Level 5 is taking it to the next level, developing five Yo-kai Watch games before summer 2016 (take that, Pokemon). Yo-kai Watch is, of course, the latest and greatest monster-battle trend blooming in Japan. The news comes from Level 5 today, announcing Yo-kai Watch 3’s Japanese release window being summer 2016. Yo-kai Watch 3 will be the first in the series to take place in the United States, in the fictional town of St. Peanutsburg.
However, before this release Level 5 is certainly busy. Coming this Saturday in Japan, Yo-kai Watch Busters, a multiplayer game coming in two versions (thing any Pokemon game or Fire Emblem Fates) will be released. Meanwhile, in collaboration with Koei Tecmo, Level 5 is helping to produce Yo-kai Watch: Three Kingdoms — presumably a strategy RPG spin-off. Last but not least, Level 5 is taking a very active hand in developing and localizing the original Yo-kai Watch for the West, which will be making its way this fall. Are you excited for the Yo-kai avalanche? Is Level 5 stretching themselves too thin?
…The multimedia franchise is huge in Japan; meanwhile, we’re still only just getting the first game.
>>>Even worse milking than Call of Duty and Pokemon Spin-Offs combined>>>
Not worse than Call of Duty and Fifa… but it is worse than Pokémon. And as with Layton it will not be milked to eternity… I hope…
Layton was 1 per year, but this looks way worse than that.
I was talking about Layton, because they don’t make (real) Layton games anymore. And indeed, this is worse than Layton, but I think (and hope) they will move on eventually with a new franchise once again…
Why? It’s not as if the games are the same type. I could see if they were all the same type of game, but it’s two multiplayer versions, one strategy RPG, and a localization. Honestly, you’re making more of deal of this than it deserves.
nope in japan the first trilology came out around the same year.
5 in a year is worse than cods annual release you fucking twit.
Can one of them come to the Wii U please
Because koei is known for their, uhh, “STRATEGY” RPGs amirite XD?
Pocket Monster’s for life. Everything else is nothing but red headed step children.
Talk about milking a franchize. Also they should Dark cloud 3 :)
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and this is why were not getting Mother 3 in america.
No, we’re not getting Mother 3 simply because NoA thinks they know what the consumers want when clearly they don’t.
This doesn’t have to be bad. They can milk the franchise all they want as long as the games are fun. Also some of these games may be spin offs.
Quite a bit if you ask me. Sounds like they are aggressively competing against the Pokemon franchise.