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Nuvendil on 17 December 2014
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manuel said:
LipeJJ said:
Amazing! They need to release it as soon as possible on this side of the globe. If they market it the right way, this series can be big here too.


It's really hard to localize. It contains so much from Japanese folklore and tradition, which is extremely hard to convey in a way that makes sense and is understandable to foreigners. (If it was a book, it would need a ton of footnotes and explanations, which is pretty hard to do for a game.)

Of course if you don't care about all that it's just a monster collecting RPG like any other...

That's why I don't see this ever being like Pokemon.  Youkai Watch is highly context-dependent with ties to folklore.  Even the name is iirc.  Plust the art style...I don't see that going over as well as the Pokemon one.