Yo-kai Watch (Japanese: 妖怪ウォッチ, Hepburn: Yōkai Wotchi) is a role-playing video game established as well as released by Level-5 for the Nintendo 3DS and also the first video game in the Yo-kai Watch franchise business. Initially launched in Japan on July 11, 2013, the video game is based on the Yōkai of Japanese mythology, that are stated to be ghosts as well as phantoms that cause mischievousness in every day life. In Yo-kai Watch, gamer character Nathan Nate Adams or Katie Forester, depending upon who the player picks, is given the titular watch, which offers him or her the capability to see Yo-kai, after stumbling across and also befriending a butler Yo-kai called Murmur. Gamers represent Nate or Katie, as she or he circumnavigates community looking for and also befriending tranquil Yo-kai, battling hostile Yo-kai, and also fixing troubles brought on by naughty Yo-kai. The game was originally released to a positive commercial and critical reception in Japan, and also a constant rise ...