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Even in Japan it was really only big for a couple of years and fell off dramatically. I think at least some of it is because Level 5 is a small company that can't realistically compete in the marketing realm.

Maybe I'll check it out. As a Digimon fan, I sympathize with Yokai Watch fans. I know it's popular outside the US, making the dedicated fans here understandably upset.

I'm grateful Pokemon screwed the pooch for me, cause now I finally have time to explore more monster games. Cassette Beasts is amazing, maybe I'll give Monster Rancher a return as well. Plus the upcoming Digimon game looks promising.

It annoys me that Cassette Beasts doesn't get more love. That shit slaps.

As someone who grew up with the 3DS and only recently got interested in RPGs, I'm a little curious about it. Probably only because the main protagonist bears a striking resemblance to the protagonist of the Mega Man Star Force series that means a lot to me, haha.

Coincidentally, Star Force is also an underrated RPG series (imo) that suffered from bad timing and, as the sequel to the Battle Network series, had the curse of being simultaneously called more of the same and too different from Battle Network, and also suffering from bad timing.

Real. The yokai watch games are easily among the best on the 3DS in terms of music, graphics, gameplay, humor, everything. I played 1 just because I've been going through the entire hshop and I got blown away by how much better it is than Pokemon in every way except battles (which Pokemon games aren't good at either tbh. Showdown is the only bearable way to play competitively). I of course played 2 and 3 right afterward and the high quality is consistent. Yeah people are always comparing every creature collector to Pokemon, but in this case yokai watch is the obvious winner; it's no contest.

These games are long as hell too. I know gamers are tired of hundred-hour RPGs but on the 3DS, it's an anomaly. It's kinda shocking how you can spend thirty hours on yw3 and still have your team at level 10. And I don't mean that in a bad way! These games have meandering Yakuza-like stories that are really charming throughout. I think the posters here would appreciate the gabbaghouls

you're right, yokai watch is genuinely so good i loved it a lot :3

Damn it fell off? I remember it being huge in Japan with its anime adaptation being among the most watched

Absolutely loved those games. I never played all the way through 2, but I beat the first game, including wobblewok and milked 3 for more playtime than anyone should reasonably put into any videogame. I am still mourning the loss of ykw3 pvp. It was almost dead for basically the full run, but it was such good shit that I'd just hop on and leave it searching for a battle and do something else and usually someone else would get on an hour or so later. Might have been the most fun I've had playing any game. I hit S+ but was stuck there for the last couple years before nintendo shut down the pvp. I almost 100%ed that game, the only things I couldn't get done were getting to S++ on ranked battles, getting the last orignyan voice that was a prize for reaching S++, and getting the trophy for finding pandanoko or starry noko in the VIP room (very rare streetpass, almost impossible to get legitimately without living in downtown Tokyo to be nearby a lot of people who have the game).

Here's the hexbear post I made on yo-kai a year ago.

I loved how weird Hazy Lane was, amazing feature. I think the infinite tunnel in 2 was essentially the same thing, but I never did much of that one.

Also one time I was trying to look up how a game mechanic worked and I stumbled on a twitter post that was like five months old about being really impressed with a creative strategy someone used in pvp and they gave a screenshot of my profile and finding that might be the biggest high I've ever gotten from a video game.