>tfw yokai watch is dead

Good.

I can see why they tried to advertise it over here, but the reason the game did so well in Japan is because it's so fucking Japany. They should have just seen that and not bothered.

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>>29148173
Yes. Not even Japan cares about that shitty franchise anymore.

>>29148173
I don't know why NOA expected Yokai Watch to sell outside Japan. It's a game entirely based on Japanese myths. They even kept the name, and "Yo-Kai" sounds really cheesy, especially if you don't know what a Yokai is.

>>29148218
This. Children are not interested because the designs aren't cool and the people who do research about the background are not interested because it's for children.

I haven't seen the ads for YW2, but going by the first game's US ads, they honestlly should have played up the Japanese-ness of the games a lot more, rather than just marketing the grossout factor. Kids love Asian stuff, or they did when I was one anyway.

I'm personally not a big fan of Level-5's English localizations either, though I'm not sure that was in any way a factor in sales.

the sales was pretty well in France.

>>29148298
>France
>Relevant

YW's French numbers are 100,000 in five months, and that's apparently "good" by France's standards. 100,000 in five months for YW in the U.S. would be considered a massive bomb.

Shows you how minor and irrelevant that market is when compared to the U.S. If some Japanese export fails in the U.S., it's probably doomed in the West entirely because, frankly, France, Britain and certainly not Australia matter like the U.S. does when it comes to this.

A new game, YW3 third version, was just announced, so it's hardly dying in the main country Ninty cares about.

>>29148340
>A new game, YW3 third version, was just announced

That game came out in Japan in July, Anon.

I was sent a review copy for Yokai Watch 2 and I've been trying to force myself to play it over the last couple of days. It has some cool mechanics like bug catching, but when it comes to the main game it's just so drab. You're constantly being goaded from one place to another through cuts cents and I just feel like battle and yokai capture are so tedious and random.

>>29148173
Eh, I bought my copy of rural japanese town simulator with campy spoopmonsters 2. I'be done all I can do.

Fuck off autist. Yokai's battle is more enjoyable then pokemon and I love the designs. Yokai watch 2 is among top three best selling video games in amazon.

I played the first one and really liked it, the concept was really awesome, but the reason I stopped halfway through was because the monsters are not interesting or cosmetically appealing AT ALL.

One of them LITERALLY has a butt for a face, complete with fart clouds and all.

That's not cool. It's mildly amusing, in a shake your head and say 'i can't belive i'm playing this' kind of way, but it's not cool.

I can count on one hand the monsters I actually really liked, and that's really not enough to make it worth my time.

>>29148388
They just announced the third version for this december. YW is still massive in Japan (even if L5 is doing its best to burn it out quickly).
About the US sales.. the problem is that they're trying to make it as popular here as it is in Japan..but it's not going to work. Here it can be a nice niche JRPG, and that's good. YW is actually a pretty good game, but it's more styled an less approachable than Pokemon. Plus I don't see why they care so much: Nintendo's got a small share in YW's profits and Pokemon is more mainstream than ever.

>>29148388
He means third version for it, like Emerald or Platinum

>>29148450
https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/videogames/4924892011/ref=s9_top_hd_bw_b5NILO7_clnk?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-11&pf_rd_r=0ZFZYH99CFNV98PBR89T&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=24281222-09cb-53d0-ad14-9d116e542c96&pf_rd_i=4924892011#1
Top 10 not top 3 but you get the point.

>>29148476
it is still a huge honor to be in top 10 games among with pokemon

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>>29148450

Um, no.

It's not even top 3 in just 3DS Games.

It's been out of the top 100 in Video Games since its release. Just going by Amazon alone, you could tell it was tanking.

Are they expecting huge sales for SM in the west?

>>29148518
It is in top 10, check my link https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/videogames/4924892011/ref=s9_top_hd_bw_b5NILO7_clnk?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-11&pf_rd_r=0ZFZYH99CFNV98PBR89T&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=24281222-09cb-53d0-ad14-9d116e542c96&pf_rd_i=4924892011#1

>>29148217
Yeah. Yo-kai Watch 3's launch week didn't even break 1 million, which its predecessor (and even spin-offs) did, and main Pokémon games routinely do

truly the Pokemon killer we all feared and dreaded

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>>29148173
>mfw
Honestly, Yokai Watch has a lot of Japanese culture-jokes in it that you can't possibly faze out without either butchering it, or rewriting the entire fucking thing (Shin-chan did the latter)

I don't know what they expected.

>>29148468

Jesus, the whole "it's fading in Japan because of Level-5's oversaturation" line might have some merit.

How are they going to release a third version of the game mere months later?

it is still among top 10 best selling 3ds game, which is quite an achievement

>>29148522
I should think so, with the boost from Go. The starters seemed to be a big hit online too when they were released. I don't see why it wouldn't do as well as XY, if not better pending word-of-mouth.

>>29148173
Is this good?

>>29148463
You do realize that the monster's in those games aren't things they made up they're literally all of them, even and especially the stupid ones, actual japanese yokai? Dog with a man's face? Yokai. Ape thing that reads minds? Yokai. Woman with a long neck? Yokai. Umbrella? Yokai. Red gremlin thing that just goes around licking tubs? Flippin yokai.

I'very looked up enough of these things thinking "no possible way" to give them full benefit of the doubt on buttface. It's kind of a double edged-sword. It means you don't have to think up original ideas and you can pander to a specific culture hardcore, but you're stuck having to deal with all the stupid things they can think up as well. You have to include buttface or people will go "hey where's buttface? I want my buttface, my aunt thinks she saw one two years ago"

>>29148463
The aesthetic they're going for is campy halloween. You could apply the same logic to cartoon versions of our monsters too. Heck, 90% of them are offbrand humans.

I always said Yo-kai watch was too Japanesey to do well in America, it was never going to touch pokemon level of sales outside Japan

>>29148579
So he should like bad design because its historically accurate?

>>29148218
well they couldn´t called them demons or spirits. Western´s especially USA would go on a rampage, if they would know that they are catching demons.

Did people forget, that italy didn´t watch the pokemon movie until the pope said "guys it´s a cool story about friendship and nothing about satanism...it´s a childrens game for fucks sake"

>>29148623
I'm saying they were stuck with a bad concept and had to make due the best they could.

Let's put it this way. If you had to have buttface as a monster, what improvements can you think of for what they came up with for his appearance, that also don't break from the overall aesthetic of the game?

>>29148639
They do call them spirits.

>>29148552
Yep.

Yo-kai Watch 2 Ganso / Honke's launch week: 1,281,096 (July 2014)
Yo-kai Watch 2: Shinuchi's launch week: 1,211,918 (December 2014)
Yo-kai Watch Busters Red & Blue launch week: 688,386 (July 2015)
Yo-kai Sangakushi launch week: 263,637 (April 2016)
Yo-kai Watch 3 Sushi / Tempura's launch week: 581,000 (July 2016)

The latest main version has did worse than a spin-off.

The anime's ratings have dropped back down to Pokémon levels.
The last movie had a huge drop.
Merchandise is down again YoY. In 2015 it was down 75% on what it was in in 2014, and it's down even more.

>>29148173
Yokai Watch is not a Nintendo game. What the fuck is that literally who smoking?

>>29148639
Wtf

The U.S. cares much less of a shit now than it did 20 years ago when calling something a "spirit" in video games would result in major backlash.

Remember that the kids who played the original pokemon games are now old enough to have families.

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>Nooooooo!

Let's be honest. Yokai's battle system is way more engaging and intricate than pokemon. I can't even go back to pokemon bsttles anymore cause they lack the feeling.

>Game Freak spent all this time copying a flop

>>29148741
Agreed.

>>29148709
I would guess Nintendo is helping with the publishing or marketing. That said, Nintendo is always eager for third party games to sell well, helps drive hardware sales and royalties.

But yeah, it's mostly a failure for L5.

>>29148744
Exactly.

The Anime is gonna suck major cocks in the US.

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>>29148173
GHOSTS.
DON'T.
DIE.

>>29148761

The YW anime is literally the lowest-rated show on Disney XD right now too.

>>29148744
>they copied digimon
>they copied neopets
>they copied Yokai watch
>all these are more or less dead
Did pokemon suck the life force out of them?

>>29148704
Typical Level 5. They love milking their series non stop. Layton, Inazuma Eleven and so on.

Completely agreed. I love launching ultimate attacks once after another. It's really fun, and 3 game's new battle system is insanely fun, way more than Pokemon;s

>>29148704
>The last movie had a huge drop.
Wait, isn't that the one that outperformed Star Wars over there? Just how fucking good did the first one do?

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>game with monsters that are heavily based on japanese folklore/japanese heavy designs does bad in us.

I for one am shocked.

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>>29148744
Look on the bright side. Yokaiwatch made them actually put forth an effort going by sun and moon thus far.

>>29148802
Those battles are really fun and I feel bad for Pokemon fans who will never get a turn based battle system that plays in real time.

>>29148784
>they copied digimon
>they copied neopets

what

>>29148805
No idea. However, the first movie had over 1 million tickets sold before it even opened. The second movie didn't even reach a million tickets sold by the end of the first week

>>29148704
That's what you get when you spam a brand every fucking year like a mong without real changes in the formula. Based Level 5 autism, they already killed Inazuma Eleven sales in the past thanks to this method (though a new chapter is on the way)

>>29148802
yep

>>29148394
>You're constantly being goaded from one place to another through cuts

I liked 1, and this is why I just haven't been able to get into 2 so far. The cutscenes are so long and so frequent. And the awfulness of having to play public transport sim. And where's my damn bike? I felt like 1 gave me a little more freedom. About all I like so far is stumbling upon the minigame doors and leaving whisper behind after the first boss.
Which is a shame, because I was looking foward to campy ghosts 3: murrica version. Corn that makes people stupid sounds like just the thing for my team.

>>29148835
>mega evolution

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>>29148704
That's some Scott Cawthon bullshit right there.

Did they at least add more than 4 new Yokai per game?

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The reviews are in (65/100 Metacritic):

>The world can be fun to dive into, but actually playing Yo-kai Watch can shift from tedious to outright boring. For every new story idea or impressive blend of humor and pathos in its writing, Yo-kai Watch 2 fails to breathe life into the act of actually playing it, and until something’s done about all the issues with combat, no amount of delicious doughnuts can cover up its problems. -IGN

>
Yo-kai Watch has a great degree of potential, so it's tragic to see Level-5 squander it over fears of upsetting their massive cash cow. (In Japan, anyway.) This sequel carries the same sense of spooky whimsy as the first game, but unfortunately doesn't lose the underlying tedium. If you're looking for an alternative to Pokemon, you might want to see if the next game fixes Yo-kai Watch's woes—if it gets localized, that is. -USGamer

>The game feels old hat, taking you through well-trod ground--albeit with a fresh coat of paint and a few new faces. -GameSpot

>Yo-kai Watch 2 may enamor younger audiences with its charm and simplicity, but its appeal for adults will largely depend on how much patience they have. -We Got This Covered

>Instead of evolving, Yo-kai Watch 2 plays it safe by fusing new content – some good, some trivial, and some bad – onto a recycled frame, and the result is what we refer to as a sophomore slump. -Nintendo Life

>Yo-Kai Watch 2 works great for someone that never played the first iteration; however, those who did will receive the same experience with no new game mechanics or elements that provide a different feeling. Whit no animation upgrades and a corny narrative, Yo-Kai Watch 2 is an RPG that took one step forward and two —or maybe three— steps back by not contributing with something fresh. -LevelUp

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>>29149075
>IGN's reviews

>>29148394
I like YW but I agree, capturing them is the worst thing about the game.
I mean with Pokemon it's just
>Walk into some grass until Pokemon you want pops up
>Weaken it
>Throw balls at it until it's caught

In YW they overcomplicate the process
>First, you have to follow your watch's radar to detect where the Yokai is - they could be under a car, in a tree, etc
>Then, you have to investigate the spot, you use the touchscreen to scan the area, then once you spot the Yokai, you have to keep your sight on it for 5-10 seconds until a meter fills up, some Yokai are fast and can make this more of a hassle
>Then, you fight the Yokai, however, instead of weakening and capturing them, you throw food at them
>In YW1 you literally have no way of knowing what sort of food they'll like except by brute forcing it, in 2 they fix this.
>Even giving them the best food option available (which in some cases will cost $100+ for one piece of food) yields a pretty low success rate for actually recruiting them - and sometimes the Yokai you don't even WANT will join you instead
>If you fail, just gotta run around the entire town again until you find a spot, exiting and entering zones to refresh spots

>>29148710
>cares much less of a shit now
why does this make me so angry

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>>29149132
Sounds like you're describing a worst version of the safari zone?

>>29149038
oh yeah, I remember when neopets added mega evolution.

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>>29149162
It's much worse
There are Yokai with passive skills that make it easier to recruit guys, but do you really want to use this abomination?

>>29149132
If you can't figure how to take advantage of the befriending system in YW2 you're legitimately just bad. It's basically if Mystery Dungeon's befriending system was any good. Any non rare Yokai is incredibly easy to get, and rare Yokai be tough to recruit is part of the game's main challenge. No different from Legendary Pokemon in Mystery Dungeon.

>>29148741
Why.

>>29149541
cause it is more enjoyable

>>29148173
Yo Kai Watch
>USA
kek

It's dead because it doesn't sell in Japan. Trying to sell a game about Japanese folklore to American kids was never gooing to work.

>>29149556
How.

Why is /vp/ so fucking obsessed with that crap franchise.
Sage.

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>>29149589
>he can't sage correctly

>>29148173
The problem is that it wants to be both SMT and Pokèmon and fails in both senses.
SMT has much more to tell about myths and deities from all around the world, and they have really cool designs going for a mature audience, while pokémon is the perfect game for both children and adults who enjoy cartoony designs that also have some quality and are not the same fucking cat recolored 20 times.

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>>29148835

Pokemon has borrowed several ideas and concepts from Digimon, particularly in latter years.

>>29149641
>the same fucking cat recolored 20 times.

This is an accurate description of a significant portion of the Yokai dex.

>>29149705
To be fair, Pokemon has recolored their own monsters, but not as badly as YKW, and they don't use it for dex padding. We've got Volbeat and Illumise, the genies, Plusle and Minun, Vivillion, and the Florges line. Any I'm missing?

>>29149682
>Digimon had a human woman wearing a rose-themed outfit once

>that means any rose pokemon is copying from it

epin

>>29149682
Digimon isn't dead though
Digimon faded since the late 90s sure, but Cyber Sleuth was popular I think

>>29149785
every single shiny

>>29149800
It's not just that. It's that they both do the masquerade ball/superhero mashup thing. Roserade is *literally* Poke-Rosemon. It is not just that they use the same flower motif, it's the exact same concept, just the Digimon is more like a human waifu (because Digimon).

>>29149815
Oh yeah man Cyber Sleuth was pretty awesome, and they've got a new anime on now. I haven't tried it out yet and I probably won't watch the whole thing since it's quite a heavy reboot, but it seems interesting. They're all based on social media or phone apps or something in the new series.

>tfw DQ is dead

Thats so sad

>>29149065
Yeah but 500 of them were Jibanyan clones

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>>29149306
All you've done is convinced me never to play Mystery Dungeon

>all these anons happy over Pokemon losing competition

You guys are fucking stupid. The less competition there is, the less effort Gamefreak has to put into their games, as they've been doing the last decade.

Yokai watch was on sale for 1 day in september

>>29150060
Evolutions/fusions.

You wouldn't say there are a bunch of eevee clones would you?

>>29148835
>>29149038
Ash-greninja is pretty much digimon's spirit evolution too.

>>29150113
This, SM are the best because they finally tried

>>29150183
It is very different. Eevee isn't just palate-swapped for its evolutions; for Jibanyan there's no fucking excuse to just have "Jibanyan, but blue/green/with a hat/frowning/a slightly different marking on its stomach".

>>29149988
Its not that bad man. They actually kept expectations low and didn't do a lot of advertising on TV so the smaller sales aren't nearly as damning as Yo-Kai's where they advertised out the ass.

>>29150113
>>29150412
>implying GF could care about Pokemon """"competition""""

>>29150060
The majority of Jibanyan clones, namely the Jewel and Fruit ones, are just pre order bonuses and DLC. You hardly ever see them in game. At most you'll have
>Jibanyan
>Thornyan OR Baddinyan
>Robonyan/Goldenyan if you're lucky
>Shogunyan
Only Robonyan is found in the map, the others are quest rewards/fusions.

>>29148787
I dunno... I could do with them milking the Layton franchise a little heavier.

>Yokai Watch bombs with a whimper
>Pokemon just copies Yokai Watch's best ideas and then forgets its existence

>Pokemon kills their anime to copy YW
>YW fucking dies

PIECE OF SHIT

>>29150492
I'd say giant cactus thorns, sailor moon parody, and robot are some pretty big alterations

>>29150683
Go play the demo for the phone game and say that again.

>>29148394
man, I need a website so I can get Nintendo games for free 2 weeks a before launch

>>29148173
I feel bad for the 3DS remake of Dragon Quest VII. I was considering picking it up.

>>29148173
>a monster catcher with shit monster designs and shit gameplay flopped

wow never saw it coming

>>29151633
You should pick it up. It's pretty good.

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>>29149225
>using pinkipoo over casanuva
>ever

I tried the demos for both YW1 & 2, honestly I just think they seem boring, the battles are easy and not really fun, maybe if I wanted to stop playing Pokemon, but I don't.

>>29149785
Do Alolan forms count?

Is nobody going to bring up Yokai Watch 2 was released on the last day of September? This is hardly accurate sales, and won't be until we get this month's data.

>>29150653
>The majority of Jibanyan clones, namely the Jewel and Fruit ones, are just pre order bonuses and DLC.
Since yokai have only 3 moves and a passive, and those are set by species, i'd be okay with that, if and only if, they had a unique move/passive, in which case it'd be similar to eventmon with exclusive moves.

Otherwise it's still inexcusable.

>>29151657
>never played
>in it for the meme

>>29148173
>implying that Americans give a shit about Japanese culture
Not even the American weebs care.

>>29151802
Of course pidgeys are boring anon.

>>29149785
Shinies as a concept. If jewelcats count, so should shinies.

That said, basculin and unown also. And maybe spinda?

>>29150880
>Yo-Kai Watch anime survives, Pokemon anime dies
>Pokemon games survive, Yo-Kai Watch games die

Are we on the path to the best timeline

>>29151657
You mean like Pokemon?

>>29152046
Probably yeah.
Though if >>29148772 is true, YW will probably lose its dub in the process.

>>29148772
Okay, tried for 20 min on google, how do you even look something like this up?

>>29150239
Because Digimon invented synchro

>>29152503

Showbuzz Daily. Here are the season premiere numbers back in August:

>Star vs. Forces of Evil: 498,000 viewers
>LEGO Star Wars: 443,000
>Future Worm: 330,000
>Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything: 310,000
>Yo-kai Watch: 256,000

It's been all downhill from there too. YW is the only new show on Disney XD that almost never cracks the top 150 list, as it averages a 0.02 rating and 100,000-something viewers. If you go to Showbuzz Daily and actually search the show's name at the top, you'll see that YW has only cracked the top 150 list once in its entire second season, back on August 12.

http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-friday-cable-originals-network-finals-8-12-2016.html

At this rate, I think it won't last another year on U.S. TV. Unless anime is just insanely cheap to get and dub, Disney XD can't/won't let this go on for a third season.

>>29148787
Tfw no more inazuma eleven anime because of galaxy ;_;

>>29150239
There's a pretty big difference between turning into a monster and a monster having a coincidental resemblance.

Leo Burnett
LEO BURNETT

>>29148525
It's #11 faggot

I think their biggest mistake was that they didn't just outright skip localizing the first game in favor of the second. The second game fixes a lot of the major issues with the first, at the cost of being much slower and more tedious. Omitting the first game would have probably made it feel a lot less tedious, since you'd be experiencing all of the shit for the first time instead of wanting to hurry up and get to the new shit.

>>29152645
>Unless anime is just insanely cheap to get and dub
Anime is insanely cheap to get and dub. That's the reason that the Saturday morning cartoon blocks that were carried by anime outlived the ones that were mostly western cartoons. Buying rights to a show and localizing it costs next to nothing compared to having to pay for things like animation costs. Plus, Nintendo's probably letting them play it for next to nothing because it's free advertising.

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>>29153602
Ares is coming next year.

>>29149065
Speaking of Scott Cawthon, anyone betting that he will make another fnaf game? Now dont get me wrong I honestly dont think he's a money-grabber type of guy. I love Fnaf 1234 and sister location my personal favorite of the latest franchise but, it would be nice if Scott does something besides Fnaf

>>29154222
There wouldn't have been this many if he WASN'T a dirty money grubber.

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>>29154293
Good point.

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>>29149225
A shame considering its base form is so adorable in a stuffed toy sort of way. When I saw it riding on the cartoon heart like a floating surfboard, I found it to be just the cutest thing.

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>>29153735
I mean, the man warned us.

>>29148704
>launching the third version five months after the first two
What the fuck

It's not dead. They're gonna release the third game here.
It sucks that a shitty ass Digimon game outsold it though.

>>29148173
>DQ7 sold 35k

Jesus. Well that cements that we won't get more DQ games in the future.

>>29154222
FNAF only amassed the fanbase that it did because there was no gameplay to speak of, just his ugly-ass CG models giving people the creeps. Any time he tries to make an actual video game, it becomes evident that FNAF was just a fluke.

He should really take advantage of his current reputation and take on a producer role for people who can actually make games, instead of making poor attempts to prove he's capable of making other things (like FNAF World).

>>29154828
We might get XI though since it is on both PS4 and NX. It might sell better on consoles.

>>29154828
It's because DQ7 is shit. Wait until DQ8.

>>29148173
It would be fun if they just revamped their battle system that doesnt leave you cheated feeling like you bought flappy birb super deluxe edition
i played the demo wont buy the game unless i see it at a yardsale or something

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>>29148685

>>29148518
Yfags BTFO

>>29148802
>>29148830

You're not fooling anyone Level 5 stop shilling your shitty game and let it die

>>29155025
i forgot it was a buttface.

>>29155095
...they're right though? Have you even played the game or are you just another /v/ermin that shits on games they've never played?

>>29155151
>the Jimmy Neutron namefag shitposter chimes in
ugh

>>29148525
>ACNL
>a game that came out 4 years ago next month and has only just gotten a Selects version
>is ahead of Yokai Watch
Jesus Christ.

>>29148639
Then call them yokai instead of Xtreeming up the name and pretending it's some unique concept they invented themselves.

>>29155151
>namefagging
In any case, you do realise that a demo exists right?
One that perfectly shows the gameplay elements to the player.

There's no real need to play the full game if the gameplay in the demo is mediocre.

>>29152535
I thought that was Megaman battle network 3?

>>29155025
I'd assume people would want something truer to form, but fair enough. Legitimate answer. Probably related no less, much like nincada and cadin.

>>29155151
Demo is mediocre as shit fag, or do i have to play for 30 hrs before it gets good?

>>29148250
As someone who works with them, children love Yokai Watch. The issue is that most children I work with only watch the show and own merchandise, but have no idea the game exists somehow.

>>29154293
>easy as fuck to make
>probably makes loads of money for how much they cost to make
>no reason NOT to keep on making them

The series might be bad but only a fucking idiot would stop making them

>>29149132
>he doesn't know the other methods of befriending them, making everything except S-ranks, easy to get

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>>29155516
I'm guessing you have no taste. Currently have about 34 hours in the second game and absolutely love it.

>>29149588
Because it is.

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>>29155650
>I'm guessing you have no taste
>says the person who likes Yo-Kai Watch

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>>29155650
You can't really say someone else has no taste when you put up with 34 hours of one of the most mediocre RPGs to date.

>>29151617
When you're a smaller website like mine you only get games on release, not prior. Still though, free games is free games.

>>29155709
>>29155687
>says this
>likes pokemon
WEW
E
W

A superior version of Youkai Watch 3 is coming my youkai bros. GET HYPE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7AoIc7c8D4

>>29152058
How will pokefags ever recover?

>>29148525
Is Disney magical world 2 seriously that good?

>>29155871
By having a franchise that isn't dying.

>>29155880
It's comfy.

>>29155889
>by having a franchise that isn't dying
HAHAHA

How delusional. YW has loads of post-game content, added ontop of the main games massive content.

Where is pokemon has a short story and nothing more. YW3 is going to be getting 4 massive updates, while Pokemon S/M will stay the same, with no post-game for the next 3 years.

Stay mad

>>29152645
Good to know star vs is still going strong.

>>29154626
L E V E L 5

>>29155025
Difference is that still looks like a skunk designed with a fantasy twist.

Whereas Yokai Watch has a man with a literal ass for a head.

>>29154222
>dont think he's a money-grabber
>Fnaf 1234 and sister location
There are FIVE of those pieces of shit? Come on, this dude is squeezing every last penny out of the franchise.

>>29155917
Is this autism?

>>29148173
That's what happens when your gameplay is smartphone-level braindead, you rely on pallet swaps to pad out your monster list, and you build the entire game around extreme Japanocentric cultural references that can't be scrubbed for international release.

Shit game has disappointing sales. News at 11.

>>29155417
Extreming? All they did was add a hyphen so Amerifats could get the pronunciation right. They still can't get Pokémon right, and that looks fairly western.

>people actually so autistic they are unironically warring over which monster collecting series is better
>not just being a monster collecting gemre fan in general and liking them all

I love Pokemon, Digimon, and Youkai Watch. I've also been enjoying the fuck out of Monster Hunter Stories. Collecting and riding on different monsters is so fun.

Loved Pokemon since R/G/B/Y, and never once thought about dropping the series. Gen 7 is looking to be the best gen in the series, and my favorite generation of Pokemon.

The new Digimon Universe Appli Monsters Cyber Arena game is amazing, and I've already got about 60 hours put into it. And it's not even the full game, which comes out in December.


YW3 is so much better than 1 and 2 it's crazy, I love the changed battle system in it

>>29155971
No, shitting on YW and defending Pokemon is autism

>>29155516
Demo for MonHun is awful too. Game is great. Game companies don't really know how to make good demos.

>>29155982
>I'm better because I don't differentiate between shit and not shit!
Yeah, man. Everyone who likes a genre of music should like every single song made in that genre.
kys

>>29155586
>have no idea the game exists somehow.
K E K

Do they not advertise the game during the commercials of the show?

>>29154730
I hope to christ the "shitty Digimon game" you are talking about isn't next order. That game goes way above Yo-kai-samefuckingthing watch. in my opinion

>>29156002
>Demo for MonHun is awful too
No? What's awful about it?

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>>29155889
Oh yeah, they're gonna do that reboot thing to stop dying aren't they. It all comes together and whatnot.

I'm hoping this shit dies simply because I am sick of having it shoved into my face everywhere. Advertising on Disney or something is fine, but I can't believe they put it in fucking Final Fantasy 14 of all things. Could it have possibly looked any more out of place?

>>29148704
>YW it's dying even though it's still doing amazing numbers
>b-but it's not as good as it originally was!! IT'S FUCKING DYING LISTEN TO ME WAAAHHHH!!!!!
What a retard

>>29156005
More like, I'm not so autistic that I have to constantly be shitting on something I don't like instead of spending that time enjoying something I do like.

kys

>>29156049
Those aren't "amazing numbers" for how much money they're dumping into advertising.

>>29156027
The one for 3u is garbo

>>29156067
>P-please! Let me have my safe space to talk about my shit games!
back to tumblr

>>29148173
They didnt learnt their experience with Dragon Quest isnt it?

>>29155946
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirime
Could have been this

>>29156002
>Demo for MonHun is awful too.
For different reasons, they throw you into the action with nothing to go on creating a toxic entry point for new players.
YW doesn't do that. It explains the mechanics in depth and just comes of as slow and boring especially since you don't control your monsters.

>>29156084
>m-muh pokemon is so good it's better than everything. I have to shit on everything that isn't pokemon!! MOMMY THIS GAME IS LIKE POKEMON ITS BAD REE REE WHY WONT PEOPLE ONLY LIKE WHAT I LIKE REEE
I can do that too, autismo.

>>29148518
even that shitty ass Disney game sold more than Yo Kai Watch?

>>29155982
>>not just being a monster collecting gemre fan in general and liking them all
There's a difference between being a fan of monster collecting/raising games and recognizing bad ones.

>>29156122
>I can do that too, autismo.
No. You can't.
I didn't put words into your mouth. You did.
You're literally asking for a safe place to talk about Yo-kai Watch on a POKEMON image board.
Get a life, my man.

>>29156084
tumblr sucks because you cant have a direct conversation like 4chan.

>>29156142
It looks kind of chill to be honest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYhGPhQevLs

>>29156155
>asking for a safe space to talk about Youkai Watch in an image board
Except I never did that. I was calling you fags autistic for constantly shitting on Youkai Watch on a Pokemon board instead of talking about Pokemon, something you actually like. You're actually putting words into my mouth. Nice job, autismo.

YODERU YODERU YODERU YODERU

>>29156190
Yeah. No.
You made an entire blog post about how much you like the new Digimon and Yo-kai Watch games.
Try again, "autismo." Go somewhere where your kind is welcomed.

>>29148173
Yo-Kai watch's battling is so garbage I don't see why anyone would want to play it after trying the first one.

>>29156210
>liking something means I want to talk about it here, instead of some place where I can talk about it with people that like it too
You actually are an autist are you? Learn to read, retard. You should probably take your meds before your mommy gets mad at you.

>>29156250
You did talk about it here. Do you not read your own posts? Do you have short-term memory loss?

>>29148218
I don't get it either.
While stuff like that can sell in the west, its mostly to teens and adults who can still appreciate that, Yokai Watch is way too child oriented to even attempt that, and most children aren't going to have any idea about this stuff.

>>29155918
It needs more advertising though.

>>29156268
>You did talk about it here
There's a thread, why wouldn't I be?

Why are you talking about it instead of Pokemon, faggot? Go talk about Pokemon

>>29148741
Yo-Kai Watch's game just made me realize how outdated pokemon is. Hell, just opening the medallium and hearing the yo-kai say their names or make other noises royally pissed me off at pokemon.

Like, wtf gamefreak? Why can't you do this? Why am I still listening to chiptune versions of roars and shit?

>>29156314
>Go talk about Pokemon!!!
>Waaahh! Leave me alone to talk about my shit game!!!! I want to blog post some more!!

>>29156316
Pokemon have been making sounds when they come out since gen 1 anon. They just aren't annoying.

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>>29148173
I've never played Yokai Watch, and I'm sure it's an okay game, but I'm really glad to see it dying.

>>29148173
Good, maybe this shitty fad will stay in Japan and die.

>>29156358
You can play the demo to get a feel for the gameplay.

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>>29153987
it depends really

it wasn't cheap a decade ago when the dollar to yen rate was godawful which is partially why anime all but vanished from most channels.

>>29156341
Exactly. YW can be arsed to hire a couple of dopees to say monster names in grouchy voices and do funky growls. GF can't do this, because... They are faggots, I guess.

That's only in English though. The stages in Japanese have different names to the English ones.
Rookie > Champion > Ultimate > Mega
Child > Adult > Perfect > Ultimate

>>29152645
That sucks because the dub is fantastic. But hey, at least Star Vs. is still going strong. I still wish Dan Vs. would come back though.

>>29155687
>>29155709
Bet you guys like XY and ORAS, huh?

>>29156404
>GF can't do this, because...
One, Pokemon have different names across the various regions. Yokai Watch uses the same names, they don't have to change them.
Two, Pokemon are an animal equivalent. Technially certain Yokai shouldn't be able to talk for that same reason.
Three, it's incredibly annoying to hear some cheap dub voice say the same thing 1000 times.

>>29156424
The thing that bothers me about the dub is when assumed Japanese kids go "what's a yo-kai?". I would rather they went "You mean like a ghost?" or just kept talking normally. depending on whether a character expands on yo-kai during the scene or not.

>>29156453
Of course, even the worst Pokemon games are better than Yokai Watch.

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>Tfw you like both Yokai Watch and Pokemon
>Pokemon is fun with friends and is hype as fuck, literally nothing like battling and raising up a Pokemon
>Yokai Watch is pure comf and cotton candy fluff while also having an incredibly robust post game and a challenging goal of getting them all
>Tfw I just wanna play Yokai Watch 3 and Sun and Moon until Dragon Quest 8 comes out

>>29156490
>and a challenging goal of getting them all
Dude, no. It's like an obnoxious version of SMT.

>>29156487
That's wrong and you know it.
>>29156021
Talking about the shitty ass Vita game that released February earlier this year. Game bored me to tears. Think it Cyber Stealth or something.

>>29156467
>Yokai Watch uses the same names
No, they don't. All names are changed to be puns. Even names that were originally the name of legendary monsters are changed to be puns/references to other stuff.

>it's incredibly annoying to hear some cheap dub voice say the same thing 1000 times
A lot less annoying than hearing 20 year old gameboy chiptunes on my 3ds.

>>29156484
True, but overall the localization is pretty great. All the voices for the main cast are top notch (one of the cases where dub > sub) and "Oh my swirls" is 100 times better than hearing "-zura" every five seconds Komasan opens his mouth. That and Nate's dopey dad is so bad at his role he's good. I legit want to meet his voice actor.

>>29156519
>That's wrong and you know it.
Sorry but having pseudo control of your monsters and having an RNG based recruitment system that would give MegaTen a run for its money is incredibly bad.

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>>29156490
>enjoying any JRPG´s besides Pokemon

>>29156528
Oh my Swirls is the equivalent of "monge", not "zura"

>>29156372
IF I wanted to play it, anon, I would've pirated it.

>>29156519
I adored cyber sleuth, It was fun all round for me. I did, however, play it on ps4. and that is also just my opinion.

>>29155982
Atfw no monster hunter stories localization and 3ds region lock
brb killing self

>>29156568
It was different which is why it has a fanbase. Sometimes different is good otherwise, you will get something stale like XY.
>>29156586
You should really play better JRPGs. Pokemon is okay but not the best shit in the world.

>>29156645
>Pokemon is okay but not the best shit in the world
As far as turn based RPGs go, Pokemon IS the best.

>>29156645
Pokemon plays like a 90's JRPG. Which is sad, as it's literally being held together by the monster collecting gimmick. Since, everything else is lackluster as fuck by today's standards.

>>29156645
>It's different, so it's good!
Holy fuck. Fuck off.

>>29156663
>As far as turn based RPGs go, Pokemon IS the best.
T. Someone who doesn't play turn based RPGs

It never happened anyway. Extremely local to Japan.

>>29156645
>Sometimes different is good
And Yokai Watch isn't one of those things.
The only reason it took off in Japan is because it had cute and cuddly characters, that's it and it's why it's starting to die. The games can't carry themselves.
In the west, it never even took off for it to die.

The rest of the game lacks the substance that games like Pokemon has and is padded to fuck with anti player mechanics.

>Leo Burnett's Yokai Watch 2 commercials
No wonder it's doing badly, you don't hire the devil to advertise your product.

>>29156706
Not that it's hard to be the best turn based RPG.
It's such a rarity to find one that does it well without some ATB bullshit nowadays.

As it stands there's only SMT and Pokemon.

>>29148218
Because people heckled them over not releasing them and worried it'd be Japan only or only internationally released in Europe like with Inazuma 11, fucking America over. People were interested because it was Level-5's pokemon and Level-5 had a good track record with Ni no Kuni, Layton, and other decent titles like Fantasy Life, and anyone who kept track of Japan's sales knew Yo-kai Watch was a huge deal over there.

Level-5 waited for the perfect opportunity to release Yo-kai Watch in the US, namely in the drought year betweenPokemon releases to give it the best shot at a wide audience and to build the multimedia empire they engineered to make Yo-kai Watch succeed in Japan, mirroring Pokemon's initial success.

The difference, though, lies in the fact that Yo-kai Watch was engineered to be a success in Japan primarily. Gameplay is fast and easy, built to cater to young Japanese players in a hands-off approach to battles that Japanese kids like, reminding them of arcade machines, something an international audience wouldn't really be receptive to, taking control out of their hands. Additionally, people would always inevitably compare Yo-kai Watch to other mon series because they're usually not prolific or numerous in the west, meaning it'd have to measure up to Pokemon, whereas it's just one of a million mon series in Japan. The main thing that could drive sales, the Anime, suffered from the problem of western television standards changing in the years since Pokemon. Anime is niche, and there's not really a consolidated block for kids to watch it anymore. Pokemon is on a cable channel in an early morning slot and I can't remember the last time I saw an ad for the series that wasn't for a movie showing or marathon. Yo-kai Watch also got picked up by Disney XD, which already struggles to get exclusive shows to have staying power, and is even more exclusive than CN.

Things are just different. Treating the west like Japan killed it.

>>29156752
It's dying because they've been releasing THREE games a year, which means they are technically competing with themselves for sales.

Imagine if pokemon release three different versions of mainline games a year. Or three maddens a year. Or three call of dutys a year. Or three assassin's creeds a year. Fuck.

>>29156586
Well I mean I enjoy a good Dragon Quest once in awhile but uhh...

>>29156706
Yes, I don't play many turn based RPGs because I dislike turn based combat. I generally prefer SRPGs or ARPGs.

I tried a few popular ones, like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, SMT, but I didn't like the combat system in any one them. I never looked forward to the battles. I just wanted them over with.

Pokemon is the only game where I actually like doing and want to do turn based battles.

>>29148741
>Implying
How is sitting around and using the soultimates from time to time better? If anything it is almost mobile tiers of gameplay

>>29156857
Just don't reply to them.

>>29156790
This is pretty good except replace arcade machines with mobile devices.

>>29156857
It's closer to a team/stable management game than a mobile game.

>>29156905
>It's closer to a team/stable management game
Except it's missing half of the management part.

>>29156111
You control switching, ultimate moves, targetting, and debuff removal. It's a better pokemon go. Especially because in real fights you'll be frantically trying to do 3 or 4 things at once. It's almost uncomfortably active compared to the turn-based pokemon combat i'm used to.

Not to mention YW battle mechanics are broken. Even more broken than the ones in the first gen of Pokémon games. Random battles online allow people to use 2 shogunyan(the best yokai in the game) on the same team.

>>29156919
You mostly choose who goes on the field out of a table you built based on their abilities and moves. Then, make calls for retreats and signature attacks.

It's literally the manager mode in older wrestling games with RPG elements in between instead of randomized news and crowd responses.

>>29156981
>You control switching, ultimate moves, targetting, and debuff removal
Anon, this is only three elements. And minimal ones at that for a game like YW.
Unless you're lacking some kind of mental functions any monkey can manage this with little difficulty.

And due to lag, online battles become more frustrating than in-game battles

>>29156179
I mean, you can. Just reply with @tags back and forth like twitter. Heck it even has dms and ask boxes.
Just nobody uses those except to be catty, deliver death threats, and throw shade anonymously.

>>29156243
Do you just not like having to complete constant minigames?

>>29156981
>It's a better pokemon go
Wow. What a rave review!

Why do these nerd fan war threads always get a triple-digit number of replies on /vp/?

>>29156896
It always struck me as similar to the arcades over there from my memory of them, but yeah mobile games also make a lot of sense.

>>29156184
It's comfy as fuck. Basically Animal Crossing with a Disney skin.

>>29157162
Because /vp/ is 13 years old and needs to prove that it's dad can beat up anyone else's dad. Constantly.

I would've liked YW if the combat system wasn't retarded.

>>29157184
>It always struck me as similar to the arcades over there
A lot of that has to do with the fact that current arcade games in Japan are basically mobile games in a big package.

>>29157198
There seems to be conflict in that one tho, what with the protagonist murdering things. Seems more like kingdom hearts for younger kids.

>>29152645

>tfw Yo-kai Waste gets a third season on Disney XD, after they didn't give one to Gravity Falls nor Wander Over Yonder

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>>29157240

GFalls was shut down by the creator IIRC.

>>29157240
The show is better than both of those.

>>29157276
Fuck off weeb

>>29148173
>Leo Burnett

James warned us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyNSsXxKDDc

>>29157276
>Dumb kids' animu
>Good

The fuck Anon?

And no, I don't watch the Pokémon anime.

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>>29156645
>You should really play better JRPGs

Name one and i will tell you why its shit.

>>29157240
Gravity Falls wanted out since Disney was jewing the creator. Didn't even let him release DVDs or put in a gay couple for two seconds. Wonder Over Yonder suffered from Adventure Time syndrome in which it lost its charm really fast.

>>29157354
>dumb kids' cartoon
>good

The fuck, anon?

>>29157505
Not him, but SMT. It's literally better Pokemon.

>>29157583
>SMT
>Good
Go back to /v/ you hipster

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>>29157543
>Didn't even let him release DVDs or put in a gay couple for two seconds.

Figures flaming liberal Alex Hirsch would want to shoehorn in some gay characters.

>>29157240
Gravity Falls ended because the creator was paranoid that it wouldn't get a third season, so he crammed his ideas for season two and three into a single season.

Then Disney did want to order a third season, but he already rushed the show to a conclusion.

>All this Youkaifag damage control
Delicious, better luck with the next "Pokemon killer".

>>29157583
How is SMT anything but utter shit? Besides the fact that almost anything related to anime and the culture surrounding it is shit, SMT is generic as fuck.

Try next.

>>29157640
If you watched the show it was pretty obvious. He did it once with two grandmas and got reprimanded. Then Disney let it slide at the end with the two cops.
>>29157665
Did Disney really? That's hilarious. If you listened to Alex he made it seem like they were ready to cancel him at the drop of a hat.

>>29148173
>Leo Burnett and 4Kids are the devil
What did James mean by this? Specifically the Leo Burnett part?

>>29157635
Counter arguments? Or just yelling no?

>>29148787
I wish they'd milk Fantasy Life more and give us a damn sequel.

>>29148173
Yokai What?

>>29157718
Im just shitposting mate. Dont read too hard into it.

>>29157668

What pisses me off is how much Nintendo promoted this shit, while ignoring Dragon Quest VII.

803 commercials? Mandatory demo icon, while no demo whatsoever for DQVII? Fuck that.

At least Dragon Quest VII is winning in Nintendo's precious 3DS eShop. It's #11 there, while YW2 is #14, despite its having been released two weeks later.

>>29148340
>Level-5 said they wouldn't pull the third version shit again and would just release free content updates for the two versions of 3
>do a third version anyways not even half a year later
>release a double pack of the two existing versions for the price they already went solo as well

Holy fuck screw this company so hard.

>>29157915
Level 5 is just full of hits and misses. On one hand: The original Professor Layton Trilogy. On the other: The Professor Layton prequels.

How do you guys like Etrian Odyssey? For me its one of the best games for the DS so far.

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>>29156490
>Yokai Watch 3
I'd be shocked if it came out over here at this point to be honest.

I want it to, because pic related- I have a thing for literal rabbit girls, I've pretty much bought every game that even references vieras. But it's probably not happening. And 3DS isn't region free so I can't even import, and I'm sure as hell not buying a Japanese 3DS.

Oh well.

Fuck them for region locking Just Dance: Yokai Watch.

>>29155917
Which doesn't matter because even in Japan YW3 didn't crack 1mil in sales. It's dying, anon, mostly because Level-5 has no idea how to space out their games, but it's dying all the same.

>>29157688
Yeah, he said after the finale that Disney did ultimately approach him for a third season. He shot himself in the foot.

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>>29157994
You could always just hack your 3DS.

>>29157975
Would you recommend it? Seems kind of like one of those boring 3ds games in the 10 dollar bin at Walmart.

>>29157975
It's my favorite overall JRPG series. Not a single bad game.

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>>29157994
>Yokai Watch gets this semen demon and pic related
>Pokemon has Lopunny and Froslass
God dammit

>>29158107
Not him but the Etrian games are huge for dungeon crawling RPGs and have a lot of team options. Sure there's an optimal build but where's the fun in that?

>>29157505
>shitting on Chrono Trigger

just die

>>29157697

Says Bulbapedia:

>In 2007, someone posted a backwards video of the scene where James was heard mumbling while at the grip of his Victreebel's mouth. Played normally, his dialogue appears to be gibberish. However, when the scene is played backwards, James clearly says "Leo Burnett and 4Kids are the devil! Leo Burnett...". Some fans had speculated that Eric Stuart, the then voice actor for Brock and James, may have left the hidden message to poke fun at Burnett's idea of animation commercialism and at the same time mocking 4Kids Entertainment for upsetting the fans who were unsatisfied with the international edits back when the company was responsible for dubbing the Pokémon anime.

>In 2011 at Matsuricon, a fan asked Stuart about this quote, which he confirmed was indeed intentional and claimed that it was because he was no longer being paid for his short commercials while working for 4Kids.

I just blame all the fucking pirates for this

>>29150572
That, and it was a remake of a game that didn't do very well the first time around either.

DQ VIII might do better, since it was all around better received in the West when it was first released AND it's a much better entry point to the Dragon Quest franchise.

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>>29158131
>not posting the colored version

>>29158224

Don't studies suggest video game pirates generally aren't going to buy the game anyway?

At least, that is the spin pirate fags always spew.

>>29158224
For what?
Yokai Watch was going to flop no matter what.

>>29150572

Exactly this.

35,000 for Dragon Quest VII is not the same as 35,000 for YW, considering the level of respective shilling each received from Nintendo.

Dragon Quest VII always made a small number of copies. It only fell below YW2 on Amazon because it literally sold out there.

>>29158300
How much did the other (3)DS Dragon Quests sell?

>>29158016

No one even in Japan wanted that shit, why do you?

>>29158338
The music is good and I want a decent drunk dancing game I can play.

>>29156098
I want to see this in a game actually, this is great.

>>29158224

the pirates don't stop pokemon, that means that yokai is shit in the west. They are still the kings in japan anyway

>>29158243
I didn't know there WAS a colored version...
Noice

>>29158324
IIRC, Dragon Quest IX sold over a million copies in the west. Dunno about the remakes, though.

>>29156316
Go listen to the voice dubs in Pixelmon and ask yourself if you honestly want to listen to that all day, anon.

>>29156453
As someone who hated ORAS so much that I literally could not finish it, I still liked it more than Yo-kai Watch. Regretfully, too, because I really wanted to like the game and the atmosphere was honestly great. But the actual gameplay never hooked me, unfortunately.

>>29158370
I dunno about that, feel bad for the West who got the shitty version of a game. Fuck Square for basically saying 'Fuck the West'. I didn't even know DQVII came out, and only noticed it when people were shitposting on /v/ about it weeks after the game came out.

I pirated the orchestral soundtrack hacked version, and the soundtrack is something else. The music feels so powerful in it, and I can't reason why they stapled some MIDI on the NA version and sent it as is. There's a part of the Town theme where I think you can hear the the members of the orchestra actually breathe in between parts of the song, the quality of the soundtrack is beyond compare for the 3DS.

>>29156778
Pretty much this, and it's such a shame because I do miss older RPG mechanics sometimes. Part of Pokemon's draw is that it still offers that experience.

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>tfw the one-day-only YW movie played to empty theaters in the U.S. today

>>29157265
Correct, Alex is a hack. Wander got absolutely shafted by the network, unfortunately.

>>29157975
It's honestly a better series than I expected it to be.

>>29157994
There's a 3DS emulator, anon. You'll get your chance.

>>29158107
I would totally recommend it. Im not sure where you should start, but as long as you stick to the main series, there is not a single bad game.

It is really hard, you have to do a lot of grinding, you have to build a perfect team and think about every point of mana/hp you will spend.

Its the perfect game while waiting for pokemon or just wasting a bit time.

>>29158117
Not sure how i feel about the mystery dungeon spin off, have yet to play it. Doesnt seem to good.

>Franchise deeply rooted culturally in Japan mythology fails in the west

Wow bugged culture mechanics

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>>29158616
I'm still trying to understand what nintendo was thinking when they tried to bring a game that was so Japanese and try to localize it badly and think it'd do well.

Playing Yo-kai Watch 1 was enjoyable but every fucking moment in the game gave me that whole "EAT YOUR HAMBURGERS, APOLLO" feeling.

>>29158416
>fanmade product is indicative of gamefreak's abilities
Dunno if you're putting them down or you're just being retarded or falseflagging or what.

>>29159593
A lot of the voices have been ripped from the anime by this point, and it's STILL annoying as shit.

>>29157951
I would also mention Dark Cloud's 1 and 2. That fucking fishing mini game in two ate up weeks of my life.

>>29159593
You do realise they would just hire the anime VAs right?
The really, really terrible ones?

I'm glad it's dead, the design of all of their "pokemon" were unnerving as fuck imo, with the dead grandma, the dog with a human face and the shota forms of those twin dogs being the worst offenders.