This is the first game in the Yo-kai Watch series. For other games in the series see the Yo-kai Watch category.
| Yo-kai Watch | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Level-5 |
| Publisher(s) | Level-5, Nintendo |
| Year released | 2013 |
| System(s) | Nintendo 3DS |
| Followed by | Yo-kai Watch 2: Bony Spirits and Fleshy Souls |
| Series | Yo-kai Watch |
| Genre(s) | RPG |
|---|---|
| Modes | Single player, Multiplayer |
| Rating(s) |   |
Yo-kai Watch (妖怪ウォッチ Yōkai Wotchi?) is an RPG developed and published by Level-5 for the Nintendo 3DS in Japan on July 11, 2013. Two manga adaptations have been produced, and an anime television series began airing in Japan from January 2014. Level-5 was hesitant to localize the game, so Nintendo localized the game and published it first in North America in November 2015, then in Europe in April 2016.
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Japanese boxart
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European boxart
Gameplay
In the game the player searches around Springdale for Yo-kai using the 3DS' touchscreen. Players befriend Yo-kai by giving them a food that they like before beginning battle, and after defeating the Yo-kai it approaches the player character and gives him or her its Yo-kai Medal, allowing it to be summoned at will. Yo-kai can also be acquired through an in game Gasha Machine by collecting in-game coins or using Play Coins. Certain Yo-kai are necessary for completing the game's main quest, and special rare Yo-kai are acquired through various subquests.
Yo-kai have the capability to evolve into more powerful versions of themselves if they reach a certain level, or they can evolve by combining with particular items or other Yo-kai. The Yo-kai are divided amongst eight different classes, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. There are also Legend Yo-kai that can only be obtained by collecting a particular set of Yo-kai listed in the Yo-kai Medallium, a compendium of the different Yo-kai the player has encountered or befriended, and also Boss Yo-kai that cannot be befriended.
When the player encounters a Yo-kai, he enters into battle with it using six Yo-kai that the player has befriended previously. The touchscreen is used during battles to rotate amongst the player's Yo-kai in battle at will. It is also used either to clear up status effects on the player's Yo-kai or to charge up the Yo-kai's special abilities.
Story
One day, whilst searching for bugs in the woods in Springdale, a boy named Nate Adams (or alternatively a girl named Katie Forester) comes across a peculiar capsule machine next to a sacred tree. When he opens one of the capsules up, it brings forth a Yo-kai (a ghost or a spirit) named Whisper, who gives Nate a device known as the Yo-kai Watch. Using this, Nate is able to identify and see various different Yo-kai that are haunting people and causing mischief. Together, Nate and Whisper start making friends with all sorts of Yo-kai, which he can summon to battle against more ill-intentioned Yo-kai that happen to live in his town, haunting the residents and causing terrible trouble.
Table of Contents
- Yo-kai deadly attacks
- Battle formation
- Cursed states
- Wandering trick
- Technique attributes
- Pose decision
- Hello Yo-kai world
- Meeting Jibanyan
- Defend Musukai town
- Chosin Temple clock
- Ring that disappears in Donko pond
- Father's possession left behind
- Nasty ghost Kyuubi
- Kanchi of ghost Sagashi
- Heartbeat dare
- Dangerous health diagnosis!
- Goodbye Yo-kai world
- Sakura New Town
- Harpoon Mountain
- Gradual slope
- Sakura Central City
- Errand side street
- Breeze Hills
- Ghost World
- Yo-kai tribes
- Yo-kai evolution
- Yo-kai synthesis
- Yo-kai medals
- Yo-kai nature
- Yo-kai promotion
- Capturing rare Yo-kai
- Recommended Yo-kai
- Yo-kai 1 - 50
- Yo-kai 51 - 100
- Yo-kai 101 - 150
- Yo-kai 151 - 200
- Yo-kai 201 - 223
- Legendary Yo-kai
- Boss Yo-kai
- Jewel System
- Isamashi family
- Goketsu family
- Fushigi family
- Purichi family
- Pokapoka family
- Bukimi family
- Usurakage family
- Nyororon family