Level-5 has updated the official Japanese website for Yo-kai Watch 4, adding a batch of new stills and providing a little more info on how the game's battle system will work.
In Yo-kai Watch 4, players will be jumping into the battlefield alongside their Yo-kai partners, running around and dodging attacks in real time. Markers appear on the ground to indicate where an enemy attack is about to land, so you'll need to keep an eye on the scenery around you and dodge any unfriendly moves coming your way.
The human characters, or 'Watchers', use the power of the Yo-kai Watch to battle against said enemies. One such character available in the game is series hero Nate who is set to battle alongside some "familiar" Yo-kai. You can see how the battles will unfold in these new screens:
If that's not enough for you, a ten-minute video showcasing some of this battling action was released a little while back. If you missed out on that one, make sure to give it a watch.
Are you a Yo-kai Watch fan? Are you eagerly awaiting a western release announcement? Let us know with a comment below.
[source perfectly-nintendo.com, via youkai-watch.jp]
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Looking forward to it!
Hopefully Level5 is a little wiser now and releases it simultaneously in the West or at least shortly after and not wait 2 years for localization!
Looks like attack on titan for kids.
This game looks amazing. Not only the best Yokai watch game by far, but it looks like it'll be one of the top RPG's on the Switch yet. Pokemon 2019 gots alot of work to do
@patbacknitro18 I echo the fact that Pokemon 2019 has a lot to live up to. And I'm looking forward to seeing if they can surprise us at all next to this iteration of Yokai Watch (which is looking gorgeous, by the way). I do sorta wish you could control the yokai themselves though... Ah well - if they localise the game for the west in 2019, then I'll gladly pick it up. If not... Well, there's always Smash.
I think they should have called it something that wouldn't drive away new players on switch, instead of yokai watch 4, since the increased switch playerbase could be what the series needs to gain ground.
I predict they change the name in the West. While ...
and ninja'd by @Bomberman64 So thanks, I'm out.
@Bomberman64 How it has been driving away new players from the new Pokémon games? Or any other game?
I have played Xenoblade Cronicles 2, but never 1 or X.
I have played EverQuest 2, but never 1.
I have played Warcraft 3, but never 1 and 2.
I have played Rune Factory 4 on the 3DS, but never 1,2 and 3.
I have played Elder Srolls Oblivion and Skyrim, but never the earlier ones.
I can go on and on and on.....
Unless it's a deep story driven RPG like Mass Effect, where you wouldn't be able to make sense out of the story if you would have jumped right into ME3 without playing the first two..... Yo-kai Watch isn't anything like that, nor many other games in my above list.
If you have a 3DS, you can dive right into Yo-kai Watch 3, don't miss out and have a blast in the best iteration yet! Though I would say Yo-kai Watch 2 - Phsyic Specters is really good too, just for it's wonderful story. I actually like the story in 2 better than 3.
I'm playing through Yokai Watch 3 right now and the amount of content, outside of the main story, is positively staggering (sure, it's combining three versions into one, but at the end of the day it's just a little bit more than what was available in japanese Sukiyaki) - enough to say that after 30 hours, the game awards you a "Promising Rookie" trophy. If YW4 has half of that, then we'll be getting a really good JRPG next (hopefully) year.
I saw this video gameplay on YouTube just this afternoon, and now here in NL, so excited they still progressing the game!
I will skip Yokai Watch 4 due to Too Scary for me.
I can't wait for this. I have been a Yo-Kai Watch fan from the beginning. It is a clever series. Quite challenging at times too. But this one looks amazing.
Interesting. I played the first one, but never got around to finishing it. Are the 3DS ones tied to this one?
@Anti-Matter
It doesn't looky all that scary, but I can see where you are coming from. It is based off some exclusive "darker" yo-kai-watch anime that from what I know is exlusive to japan. I think it may have been called yo-kai-watch: Shadowside? I'm not completely sure.
I'm definitely looking forward to this one; what I've seen so far looks quite promising! I unfortunately still need to play at least one of the second games, and North America doesn't even have YW3 yet....
@Jeronan You make good examples, however Pokemon works towards my argument because it isn't called Pokemon 7, but actually Pokemon Sun/Moon, and that is also why I made that comparison for those similar style games.
As for the other examples, I agree, even for games that have continuous stories there will be people who for different reasons haven't played the previous games (who has played elder scrolls arena, am I right?), Like one of my friends who loves Halo 4 and it was his first game in the series.
My counterargument is that if Yo-kai watch wants to gain popularity it should not make people think they have to have played the previous games in the series in order to enjoy the game. Why do you think they decided to call it Monster Hunter World and not MH5? Here's a quote from the main producer of MHW on the choice of name: "Monster Hunter 5 implies [the existence of] Monster Hunters 1 to 4 and people will feel a certain kind of pressure to catch up on the existing games,”
Basically, if you know that your game will be selling well no matter what (like when you name your game Super Mario Galaxy 2 or it is a famous franchise to begin with like COD 15 Black Ops IIII), you don't have to worry about the name as much.
Other examples are how they chose to call it Final Fantasy 3 over here when it was really the sixth game.
I guess to sum it up, some games manage to sell well with new players to the franchise, even if they choose to number the games, but those games often come from an already popular and established franchise (ex. Final Fantasy XV), whereas I have the impression that yo-kai watch still hasn't gained the sort of popularity in the west that the devs and publishers expected it to have.
Source on MHW:
https://www.polygon.com/2017/11/1/16585780/why-monster-hunter-world-isnt-called-monster-hunter-5
Edit: Also, the comment of @MysticGengar shows the sort of questions I am talking about.
Amazing. Cant wait!... Day 1
Playing Ninokuni2: The Lair of the Lost Lord DLC now. Need Level 5 on my Switch Also!
Seeing this entry getting an actual battle system for once is making me interested.
Looking forward to this, very likely a purchase for my older son. He never finished YW1 though - some parts got confusing and tricky.
The comvat system of the previous games was so-so to me. So if it was more of that, I'm not sure I would've been interested. But it looks like they're changing things up, so I hope to see some gameplay soon enough.
Hoping It's good, partly because I think Pokemon desperately needs the competition.
@Bomberman64 Should've called it Yo-kai Swatch.
@Bomberman64 I also agree that a better name could be Yo-kai Watch: Shadowside instead of a numbered name. After all this game is short of a reboot of the series, just like the TV show.
But, anyway, I don’t see any way the title alone could drive players away.
I’m actually really looking forward to this game.
My kids loved the other three games and both Buster games and follow the anime religiously every week. They’re quite excited for this.
This would be my first foray into the Yokai Watch series when it comes to the West! I will still wait for reviews though.
Excited for this.
Praise the Switch for being region free.
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