As the west prepares itself for the onslaught of Yo-Kai Watch, our Japanese friends have been enjoying the franchise for some time - as well as its spin-off releases, such as Yo-Kai Watch Busters.
Released this year in two flavours - Red Cat Team and White Dog Squad - Busters takes inspiration from the Hollywood series Ghostbusters, which happens to be getting a reboot shortly.
Level 5 has just confirmed that a third version of the game will launch in Japan this December, along with a free update for the other two editions. Yo-Kai Watch Busters: Moon Rabbit Team was revealed in the latest issue of CoroCoro Comic, which you can see below.
The first Yo-Kai Watch title is coming to North America this year, with a wider global release happening in 2016. Alongside the game, there are plans to release a flood of merchandise as well as an animated TV show.
[source gematsu.com]
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Milking...I'm really excited about Yokai Watch on the west, but Level-5 is pushing a lot of titles in Japan and that may damage the IP
I NEED Busters SO bad! And this Moon Rabbit addition seems to give more bang for the buck. BUT PLEASE LEVEL 5, YOUR GAMES ARE ALWAYS SO AWESOME! GIVE ME WHAT I WANT AND NEED!
The first Yokai Watch is also out in Australia this year, if you bothered to pay attention to your own news.
Another million seller confirmed? And both games were still selling well and now an update. Woah, Level 5, calm down, that might saturate Yo-kai Watch market if you keep doing that in such a short time.
"flood of merchandise"
Well that's one sure way to tell that even though these are 3DS games Nintendo has nothing to do with it.
I wouldn't worry about Level 5 over saturation in the market, they let Wonderflick die, they seem to know what their doing, and they've been around for awhile. I do think though they are on the "smart device" time line of game making, not console timeline. Angry Birds 2 just came out, but before that there was AB Seasons, Rio, Epic, Star Wars, Transformers and at least 2 or 3 others. Abig Pokémon comes out every year, plus smaller title like Shuffle and Rumble, and cards, and TV shows, and movies, but somehow Pokémon keeps going, how many years now? Can anybody remember a time before Pikachu? I think they are just trying to catch up.
Level 5 has the Midas touch as far as I can tell. I will reserve judgment but assume it's excellent until I have evidence otherwise.
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