It's so obvious
>>26593887
>>26593887
Hello, Reddit.
Also
>reaching: the post
By being the king
>>26593887
>Implying these games taking tropes from Pokemon rip offs is a bad thing (I.e Digimon, Yokai, etc)
I ain't even mad
>>26593887
Yeah, I see it
>and I like it
>>26593887
>WE WANT THE YOKAI AUDIENCE
Works within the same genre copy each other all the time. It's how they improve and evolve.
>>26593887
At least that Pokemon is looking for some competition against Yokai Watch
yokai watch copied everything from pokemon first though
Plagiarism of a plagiarism. Woah.
And this is a bad thing because? I honestly really like the Rotom pokedex. I'm glad they're expanding the usage of the pokedex.
>>26594023
t. Someone who has never played YW
t. Game Freak shill
Ok, they are copying.
So what?
>>26593887
Did Yokai Watch ever take off in the USA? It didn't seem to in Europe. I played the demo but found it to be awful. I kind of liked the Yokai themselves and how they actually play a role in the world rather than just wander around in tall grass doing nothing, but the battle system didn't resonate with me. I also felt like playing it would leave one of those big ring-scratches in my touch screen like Elite Beat Agents and Ouendan did to my DS.
>>26594090
t. John Yokai Watch
>>26594062
I'm just glad they're finally catching onto the Rotom meme.
>>26594115
It sold pretty decently. NoA marketed the hell out of it too.
>>26593887
Much better than when they tried to go Digimon last Gen
>>26593887
>mfw the copied one looks miles better
lel
>>26593887
>STOP BEING INSPIRED BY THINGS I DON'T LIKE
grow the fuck up
>>26594115
The toys and show are a hit in the US, but not as much as Japan.
>>26594115
>I also felt like playing it would leave one of those big ring-scratches in my touch screen like Elite Beat Agents and Ouendan did to my DS.
It was worth it
>>26594167
>Reaching
I bet you hate anything after gen 3, don't you
Thats because they copies muk
Sell me on Yokai Watch.
>>26593887
>implying it doesn't go both ways
>>26594470
I need this jew clam in my life
I find it kind of surprising that they're doing things that seem geared to capturing the YK audience. I wouldn't think they'd perceive it as much of a threat.
>>26593952
in America there is no Yokai audience
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If yokai watch's presence means gamefreak will try new things to stay fresh(hah) I'm not complaining.
The only resemblance I see is Whisper and Motisma-dex, both heroes look nothing alike and juste because Litten is a cat doesn't make it looks like Jibanyan
>>26593887
>is kinda the same thing like Pokemon
when will foreigners collectively kill themselves
>>26594504
Seems to be enough to warrant the sequel coming over
>>26594558
If anything, they finally have the competition they needed since Digimon is now a bit of a niche fandom.
>>26593887
The new Rotom will be just like Navi on The Legend of Zelda OoT, it will give tips on where you should go, what you should do, etc.
TL:DR: Game freak is casualising Pokémon even more.
>>26593887
Rotom and his pokedex look way better than that shit.
>>26593887
>rotom came first
>big competitor when yokai has no interactive capabilities and uninspired protag designs or as much history
>rips off pokemon designs
b8.
>>26595069
pokefaggot detected
>>26594375
Gen 4 and 5 are best Gen, try again
>>26595086
You seem to be lost, redditfag.
>>26593915
The king of /vp/
>>26595086
Where do you think you are?
aren't they both Nintendo franchises?
>>26594062
This. Plus Gamefreak revisiting a genuinely well liked Pokemon that's not named Pikachu in a new way is pretty great.
>>26595111
yokai watch is Level-5 breh
>>26594418
Ghostbusters
I genuinely like Yokai Watch and am looking forward to the sequel
Your argument would make sense if it wasn't for the fact that Rotom and his ability to posses shit exists years ago
And the fact that the Pokedex is supposed to normally have a black stripe because it's mimicking a poke ball color scheme
Also keep in mind that Yo-Kai Watch didn't just suddenly exist last year
It's been in Japan for quite a fucking while
If Pokemon copied them, they would've done so already
>>26593887
>On SMT (kinda like pokemon but with gods) you can interact with Demons using your handheld computer or COMP, which even has an AI named STEVEN as you partner
>ITS A BLATANT RIPOFF HOW CAN THEY KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
>Gamefreak tries something new to Pokemon
>Digimon / Yokai-Watch did it first you guys!
>>26594695
Would you rather optionally ask the RotomDex whenever you need help or have to be mandatorily stopped every route and city by your friends and other minor characters?
>>26594504
>in America there is no Yokai audience
I beg to differ. The toys are selling well in my town and elementary school kids talk about it all the time.
>>26595176
missed opportunity to name the file ris fuckin'guy again
>>26595182
Kids
>>26595167
interestingly SMTIV got the most comparisons to Pokemon on its release date. Wonder what's up with that.
>>26595176
works the other way around too. This is a competition of who can rip off who more. No originality period.I think its mostly the black lining on the rotom dex where whisper comparisons come from
Rotom had a spike on its head before Whisper even existed, dumbass. And I guess Whisper must be a Blooper ripoff because they're both white, fat, with simplistic eyes and a black bar between their eyes.
>>26593887
Which of these shotas wud u fug /vp/?
>>26595222
>Pokemon
>Ever needed competition
>>26595291
>Liking Gen V
>>26595286
BothAt the same time
>>26595286
>>26595413
This is the cool new thing to do right, like shitting on hoenn. Or shitting on any region that isn't kalos for some reason.
>>26595727
>Hang on, let me hand hold you though the reply process.
>>26595736
There really hasn't been any outright shitty gens though. The only one that comes to mind is gen 6 and that's just lackluster. Do you even like pokemon?
>>26594558
>Callie and Marie
>Calimari
is it bad that I didn't notice this for over a year?
It seems so obvious now
>>26597485
>is it bad that I didn't notice this for over a year?
What do you think?
>>26597485
I'm still not sure what the Italian names are supposed to mean:
>Stella
>Marina
Like what the fuck???
>>26593915
Tell ha
>>26593887
>implying yokai didnt copy pokemon first.
>>26594665
This.
Pokemon has gotten so big it literally has no actual competitors. It's better this way, at least they'll try to improve themselves now.
>>26595286
>>26593887
So what you're saying is the function of the Pokedex (in every game since the original in 1996) is stolen from YW... just because it's combined with an electric entity whose base type is electric (not ghost) because it's original forme is part ghost-type?
Riiight. Gamefreak is totally stealing ideas from this shit competitor.
>>26593887
If it makes Gamefreak compete, improve and innovate their products instead of stagnate with an old formula, I couldn't give less of a shit. Competition always gets the best of each competitor, probably the Yokai-Watch franchise will innovate as well.
They all copied Megami Tensei anyways.
>>26595088
I really don't understand how anyone could think Diamond and Pearl were the best Gen.
Reminder when pokemon has no competition, Gamefreak assumes the competition is mobile gaming and we get ORAS.
>>26593940
All hail to the king
>>26597847
Because a Gen isn't represented by the first pair of games that were introduced during that Gen. Gen 4 isn't just Diamond and Pearl, but Platinum and HGSS too, which were great, and quite on par with B2W2.
>>26659999
>>26600034
>>26599999You're welcome
>>26594023
Pokemon copied everything from Dragon Quest
Yokai Watch copied everything from Dragon Quest Monsters
>>26594415
I see.
>>26594167
MEGA IS NOT EXCLUSIVE TO DIGIMON ffs
>>26593887
You can get away with a lot of things when the thing you steal from is irrelevant garbage that has no reason to exist as long as SMT is there.
When are we going to get this in Pokemon?
>>26601481
hopefully never
pokegirls are pure
>>26601481
Pretty sure Jessie did this in some old episode, actually.
>>26601481
Shame now we have a shitty girl with glasses
>>26595413
You mean the most original gen next to 1, 3 and 6?
>>26597885
>Gamefreak assumes the competition is mobile gaming and we get ORAS.
The problem is that the competition is YW a game more casual than a mobile game.
We'll probably end up with a gen 1 tier of easy game or a gen 4 game originality wise rather than one that tried to fix the majority of the mistakes and add new concepts.
>>26601675
Yeah. All the cancer going on about how Yokai Watch's popularity must force GF to up their game have clearly never played YW and don't realize that "upping their game as an answer to YW" means "dumbing Pokemon down even more to prevent kids from getting bored from the challenge"
>>26601675
>>26601694
Pokemon was never hard in the first place, I'd take the games being even easier if it ment them putting as much effort and charm into the game as L5 do
>>26601923
The people that say this are the people bitching about no battle frontiers in ORAS, though.
The Yokai Watch audience doesn't want a battle frontier in the first place.
>Implying YoKai is competition
>>26601937
The YoKai audience are a bunch of kids who want the games to play themselves and laugh at butt jokes
>>26601950
still amazing that people complain about the ice cream when it could be much much worse.
>>26595069
Better rip off the shitty design pokemon than the better designed ones
>>26601981
This feels weird to say but I'm used to a higher standard with Pokemon.
Thinking about what I've seen from Yokai Watch, the best designs from that are like the worst designs from Pokemon.
>>26601950
>Implying Pokemon is competition
Obviously the pokedex is the MC's stand
>>26594695
>TL:DR: Game freak is casualising Pokémon even more.
it's almost like it's literally a series for children
>>26602141
>>26602097
>shitting on Pokémon designs
A reminder to get a load of this and be grateful for what you have
>>26595069
Most of the "Pokemon" designs they ripped off were based on actual yo kai from Japanese mythology, and most of the yo kai that look similar to them are based off of the same thing.
>>26602148
TFW the worst Pokémon designs are better than the best YoKai designs
>>26602148
Fuck off with this grateful for what you have bullshit this is only a small percentage of how many yo-kai there actually are. Imagine if I showed people a sheet of the worst pokemon designs and said to Yo-Kai fans be grateful for what you have.
>>26602169
Almost all the designs are like this Anon
That's it. I'm a #yokaiwatcher now.
>>26602148
>gold skeleton
>that freaky purple blob with an eye and Hydreigon faces
Yooooo that's actually pretty cool
>>26602147
It's always been a series for children. Casualising it more implies they think children are too dumb or have too short of attention spans to play a game like Pokemon, which is a problem whether they're right or not
rotom dex is fucking cool
>>26602188
I doubt Rotom is going to be as well written as Whisper though
> Hands off the goods bro hahaha
>>26602148
Jinmenken is a 10/10 design and character you fuck
>>26602235
Literally just my mom's human faced dog
>really like the silly but generally somber tone the first YKW could have
>don't like how utterly wacky the anime is most of the time
>hear YKW2 takes more after the anime
Ugh
>>26593887
The devs are probably friend and share ideas when they go drinking together
>>26602252
You're going to hate YW3, anon.
>>26602288
*friends
Fucking tablet dictionary/autocorrect being shit.
>>26602288
considering Hino's relationships with Square Enix's CEO and ability to collab with other companies this might not be too far off
>>26602252
But you'll never find out why the poop smells anon
>>26602252
YW2 does use anime personalities for the characters more, but that's all I mostly heard about it
>>26602298
I really like the look of what YKW3 is doing with the "tactical" grid so I think I'll at least like the gameplay more
I'll see how I actually feel about YKW2 when I play it anyways
>>26593887
>implying that Pokémon games are made in 1 year.
>>26602196
Unfortunately the Gold Skelly can't be recruited as he is a boss.
>>26602169
A full 10% of the Yo-kai roster is Jibanyan recolors and another 30% is recolors of everything else. Pokemon has shit like Basculin and the Genies, sure, but YW is an entirely different level of recycling old material. And I'm saying this as someone who actually enjoys both series.
>>26602388
Well that crashed my boner
>>26602391
Another are pokemon RIP off like muk Electabuzz renamon from digimon phanpy huntail etc..
>>26602410
>electabuzz and renamon ripoffs
lol
>>26594115
I don't know, but over here in my country there's a local dub of the anime airing at mornings. I've also spotted the games at game stores here. It's doing okay outside of Japan, I guess, though it's no Pokemon killer.
>>26602429
>>26602449
That's obviously a Naruto rip-off you retard
>>26602449
>both are based off the same myths
>so obviously this one is a rip-off of the other
lol
>>26602449
that's a boy
>>26601566
IDK I like Inaho more than Fumi/Katie since Inaho actually feels like a character and not "look here's your female Nate!"
>>26602429
>>26602449
in hindsight sharing the same color palette as Renamon probably wasn't a good idea, unless those fox masks are always portrayed in those colors
>>26602148
If I see this shitty "be grateful for what you have" one more fucking time I might just make a MUCH longer list showing off a crap ton of YW designs people really like - with some being on that shitty chart. Honestly i'm so tired of people shitting on YW designs when Pokemon has bad designs too like god
>>26602182
Haha, no- they're not
>>26602523
>>26602534
Shills detected
>>26595186
>elementary school kids talk about it all the time.
You're violating your 100 feet restriction Ted
>>26593887
Yokai is already a ripoff of Pokemon, so what if pokemon borrows like half of one idea?
The "Pokémon Killer" everybody
>>26602591
Why is Yo-kai Watch a rip off? For being a monster catching game? Because that's a VIABLE excuse - right?
>>26602541
For wanting to dispel the dumb idea that all YW designs are objectively bad? thanks for being a shit stain on /VP/s underwear
>>26601481
Context: Youkai called "Monomannequin" possessed Fumi-chan and made her do a shitty impersonation of their teacher. She was like "and now, I leave like the wind!"
>>26602700
Yes, the likes of digimon and all the other clones before it
>>26602715
You YoKaifags are the stain of /vp/'s underwear
/vp/ IS the underwear
>>26602148
it feels like chinpokomon from south parkwho's your starter, /vp/?
>>26602872
>Not maining shoe
The sad thing is that these look better than YoKai
>>26593887
I also think GF took this concept, but they're in their right; Yokai already made an entire game """inspired""" off Pokémon.
Remember, when there is ANY other game with ANY, even the smallest, tiniest similarity to Pokemon /vp/ will attack it as a Pokemon ripoff or wannabe Pokemon killer. (See Yo-kai Watch, barely anything in common with Pokemon outside of monster collecting yet it's yielded as a copy of Pokemon)
Yet when Pokemon copies or does something similar to another franchise (And it has, OP Pic is just the most blatant in a while) It's Pokemon do no evil you're a retard get out of here!
It amuses me to no end the double standards people have here.
>>26602889
Just like how Pokemon was a game """inspired""" off Dragon Quest right?
If all your knowledge of YW didn't come from /vp/, you'd know that YW clearly takes more from DQM and SMT than Pokemon.
>>26602889
YW's theme/concepts was inspired from Doraemon though.
>>26602924
>>26602926
>young kids catching monsters in modern-day cities and towns
>not mostly Pokémon
Alright.
>>26603011
Pokemon catching takes place in nature for the most part unless it's an abandoned facility
http://www.engadget.com/2015/12/14/nintendo-yo-kai-watch-love-letter-to-urban-life/
>>26603011
>what is SMT
Is Pokemon literally the only game you play?
>>26593887
>Masada