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Yo-kai Watch Blasters (Video Game)

GO! BLASTERS!

Yo-kai Watch Blasters (Yo-kai Watch Busters in Japanese) is a spinoff of the Yo-kai Watch series. Playable on the Nintendo 3DS, the original two games came out in Japan in 2015 but were released internationally in 2018.

The game is an expansion on the "Oni Blasters" mode from Yo-kai Watch 2. In contrast with the JRPG main series, in Yo-kai Watch Blasters four players face up against other Yo-kai in a beat 'em up style. The game also supports online multiplayer.

There are two versions of the game: Red Cat Corps and White Dog Squad. Like with the main series, several different Yo-kai are only available in each game (though they can be traded with). The free expansion Yo-kai Watch Blasters: Moon Rabbit Crew is also available digitally.

On top of the original two games, there's the arcade-exclusive Yo-kai Watch Busters: Iron Oni Army and the sequel games Yo-kai Watch Busters 2: Secret Treasure of the Legendary Banbarayar (which comes in Sword and Magnum). Yo-kai Watch Busters 2 was outsourced to an outside team and it doesn't have a third version due to poor sales.

• Adaptational Badass: Demuncher (and his Palette Swap Devourer) was a normal, albeit strong, Yo-kai in Yo-kai Watch 2, but is a full on Boss Battle here.
• Alternative Foreign Theme Song: Subverted for the first time in the games. The English dub scraps Swampy Marsh's original themes for dubbed versions of the Japanese themes.
• And Your Reward Is Interior Decorating: Completing certain achievements awards you with mementos, various items that get sent to you from various parties to be displayed in your Blasters House for everyone else to see.
• The Artifact: In the western version of the game, part of Whisped Cream's plan had involved marshmallows. This made a lot more sense in the original Japanese version, given the original design of the character.
• Artificial Stupidity: On top of not being able to interact with certain boss gimmicks nor use Soultimate attacks, several of the things your AI teammates can do showcases that they aren't exactly bright.
  • They tend to over-prioritize attempting to revive downed teammates, even if that means they're in range of an attack and thus die themselves. However, they will only revive a teammate if you're close to said teammate, and will break off if you go too far, even if you're in a boss' arena and can't leave them behind. Also, only one teammate will attempt to revive at a time, and there's no guarantee that the Yo-kai with the exact skill and equipped Soul Gem to minimize the time spent reviving will end up being the one to revive, even if they're closest.
    • This becomes even more problematic in the Whisped Cream fight. Due to ally Yo-kai appearing mid-fight, your allies won't move to revive others. This wouldn't be a problem given the ally Yo-kai will revive instead... if it wasn't for the fact that the one who is present for most of the fight cannot revive, as he has to perform a task. As a result, your allies will just sit around watching as their friends ascend to the heavens above.
  • If an attack a boss uses doesn't have a crosshair, chances are they won't realize an attack is coming until it's too late. Sometimes they'll even facetank ones that very clearly show they're coming, dying predictably.
    • Most notably, Orcanos and the demon munchers have attacks where they briefly turn into a whirlwind of death to chase down a player. The AI seems to be unaware that jumping into the path of an Oni swinging their Kanabo fast enough to generate a tornado in order to punch them is actually a very bad idea.
  • Hinozall and his Awoken counterpart have a gimmick where they set up a barrier around themselves, preventing anything getting in except the beams fired by the employees they summon. The AI doesn't seem to be aware of this, and will attempt to kill the employees on sight and may also end up either tanking the beams or use a dodge and thus cause the beams to despawn.
• Clumsy Copyright Censorship: Yo-kai Watch Busters had to be changed to Yo-kai Watch Blasters in English potentially in order to avoid copyright issues with Sony Pictures regarding the Ghostbusters franchise. Whismellowman was also redesigned to avoid looking too similar to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, his theme was changed to remove the vocals as well as having his name changed to Whisped Cream. The Blaster forms of Jibanyan and Komasan were also altered, looking less like jumpsuits.
• Cool Car: The characters have a car called the Yokaimobile.
• Crosshair Aware: In many cases, the ground glows orange where an enemy attack is about to strike.
• Developer's Foresight: With cheat codes to spam Soultimates, certain Soultimates can stun lock bosses. You'd think this would mean you'd be able to milk running bosses between battles for Oni Orbs but they actually teleport after a minute or so. This however, is subverted in the fact that they however failed to take into account people using cheats to get infinite Oni Orbs.
• Early-Bird Cameo: In Japan, Busters was Usapyon's first appearance. He was meant to appear in Yo-kai Watch 3 first, with just a cameo in Busters, but 3 was delayed.
• Hazard Attack:

  • When Gutsy Bones and his respective Palette Swaps pull a red capsule from their gachapon, it causes fire to drop from the sky, following a target. The fire remains on the ground for a few seconds, damaging anyone who walks over them. This also serves to isolate any Yo-kai who suffered a Non-Lethal K.O. by the attack, preventing their allies from reviving them.
  • SV Snaggerjag and his Palette Swap Styx Mk. VI can spit oil to form puddles before they use their Soultimate, and anyone who walks into said puddles has a debuff applied to their walkspeed. As their Soultimate has to be avoided by outrunning it, anyone who isn't careful and walks into the oil is much more likely to get hit.
  • After Ogralus uses his Soultimate, which involves smashing his club into the ground, a rotating column of water is generated where he hit. This is inverted with his normal attacks, which leave pools of water on the ground, as they actually serve to help dispel the debuff his bubbles apply.
  • Whisped Cream's Soultimate, Puketoplasm, leaves a green cloud of liquid and vapour on the targeted segment of the arena, damaging anyone who walks into it.
  • Kat Kraydel drops webbing onto the arena that slows anyone who walks over it, making it harder for them to avoid her attacks.
  • Zazelmare fires beams of energy into the sky that crash back onto the ground, leaving pools of energy that damage anyone who walks into them while they remain.

• Lost in Translation: This is lampshaded with the Yo-kai-san Irasshai Yo-kai Circle, which themed around having the "-san" honorific in their names. The localization doesn't attempt to translate it, with the circle being called "Lost in Translation" and its description outright saying that it doesn't make sense in English, as the only one that kept the honorific in translation was Komasan, with the others in the group being Helmsman, Armsman, Rattelle, Steppa, Ferdinand, Papa Windbag, and Toiletta^{Japanese Names}Kabuto-san, Yoroi-san, Karakara-san, Konbu-san, Fusafusan, Jigajii-san and Hanako-san respectively. The reward for completing the circle is also lost in translation for the same reason, as it rewards you with Ol' Saint Trick, a Yo-kai heavily inspired by Santa.
• Metal Slime: Noko and Daiz will run away from you if they see you, but beating them grants you a lot of Oni Orbs and a possible chance to recruit them.
• Money Is Experience Points: Leveling up can only be done using Oni Orbs, which were also used to buy items and equipment.
• Old Save Bonus: Yo-kai Watch Blasters gives the ability to befriend a bonus Yo-kai if you link the game with Yo-kai Watch 2: Jibanyan S with Bony Spirits, Komasan S with Fleshy Souls, and Komajiro S with Psychic Specters.
• One Game for the Price of Two: Like the main games, they're repeating this success with the Yo-kai Watch Blasters spin-off, with various Yo-kai exclusive to either game version or Yo-kai you can only get in the games if you link up with any of the three editions of Yo-kai Watch 2. Blasters has a third edition, Moon Rabbit Crew, but it is simply a massive free update to the existing games, with a special bonus if the player bought both previous editions. While each game lets you keep separate saves for its base game and Moon Rabbit Crew, there is no reason not to take advantage of the save import feature to the expansion as soon as possible- all the exclusives from the base game remain in the update.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Zazel's voice actor gives him a Transylvanian accent during his initial appearance. However, in the cutscene when he becomes Zazelmare, he drops the accent completely.
• Organ Drops: Zig-Zagged; each of the bosses have two drops associated with them to use in equipment crafting, though it depends on the boss if those are their body parts (Slimamander and Eydra dropping eyeballs and tongues), pieces of their clothes (Sproink and Hoggles dropping buckets and rope), or a mix of both (The Onis dropping their horns and the spikes on their clubs).
• Premium Currency: The main currency is Oni Orbs, but there is a second currency, Insignias. These are earned by completing bosses on Ultra difficulty and collaborating with other players. These can be used to purchase Crank-a-kai coins, Auras, and for unlocking the Superboss.
• The Real Spoofbusters: So heavy, it had to actually be modified in the international releases to tone them down potentially for copyright reasons. The original Japanese name was Yo-kai Watch Busters, Jibanyan and Komasan had Ghostbuster-like jumpsuits in their Blaster forms, and Whismellowman, named Whisped Cream in English and looking more kaiju-like, was originally a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man parody.
• Renovating the Player Headquarters: Houzzat allows you to change the style of both the exterior and interior of your Blasters House.
• Scunthorpe Problem: Less an issue with the game itself, and more with attempting to share the code, but a password for a Lucky Crank-a-Coin is " YFFULFAG3M."
• Socialization Bonus:
  • The Wayfarer Coliseum, as the new incarnation of the Wayfarer Manor, allows other teams from other Blasters Houses (read: other players) to come and fight yours. Winning rewards Oni Orbs and Insignias. Consecutive wins get more Oni Orbs. However, the Yo-kai can't be befriended this time. The only exception to this rule is Pandanoko.
  • The Premium Currency, Insignias, which can be gained through collaborating with other players. These can be spent on items, but you can only unlock the ability to purchase some of these items after you've collaborated with enough players.
• Spoiler Opening: The introduction of each chapter features a silhouette of the big boss the chapter ends on, occasionally spoiling the twist of the chapter. The only aversion to this is Chapter 6, which shows Gargaros despite the fact that Demuncher is the true boss of the chapter. This is downplayed in Chapter 11; while the story of the chapter ends with Robonyan 28's defeat, that doesn't mark the end of the chapter.
• Superboss:
  • A challenging optional boss can be fought after placing 1,000 Insignias on the statues in the YBA Hall, but which boss you face depends on your game version. Red Cat Corps players can fight Swirlious Omai, while White Dog Squad players can fight Red Paws. This is subverted in Moon Rabbit Crew, as both of them need to be defeated in order for their gold-colored forms Golden Claws and Swirlious Gold to be unlockable.
  • Moon Rabbit Crew adds in a new Superboss in the form of Pink Emperor, a Palette Swap of Captain Thunder who can only be fought in a True Challenge Mission after beating all of the other ones.
• Super Mode: The Great Orb that periodically spawns around the map activates a Great Change, which causes Yo-kai to temporarily become stronger and faster. It also has unique interactions with Usapyon. Lord Enma's ability allows him to enter the state freely.
• Version-Exclusive Boss:
  • The boss for Chapter 7's first sub mission is Hardy Hound for the White Dog Squad version while Red Cat Corps players fight Rubeus J.
  • In Chapter 10, a previous Final Boss makes a comeback in a sub mission. For White Dog Squad players it's McKraken while Red Cat Corps users get Dame Dedtime.
  • The base game's Superboss changes depending on the version. White Dog Squad players fight Red Paws while Red Cat Corps players fight Swirlious Omai.
  • The Moon Rabbit Crew update comes with a Palette Swap of the True Final Boss of the base game. White Dog Squad users get Swirlious Gold, while those aligned with the Red Cat Corps get Golden Claws.
• Version-Exclusive Content: Red Cat Corps and White Dog Squad feature several different Yo-kai that are exclusive to each version (though the games can be traded with). There are also bosses exclusive to each version as well (although they can be fought if players with different versions play together).
• Voice Grunting: The characters have words and short sentences that they exclaim during text.
• Whole-Plot Reference: As the Japanese title implies, the game is heavily inspired by the Ghostbusters series.

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