Yo-Kai Watch

Yo-kai is a role-playing video game that was developed by Level-5, and the first to be released in the Yo-kai Watch video game series.

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### Genre

RPG

The game involves looking for Yo-kai, spiritual creatures responsible for unexpected everyday occurrences, and befriending them via battles. Yo-kai can only be found with the Yo-kai Watch.

The Game was one of 20 Virtual Console games Released at the Launch of The Pawprint Disc-GO!

## Plot

To Prevent Spoilers, Only the first chapter will be listed here

The player can choose whether they want to play as Nate Adams or Katie Forester. The differences are only based on aesthetic.

During a bug-collecting assignment assigned to students by a school in suburban Springdale, Nate Adams is jealous of classmate Barnaby "Bear" Berenstein's large stag beetle that he caught, and decides to find another bug to rival him. Upon being prompted by the school's janitor to visit Mount Wildwood, Nate discovers an unusual capsule machine. He decides to take a capsule from it, and upon opening the capsule, frees a strange ghostly being. The being introduces himself as Whisper, and states that he is what is known as a Yo-kai. He gives Nate the Yo-kai Watch, a device used to find Yo-kai, and prompts Nate to use it. After Nate befriends two additional Yo-kai, Whisper further explains that Yo-kai are as abundant as humans; the only reason Nate could not comprehend them before being that they blend into their surroundings.

## Gameplay

The game combines the elements of a role-playing game with a more modernized setting focused on everyday life with Yo-kai hidden from the regular human view, being responsible for many of the everyday occurrences that happen. The player is given the ability to see Yo-kai with the usage of a Yo-kai Watch, where scanning them with the watch lenses will allow them to be seen.

Its battle system is turn-based, where three Yo-kai will be up against another three, which can be in a party of six. Though the attacks are automated, they require usage of the Touch Screen to activate their Soultimate Moves, purification or using items. Every Yo-kai has their own tribe, where they have advantages and disadvantages during battle and can have items equipped onto them to change their stats.

Areas are explored in a top-down view, where the player is encouraged to find hidden items or Yo-kai inside objects such as next to trash cans or under cars. Finding them will be able to give the player some extra supplies to use like befriending Yo-kai or selling them for some Money. Some people around town will offer the player Requests or Favors, which can give them a reward after completing them.

The setting of the video game takes place in a fictitious town called Springdale, where it is divided into six different districts that are unlocked as the game progresses. They are Uptown Springdale, Mount Wildwood, Blossom Heights, Downtown Springdale, Breezy Hills and Shopper's Row.

Each of them have their own places of interest, unique Yo-kai that are found, Treasure Boxes and hidden items. Almost all of them have shops that either sell Food, Items, and Fusible Materials or be traded in for various objects. Some areas are locked behind Rank Doors, where unlocking them grants the player access to rarer items or unexplored locations.

## Trivia

* The video game has some differences and inconsistencies when compared to the later entries or the *Yo-kai Watch* anime series, such as Nate's earlier design of the Yo-kai Watch, Jibanyan's liking of Tuna rather than Chocobars and some areas having minor layout changes.
* The Game Sold the Most Copies out of all the Launch Virtual console games