Here’s The Yokai Watch 2 Nintendo Direct Presentation For You To Watch, Along With Info

Nintendo Japan held a special Nintendo Direct presentation for the forthcoming Yokai Watch 2 this morning. If you missed it then Nintendo has uploaded the full event on YouTube. As you would expect the event is in Japanese, but that hasn’t stopped NeoGAF user L-A from publishing key information from the event.

What is Youkai Watch?

• Youkai hidden everywhere
• Youkai have an effect on people, make them do weird stuff
• Explain battle system
• Make a wheel turn
• Use touch screen to launch special attacks
• Use it to revive Youkai too
• Can make friends with Youkai
• Fuse medals to make new Youkai

Sakura New Town

• Explore the town, like as a child
• Lots of places to go to, like forest and more
• Fun things to do
• Do stuff like in real life (crossing roads by pressing button, etc…)

YW2 new stuff

• Same town as first game
• Can take a train to go to some places
• Seaside town, with boats and a beach
• Countryside town, with rice fileds, a farm, a river and more
• Can take the bus too
• Can get stamps of the various places by train

New Youkai showcase

• Matenshi : looks angry
• Onigirizamurai: looks like an onigiri, very powerful
• Nechikaeru : frog, use water attack
• Lots of new Youkai

Jibanyan, real star of the show 

• KO in one hit
• Bike racing, new mini-game
• Youkai blocking the view to annoy you
• Fox procession, mimic their movement so as to avoid getting spotted
• Billboard with quests
• Secret tunnel which leads to unexpected places, change every day
• Player get a box, never open it. Fart all the time if you open it.
• Can climb to poles
• Get a great view
• You’re not the only one doing it
• Old man farts then drop down

This town looks different > go back in the past

• New trailer
• Dekanyan, has a mystery
• Character which looks just like Keita
• Fight to “defend the world”

Internet play

• Youkai watch busters, playable with 4 players
• Defeat Youkai in action game

2 different versions, with original quests, rare items, and some special Youkai

• Special Jibanyan medal in the packaging
• Download version too get special Youkai (Robot versions of Jibanyan)
• Played YW1? Get Buchinyan

Thanks to those who sent this in.