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Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble (Video Game)
Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble (Yo-kai Watch: PuniPuni in Japan) is a puzzle game created by Level-5, and its a loose adaption of the video game series of the same name.
After two years, the International version was shut down on May 31st 2018. Puni Puni is still going.
This game uses these tropes:
- Allegedly Free Game: The game is free to play, but some bonuses, like very high-class Yo-kai, cost money to own.
- Alternate Continuity: The story is similar to the first game and anime, but the player (not Nate or Katie) is inserted in the role. This is noticeable as you see Nate without the watch, and doesn't talk about Yo-kai.
- Background Music Override: Putting certain characters, like Elzemekia, into your middle team slot can change the Battle Theme Music into a tune associated with them. In her case, it changes to a version of Invading Magical Girl Elzemekia.
- Calling Your Attacks: The Soultimate moves have the same flash screen as the original games.
- Combos: You need to make a lot of combos by matching all the blobs.
- Crossover: The game has featured multiple crossovers with various works, integrating their cast as playable characters. These included: Attack on Titan, Cells at Work!, Detective Conan, Final Fantasy, Hello Kitty, Web Animation/Hololive, Franchise/Inuyasha, Kamen Rider, KonoSuba, Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Monster Strike, Web Animation/Nijisanji, Puyo Puyo, The Quintessential Quintuplets, Ranma ½, Shaman King, the Ultra Series and more.
- Damage Reduction: Certain Yo-kai like Robonyan and Mimikin can help reduce the damage taken from enemies.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Like the game and anime, you become friends with the certain Yo-kai once you defeat them. However, some of the more despicable characters clearly only do so either because they see you as a powerful potential minion or to cause further destruction with abandon. Some of the crazier characters don't even seem to process they're aligning themselves with you. Unlike the game where you can choose, they become your friends automatically. Unlike the original game, having more than one of the same Yo-kai is impossible, as getting a duplicate will just fill the Soultimate level of the original.
- Demographic-Dissonant Crossover: Has had crossovers with works for much older audiences, like Attack on Titan.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Wibble Wobble features Yo-kai from the second and third games for the overseas audience.
- Eating Optional: In Neon Genesis Evangelion, the Angels didn't eat at all. For the befriending mechanic to work, however, they've been given the ability to eat food, and apparently even have preferences.
- Fantasy Pantheon: Adds new Yo-kai gods, namely those embodying the concepts of stiffness and squishiness.
- Fusion Dance: Like the original game, there is a Fusion section, where two Yo-kai, or a Yo-kai and an item can be fused together to create a new one.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation:
- You can befriend antagonistic, and in some cases even canonically deceased, characters to join your roster even though they want nothing to do with you other than to see you dead, and you can even pit them against themselves in fights.
- As with all other games in the franchise, the befriending mechanic involves tossing food at enemy Yo-kai. This includes characters who can't or don't eat, like the Angels from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
- Inconsistent Dub: Whispocrates' profile calls his boss by his Japanese name, "Mitsunari Ishida". The other games and anime renamed him "Shogun Waitington".
- Make My Monster Grow: Characters like Ray O' Light and Lady Longnek can make certain blobs grow bigger.
- The Medic: Yo-kai like Tattletell, Skranny, and Goldenyan can help heal your team.
- Money Grinding: If you can't pass a certain level due to a Yo-kai that is weak, you can go back to a previous level and earn more points and money. You can still get some experience and money if you don't want to continue the stage.
- Multi-Slot Character: Even by the standards of the franchise, this game makes it an Exaggerated Trope. Want a new character? Give him a suit or a popcorn bucket to hold. Congrats, new character. It's ridiculously easy to make teams comprised of nothing but the same character in different forms and outfits.
- Premium Currency:
- Y Points are used for the majority of activities with events, being needed to spin the event Crank-a-kai which has Yo-kai up to rank Uz+ in them and to buy resources such as Genki Drinks or Yokodori Tickets from the shop. Naturally, the only way to obtain them is by playing the event and racking them up slowly via beating levels or playing a minigame depending on the event type.
- Nyanbo Coins can be obtained once per event and are used to spin the Nyanbo Crank-a-kai, which has a variety of high ranking characters, with some of them being exclusive to it.
- Super Youma Coins are basically just Nyanbo Coins but are completely paywalled with their exclusives usually being even stronger than the average Nyanbo exclusives while also being Yo-kai from the first three games who are Promoted to Playable.
- Promoted to Playable:
- The game features a wide variety of characters as unlockable Yo-kai, even if they weren't playable in the mainline games, or were even Adapted Out of them.
- Inverted with Emperor Mode Usapyon. Usapyon's even received an upgraded version, but Emperor Mode itself still lies out of reach.
- Puni Plush: This is the game's main deal, made more obvious by it's Japanese title being Puni Puni. Yo-kai are depicted as "Wib Wobs" or "Punis," curved blobs representing the character's face. They're actually created by Punigami, a Physical God who looks like a giant floating Wib Wob who embodies the very concept of soft and squishy... ness. She's able to take Yo-kai from their usual artstyle to a cuter, smoother one. The Puni faction are contrasted with the Kachi Kachi faction, a group who embody stiffness and hardness, and thus use a wide array of sharp edges and straight lines.
- Rank Inflation: While Yo-kai Watch was no stranger to this idea, this was the game where it got, quite frankly, ridiculous. While the core games simply run from E to S, and Kunitori Wars had a rank equivalent to SS, Wibble Wobble not only introduced SS, it also had: SSS, Z, ZZ, ZZZ, Uz and then Uz+, and that's just as of writing.
- Timed Mission:
- Not exactly timed, but you need to beat the stage before the opponents beat you up.
- Some missions state you need to beat the level under a certain time to get the star.
- Underground Monkey: Balancing out the large number of original characters that appear in the events are an equally large number of pre-existing character with a few additional traits slapped on to fit the theme.
- Warp Whistle: Like in the game, Mirapo helps you warp to different sections after befriending him.
- What If?: Some events explore what would have happened had certain scenarios occurred differently, sometimes reconciling Early Instalment Weirdness with the greater lore. An example of this is the "10th Anniversary Event～Lord Enma and X of Friendship Nyan", which explores a version of Yo-kai Watch where Chairman McKraken conquered the Yo-kai World, forcing Lord Enma to become an assassin to overthrow him.
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