Yo-Kai Watchday #6 · 6:10am Dec 9th, 2015
Watch! What time is it?
BLOG TIME!
WHIS!
Moth's Thoughts:
This game has a lot of sidequests.
In recent years (by which I mean "since around the time Megaman Battle Network 2 came out"), games skewing toward younger audiences have had a tendency to have these massive laundry lists of chore-type errands. They range from needing a certain item to finding a lost thing to needing to defeat a certain number of a certain enemy to finding a missing person, and everything in between, and they tend to have the player running all over the place.
Roughly 66% of Youkai Watch's gameplay seems to be centered around this exact type of sidequest. It often seems like you can't cover half a map area in the game without running into a sidequest.
This is not necessarily a bad thing, mind. It's entertaining, it expands the gameplay, it varies your in-game activities. It never really feels like a chore, because juggling all these different errands keeps you moving, keeps you meeting different Youkai, and more often than not results in your item inventory filling up with more stuff than you'll conceivably ever need.
Plus, a lot of the sidequests have little scenes that are funny as hell.
Of course, it helps that the game makes it easy to keep track of these quests--right on your main menu, there's a request tracker. It has a list of all open requests and favors ("favors" are just recurring fetch/kill quests), with details on the quest progress. Which is helpful, because at any given time, I guarantee you'll have anywhere between five and twelve open sidequests.
The only downside to this? Sometimes the sidequests keep you so busy running around you never quite get around to advancing the story. I've literally spent the entire past week doing nothing but sidequests.
Katie's Summer Diary #6
This morning, Dad went off to work and left his super-important papers on a bench at the train station! Mom sent me down to the station to pick up the papers and take them to Dad's office!
As soon as Whisper and I leave the train station downtown, Whisper tells me to get the watch ready! I check the Youkai Watch, and there are a ton of Youkai floating around! They're called Wazzat, and they inspirit people to make them forgetful!
The Wazzats chased me around a bunch, inspirited me several times, and I almost completely forgot what I was doing, but somehow I finally managed to get Dad's papers to him in time for his big meeting!
On the way back to the train station, those pesky Wazzats get us again! Whisper decides that before we go home, we really need to do something about this mess. We track down Wazzat in the north section of Downtown, but it runs away into Uptown! We follow it and finally corner it at the bakery.
Wazzat doesn't run away again, instead telling me I'm fun to play with. It turns out Wazzat was causing all that trouble because it was lonely and just wanted a friend. I befriended Wazzat and got its Youkai Medal, then went home for the day.
Bugs Collected:
Brown Cicada x1
Grasshopper x1
Green Cicada x3
Long Horn x1
Praying Mantis x1
Fish Caught:
Beakfish x3
Mackerel x1
Marlin x2
Red Snapper x3
Rockfish x3
Turtle x2
Youkai Medals Collected:
Wazzat, Wiglin
