pokémon rip off. But boy if I couldn’t be anymore wrong. I fell in love immediately and couldn’t stop playing it. I dumped a solid 820 hours+ into the first game. I really miss the fun of yo Kai watch. Sadly I never played the 4th because I don’t like playing games in other languages but still I want yo Kai watch to return to America and make not just mine but every other yo Kai fan truly happy again. (Note: sorry for the long comment! 😅)
Ah i remember the old days in middle school. I met two cool dudes who also had a 3ds and we all got into yokai watch at the same time. Making us even closer friends as i still talk to em and even when yokai watch 2 and 3 cam out i got fleshy souls and one of them did to and the other got boney spirits and when the phycic specters came out we all got it and we all got yokai watch 3. Honestly miss it but one reason i made a japanese account for the switch was to get yokai 1 remake and since i played the first game so much i beat it in about 2 days even tho i couldnt understand a word lmao.
I recently picked up my 3dsxl after years of nit playing it, and the last time I played the first yo kai watch was back around 2018 with my main save file! It's crazy that one day I just stopped playing entirely. It's sad to think about...
Yokai Watch has such a cool idea, you can get a MEDAL deticated to you when you die, you get a cool name, a sick backstory and you can inspirit people!
yo-kai watch 2 was, to this day, one of my most played games on the 3ds, which is saying something because it played the hell out of my 3ds. but when ever I want to revisit the 3ds yokai watch 2 would almost always be my first pick
@@atwistedb I plan on it eventually, unfortunately I can't really get the true 3DS yo-kai watch 3 experience because of the ridiculous price point for physical copys. I guess Ill just have to use a computer emulator.
I really miss this franchise, altough it never got as big as people expected. It still is an amazing franchise. I personally enjoy these games way more then any of the more recent pokemon games (on that note, the little yellow rat did get done in. Kinda)
Honestly i miss this franchise. It was irritating and annoying to hear people say *"Yo-kai Watch is a rip-off of Pokémon".* back in the day (2015). Those people don't exist nowadays anymore and eventually became the National Dexters and the ones who lost interest in the Pokémon franchise after Sword & Shield and Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl. I was very lucky and fortunate to get Yo-kai Watch 3 and Yo-kai Watch Blasters Red Cat Crops. (Still need White Dog Squad) but man those games are worth a fortune now for how little copies that were made. Not sure if it'll ever come back but I Hope it will. The Anime and Movies can stay dead because *honestly* no one really cares for them, they only care about the games most specifically. But yeah #SaveYokaiWatch
I’m not gonna lie I’m a huge yo Kai fan. I’ve been obsessed since I was 5. I have all the games, I had all the toys, and I even collected the yo Kai medals. Oh memories 🙂
I have been thinking about it alot lately actually. I really liked Yokai watch I think maybe they expanded out to fast... but if they wait a bit and release a game sometime in the future I will play it. Because I loved the world and the Yokai and the battle system it had. I'm also a big fan of all level 5 games so I hope it makes a return.
yooooo i used to watch this on my tv and let my brain rot slowley as i listened to the boppey theme song and my bro would always come in with the little watch that you could put the disks in, good times
Yo-Kai watch was a big part of my childhood, I watched the show I played the game, and I have almost every medal toy, so I’m a bit of a nerd for yo Kai watch
I wasn't from Japan, but my home country was obsessed with yokai watch when it went local, everyone had a yokai watch, and people kept talking about it, especially little kids, maybe it was because it was marketed better there but idk anything
10/10 would recommend. I have yokai watch 1, 2 and 4, and my favorite guy is Wobblewok, whom I haven't defeated yet, because I just got to him, and need to grind. There is yokai watch 1 and 4 on the switch, but they are both in Japanese only.
I still have the 1st and 2nd game, and the anime is still my favorite to this day, and I played the 1st game so much that my team is at lvl 99, I love yokai watch and is my favorite anime to this day😊😎
Literally my only exposure to Yo-Kai watch when I was younger was the anime. It aired on some random channel I watched sometimes and I had no idea it was a game
Yo-Kai Watch 3 is the biggest 3ds game ever in terms of sheer post game content. And also the switch ISN'T REGION LOCKED so I can play my physical copy of Yo-Kai Watch 1 on Nintendo switch on my US switch no problem. Granted it's in Japanese, but not to big of a deal
I actually played every Yo-Kai Watch game: 1, 2, 3 and even 4, and I have to say, I think that even just the map is better than Pokémon. Yo-Kai Watch 3 had Springdale and BBQ (Japan and the US in the Japanese version) and also the Yo-Kai World. This not only included these three areas though, there’s also Sparktopolis, Harrisville and the other train stations, but also the small dungeons made a difference in gameplay. Along with most every game adding mini games like the Blasters in YKW3 (Which before was another game’s main feature) was included. There were SO many quests and SO many Yo-Kai, every game was so good. The story in every game, although it’s linear, is so much better than any other game I’ve played, with every game actually making sense and being a sequel to the previous one. Also, the inclusion of so many battle features like the Blasters Gun in YKW3 or Lightside or Shadowside Yo-Kai, and also the Zero thing in YKW2. Also, in YKW3 you could play with 2 different characters with different quests, and in YKW4 you could play with even more characters for different abilities in combat. A great adition to every game was also the new combat mechanic in every new game you could play. The inclusion of Dream Medals as an actual feature in YKW3 Sukiyaki was also amazing, and making a fun mechanic to increase your chances of getting a better Yo-Kai from the Crank-a-Kai. In YKW4, you can also scan your arks to receive orbs and items for creating and improving a Yo-Kai.
So as a 30 year old i can def say that pokemon was the IT thing for everyone my age but i latched on to yokai so hard i still have both watches and all the medallions XD yes i have no life, and i share them with my son now lol. Either way i loved the 3ds games and REALLY want a new one on switch T_T
If you ask me, it sucks how poorly Yo Kai Watch performed. Personally, when I was starting to find Pokemon games to be lackluster, I found Yo Kai Watch to be everything that I wanted and more! But yeah, its marketing was terrible. I only knew about it because my younger cousin randomly started playing it because our grandma thought it was Pokemon and gifted it to them for Christmas lol I feel like Yo Kai Watch’s two biggest issues are 1. It’s competition with Pokemon and 2. Being based on Yo Kai makes the characters very Japanese culture specific. Pokemon are typically designed after common animals and objects. That makes it easier to reach a broader audience. I really hope that Level 5 can make a game that can reignite the international public interest in the game. Probably won’t ever been to the point where people see it as a genuine competitor against Pokemon. But enough to where we get semi-consist releases that sell well. Regardless, I love this series and hope that it continues ❤️
I only ever played the first game, and didn’t beat it due to being a pretty slow 12 year old but I remember loving it. The atmosphere, art style, and monsters were great! Been genuinely considering getting a 3ds again to play it. It’s such a shame it never caught on in the west.
i had a poster of this series on my bedroom wall. i owned the first game and watched the first 2 seasons and it's always been one of my favourite franchises. i hope that the yokai watch 1 port gets translated to europe and north america one day.
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My guy, I loved Yo-Kai Watch when it first came out. My brother and I looked forward to it coming out after watching the first episodes on Disney XD, but I sorta fell out of it when it seemed a bit too repetitive and not as entertaining to me. More so it became like a pass time kinda thing, so I loved it, but not as much as I should. I do, however, LOVE the cameo and connections i've seen. The connection being that Level-5 is the same company that made the video game for "LBX" on the 3DS, and I LOVED that show and game so much. Little robots doing battle, and you control them! Basically gunpla, but robots. Then, in an episode of "Cardfight Vanguard," Nate and Whisper (or whatever Nate's japanese name is) show up during a concert at the card shop, meaning that Buddyfight, Cardfight Vanguard, AND Yo-Kai Watch all happen in the same universe! Well, possibly, since there is the whole "different reality" thing that came about, but eh.
Basically, I feel glad you made this video, because this was part of the first bit of my teen years, and last bit of my childhood. I also want you to know that you are not alone in remembering this gem of a show and game when it came out. I honestly thought it would overtake Pokemon and Digimon, since they started to use an artstyle similar to Yo-Kai Watch's to appeal to a younger demographic (aka, "Pokemon Sun and Moon" and "Digimon Applimonsters"), but I was sorely mistaken that it didn't happen. However, I don't regret a single bit of time spent in enjoying this show, and I will always come back to see some sorta content of it, so if you ever do a playthrough of it, lemme know. I wanna see it.
Keep up the good work, LaiyenZ. Nice meeting you, btw. ^^
Palworld destroyed Pokemon
Yokai Watch does have the potential. I just wish more people were willing to give it a try when it came over to the West. Much like you I also fell in love with the franchise when I discovered the anime.
I figured the franchise dying had something to do with the limited numbers of yokai to produce. Everything went downward when they had to come up with the later yokais, which were a hit or miss in comparison to the earlier ones
@@wilsonweiseng6485I think it was more about the saturation that yokai watch japan was pumping out merch like crazy
@@danjoshgamingz4805 yeah that too, for a while the yokai merch were everywhere, if only i could get my hands on them during that period, strangely my town doesn't sell a single yokai watch merch despite the merch boom. At least i can still buy them off people on shopping websites, got myself a handfull of medals and some figures
Fr. When it first was advertised on Disney XD, when i was in 5th grade, every friend I talked to said they wouldn’t watch it because it was obviously gonna be worse than pokemon and a ripoff.
Same for me too I even went as far as to have some merch.
With LEVEL-5 returning to the US in today's Nintendo Direct this was perfect timing.
Yokai watch is not owned by level 5 no more they sold the right to it
@@Alcideshow no they didn’t
@@Alcideshow yo kai watch is still level 5
@@Alcideshow my reaction to that misinformation
@@AppleBat I seen namco toy for them and that only makes stuff mostly for franchise they own
I think one of the reasons it failed Is because everyone compared it to pokemon and never got to stand on its own so the expectations were set too high
Yeah, I hate when people said it was another Pokémon ripoff even tho it was so original, battle systems, fusion, the story, everything about it felt like a breath of fresh air when that game first touched my 3DS
Also, Level-5's fault for making a terrible decision to release a new Yo-kai Watch game yearly which hurts the franchise.
@GottaFistDemAll not really tbh only in North America was it yearly in japan it was normally 3 to 2 years between main series releases
@@somerandomguy8541 It has been over a month, but I think that's what I meant. Over in the West they mainly saw Yo-kai Watch as a cash grab opportunity just because it was doing better than Pokemon at the time and wanted in on that as much as possible.
@GottaFistDemAll sorry for replying so late I just noticed you commented but yeah I really wish they would have not treated it as the pokemon killer even though it's completely different
That game was my childhood, really we need to do something to bring back, they need to see how we care about that franchise #saveyokaiwatch
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Now a New layton game has been anounced, there is more hope than ever that we can play yo kai watch 4
@@under_toad6991 I hope that is true, but they said on the past, and nothing happened
#saveyokaiwatch
#translateYo-kaiwatch4
#translateYo-kaiwatch1switch
Part of me still has hope that Yo-Kai Watch will come back. I agree that Level-5 should be aware that Yo-Kai Watch still has fans in the west
@@lunalycanroc8267 I literally am waiting for my friend to find his 3ds, because I have an extra copy of Yo-Kai Watch 2 Fleshy Souls, and I just want people to have access and have fun with the franchise
I'm gonna be honest with every American Yokai fan here
We all gotta admit people slept on this
True
I legit said that to people over discord
Fr
I saw this video as I was playing yokai watch 3
Yup
I remember having the original, fleshy souls, bony spirits, and psychic specters
I love yo-kai watch so much! Level 5 is coming back in the US, and after seeing all the games they announced in yesterdays direct, I have a little bit of hope that yo-kai watch 4 will be localized
@@AL3X2PAC WHERE CAN I FIND IT???
@@CoolCarter ill post it later today
@@AL3X2PACYou found the mod yet?
@@robomanredstone they only translated up to chapter 2
Same!
Gosh, I adore the Yo Kai watch franchise. Yo kai watch and Yo kai watch 2 fleshy souls were the only games I had on my 3DS XL growing up. Clocked hundreds of hours on each. Still have both of those save files, all the memories...
I had other games on my 3DS but YKW games were the best, i have so many memories of playing YK2
@@JoacoG11Same its been years and im still trying to complete the medallium
oof too bad you never played yokai watch 3 that game is now super rare to get in the west since it only got a limited release :(
fr when I was a kid I played 170 hours on the original ykw2 then exported my game to the third version and played for 200 more hours
i also played ykw 1 for like 90 hours and ykw3 for like 120... my parents never gave me enough attention
This has always been one of my favourite franchises, and with Level-5 returning, it gives me hope YKW4 will FINALLY come to the west
I loved the first Yo-Kai Watch, it was a pretty great game considering around the same time I was really fascinated with monsters from around the world.
It’s a shame that the franchise never really found a large audience in the west.
I’m glad I wasn’t one of those people who quickly judged the series
people were turned off by the automated turn based battle system honestly is using a menu any different then just having the game pick the moves you were going to select anyways?
I recently replayed the game, and it was so nostalgic and fun.
I love Yo Kai watch, I’ve loved it since I first seen the trailer for the first game. The second game was the first game in a while where it took me MULTIPLE DAYS to beat the final main story boss, which I can’t say about other monster catching games (side eyeing literally every pokemon game since x/y) and it makes me so sad when, even nowadays, some people write it off as another pokemon clone. It had some of the best story writing that kept me invested through the whole game, and the endings of both Yo Kai Watch 1 and 2 literally made me tear up. I’m really glad that Level 5 as a company is making a return in the west with the new professor Layton game, and I’m really keeping my hopes at a reasonable level that they’ll localise YKW4 and the YKW1 remake in the future, preferably before the heat death of the universe.
It's really nice that there are content creators making videos about Yo-Kai Watch! Hopefully videos like this convince the western audience to give Yo-Kai Watch a chance!
Man I was OBSESSED with Yo-Kai Watch for a while, I still have all the merch
Me too lol
Fun fact: Yo kai watch 3 has so much content that it's one of ,if not THE biggest game on the 3DS, and at the same time it's one of the rarest to find in physical, since it was a limited production.
i got into it cuz of the anime too. from then on i’ve collected all the localised games, yes ALL of them, including every version.
this franchise is WAY too underrated, man. we need to bring it BACK
I’m still playing it to this day I got the 1st one when it came out easily my fave game
I recall seeing the English dub of the anime on Disney XD, but it sadly ended too soon, and the games after the first two games never got any releases in America. Yo Kai Watch just sorta came and went.
This might be the first time I saw someone get into the series via the anime. I watched an episode on Disney XD, and absolutely loved it. I didn’t have a 3DS at the time. But I bought one specifically for Yo Kai Watch. And I have so much nostalgia for it.
I love the series, have all the game, and even imported the games from Japan (I know you can buy them digitally. But I wanted the box). And deeply wish the series might come back with the return of Level-5 to the west
1 minute in and you have already named a multitude of my fav franchises from childhood, so yes, I also enjoy this trope- Pokemon, Yokai Watch, Viva Pinata, Dinosaur King and Fossil Fighters are all absolute bangers, hell yes.
God, this just makes me want to get back into yokai watch. Loved the first game, sadly never finished the second. There's still so much content I need to consume, man
Feel like Yo-Kai being like actual ones could show more in Yo-Kai Watch 4 (had to find videos translating the game to beat it easily though)
Bro I still play the Three 3ds games from time to time such good franchise.
We absolutely need a western release for ykw4
Oh wow what a coincidence! I just started playing Yokai watch on my homebrew 3ds! This is a great video 👍
I loved this game, the memories of trying to get rare/secret yo-kai, I vividly remember climbing the flag pole at the school
I remember liking the show a lot. Lots of unique characters & yokai with their own little quirks & the cool ways they built up the world & how to use yokai was awesome.
You don't enslave yokai, you befriend them
Yokai-Watch is my childhood.
I only got to play the first game, but I abso-heckin'-lutely loved it.
Holy crap bro I used to see ads for this all over Cartoon Network back in the day but I completely blocked them out of my memory until now somehow
i remember looking in the eshop on the 3ds and saw a demo for a game callt yo kai watch and gave it a try and after playing it for a few times i knew i had to
get the full game yo kai watch was a huge part of my childhood and still is and after watching the last direct i have hope we get to see a return of yo kai watch by level 5 games
these series wil always be a part of who i am whisper jibanyan and all my other yo kai friends i hope to see you all again one day
I recently found an old yo-kai watch magazine type of thing from 2016 and it was really weird seeing it say "this game is the beginning of a worldwide phenomenon" which also makes me a bit sad that it never got popular because yo-kai watch is my 2nd favourite franchise ever (first place is xenoblade) and I highly recommend watching the anime if you haven't since even without my nostalgia bias, it's really good and actually has a good and funny english dub
I remember playing the Blasters mode on Yokai Watch 2 with my friends at the park..
Ah the good old days
I still play it, to this day, it's probably my favourite game franchise ever
Bro if professor Layton can come back why not yokai watch we need to bring it back in the west I NEED to play theese games on switch 3ds was my freaking childhood and I need it back
Finally, the video we've all been waiting for
I still play even today. I’ve been playing Yokai Watch and watching the anime since 2016. Man times flies.
I'm also a fan of this game it started with the anime on every weekend and then I saw this guy named johne who played the game and he was the one of three people that played the game and it made me wanna play it to
i never forgot fym i'm still mad at those merricans for not seeing how good this series is, i just want to play yokai watch 4 man
One thing about yokai watch that gets me when compared to Pokémon is how much more detailed,immersive and memorable the relatively small world of the games are whereas in Pokémon even in the newest release they just feel super artificial and not lived in at all.
YW got my imagination going and had me hooked despite its “smaller scope” nature
Yo kai watch was so underrated, the 3rd game is SO MUCH FUN IT HAS SO MUCH TO DO and probably the best out of them all [although YKW1 never gets old]
your humor and the editing skills are truly underrated. keep it up!
I hope yo kai watch makes a return. They need to port the first game in english. I'd definitely buy it again to show support.
too many people compare every “monster fighter/collecter” with pokemon. it hurts them all in the long run. it made me so mad in 2015 when ign wouldn’t shut up about yo kai watch being the pokemon killer
To the Question from the title of this video i can proudly say, "Yes, i clearly remember this Game and still own it to this day."
With level 5 working on a new professor Layton. Maybe we can finally get yo Kai watch 4 over here
This vidéo is so good, it maked me returned in childhood and it’s very funny (especially for the los angeles joke 😭🤣)
Sorry for my bad english
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I’m glad you’re talking about this b/c I love the Yo-Kai Watch franchise! 😁 Now that Level 5 is coming back to the US, I rly hope they localize all the YKW games on switch!
i weirdly remember being so into this show when i was 7 or 6, finally found its name after the years..
Good to see I’m not the only one remembering Yo-Kai Watch
I really miss it. I remember buying the game day one thinking it was a shameless Pokémon rip off. But boy if I couldn’t be anymore wrong. I fell in love immediately and couldn’t stop playing it. I dumped a solid 820 hours+ into the first game. I really miss the fun of yo Kai watch. Sadly I never played the 4th because I don’t like playing games in other languages but still I want yo Kai watch to return to America and make not just mine but every other yo Kai fan truly happy again. (Note: sorry for the long comment! 😅)
NOSTALGIAAAAA, Yo kai watch it was my first game on the 3ds!
I still have the Yo-kai Watch games and I still play them.
Ah i remember the old days in middle school. I met two cool dudes who also had a 3ds and we all got into yokai watch at the same time. Making us even closer friends as i still talk to em and even when yokai watch 2 and 3 cam out i got fleshy souls and one of them did to and the other got boney spirits and when the phycic specters came out we all got it and we all got yokai watch 3. Honestly miss it but one reason i made a japanese account for the switch was to get yokai 1 remake and since i played the first game so much i beat it in about 2 days even tho i couldnt understand a word lmao.
yo kai watch is my childhood and playing it on the 3ds hit harder
I recently picked up my 3dsxl after years of nit playing it, and the last time I played the first yo kai watch was back around 2018 with my main save file! It's crazy that one day I just stopped playing entirely. It's sad to think about...
I remember it, because I've always loved this series.
this is honestly exactly how i got into yokai watch too
Yokai Watch has such a cool idea, you can get a MEDAL deticated to you when you die, you get a cool name, a sick backstory and you can inspirit people!
yo-kai watch 2 was, to this day, one of my most played games on the 3ds, which is saying something because it played the hell out of my 3ds. but when ever I want to revisit the 3ds yokai watch 2 would almost always be my first pick
Yokai watch 2 is great but I really recommend playing Yokai watch 3 it seriously perfected the mechanics
@@atwistedb I plan on it eventually, unfortunately I can't really get the true 3DS yo-kai watch 3 experience because of the ridiculous price point for physical copys. I guess Ill just have to use a computer emulator.
@@nacnud2115 Yeah I played it on emulator first (I managed to get it digitally before the eshop closed) yk3 is ridiculously expensive physically
My childhood fandom but I will remember it and still active it
I really miss this franchise, altough it never got as big as people expected. It still is an amazing franchise. I personally enjoy these games way more then any of the more recent pokemon games (on that note, the little yellow rat did get done in. Kinda)
I love yokai watch, I have 2 (psychic specters) and 3, and I'm gonna get 1 soon and the anime was awesome on disney xd.
this makes me wanna play yokai watch now damn
Honestly i miss this franchise. It was irritating and annoying to hear people say *"Yo-kai Watch is a rip-off of Pokémon".* back in the day (2015). Those people don't exist nowadays anymore and eventually became the National Dexters and the ones who lost interest in the Pokémon franchise after Sword & Shield and Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl.
I was very lucky and fortunate to get Yo-kai Watch 3 and Yo-kai Watch Blasters Red Cat Crops. (Still need White Dog Squad) but man those games are worth a fortune now for how little copies that were made.
Not sure if it'll ever come back but I Hope it will. The Anime and Movies can stay dead because *honestly* no one really cares for them, they only care about the games most specifically.
But yeah #SaveYokaiWatch
I’m not gonna lie I’m a huge yo Kai fan. I’ve been obsessed since I was 5. I have all the games, I had all the toys, and I even collected the yo Kai medals. Oh memories 🙂
I have been thinking about it alot lately actually. I really liked Yokai watch I think maybe they expanded out to fast... but if they wait a bit and release a game sometime in the future I will play it. Because I loved the world and the Yokai and the battle system it had. I'm also a big fan of all level 5 games so I hope it makes a return.
We NEED Yo-Kai Watch back in the West!
oh ya yo kai watch bro it need to come back and make a return because the show and the game was so dang good.
yooooo i used to watch this on my tv and let my brain rot slowley as i listened to the boppey theme song
and my bro would always come in with the little watch that you could put the disks in, good times
I legit just beat the 1st game for the tenth time yesterday I’m in love with this game
Yo-Kai watch was a big part of my childhood, I watched the show I played the game, and I have almost every medal toy, so I’m a bit of a nerd for yo Kai watch
Never played, might give it a shot
It's now pretty rare and some of the games are expensive
@@Question-mark21 Yokai watch 2 psychic specters is not that expensive on amazon
@@rin11963 i said some not all
@@pacfighter4226 or just.... Homebrew
@@pacfighter4226 when is the eShop closing
I lovee Yo Kai Watch as a kid i remember on the playground everybody liked Pokemon except for me.
I also love Beyblade
I wasn't from Japan, but my home country was obsessed with yokai watch when it went local, everyone had a yokai watch, and people kept talking about it, especially little kids, maybe it was because it was marketed better there but idk anything
10/10 would recommend. I have yokai watch 1, 2 and 4, and my favorite guy is Wobblewok, whom I haven't defeated yet, because I just got to him, and need to grind. There is yokai watch 1 and 4 on the switch, but they are both in Japanese only.
I never got a chance to play the game but I remember I had a fun time with the anime and it definitely deserves a second look
I grew up with Yo-Kai Watch, and love all 4 games that was brought to the states. I really hope with Professor Layton coming back, so can Yo-Kai Watch
You make me happy i cant be bothered to write a paragraph of why but im a diehard ykw fan and it needs another chance
Oh hell yeah I love yo-kai watch
i will never forget yo-kai watch i only wish for an english version on the rest of the series, i also really love the movie
Youkai watch is the perfect combination of ben 10,pokemon,and doraemon.
I still have the 1st and 2nd game, and the anime is still my favorite to this day, and I played the 1st game so much that my team is at lvl 99, I love yokai watch and is my favorite anime to this day😊😎
Literally my only exposure to Yo-Kai watch when I was younger was the anime. It aired on some random channel I watched sometimes and I had no idea it was a game
very cool show and game ngl
thats all i have to say, yo-kai watch was my childhood
I didn’t even know there was games, I would just watch the anime and I knew there was toys lol
Yo-Kai Watch 3 is the biggest 3ds game ever in terms of sheer post game content.
And also the switch ISN'T REGION LOCKED so I can play my physical copy of Yo-Kai Watch 1 on Nintendo switch on my US switch no problem. Granted it's in Japanese, but not to big of a deal
I actually played every Yo-Kai Watch game: 1, 2, 3 and even 4, and I have to say, I think that even just the map is better than Pokémon. Yo-Kai Watch 3 had Springdale and BBQ (Japan and the US in the Japanese version) and also the Yo-Kai World. This not only included these three areas though, there’s also Sparktopolis, Harrisville and the other train stations, but also the small dungeons made a difference in gameplay. Along with most every game adding mini games like the Blasters in YKW3 (Which before was another game’s main feature) was included. There were SO many quests and SO many Yo-Kai, every game was so good. The story in every game, although it’s linear, is so much better than any other game I’ve played, with every game actually making sense and being a sequel to the previous one. Also, the inclusion of so many battle features like the Blasters Gun in YKW3 or Lightside or Shadowside Yo-Kai, and also the Zero thing in YKW2. Also, in YKW3 you could play with 2 different characters with different quests, and in YKW4 you could play with even more characters for different abilities in combat. A great adition to every game was also the new combat mechanic in every new game you could play. The inclusion of Dream Medals as an actual feature in YKW3 Sukiyaki was also amazing, and making a fun mechanic to increase your chances of getting a better Yo-Kai from the Crank-a-Kai. In YKW4, you can also scan your arks to receive orbs and items for creating and improving a Yo-Kai.
So as a 30 year old i can def say that pokemon was the IT thing for everyone my age but i latched on to yokai so hard i still have both watches and all the medallions XD yes i have no life, and i share them with my son now lol. Either way i loved the 3ds games and REALLY want a new one on switch T_T
Yo-Kai Watch also a part of my childhood, from watching the anime, to buying the little toys.
If you ask me, it sucks how poorly Yo Kai Watch performed. Personally, when I was starting to find Pokemon games to be lackluster, I found Yo Kai Watch to be everything that I wanted and more!
But yeah, its marketing was terrible. I only knew about it because my younger cousin randomly started playing it because our grandma thought it was Pokemon and gifted it to them for Christmas lol
I feel like Yo Kai Watch’s two biggest issues are 1. It’s competition with Pokemon and 2. Being based on Yo Kai makes the characters very Japanese culture specific. Pokemon are typically designed after common animals and objects. That makes it easier to reach a broader audience.
I really hope that Level 5 can make a game that can reignite the international public interest in the game. Probably won’t ever been to the point where people see it as a genuine competitor against Pokemon. But enough to where we get semi-consist releases that sell well.
Regardless, I love this series and hope that it continues ❤️
I only ever played the first game, and didn’t beat it due to being a pretty slow 12 year old but I remember loving it. The atmosphere, art style, and monsters were great! Been genuinely considering getting a 3ds again to play it. It’s such a shame it never caught on in the west.
i had a poster of this series on my bedroom wall. i owned the first game and watched the first 2 seasons and it's always been one of my favourite franchises. i hope that the yokai watch 1 port gets translated to europe and north america one day.
I miss that game I hope someday the first one will come to the switch someday
when i was 3-7 i watched yokai watch on netflix then it got removed but now i watch it on direct tv also i have 24 medals and the og yokai watch
In my option the second yo Kai watch game was the best. By far and the spin-off yo Kai watch blasters
I loved that series, so good
Ive had my fun with Yo-Kai Watch on my 2DS, and the anime wasnt too bad. Hell, Im revisiting right now as Im doing Psychic Specters and 3.
I’m probably one of the only people who played yokai watch in Australia
Yo-Kai Watch will always have a place in my heart.