Get caught up with the Yo-Kai Watch storyline in under two minutes

You can start with the impending third game

Nintendo is continuing to assist Level-5 in publishing the Yo-Kai Watch series outside of Japan, and the latest game, Yo-Kai Watch 3, is about to hit US shores on February 8.

To help facilitate any missed story beats the Big N just released a new trailer that will catch folks up, giving them the rundown on the first two games followed by a brief setup for the third. To be clear here, it’s okay if the newest entry is your first. Yo-Kai Watch is kind of like Pokemon in that regard. Although the former does star ꧙the same character for the vast majority of the seri💖es, you can just jump in carefree and only miss out on a few select homages and Easter eggs.

If you want to see what Yo-Kai Watch is all about you can start from the third game without any major issues: especially with the change in setting for the main protagonist Nate, who moves to St. Peanutsburg, BBQ (USA) at the start of Yo-Kai Watch 3. The other 50% of the campaign deals with newcomer Hailey in Japan, the franchise’s traditional setting.

As a note, Level-5 has done away with the “multiple release” concept in the west: it’s just one bundled SKU outside of Japan (a combination of Sushi and Tempura, otherwise known as the third Sukiyaki ultimate edition).