Today Level-5 announced that it'll release the improved version of Yo-Kai Watch 4, titled Yo-Kai Watch 4++ in Japan on December 5, 2019.
Today Final Fantasy XIV Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida and Level-5 President Akihiro Hino announced a new collaboration.
With the way Yo-kai Watch games sell these days it needs all the help it can get. This will be a good advertisement for the series. Whether or not it will help in the long run is another story.
Agreed. Yokai Watch is great but there's no denying that the hype has started to die down. Here's hoping this will help.
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PlayStation Japan has released a new set of screenshots for the upcoming Yo-kai Watch 4 ++, showcasing the new multiplayer mode called “PuraPura Busters”, new Yo-kai and more. Check out the new screens below:
Wait, this is coming to the PS4? While the Earth is thrown off its axis, will the localizers stop pretending a concept rooted in Japanese mythology has nothing to do with Japan or am I asking for the moon here?
Well, according to Phoenix Wright the US has plenty of traditional Japanese villages that predate colonialism, so I see no reason to doubt that the country is full of mythical creatures loosely inspired by Japanese folklore either.
I'm taking a shot at the 90s-style censor-everything-Japanese-and -change-the-setting-to-the-US type localization that largely fell out of practice by the 2000s but still persists in a select few IPs, but clearly it didn't land if you didn't get it.
Yo-Kai Watch is an interesting case as it's an IP that wasn't created until the 2010s, long after said localization practice generally fell out of use. Truth be told part of me has always found the type of "stylistic" localization intriguing, especially when great leaps of logic are used to try and sweep clearly Japanese things under the rug, although I'm glad this type of localization, which can be considered a form of censorship, isn't commonplace anymore.
I also brought up Phoenix Wright because it's the poster child for huge leaps in logic in the name of insisting the game is set in the US. Memes have been made about it, look them up.
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Nice. I dont know how well youkai watch will sell on ps4 but im at least buying a copy
Not surprising they are trying to squeeze more sales out of this title.