like is it just me or is white youtubers shitting on Yo-Kai Watch (a game made by japanese people about japanese culture) for being too much like Pokemon (an incredibly influential game in japan, made by, japanese people,,) a really. astonishingly ignorant display of hubris

bogleech:

Yeah a lot of the negative reviews are like “LOOOOOL wtf are these stupid monsters what were they smoking” and they’re referring to things lifted from some of Japan’s most treasured folklore.

You’d think people would have been a bunch of otaku dweebuses long enough by now to know what Tsukumogami are, but I guess not if they still think pokemon like Klefki represent “running out of ideas.“

shadowgoo:

i feel like one of the things that distinguishes yokai watch from pokemon (apart from literally everything about the game’s execution and premise) is just how unabashedly fucking WEIRD the series isn’t afraid to get

like any time pokemon does something weird and creative like making a garbage bag or a sentient keychain into a pokemon the fandom complains to no end but in yokai watch that’s just like 80% of the game’s entire bestiary. almost every goddamn thing you encounter is some weirdly specific bizarre thing like a wall that makes you stubborn, a fish with a knife who holds grudges for no reason, a floppy katana that makes people lazy, etc etc

and thats not even getting into how goddamn weird and creepy the plot itself can get. everyone talks to no end about lavender tower and ghost girls but pokemon’s never had you fight a giant horrible-faced naked man from the top floor of a construction site at night, have you fleeing giant ogre monsters in a greyed-out nightmare version of your hometown, or deal with a lunatic doctor monster who straight up tries to cut your heart out of you

basically i feel like most pokemon fans would dislike it because the game’s entire aesthetic and vibe is meant to be more goofy and weird than pokemon’s general adventure tone, but if you’re a guy who’s always liked the weirder pokemon designs or just weird-ass monsters in general its pretty much a dream come true

steel-samurai-maya-smelting:

It’s almost as if one of these was a feature designed to simulate the act of petting an animal, and merely resulted in an unfortunate image when more humanoid pokemon were overlooked (easy to do since there’s near 800 of these damn things), and the other was a feature whose entire purpose was to weirdly stroke the faces and chests of humans and only humans, some of which are underage, some of which are your own damn family.