>>51127268The fault with yokai watch is is the fault of digimon.
Well 2 with yokai watch, but I'll go over the main one.
Consistancy.
The reason manchildren still flock to buy the bing bong wahoo mario games is because it's a consistant thing. People buy the latest madden, latest cod etc etc. Because they can expect the same shit with a new coat of paint.
And yokai/digimon failed in that department. Almost every digimon and yokai watch game was something different, Digimon went from rpg town sim, to dungeon crawler, to pokemon, to standard jrpg, to the weird grid based battle thing. I duno i aint played survive yet. I haven't had time to go to the store.
People WANT the same shit with a new coat of paint
They want another pokemon game that ticks all the boxes, cross the T dot the I.
That's why nintendo are still such a powerhouse. They can produce the same shit, and anything they want to experiment with becomes a spinoff. If it works, merge the ideas into the main game.
You get to branch out while keeping your core alive. Digimon and yokai had all there eggs in one basket. If there games flopped, they lost it.
If a spinoff flops, the idea clearly doesn't work so it's fine.
But ontop of this, yokai watch's popularity was very heavily eastern. I know, yokai. But the point is, if you wanted to spread out and get the kid of popularity of pokemon monsters. Then you had to have monsters they would like. Nobody looks at a Granny holding speakers, A old man shaped like a potatoe or a red baby and thinks. "Yer that's my partner."
