Yo-Kai Watch and Good Game Design: The Deep Dungeon Dive of Busters T 

The dungeons with the ? levels that scale with your team's current level can actually be manipulated by entering the dungeon with all of your equipment in your backpack, and then equiping it all once you do enter it. I'm surprised you didn't mention this.

I like how they handled Forbidden Fruit in this game, while yes it's essentially Yokai Watch's Master Ball, it also fixes its major flaw in my opinion. A major issue I have with the Master Ball is that since you only get 1 of them, you usually have save it for a powerful Legendary. Still, since it's also essentially a free win it sorta makes what would be climatic battles against a powerful foe kinda anti-climatic and disappointing. With Yokai Watch's battle system making it so that you need to defeat the Yokai before you'll get the chance to befriend them, you get to do your climatic battle while keeping the benefits of the Master Ball, so you both won't get a free win and get a guaranteed reward for your efforts. And since you can get multiple of these fruits instead of just 1, you also have the ability to use them to get some odd common Yokai you couldn't get previously due to some bad luck for completion purposes and not feel like you need to save it for just the right case. It also fixes one of the biggest annoyances in the series in trying to befriend one a-day yokai while maintaining the challenge of their fights, the fruit just gives the practicality of guaranteeing your rewards and skipping out on the grind of attempting each battle once a day, Forbidden Fruit just guarantees a reward, but you aren't robbed of the experience in getting that reward yourself, you're just cutting out the potential hassle of getting that reward in question. What do you think of this stance DrCoeloCephalo? do you agree or have something to add to this viewpoint.

Busters T alone is worth more than any of the Pokemon games past Unova. If only Level Five did some actual advertising. Yo-Kai Watch would probably be on par with Fire Emblem or something in the states and we'd be enjoying YKW4 right now.

I would pay like 10 bucks for blasters T alone granted with how absurd the price of Yo kai watch 3 has gotten it's fair

I think the forbidden fruit the best part of blasters T because you don't have to waste time to befriend the really rare yokai.

Words can not express how long i have spent playing this mode.

lucky i got my own copy of YKW3 in english before they started getting expensive. Love the content still being made for yo kai watch!

one of my favorite youtubers making a video about my favorite mini game inside my favorite game :0

The amount of time I've sunk in this mode alone is insane. 3 has so much content in it.

blasters T did what busters 2 could only dream of

if you had hinozall awoken or pandanoko youre automatically the coolest treasure hunter in the game

I played this game mode while waiting for stuff in Disney land and boy I pretty much raided those dungeons till they were empty, and I never got bored

As much as I like Blasters T, I think my biggest problem with it is that to beat the endgame bosses and dungeons you need to have a team of actual humans playing with you. Given that the online community for the game has pretty much died (to my knowledge anyway) getting a lot of the more rare Yo-Kai like the Devas a lot harder than they already are.

i remember asking my parents for busters when it was still japan only, i got 3 and was disappointed but still happy since more yokai watch, imagine my surprise when it was revealed to me that i not only got a new yokai watch game, i got blasters as a side mode within that game and it was as big as the original full game, still have the memory of getting disconnected from a dungeon at the boss and soloing the rest of it

Im here rewatching this a bit later, but this video literally made me continue work on my save file I've had since launch in America, and i now have unlocked access to the 3 different dimension Enmas, and befriended Solar Enma, which gives me a hankering for official format battles. Thanks for making another video on why Yo-Kai Watch has great game design Also tip for people who are doing Blasters T solo: the Legendary Aura gives a +2 ATK and +3 HP buff, and while i don't know the percentage each + gives, its enough that it's worthwhile if you need to cheese any fights in Blasters T. And theres an aura that gives you're team immunity to traps and increases all party members speed to "fast", so thats great when doing dasterdly dungeons

I love that you called this PMD Yokai Watch, as that describes it perfectly. As a fan of both, I can attest to this! I swear, most of my hours on my (COMPLETELY LEGIT) YKW3 save are on BlasTers alone, it's so addicting and fun. Speaking of, YKW as a whole is fun and I've done some crazy stuff in 3, like: (disclaimer: some of these were done with save states to skip the searching process all over) Getting Snartle with a Rank D (maybe E) watch (Will tell how if anyone is interested) Get Tengu and Tenguriginal right when they were available (aka when the tornadoes started to show up but I want to say around a rank C watch?) Get Adderall (Awoken) Enma on my first try (no save states) Chapter 7 with yokai in the 50s/60s (team range of 35-62) Have 6/7 Gods of Fortune (missing Fukurokuju) Max out my teams' attacks, techniques, and soultimates And probably more! Did I mention I'm only at Chapter 7 because I actively didn't do the story to play BlasTers? :D

Having two Solar Enma’s be like: Double SUN POWER

Just when i was looking for yw content, perfect. Edit: i wonder how the next owners of nates house react when the see the Inerdimensional place in there back yard. Unless i forgot something.

your descriptions of the yo kai are on point

Love your yo kai watch video. I always learn something new about the series that I had no idea was a thing keep up the good work.😊

Just run birdsong aura with the chest mimic yo kai from the second keyhole dungeon, you will get much more treasure yo kai that way and the mimics Fanny That ability increases the chance of clue t facts (did i mention treasure chests also drop ghastly fragments?) in each chest. Easiest way to farm forbidden fruit and specific clue t fact yo kai like gutsy bones who is a amazing crit booster as a soulstone

I spent so many hours in this side mode that I basically have a decent guess on weres the exit sometimes.

Its kinda like pokemon mystery dungeon. I love it. Even i think paying for dlc is stupid. Ill do anything for pokemon but least make it at a reasonable price for dlc

"A zombie babysitter with strong resolve" Why Why is this accurate Also you guys had trouble with Moolinda ?

What I like about blasters T is that nothing is locked behind multiplayer, in blasters red cat corps & white dog squad certain bosses(like red paws) and befriendable yokai we re locked behind playing with other people. Thankfully, that's not the case in T.

I finally managed to get Yo-kai Watch 3 a few months ago before the E-shop closed, and once I was able to do the Blasters T mode, I got addicted. Like, no joke. I would play Blasters T for hours to get good Yo-kai and Clu-T-facts to get good items for my Yo-kai. I completed the map and beated the pyramid, so now I'm just hunting the Enmas and other Yo-kai that I can get my hands on. I get my ass kicked cuz skill issue on my part, but it's a fun experience!

Is it still possible to use the online functionality now that the 3ds servers have been shut down? or has the community done some shenanigans to continue it in spite of that? Regardless, amazing video! Love your content

My favorite game design series

17:28 whoops all platinum dolls

Now that you say it, I would kill for a Yo-kai Watch mystery dungeon game!

Is Busters T enjoyable at some points, yes but it is not only extremely basic but it is also overpowered. Whoever thought that having a game mode where you can get some of the strongest yo Kai before the 4th chapter is insane, not to mention that ykw3 already being an extremely easy game. And saying this game is like blasters is an insult to blasters 1, it is the absolute barebones of blasters, next to none customization and meta being extremely small, practically needing infinite enma and hino awoken. (I understand you addressed these ideas except for the meta but it feels like that these ideas have to be emphasized)

Praise be the lamb

Time to take some notes.

While I like both the Yo-Kai Watch Blasters series and the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series, I prefer the Blasters series more overall. Part of its due to a personal bias of liking Yo-Kai Watch more than Pokémon overall. But the Blasters games do the dungeon crawler gameplay better since your not stuck on a grid and can move in a full 360 degrees and battles take place in real time and aren’t turn based. It just feel much less restrictive which I really like.

that scarlet and voilet joke

I just like that he used Pokemon mystery dungeon music.

I wo der if anyone gonna mention busters 2 also all this stuff for a side mode is insane especially when there is a whole adventure and postgame in yo kai watch 3 so yeah yo kai watch be bashing out pokemon but still being less popular

Im always watching your Twitter in the school toilet

Could you make a video about the infinite tunnel from Yo-Kai Watch 2

Live and learn! Scarlett and Violet?

my ONLY gripe with busters T is that it made it WAAYYY too easy

Am I the only one ho finds this mode REALLY difficult? If anyone has any tips that would be nice.

Reasons why Yokai Watch Busters is better than Pokémon Myster Dungeon… 1) you can change all party members so you aren’t stuck with only one Pokémon to adapt for the dungeon as the other slots are taken up by the weak as hell starter Mons you picked via taking a FUCKING BUZZFEED Personality QUIZ 2)

Do you want to be in Team Yo-Kynex?

Why pokemon could just copy what yo kai watch did that would make more competition

too bad it essentially paved the way of what will become yw busters 2 which sucked so bad

Blasters T is the most boring game mode in ykw ever - there is no real sense of reward it just feels like cheating and most of the time in Busters T it just feels like Chest spamming Clu-T Facts. Blasters (the game) however, is a masterpiece. Also you can’t change moves in BT which is disappointing (and the team AI is garbage).

This mode sucks. Good video, but blasters T kinda sucks.