Reviews from

in the past


This will be my most sappy take on this entire website, but screw it. This entire series means so much to me. The characters are endearing and charming enough for 5 games. The battle system is in-depth and requires actual skill. This all might be nostalgia talking, but I love this game, and will never stop loving it. Really wish I didn't let my friend borrow it. Never gonna see that original copy again. Goodbye, old friend.

Really cute game! The story is nothing complicated, but the yokai designs and minigame battle system give it a childlike, storybook quality that's fun to get immersed in.

This surprised me with how fun it was, it is a fun monster-collector with a cool battle system.
Played it several times with challenge runs, you can finish it fairly quickly and stays fun.

Cute monster-collecting RPG with pretty decent combat.

I can't help but think that if I had the chance to play this as a kid I would have fallen in love with it, but unfortunately, it came to the US a bit too late.


Yo-Kai Watch nos presenta una divertida e infantil historia en Tokyo, en la que tendremos que enfrentarnos a toda clase de espiritus y ayudar a la ciudad a mantener su estabilidad.

well. it's obviously not pokemon and that lends a lot to it. the characters are fun and colorful and the gameplay is fun! haven't picked up another one since, but i'm sure those other games are fine, too

This was a really cute game, and it feels really nostalgic thinking back to it. I remember speculating and nerding about it as a kid with my best friend. About the game, it is a fun adventure recalling simpler times, as kids, with a fun but elementary combat system and really evocative dungeon designs. The creatures are all super cool in concept, but really hard to "capture"

A great beginning to a franchise.

Garbage terrible pokemon wannabe should burn in hell.

better as a standalone game than the majority of recent pokemon installments. shouldn't be compared though.

Wish the capture mechanics in this game weren’t so dumb

Personally one of my favorite series, love the music and story alongside dialogue and the many Yo-Kai.

Te sigo amando como la primera vez. Las unicas cosas que sigo detestando es que Fausto es un personaje que aparece de la nada y disque que es importante (pero luego el propio canon lo hechara para el tres), la manera de obtener yokais me sigue pareciendo una mierda y que para obtener a Komasura de ahuevo requieres a Kyubi, pero kyubi solo lo puedes obtener en el post game, pero debes pasarte unas misiones de otros culiaos y esos culiaos requieren mierda especifica que sueltan ciliaos especificos, y el juego ni dice donde obtenerlos, por lo que si no buscaste en internet, pues jodete.

Isn't Inazuma eleven and is the reason Inazuma didn't get popular in the west. Damn that red cat.

An incredibly charming game with pretty mediocre gameplay. The story, characters, and world are nice and simple in a way that taps into a feeling of childlike adventure by combining the supernatural elements with the contemporary setting. While the game’s really charming, the gameplay is kinda mediocre. You equip 6 Yokai to your team and they attack randomly, and while you have control over battles by rotating which Yokai are active, purifying them, and charging their soultimates, there’s barely any strategy involved. The only strategy comes from choosing which Yokai to use, but you can get away without much planning (unless you’re doing the postgame challenges) for most of the game. The bosses are definitely a high point, though, as they all have a special gimmick that adds a bit more thought to combat, and their unique designs make them exciting to fight. An enjoyable time, but not something I’ll go back to anytime soon.

It's really cute and pretty unique. Feels too simplistic at first but the battle system demands more out of you as the game goes on. I wish befriending Yokai wasn't even more luck reliant than SMT Negotiations but getting one feels great.

This game really truly excels in its world. It really feels like you're a kid in a small town, a little nostalgic even. It's filled with these little details like taking your shoes off when you enter the house, or a jingle plays if you make sure the light is green before crossing an intersection with no other reward. Or how two of the final trials are 1. Are you a helpful person around town and 2. Always be honest. It's nice to encourage good morals like in this fun little game.

But it is very child-like, just going on a bunch of random adventures with these Yokai, you know in SPRINGDALE which is filled with YO-KAI in AMERICA. We could talk about how much of a marketing blunder it was in the west and how Level-5 can't maintain a hit franchise even in just Japan to save their lives, but I'd rather focus on the game.

I got to be a cute girl, the monsters are varied and unique (and again, were destined to never catch on outside Japan but boy did they try), music's good and battle system's fun. Once falsely labeled as a Pokemon killer (though Pokemon took the wrong notes from this game sadly), I consider Yo-Kai Watch a hidden gem that I recommend.

Fun game, actually enjoyed the plot and the mechanics where refreshing. Don't really think it's "Pokémon's enemy", even though it's sales were really high in japan.

Overall, fun game. Play it if you are interested.

Pleasantly surprised by this. Loved exploring everywhere. Beautiful graphics and top notch 3D.

Muito divertido e com história legal


It's nice all things considered but the combat is confusing and boring. The world looks nice on the 3DS though.


I replayed this game after about 5 years, and it still holds up pretty well. The story is fine, but nothing special, but it's charming and has cool monsters to collect! It's fun getting all the yokai and I would totally try befriending them all if Pandanoko didn't exist. The gameplay is perfect fine but, again, nothing special. Overall, this game is fine and you would enjoy it.

I really had a great time playing Yo-kai Watch.

Doing the story while exploring and unlocking new areas really did give me that cool pokemon feel of discovering new creatures for me to fight and capture. The combat system is really nice and addicting, encouraging you to use all of your 6 yokais in combat and the Yokais themselves all look fun and creative.
There are some flaws here and there like the basic and episodic plot and a lot of RNG BS in capturing Yokais but other than that, it was a very good time.

yeah more like Watch me play somethin else