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This Week in Games - VR Kanojo

Meanwhile, there's still no sign of Yōkai Watch 3 for the West. I really wonder if Level-5 has basically given up on trying to make the series a thing here – despite a massive marketing push, it never seemed to take.

That is mostly likely the case. The anime hasn't had a new dubbed episode in over a year now (the same fate that befell poor Doraemon before his show's eventual removal from Disney ) and they haven't shown a single new Yōkai Watch toy commercial on TV since then. It's safe to say they've given up on it. Yōkai Watch did manage to generate massive interest for a while (enough to be the #2 monster collection series here after Pokémon despite being a new IP to the U.S.), but the craze seems to have died down.

The Steam version of VR Kanojo doesn't let you go beyond a certain point in your courtship of the female character, but – as is typical for a lot of these sorts of games that turn up on the service – there's a patch you can download that will restore all the spicy bits.

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The Steam version of VR Kanojo doesn't let you go beyond a certain point in your courtship of the female character, but – as is typical for a lot of these sorts of games that turn up on the service – there's a patch you can download that will restore all the spicy bits.

Unfortunately Steam recently changed their policy following tighter rules around sex similar to social media outlets. They don't allow any links to patches or methods stated by the publisher to restore adult content in games anymore. Users will still post them in comments although Steam has the right to remove them, but certainly any links by the publishers themselves is no-no now.

It makes me wonder though, why go through the trouble of purchasing it on steam then patching and potentially needing to apply external patches or new patches again when updating, when you can purchase the whole uncensored game at the original publishers site?

It makes me wonder though, why go through the trouble of purchasing it on steam then patching and potentially needing to apply external patches or new patches again when updating, when you can purchase the whole uncensored game at the original publishers site?

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Meanwhile, there's still no sign of Yōkai Watch 3 for the West. I really wonder if Level-5 has basically given up on trying to make the series a thing here – despite a massive marketing push, it never seemed to take.

That is mostly likely the case. The anime hasn't had a new dubbed episode in over a year now (the same fate that befell poor Doraemon before his show's eventual removal from Disney ) and they haven't shown a single new Yōkai Watch toy commercial on TV since then. It's safe to say they've given up on it.

since both Honey Select Unlimited and VR Kanojo are pretty tame and straightforward. Erm, as tame and straightforward as games about virtual sex can be, anyway. Honey Select Unlimited is basically “make custom characters and watch them perform naughty acts, plus VR support” while VR Kanojo is “Summer Lesson but Horny on Main and VR's Right in the Title.”

That is mostly likely the case. The anime hasn't had a new dubbed episode in over a year now (the same fate that befell poor Doraemon before his show's eventual removal from Disney ) and they haven't shown a single new Yōkai Watch toy commercial on TV since then. It's safe to say they've given up on it. Yōkai Watch did manage to generate massive interest for a while (enough to be the #2 monster collection series here after Pokémon despite being a new IP to the U.S.), but the craze seems to have died down.

I didn't see Yokai Watch picking up in the west considering how late they brought it over so I'm not surprised it didn't do very well. At least it did better than Danball/LBX. Excuse me while I go cry that W and Wars never came over, let alone how bad the anime and kits were handled.

I've wondered the same thing. From the company's side, it makes sense since Steam allows them to reach more new customers that might not know where to look, and until recently could follow a link and go to the publisher's site. From the customer's side, I don't see the point, outside of not wanting the explicit content in the first place unless Steam sells it for less. I've seen some games where the patch costs $5 on its own, so there is even more reason to just go to the source.

Convenience, safety, and community are bigger deals than you might think. A lot of folks are reluctant to fork over their credit card data to a weird little website that's only selling and handful of games. You also get the benefit of community forums and possible Steam extras (gotta have trading cards and cheevos!).

We did get Yokai Watch 2 Psychic Specters, and apparently the dub has been recast to cut costs - I suppose that hardly matters if we don't actually see the dub anywhere, but they have been trying, at least.

I imagine even if it didn't make it as a major franchise like they were hoping, we may still get the games - the media presence it could lay claim to was certainly large enough to keep it in the minds of enough people to shift a decently medium amount of units. I would think. I will not be shocked if they skip 3 and we get 4 on the Switch, especially if they work fast enough to beat Pokemon to it (I also won't be shocked if Yokai Watch 3 ends up being the last 3DS game ever released, and sells dozens of copies).

Do you mean at the time? Because there is no way that Yo-kai Watch, as a franchise, has outdone Digimon in cultural impact or revenue outside of Japan.

Still, every single previous EO class?