Yo Pokemon Watch!?

[AskaRay]

because pokemon go is an embarrassment to the series, it's like a savage casual version of the proper pokemon games.

Calm down man, its a game aimed at kids. Its already "casual".


@DragonFlyy ah thanks. I thought ey had publishing rights or something.
Pretty funny though

[NovaLevossida]

I feel like an XIV in-game version of the Pokemon Go app in astrochronometer* directing players to locations out of the way to find rare Pokemon, participate in landmark defense like gyms using them, and some light crossover with Lords of Verminion would have been a much better event than the Yo-Kai's crossover of grinding hundreds of FATEs with nothing interesting added.

*Whatever they want to name it. Who build it? Cid, machinist's guild, a new wandering NPC who suddenly appeared in Eorzea, etc.

[Gramul]

The games honestly have very little in the way of Pokemon resemblance.

Really, they're more like the Dragon Quest Monster series than anything else.

[WubstahWulf]

Yo-Kai Watch is store brand Pokemon

Yo-kai is huge in Japan the games are also pretty cool its diffrnt from pokemon but yet kinda similar but its difintily not compareable with a store brand lol

[Lexia]

Cause Pokemon would cost too much to license.

[Welsper59]

Yo-kai is huge in Japan the games are also pretty cool its diffrnt from pokemon but yet kinda similar but its difintily not compareable with a store brand lol

Reworked ideas like that being big in Japan is common for them, but not for western audiences... despite some rather blatantly reused ideas being marketed. Consumers do like products that are familiar, but take a new spin on things, which people generally won't see from the outside without experiencing it themselves. It's funny because this promotion is clearly intended for the Japanese audience, rather than any western one, but being who we are, the grand majority of us will forever fail to realize that.

[Felis]

and wtf is a yo kai??

creatures not from the mortal world

[Noshpan]

Yokai are the Go-Bots of the pocket monster world.

[Gramul]

Why is it that the monster catching genre seems to be the only one where people act like only one series can exist?

Especially ironic coming from fans of a series built on mimicking Dragon Quest.

[Lambdafish]

It's funny because this promotion is clearly intended for the Japanese audience, rather than any western one, but being who we are, the grand majority of us will forever fail to realize that.

I wouldn't go that far, I'd say that it has helped the brand be recognised more in the west, as it is much less well known over here. It could be primarily for the Japanese audience, but the choice to spread it worldwide is definitely intentional