Level-5 have announced in this week's issue of Famitsu that the fourth entry in the Yo-kai Watch series is headed to Nintendo Switch this year in Japan. This marks the series transition to the Switch with Yo-kai Watch 3 previously being released on the 3DS.

The game promises to introduce new power-ups and content that will surprise fans of the series.

No information on an international release was provided.

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[dimmidice]

I don't know if that was what Flame was heading for. I read it as something like
Back on the GB/GBC, GBA and DS we saw a few "pokemon clones" like Medabots, Robopon, Demi Kids (or at least the dark version), Dragon Quest Monsters, maybe Monster Rancher at times, and so forth. Many of those had their own interesting takes on the gameplay style and ultimately some pretty compelling gameplay (I maintain medabots is much better than pokemon but different discussion for another thread). Yo-kai watch on the other hand is boring as you like and generally a far inferior take on the gameplay style most associated with pokemon.

Good job phrasing your subjective opinions as cold hard facts.

As for flame's post it was blatantly the most stupid post in this thread. No need to act like his post brought up any good points whatsoever.

 

[FAST6191]

Good job phrasing your subjective opinions as cold hard facts.

As for flame's post it was blatantly the most stupid post in this thread. No need to act like his post brought up any good points whatsoever.

Flame's post seemed OK to me.
The first part seemed to be a claim on the quality of the games which is fine to do on a forum, especially in a specific thread about the game/game franchise.
The second part was a reference to the in house reviews done on the first two games ( https://gbatemp.net/review/yo-kai-watch.410/ https://gbatemp.net/review/yo-kai-watch-2.533/ ), ones that got quite heated in the comments for them and thus achieved a certain measure of notoriety.

Also am I under any obligation here, be it by rules or general notions of etiquette, to speak in clinical and opinion free language, or otherwise clearly demarcate anything that might be considered opinion?

 

[Kioku]

I don't know if that was what Flame was heading for. I read it as something like
Back on the GB/GBC, GBA and DS we saw a few "pokemon clones" like Medabots, Robopon, Demi Kids (or at least the dark version), Dragon Quest Monsters, maybe Monster Rancher at times, and so forth. Many of those had their own interesting takes on the gameplay style and ultimately some pretty compelling gameplay (I maintain medabots is much better than pokemon but different discussion for another thread). Yo-kai watch on the other hand is boring as you like and generally a far inferior take on the gameplay style most associated with pokemon.

Bomberman Adventure is far closer to a "Pokémon clone" than half those titles.

 

[RustInPeace]

I would like to watch the show because the English voice for the main character is my current mancrush, Johnny Yong Bosch. Not interested in the games.

 

[FAST6191]

Bomberman Adventure is far closer to a "Pokémon clone" than half those titles.

PC goes out into the world to collect some considerable number of monsters/parts/demons/ghosts/robots and assemble said collection, customises and trains said collection and battles said collection with other characters in the world in a light 8-16 era RPG style adventure with turn based battles. That happily describes those in my list, give or take certain versions of Monster Rancher which I mainly include as it scratches many of the same itches as pokemon. If I had stretched it to include the megaman battle network series, as I sometimes do when discussing the pokemon clones, then we might have a bit more to discuss as far as weak groupings go but I am OK with what I put earlier.

 

[pedro702]

dont tell e 3rd one will be forgoten to jap only and we will get the 4th one first? ...

 

[tiamat999]

little battlers experience more please. there best franchise forgotten

 

[dimmidice]

little battlers experience more please. there best franchise forgotten

I would've loved little battlers but wasn't a fan of the gameplay. I really wish we'd get a medabot game in US/EU :/ Medabots RPG on GBA's still one of my favorite RPGs.

 

[Fluffball]

When the first one came out it was pretty refreshing,both aesthetically and mechanically ,i never got round to finishing it though and by the time i tried the second one out i found it too drawn out and long-winded.

If they can keep the charm but up the tempo and make the over-world more engaging it will probably be a hit

 

[KingVamp]

That game just makes me wish for Custom Robo more.

 

[Pluupy]

Yokai Watch is fun as hell. Level 5 has this charm of always giving their games unecessarily high amounts of detail, and Yokai Watch was no exception.

Finally I can play as a japanese elementary school student who talks with ghosts, travels time, giant skeletons, has parents who fight over donut brands, a gacha machine which spews ghosts, and looks under their neighbor's porches for brand new packs of bubblegum.

Yokai Watch, ladies and gentleman. lol

 

[anhminh]

Oh c'mon, stop being bitter because people like something other than Pokemon.

 

[chirogan]

Gamefreak needs some new blood i find. I'm just getting really bored of pokémon to be honest. I still enjoy it but i get so weary of it about halfway in now. I haven't even finished ultra moon yet :/

And i hate the way they handle event pokémon giveaways.

Honestly, i stopped playing pokemon now. I got till diamond/DS pokemons.

The game was exciting especially on the first generations.
But the whole breeding + fighting 8 gyms got repetitive and... exhausting.

Plus i cant wait til the pokemons gets to 5,000 and shout, gotta catch em all!

 

[Lazyt]

but what happened to Snack World?

 

[Deleted User]

I guess this confirms pokemon on the switch then

 

[pedro702]

I guess this confirms pokemon on the switch then

what? pokemon on the switch was confirmed on last e3 by nintendo themselves lol

 

[ov3rkill]

I haven't even played any of the Yokai Watch games and now, we're already at the 4th game? Damn! They're fast. Or I'm just overwhelmed by the library of games.

 

[Deleted User]

what? pokemon on the switch was confirmed on last e3 by nintendo themselves lol

They never sead a main series game though.If yokai watch as a main series goes on the switch then so will pokemon.

 

[dimmidice]

They never sead a main series game though.If yokai watch as a main series goes on the switch then so will pokemon.

That makes no sense whatsoever. And of course a main pokémon game is coming to switch. Just a matter of when.

 

[FAST6191]

I haven't even played any of the Yokai Watch games and now, we're already at the 4th game? Damn! They're fast. Or I'm just overwhelmed by the library of games.

The first one hit Japan in 2013, the sequel about a year later. They then translated the first game and released it outside Japan in late 2015 marking most people's introduction to the concept (there was the usual cash in manga/anime which some might have caught but it is your typical cash in affair rather than maybe trying to do something interesting).
A third game (or two, they were doing the same thing as pokemon with different versions and then another version still) dropped in Japan in July 2016, not long after that the second game got released outside Japan.

The sequels somewhat refined the gameplay, certainly enough that you could look to Japan and see the improvements (and this is the internet so people did). Most critics I tend to align with still say it is all weak and boring gameplay, a far lesser effort than things it resembles. It was big in Japan, considerably so, but that does not mean a lot. Given it the mainly games are also 3ds exclusives up to now it is not surprising they slipped you by.