
Yo-kai Watch 2: Bony Spirits & Fleshy Souls arrived in North America last Fall / Autumn, but have taken a little longer to make their way to Europe. Their arrival is now nailed down, however, as the dual release will hit stores in the region on 7th April.
Intriguingly, Europe was highlighted as a successful territory for the Level-5 franchise in Nintendo's recent financial presentation, with the title selling faster in the region that it did in Japan over the first 38 weeks of release. Though it should be said that it was an IP that continued to accelerate its sales during its first year and beyond in Japan, it's nevertheless an impressive statistic; perhaps that will encourage Nintendo of Europe's localisation to get closer to the release timeline for North America.
In any case, we gave this sequel a recommendation in our review, though thought that it under-delivered in some areas. You can see an E3 demonstration below:
Of course, we can't miss the opportunity to share some of the quirky Nintendo Direct moments that we saw for the first game in the series. It's not often you see major corporate executives and senior managers engaging in quirky dances and hammed up acting.
Are any of you in Europe planning to pick up one or both versions?
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Got Yo-Kai Watch for Xmas but not had the chance to play it yet. Have been watching the series and collecting the medals, medal moments and other merch though. Looking forward to these.
Despite it's flaws, I really liked the first Yo-Kai Watch. From what I've seen of reviews the same flaws are still there but I might still pick it up. The way they constructed the world and the town was really good so it might be worth another visit when the time of release comes.
Why not Spirited Souls and Fleshy Bones?
Liked the first Yokai Watch and admittely even watched the full first season of the anime, it's definitely an entertaning franchise.
However this year is already shaping up quite intense with the Switch and all the new games, not sure I'll find any space for the Yokai-hype ^_^;
I got my son the Australian PAL release for Christmas and it has been enjoyable so far playing through it. Lots of new Yokai. If you like the first game but want more it is perfect.
Well, it certainly looks like a very polished piece of software from the footage I've watched—I even had thoughts that it would have been amazing if something A Link Between Worlds had look anywhere near as gorgeous as this. I've never played any of the games though so I can't really say how much fun they are, but everything looks very solid and well put together in the demonstration, from what I can tell. I actually wish I had a 3DS and copy of the game so I could give it a go.
Bony Spirits.
Bony.
And they say I am the one making dirty jokes here!
They are available in abundance in Australia for English-speaking Europeans that wish to import.
Sweet christ, finally!
The 3DS will be dead by the time Yo-kai Watch 3 makes it to Europe.
release this on the switch..
You guys haven't been missing much here. These games were a flop in the states. 👎
My nephew got Yokai Watch for Christmas he's absolutely mad about it, he'll be well pleased to hear this news.
I do want to try out out a Yo-Kai Watch game, though I'm in no rush to get one since I have a little bit of a backlog problem.
I'll use the same logic that I use for Pokemon to decide what version I want. I'll decide based on the looks of the creatures on the cover of the game. From googling the US cover art, I'll probably want Bony Spirits.
Thought about getting your Kai, but my step kid is a fan now.im a grown man! The game can't be much of a challenge if children are playing
Nintendo have kindly given me 30% off the first game in honour of my birthday this month. I may well take them up on it, but it will have to queue up in my playlist behind Pokemon Moon and Link Between Worlds..
Yokai Watch 3 USA version, please.
Strange, we generally follow EU releases in Australia but we've had these titles available for months!
I still haven't gotten to the first game, but I do enjoy the quirkiness of the anime!
@azelf If you liked the original, you'll love the sequels. Though there are flaws (both new and old), the game as a whole is so good it's easy to look past them.
wait, this didn't release in Europe yet? REALLY!?!?!?!?!
Not sure why fellow PAL region Australia got this months ago and Europe still doesnt have it.
Luckily the two regions are part of the same region lock, so any European who wants an English version can import it from Australia.
They give us these games so long after everyone else I honestly lose interest, that's the reason I didn't get the first one.
I recon I'm about half way through atm and love it. It just oozes charm. Fingers crossed we get YKW3 and some of the spin off titles too.
If anyone wants to trade a Sailornyan for my Robanyan F let me know. 😃
I'm pretty certain we're behind with the games, because the anime started later here. Anyway, the first game was great, so I'll be getting one of these.
I guess better "late" than never, but I worry about the sales. Most people in Europe just imported the Australian version and will focus on Switch rather on a game that had third version out more than 2 years already (I mean Shinuchi not YW3) and I doubt we will ever get it, hardly the third YW3 since the sales overseas were pretty poor for YW1 and YW2...
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