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GET READY FOR A FRESH BLAST OF SUPERNATURAL MISCHIEF

STG News — Sun, 08 Jul 2018 10:02:47 +0000

YO-KAI WATCH is back and more action-packed than ever, as YO-KAI WATCH BLASTERS: Red Cat Corps and YO-KAI WATCH BLASTERS: White Dog Squad are set to launch for the 3DS and 2DS in Australia and New Zealand.

In this latest game in the YO-KAI WATCH series, players can team up with up to three other friends either locally or online to fight towering Big Bosses, using skills and powerful Soultimate Moves. While previous YO-KAI WATCH games focused on turn-based battles, YO-KAI WATCH BLASTERS drops you into real-time skirmishes, in the first ever action RPG for the series. During these battles, you directly control your Yo-kai as you strategise with different skills and equipment to defeat huge bosses. By taking on various fast-paced missions, players will embark on a journey to meet, befriend and battle more than 400 new and returning Yo-kai.

Training Yo-kai will also affect your team’s strength in battle. By training, you can create items and equipment to use on your personal Yo-kai team! By completing missions, more powerful and useful items can be earned.

Each of the two versions of the game contains different Yo-kai, missions and bosses. By trading between the two, you can collect all the Yo-kai! And by linking save data from YO-KAI WATCH 2: Bony Spirits, YO-KAI WATCH 2: Fleshy Souls or YO-KAI WATCH 2: Psychic Specters, you can get one of three special Yo-kai to take into battle.

To keep the action and content going, a free post-launch update to the game will add new side stories, Yo-kai, bosses and missions.

YO-KAI WATCH BLASTERS: Red Cat Corps and YO-KAI WATCH BLASTERS: White Dog Squad will be released exclusively for Nintendo 3DS and 2DS on the 8th of September 2018. Stay tuned for more information between now and launch!

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Yo-Kai Watch 2: Bony Spirits (3DS) Review

Judalene Cheetham — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 01:45:39 +0000

Level 5 Studios came out with, what I believe is best described as, pretty much their own version of Pokémon with Yo-Kai Watch and as it has been immensely popular in Japan, I guess it only made sense to make a second entry. That however was released in Japan back in 2014. Japan is already onto the third in the series. Us westerners are only now getting a release of the second instalment duel titles Yo-Kai Watch 2: Bony Spirits and Yo-Kai Watch 2: Fleshy Souls on the 3DS.

This open world RPG style game has you, a young child, roam around the world fighting and collecting creatures known as Yo-Kai.

You are the only child around who can see these mischievous critters thanks to, would you believe, your Yo-Kai Watch. Yo-Kai are spirits that can be found almost anywhere within the world and can be both helpful and troublesome. It is up to you to keep these odd creatures in check.

The world starts out limited to your local area but as you complete various side and main quests more becomes available for you to explore along with new types of Yo-Kai to catch. Most of the quests are fetch quests or involve you finding and battling some naughty Yo-Kai. It didn’t really venture too far from this blueprint.

If you haven’t played the first game, well that’s not really an issue.

Yo-Kai Watch 2: Bony Spirits plays quite similarly to that of first and even the starting sequence doesn’t vary too much. It is certainly one title that can be picked up by any new comer and they shouldn’t have too many issues following what is going on as while some references are made to prior happenings the story makes room for re-explaining things and important events from the first game, almost to the point where it is very much the first game.

The combat too is very much the same as the first entry. You have six Yo-Kai available to be used when in battle but only three can be active in combat at one time. You have all six on a wheel that you can spin on the bottom screen of the 3DS to change who is in active combat. Doing so also allows the player to heal status effects for Yo-Kai in the ‘out of battle’ side.

Yo-kai also have different classes or just to be dissimilar, Tribes, and grouping the same Tribes next to each other makes them collectively more powerful. All Yo-Kai automatically attack while in battle but special attacks or “Soultimates”are initiated by you. Outside of combat you can choose in which order on the wheel the Yo-Kai go. This allows, alongside the different effects each Soultimate can have, for some level of strategic battle plans from this aspect.

The style of the game is a somewhat generic cartoon style apart from the actual Yo-Kai there isn’t much standout about the environments or setting but it still provides and adequate world to roam and explore. The sound isn’t anything too special either but once again does its job amicably.

Yo-Kai Watch 2: Bony Spirits is delightful and a fun little 3DS title that will certainly capture your heart and imagination. It is a bit on the quirky side but contains decent amount of content for players. The combat system is different to anything you might be used to but still offers an engaging affair despite being a bit haphazard. The story does a decent job to keep you interested. The world and visuals take on a generic cartoon style that isn’t anything stand out but has its own charm to it, specifically the style of the Yo-Kai themselves. They range from adorable to incredibly creepy and contribute to provide an enjoyable game.

Yo-Kai Watch 2: Bony Spirits (3DS) Review

Released: October 2016
Rating: G
Platforms: Nintendo 3DS / 2DS
Genre: Adventure, RPG
Developer: Level 5 Studios
Publisher: Nintendo

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Travel Back in Time and Learn the Origin of the Yo-kai Watch

STG News — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 07:16:40 +0000

Watch out! Yo-kai, the strangely charming troublemakers, are back for a new adventure in YO-KAI WATCH 2: Bony Spirits and YO-KAI WATCH 2: Fleshy Souls, exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS and 2DS. Find, befriend and battle more than 350 new and returning Yo-kai as you embark on a new adventure across Springdale and through time to uncover the origin of the Yo-kai Watch.

A huge hit in Japan, the YO-KAI WATCH 2 games have shipped over 6 million copies, and local fans have already been enjoying the second season of the YO-KAI WATCH animated season on Nine Network’s GO! Channel. Fans can also revisit Nate’s first season of adventures on the DVD of YO-KAI WATCH – Season 1 (Classified PG) or by streaming the show on Netflix. The world of Yo-kai will expand even more with Hasbro set to add a variety of new items to its YO-KAI WATCH line in February 2017.

In YO-KAI WATCH 2: Bony Spirits and YO-KAI WATCH 2: Fleshy Souls, players can choose a male or female character before immersing themselves into a brand new journey of discovery, featuring characters you may recognise from the original YO-KAI WATCH video game, plus expanded quests, activities and over 350 new and returning Yo-kai to find, befriend and defeat. You will meet the heroic cat Hovernyan, who will guide your time travel to 60 years in the past, where you’ll need to make sure that the original Yo-kai Watch Model Zero is created – and that your timeline is preserved! Along the way you will meet, battle and befriend Yo-kai; each with their own personality, look, type, backstory and powers. Yo-kai will give you their Medal when you befriend them, allowing you to call on them for help in battle or quests. Equip six Yo-kai Medals in your Yo-kai Watch at any time, or store them in your Medallium: your personal Yo-kai encyclopedia.

The exciting storyline will be the same for each version of the game, but some of the Yo-kai encountered will only be found in either YO-KAI WATCH 2: Bony Spirits or YO-KAI WATCH 2: Fleshy Souls, depending on the version that you play. In addition, for the first time a whole new multiplayer mode is available: Yo-kai Watch Blasters, where you can team up with three friends* in action-packed multiplayer mode to earn rewards that can be used in the single-player adventure. Plus you can battle or trade Yo-kai Medals with your friends online* or via local wireless to complete your Medallium.

The original YO-KAI WATCH video game introduced people to the mysterious Yo-kai. In Japan, these invisible beings – not ghosts or spirits… just Yo-kai! – are steeped in folklore and are the physical manifestation of everyday human troubles. If a child misplaces homework or an adult can’t stop babbling at a work meeting, for instance, it’s probably the work of a troublesome Yo-kai.

Prepare for more Yo-kai mischief this year, with YO-KAI WATCH 2: Bony Spirits and YO-KAI WATCH 2: Fleshy Souls out now in stores and in Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS in Australia and New Zealand.

A free demo of the game is now available to try in select stores and to download in Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS.

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Get Ready for Yo-Kai Round 2!

STG News — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 19:01:45 +0000

The Yo-kai phenomenon continues in 2016. Australia and New Zealand have seen the launches of the Yo-kai Watch video game for Nintendo’s 3DS / 2DS, a line of Hasbro toys and games, a top-rated animated series that airs on Channel 9’s GO! channel and the mobile game sensation YO-KAI WATCH Wibble Wobble. The world of Yo-kai continues to grow as new video games, toys and shows are set to become available in the future.

All things Yo-kai continue on October 15th this year when Yo-kai Watch 2 launches exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems in two versions: Yo-kai Watch 2: Bony Spirits and Yo-kai Watch 2: Fleshy Souls – each featuring rare Yo-kai that can only be found in their respective games. Already a huge hit in Japan, the sequel to the first smash hit, which is once again developed by LEVEL-5, offers the same deep RPG gameplay and wacky adventures as the first game. Players will embark on a new adventure across Springdale and through time, with more than 350 new and returning Yo-kai to discover and befriend — each with a unique look, personality and Soultimate Move. Teaming up with the heroic cat Hovernyan, players will travel back in time to 60 years ago and witness the origin of the Yo-kai Watch. In addition, up to four players with their own systems and games can team up in an action-packed co-op mode to earn rewards that can be used in the single-player adventure!

A second season of the Yo-kai Watch animated TV show is also on the way, with more Yo-kai, more miniseries, more episodes, and most importantly, more laughs! Fans can look forward to seeing how a new cast of Yo-kai interrupts Nate’s normal life in unexpected and hilarious ways! Those who missed the first season can catch up on all the adventures by picking up the DVD of Yo-kai Watch – Season 1 or by streaming the show on Netflix. Finally, the world of Yo-kai will expand even more in February 2017 with Hasbro set to add a variety of new items to its Yo-kai Watch line.

The original Yo-kai Watch video game introduced people to the mysterious Yo-kai. In Japan, these invisible beings – not ghosts or spirits… just Yo-kai! – are steeped in folklore and based on common concerns that everyday citizens have. If a child misplaces homework or an adult can’t stop babbling at a work meeting, for instance, it’s probably the work of a troublesome Yo-kai.

Prepare for more Yo-kai mischief this year, when Yo-kai Watch 2: Bony Spirits and Yo-kai Watch 2: Fleshy Souls release exclusively for Nintendo 3DS on October 15th, 2016.

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