exactly, did Yokai Watch 2 take the top spot? Well, outside of the fact that
it launched in July 2014, 4 months before Pokemon, the series itself appears to
be very popular in Japan.On Famitsu's top 10 list alone, three of the games are
from the Yokai Watch series: Number 5 is Yokai Watch to Neverwinter Astral Diamonds 2 Shinuchi, an updated
version of the previously mentioned sequel, while number 6 on the list is the
original Yokai Watch, which originally came to Japan in 2013. Both games sold
2,007,327 and 994,346, respectively in 2014. Let's see an older Pokemon game
do that today, if only because we all know it probably could.It'll be
interesting to see how long Yokai Watch sticks around, and if it can become
another huge success for the 3DS. The Pokemon series has been to Madden 17 IOS coins around for quite
some time now (so long that it ran out of colors), but if remakes of older games
can move close to 2.5 million copies, imagine how a brand new entry will
perform. Maybe one day Yokai Watch can release in other countries, and the two
series can really compete. Only time will tell.Sources: Famitsu (via Kotaku)
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for, as evidenced by the rise of customization and immersion never before
thought possible in modern video games; a dream come true that brought with it
some unique challenges. Story-driven action games putting players into a
character's shoes stepped closer to cinema than ever before, and role-playing
games allowed players to truly create a figure in their own image. But the
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for example: a game allowing players to choose their own path, their own
appearance, and even their own gender. But a franchise as ambitious as
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at large (and to those who simply chose the default character settings), series
hero Commander Shepard was a dark-haired, Caucasian male. But apparently, that
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Effect 2 (currently working on Uncharted 4) the original plan for Commander
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