YMMV / Yo-kai Watch 3

• Base-Breaking Character: The new female protagonist Hailey Anne. While she does have her fans for her Adorkable Otaku nature and being an energetic Plucky Comic Relief, she also has her detractors, with some finding her personality to be rather annoying and some finding her to be a spoiled brat at times. It doesn't help that she replaces Katie who is much more liked in the west than in Japan.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The middle of Rongo Swirll's boss fight has him do a drum solo. No reason given, it just happens. It is Lampshaded, though.
  We interrupt this battle to bring you an epic drum solo from Rongo Swirll
• Even Better Sequel: Flaws aside, 3 is considered by many fans to be the best installment yet and is liked even more than Yo-Kai Watch 2. It currently has an 80 on Metacritic which is the highest any Yo-Kai Watch game has gotten so far.
• Game-Breaker:
  • This game introduces a new food item called the Forbidden Fruit which is essentially the Master Ball in this series. Feed it to a yo-kai and they will automatically ask to befriend you at the end of the match if you win. It is compensated by the fact you can only obtain them from the Clu-T-Facts found in chests in the Busters T mode, but if you're willing to spend some time grinding for them you can stack up a chuck of them and easily befriend almost every yo-kai^note  Tomnyan, the Koma Knomads, and special yo-kai only found in Busters T are the exceptions in the game, including the ones who can only be fought once a day. Additionally, prior to the 1.4 update in the Western release (which even then can just be deleted in the console’s settings), the item was incredibly easy to grind by just simply scanning unofficial QR codes online, which can lead to the player having massive amounts by the time they unlock the bank.
  • The Yo-Kai Blaster also deserves a special mention. After you obtain the Yo-Kai Watch Model Dream it's quickly noticeable how broken it is, especially during boss fights. It's capable of doing major damage to any Yo-Kai and it doesn't take long to charge. Use a slippery Yo-Kai with it, and you can pretty much take down any boss.
  • While most auras you get from trading Ghastly Fragments will do helpful things such as increasing befriend rate, fighting certain Yo-Kai, and earning more EXP, the Cheeky Aura in particular can effectively make any boss outside Blasters T a joke. Because it prevents your Yo-Kai from being inspirited during battle, you can effectively defeat any boss and not worry about ever getting hit by any of their Soultimates or special moves.
  • The game introduces tons of strong coins, but easily the most broken one is the Legend Coin. The coin has a special gimmick of only giving the player Yo-Kai that are required for unlocking Legendary seals, and just like the Forbidden Fruit, they can be easily grinded by just scanning unofficial QR codes, which could lead to the player already having several legendaries early on into the game. The 1.4 update however made it so that they can only be obtained rarely in Blasters T, which makes them significantly harder to get.
• Growing the Beard: While the second game was already generally considered an improvement of the first, the third game goes even further by introducing a new battle system that is much more complex and strategic, several more areas to explore, and an improved Blasters mode that even allows you to play with others online. That and the sheer amount of post game content provided makes it an even better game than its predecessor.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Hailey is a fan of a series inspired by Pretty Cure. In 2020, her seiyuu, Aoi Yūki, would be cast as Cure Grace.
• Replacement Scrappy: Hailey Anne for replacing Katie as the female protagonist. Many fans who used Katie in the previous games were not keen on being forced to play as Nate, but introducing Hailey Anne only added salt to the wounds. Hailey Anne isn't disliked on her own, she is mainly disliked for being the new heroine.
• Scrappy Mechanic:
  • Yo-kai that one can fight daily autosaves, so if you don't recruit it, better luck tomorrow. What makes this worse is the fact that two whole sects of Legendaries, the Pioneer and Merican Legendaries are only befriendable during these fights. However this is alleviated by the ease of getting the Forbidden Fruit, an item that guarantees a befriending.
  • While the Yo-Kai watch blaster is a useful and well liked, one thing that isn't liked about is it is that whether it damages or helps you befriend Yo-Kai is completely random in regular battles, meaning you often get the result you don't want.
• Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer: The Busters Treasure app naturally got similar treatment to the previous game's Yo-kai Watch Blasters, and also saw a sequel.
• That One Achievement:
  • Completing all the quests in this game takes a long time because some of the quests are more difficult than others, and some you can't access until you complete Blasters T, a separate mode in the game.
  • Collecting all the Yo-Kai in this game is easier said than done due to several problems such as some being Blasters T Exclusive, some requiring you to beat the game twice due to the fact there are some exclusive to what path you take, others such as the infamous Pandanoko and Starrynoko which unfortunately can only be obtained using Streetpass.
• That One Side Quest:
  • "The Old Lady & the Sukiyaki Trade" quest full on stop. This said quest takes a long time for several reasons. While Unkeen & Untidy's quests aren't all that bad since you only need to talk to Supermanager in order to get Funky Fillet for Unkeen and go to the Meadowbroke Farm for the Golden Beans for Untidy, the quest truly starts to get frustrating. Unpleasant doesn't outright say what soul he needs for the dish so one would most likely look up a guide and later realize you need the evolution of Chilled Chowcao. It evolves around level 29 so that would mean you would likely use up some Exorbs in order to speed up its evolution into Stircrazy Stu. It gets even worse from here. In order to get Unkaind's item, the Unreal Egg, you must first clear the Chocobonyan quest which is incredibly difficult race. Simply failing toget one boost item can instantly cause you to fall behind and lose the race. And it only gets harder from here. Unfairy's quest is easily the most frutrating because in order to get his item, the Fabled Fungus, it requires a lot of work. First you must find Madame Mush, an NPC that randomly shows up in BBQ 4 times. Then after that you have to search BBQ, Springdale, & the Yo-Kai World to find 15 mushroom lovers and collect at least 40 mushrooms to give them, which not only are they incredibly hard to find no matter where you look, finishing this said quest would take several hours. After those requests are completed, you've finally finished it.
  • "Two Photos Short of Fifty!" quest is also frustrating due to fact that you'll have to search all over Springdale, BBQ, and even the Yo-Kai World to find several Next HarMEOWny cards. While the person who gives the quest at least tells you where an area that still has cards, it doesn't change that it is incredibly difficult to find them and once you eventually do, the quest giver turns out to be Master Nyada in disguise. You have to fight him in a difficult battle as he can damage your team pretty easily. Once he's beaten, its finally over.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
  • Katie not being playable in the initial two Yo-Kai Watch 3 really bummed out players who used her in the previous two games. Possibly due to the backlash or possibly coincidentally (due to development times), Katie was made playable in a couple of sidequests that have been added in future updates for Yo-Kai Watch 3: Sukiyaki where they take place in an alternative universe where she takes Nate's place as the hero.
  • The 1.4 update removed the ability to grind rare and powerful items from unofficial QR codes, instead making it so that they can only provide random coloured coins. Thus, most people simply deleted the update data, as it does basically nothing but actively hinder people trying to grind for more Yo-Kai.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The Koma Knomads, as their roles as the Merican counterparts of Komasan and Komajiro overlap to the point where they share the same voices, personality, and even verbal tic as their Japan counterparts.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Yo-kai Watch 3 is set in America, but rather than go crazy with the references to actual American myths like the Jersey Devil, Sasquatch, Native American mythology, or even the classic Hollywood movie monsters^note They do get their due Shout-Out in #19, they just... go crazy.

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