>Humiliates Pokemon with the sheer amount of content>DiesWhy?
It needed to groom a complete generation first
level 5 make nintendo shit their pants
pokemon is the biggest media franchise of all time, it would take an olympian effort to try to compete with it, even if you make better games, anime, toys and other merchandising
>>736531020Found it
>>736532584kek I do the same when see a lg in public I just wait to get home to do it ofc
>>736531020Mostly worse art/monster designs and advertising I think.
Their renamon counterpart was a gay guy which kinda killed any interested, no one wants to fuck any of the Yokai other than like the cats and the lolis.
>You have to be at least this Japanese to get ithence why
>>736531020Are these types of games even legal?Would actually be kinda funny if they were
>>736532584is every single japanese mythological creature related to genitalia?
>>736532584I don't think Nintendo is the 1 who shit their pants in this webm...
>>736531020>Mainline games were so oversaturated you got the Yellow/Crystal/Emerald equivalent just one year after the fact meaning anyone who bought things like BS/FS got a worse version than PS, and anyone who bought Sushi/Tempura got a worse version than Sukiyaki (What we got as YW3).>This came to a head with YW4++.>Eventually mainlines got to the point where they were releasing remakes like YW1, on Playstation, or both and it got confusing.>Spammed gachas like they were going out of style and praying one of them succeeded.>Toys were released so frequently not even Tokusatsu shows released brand new sets of toys as frequently as they did meaning kids and their parents had to spend crazy amounts of money on the medals and watches every few months.>If you don't understand the folklore behind the creatures you miss out on a huge part of their appeal and they just come off as super unappealing or weird meaning outside of Japan they only appeal primarily to weebs who understand Japanese history and folklore compared to something like Pokemon where outside of Johto it doesn't feel Japanese at all and even Johto itself doesn't come off as super Japanese (Well, it didn't to me as a kid since I didn't even know that was Japanese architecture at the time and people were baffled when I brought this up a few years back.)>YW1 is a terrible introduction to the series and the demo was by far the worst demo of a game I ever played as it completely misrepresents what the entire game plays like.>Even the devs knew this which is why YW2 basically throws it out the window and makes it follow the anime plotline.>Western localization was all over the place with fantastic localized Yokai names that carry through the joke of the name but nonsensical changes like Springvale, changing Keita's name, and using dollars instead of Yen.Yokai Watch is entirely a case of Level-5 oversaturating the market and severely mismanaging it as a brand just like Professor Layton.
>>736532584fellas, we've all been there
>Level-5 bitch slaps Pokemon with Yokai Watch games back to back to back>swings around their magnum dong while throwing out multimedia fastballs like anime and merch and collabs out the butt>gay freak FREAKS out and shits their pants and sheepishly copies some mechanics out of panic>Nintendo watches from the sidelines, unable to do anything because they are having a seizure thanks to a Pikachu using Thunderbolt for 10 seconds>for no reason at all, Level-5 decides to point a gun to their head and pull the trigger>they survive>they do it again>they survive>they go in limbo for nearly a decade then come crawling back to Nintendo with Fantasy Life and VRBaffling. Still don't know what was up with the 3 year spiel of like 8 fucking iOS/Android Yokai Watch spinoffs and the whole Yokai Watch 4 fiasco.
>>736534043We also have them trying to come back with Holy Horror Mansion (Also getting localized) which is just Yokai Watch by a different name.
>>736534169more like holy mesugaki mansion
>>736531020Level 5 blew their load and were unable to follow up on their success.Not to mention, Youkai are a concept familiar enough to at least the US that treating them as Pokemon feels kind of weird.
>>736531020Not good enough
Truly great games, and of the few times when mevhanical changes introduced by localizers improved an already great game: Youkai Watch 3 was in Japan released in several version like Pokemon is. Localizers unified these into one version, and added in game ways to get items and youkai that are in Japanese version only accessable through QR codes. (https://w.atwiki.jp/gcmatome/pages/6415.html)Please play Youkai Watch 3, preferably after Youkai Watch 2: Psychic Spirits. It shows the potential of monster befrirnding genre, and what a game not diluted for modern global audiences is.>>736533860>Western localization was all over the place with fantastic localized Yokai names that carry through the joke of the name but nonsensical changes like Springvale, changing Keita's name, and using dollars instead of Yen.None of the changes were "fantastic". The games are intended for Japanese vhildren, and unlike Pokemon, they are culturally specific. The localizers sought to remove the cultural odor, as they came from the 4Kids school of translation.
>ermmm, YK totally had Nintendo running scared, bwos!>YK is currently a fucking corpse>Pokemon is the largest IP on the planet
>>736534373>The games are intended for Japanese vhildren, and unlike Pokemon, they are culturally specific.The names of the Yokai are literally all wordplays in Japanese and the English conveys said wordplays. Noway is the most basic example of this where ムリカベ would mean "Impassable wall" and it's a wall telling you you can't pass.I agree with you that changing the city and NPC/main character names was terrible as was changing it to dollars instead of yen, but the Yokai names themselves were done right.
>>736531020leonardo16sei is the doujin artist
I want them to do a best of version of the first Blasters games (with all the content from the different versions) for modern platforms, a best of version of the 2nd Blasters game, and more Blasters games in general...
>>736534535If you like Blasters gameplay, try Snack World.
>>736532584>>736534252>>736534286>>736534349>>736534380Is this the Japanese equivalent to those weird ass fetish cartoons in the west?
>>736534598I'll look into that. Thanks.
>>736531020Palworld died tooNothing beats pokemon
>>736531020Almost every single monster tamer game ignores the most important aspect that makes Pokemon and Digimon stand out: McFucking evolutions. WHY do they keep doing this? MAKE YOUR NIGGERS EVOLVE
>>736531020Superior amount and quality of their little girls
>>736534935Too flat.
>>736534624no because this is only played for laughs. Western cartoons primarily do it to disolay their fetishes and second to create something fun and novel.
Games were trash, literal trash
>>736534840Yokai Watch has that. Hell, most monster collectors have that. At most Monster Rancher, Telefang, and Medabots are the only things that don't. Monster Crown, Palworld (From what I remember), Casette Beasts, Temtem, Nexomon, Yokai Watch, Disc Creatures, Coromon, Monsterpatch, Dragon Quest Monsters, and Monster Sanctuary all do it.Monster Hunter Stories and Moonstone Island are the only ones I'm not 100% sure on and I believe they also have them.
>>736534972gay
>>736534972That's the best part
Level-5 is a shota companyToo bad the CEO is retarded and wants AI to program their games
>>736535653inazuma has like 3000 girls for you to play withAI is basedshota is here to attract the female audience
>>736531020Yokai watch died because Level 5 went full retard and released sequels to close to eachothers and people got tired of it.
>>736531020Why was Yokai Watch such a flop in USA?Do Americans hate Japanese culture that much?
>>736534043Im convinced there were Visa shenanigans behind the scenes by now, because it makes no sense how they just disapeared while Nintendo nearly killed Pokemon with their Switch games, wasting their big chance
>>736540634To be fair, even with how badly Pokemon was managed during that era it is the closest thing a media franchise can get to "too big to fail." Disney ain't have nothing on Gamefreak.
Maybe will we get some news about Youkai Watch's spiritual successor, Holy Horror Mansion, on April 10th, when Level5 has announced it will have an online event.https://www.level5.co.jp/vision2026/en/
>>736533751go back
So jelly of kids that got to grow up with the Yokai Watch anime, what a legendary children’s anime.
>>736531020
>>736532584>>736534252>>736534286>>736534349>>736534380i forgot how funny this show is
>>736540476What didn't help was that the cartoon aired on Disney XD,which was a premium channel here in Burgerland, instead of something like Cartoon Network or even Nickelodeon. I remember being sad when Youkai Watch first came out over here because it made me realize I was getting old since I knew if I was a kid, I would have loved it.
>>736533780>is every single mythological creature related to genitalia?ftfy
>>736544771yes. a common trend I've noticed in polytheistic cultures is a cult of the penis. they worship dicks, sex, and masculinity as an actual component of their religion. this includes western society, where many myths are based on pagan pre-christian superstitions.
Which games should I play? I already have 4++ on an emulator somewhere. Blasters was just too simplistic for me and made me want to just play Marvel Ultimate Alliance or Grim Dawn.
>>736534730In your dreams maybe
>>736546350Youkai Watch 2: Psychic Spectres and then Youkai Watch 3. 1 was superceeded by 2, and PS is the "third version/Yellow" of 2. Three builds on 2, adds QoL, buts also changes and removes some things.Thus 2: PS and 3.
>>736546350Play them in order but keep in mind they're 3 - 4x the length of a Pokemon game and pretty samey so don't play all three back to back.
