{"id":14825,"date":"2016-04-18T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T00:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=14825"},"modified":"2016-03-21T01:05:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T01:05:04","slug":"yo-kai-watch-wibble-wobble-ios-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/18\/yo-kai-watch-wibble-wobble-ios-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Yo-Kai Watch: Wibble Wobble (iOS, Android)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"YOKAI_BOX\"<\/a>Yo-Kai Watch is a super-popular 3DS video game and cartoon about a boy who meets and befriends spirits and mythical monsters called \u201cYokai,\u201d and calls upon them with a special Yo-Kai Watch on his wrist when he needs their help to solve problems. The franchise has been a huge hit in Japan where it originated, and last fall the first 3DS video game was released in the US and the cartoon started airing on Disney XD.\u00a0 And now there is a brand new Yo-Kai Watch game you can play, too!\u00a0 This one\u2019s called Yo-Kai Watch: Wibble Wobble, and it\u2019s available to download for free on iOS and Android devices (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 It\u2019s an action-puzzle game with RPG gameplay elements and characters straight from the original 3DS entry and cartoon!<\/p>\n

In the game, you form a team of five Yokai monsters. Little jelly-like blobs shaped like their heads appear at the bottom of the screen, and if you tap them, they\u2019ll pop.\u00a0 Those blobs are called \u201cWib Wobs,\u201d and if you use your finger to draw and connect the same ones, they\u2019ll turn into a bigger Wib Wob for you to pop.\u00a0 When you pop a Wib Wob, that Yokai will then attack enemy Yo-Kai at the top of the screen.\u00a0 Bigger Wib Wobs equal bigger attacks, and if you can hold off on popping big Wib Wobs until you have a bunch to pop, you\u2019ll make a combo.\u00a0 But don\u2019t wait around too long, because the enemy Yo-Kai can attack you, and if you lose all your hit points, you\u2019ll lose the level.\u00a0 You win whenever your opponents HP go down to zero.<\/p>\n

After levels, you\u2019ll gain experience points and level up your Yokai monsters so they\u2019ll have stronger attacks. When you pop a bunch of Wib Wobs, a meter will fill and when it\u2019s full, you can go into Fever Mode and string together attacks for a limited time and then release them for a big hit to the enemy.\u00a0 Each Yokai also has a meter that fills when you pop their Wib Wobs, and when those meters are full, you can tap on that Yokai to unleash their \u201cSoultimate\u201d move.\u00a0 These moves can attack the enemy, charm them, or refill some of your health.\u00a0 It\u2019s up to you to arrange your team strategically so they can win.\u00a0 Sometimes after battles, defeated Yokai will leave behind items such as food you can give to enemy Yokai to make them like you more, or ExpOrbs that can give your Yokai more experience points.\u00a0 If an enemy Yokai likes you, they may become your friends after you battle them, and you can arrange them into your party.\u00a0 You can also earn money after battles that you can use to buy items and continues as well.<\/p>\n

The game has a map screen similar to other mobile puzzlers like Candy Crush, so it\u2019s a bit more linear than the 3DS game. But all the locations are from the 3DS title, and you can still find hidden paths that lead to super-powerful Yokai to fight, or extra maps in back alleys and sewers that lead to more Yokai to battle and rare treasures to find.\u00a0 And just like in the 3DS title, later on you\u2019ll be able to evolve some of your Yokai into new ones and fuse two Yokai together to make brand new monsters.\u00a0 You\u2019ll also fight bosses at the end of each map, and the big baddies that you fight, and the strategies to defeat them are taken directly from the 3DS game!\u00a0 There are also tons of mini-missions to tackle that earn you rewards, rare coins you can use to get new Yokai with the Crank-A-Kai, and you can even scan Yo-Kai Watch medal toys to earn even more cool stuff in the game.<\/p>\n

Since the game is free-to-play, you\u2019ll run into a few problems that other free-to-play games have as well. But I actually didn\u2019t find them as annoying in this one.\u00a0 You can only play a few times before having to wait a while to play again.\u00a0 But if you tackle and complete a level you haven\u2019t played before, you\u2019ll get one of your spirit points back, and waiting for them to refill over time doesn\u2019t take very long either.\u00a0 While there are in-game purchases, you can enjoy the game for free for a long time before it gets too challenging and you need to start buying coins.\u00a0 Your Yokai have a level cap that you can remove by using coins, and you also use coins to continue right where you left off if you lose.\u00a0 So I imagine that after a while, you\u2019ll run out of coins and need to buy more to progress.\u00a0 But again, that doesn\u2019t seem to happen for quite a while, and this is one of the more polished free-to-play games I\u2019ve seen.\u00a0 There’s a reason why it has more than five million players in Japan.\u00a0 One minor gameplay problem is that the Wib Wobs wiggle around the screen a bit and it can sometimes be hard to manage them.\u00a0 But if you enjoy Yo-Kai Watch and also action-puzzlers with RPG elements like Puzzle and Dragons, then you may want to check this one out.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The violence is very minimal in Yo-Kai Watch: Wibble Wobble. Even though you fight enemy Yokai, they just fall over when defeated, and you don\u2019t see them actually physically hitting each other.\u00a0 If you\u2019re OK with your kids playing the 3DS game and watching the cartoon, they\u2019ll be OK with this one, too.\u00a0 Reading skill is a must as everything is text-based, and parental supervision is recommended with the in-game purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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