Can you beat Yokai Watch 2 using only E Ranks? - Part 2
Heya! It is I, Kami, back with the series absolutely noone is reading. Last time we met E-Ranked, she was fishing watches out of sewers and brainwashing people. So, let's continue where we left off!
Once we get home after returning Eddies watch last episode, we find out something devastating: We forgot our homework at school.
So, naturally, we go back to get it.
Yay, more fetch quests.
We go to our classroom and grab our homework.
Alrighty, chapter complete, we can all go home now. Thank your for reading this episode.
Just kidding. This is yokai watch, and things are never that easy.
Immediately after grabbing our homework. we stumble upon the yokai Baku, who was just sort of hanging out in our classroom. The moment she sees us, Baku immediately tries putting us to sleep. Obviously we beat her, because we're just that good. I swear, it'll get harder once we're out of this beginning section of the game. Or maybe I'm just that good of a gamer and that's why we keep sweeping everything. Who knows.
Anyways, as it turns out, Baku attacked us because she was just really damn hungry. This is because she's a yokai that actually feasts on peoples dreams. And, as you might imagine, there's not a lot of people in school during the summer holidays. We let her eat Whispers dream, and that's that. We even befriend her! Sadly, she's D-Rank, so we can't use her. Oh well. Anyways, we leave the school and are witness to dramatic foreshadowing™
Yep, we're gonna have to fight that thing in a minute. We'll cross that bridge when we get there, i suppose? It'll be fine. Surely. Anyways, we get back home, and Whisper tells us that, clearly, we need to upgrade our watch because surely the only reasonable way to beat that guy would be to use higher ranked yokai. Oh, Whisper... I've got some news for you.
Anyways, although we will never use this watch upgrade, we still gotta get it for the sake of the story. So, we'll head to Timers and more, which is the clock store where we can upgrade our watch.
Alas, it is closed. Oh well, worth a shot. Except that, coincidentally, a random passerby notices us waiting in outside the store.
Apparently, the owner of Timers and More is at Wayfarer Manor. So, we head there! This part of the game was originally supposed to introduce the Nintendo Streetpass integration Yokai Watch 2 has, but since precisely noone is using streetpass still, we will never actually be using this feature ever. So, uh... Let's just skip over this because nothing of relevance happens here. So, yeah. We head over to the museum near Gourd Pond, because apparently that's where Mr Goodsight currently is, as we were informed by the Owner of Wayfarer Manor. Which is the streetpass integration we skipped over. I'm very good with continuity, I know.
Aaaand, there he is! Apparently there's an exhibition going on about what Springdale used to look like 60 years ago. What a nice worldbuilding detail! Surely, this will not become plot-relevant later in any way whatsoever.
We tell him about the Yokai Watch and ask him to upgrade the thing. And he... agrees immediately! Huh, didn't think it'd be this easy. So, we go back to Timers & More so Mr. Goodsight can get the upgrade done.
...Except it's not that simple. This is yokai watch after all! So, while Mr. Goodsight has agreed, the game did not. We still have to finish all of our other unrelated story quests before we get to move on to the watch upgrade.
Oh well. Not like I expected anything different.
As we leave the museum, we run into Diana Gately.
From the looks of it, she's a scientist.
She apparently wants to show us something.
As luck has it, that's one of the key quests we gotta check off!
So, lets go and humor her for a bit.
We meet her in the museums vault (which we for some reason can walk straight into), standing next to a... door, of sorts?
Apparently, its a Gate of Whimsy, and subject of Diana's research!
So, she tasks us with finding one, and beating it to get its Gate Globe.
Essentially, Gates of Whimsy are just mini dungeons. You scan them with the Watch, go inside, beat a couple of Yokai, and then you can leave. Hooray. Let's do that.
Look at that, there's some yokai here. Who'd've thunk.
Aaaand, would you look at that, we made another friend!
Dummkap this time! And, lucky for us, he's E-Rank!
We name him Karl. Why? Because that's his name now.
We fight another battle and, look at that, another yokai joins our ever-growing collection.
This one shall be named Birb.
Anyways, we go back, give Diana the Gate Globe, and the number above the door goes down!
What a momentous occassion!
Aaaand, thats the quest done! We will never return to find out what happens when the number reaches 0. Sorry to disappoint, I've got better things to do.
Welp, time for the next quest! This one is called "Bam-Boom! Fusing!" Yes, Yokai Watch 2 has fusion - One year before pokemon fangame infinite fusion released! Though, to be fair, the fusion in that game is a lot more in-depth. Yokai fusion only works for certain yokai.
But, we'll get there once we start with the quest, so no point in explaining it now!
So, to initiate the quest, we gotta go to Shoten Temple, where Mr. Zen is waiting for us.
Basically, how yokai fusion works is... well, how you'd expect it to work, for the most part. The only difference being, that instead of fusing two yokai, you fuse a yokai and an item. And, as I previously stated, it only works for certain combinations. For this introductory quest, we gotta fuse an Ake. So, time to befriend one! We stop by the local sweets shop, because that's Akes favorite food, before beelining right for the secret byway, where you can find them.
After expertly dodging all non-ake yokai, we get an ake encounter on our first try!
...Aaand, we fail to befriend it.
Welp, this is why I bought extra candy.
After five encounters, we finally befriend...
The wrong yokai.
Welp.
I name the bird 'mistake', and continue the hunt.
Gee, I wonder why Ake doesn't wanna be friends.
Aaand, we're out of candy.
Time to restock.
Since I don't feel like doing this until the end of time, I decide to upgrade to the highest-grade candy we've got access to right now, which are gumdrops. They also happen to be really expensive, at $1.20 dollars. Let's hope we get this Ake before our cash runs out. (For reference, we've got a total of 9 bucks right now.)
2 Battles later. Another. Snotsolong.
Why must you hate me so, Level 5?
We spend more cash, on candy, go back, repeat the process.
Another one.
Fuck this, I'll just skip to when we get the damn Ake.
See you in a bit!
Holy fuck, finally.
We befriend Ake two encounters later.
I name him 'picky', because fuck, that took a while.
Time to finish this quest!
We return, Mr. Zen gives us some weights to fuse Ake with, and we make...
Payn.
A rather apt description of this whole ordeal.
Aaaand, he's C-Rank.
So, we can't even use him.
Payn indeed.
Next quest!
We move on to the community center, where we find a guy called Mr. Stickler, who wants to explain the "official rules" to us.
There he is!
So, yeah. This is the official introduction to PvP.
Since Yokai Watch 2's PvP is long dead, we're playing on an emulator, and also E-Rank yokai suck, this isn't of much consequence to us. Still, gotta do the quest to progress.
He explains the rules to us, has us make a PvP team, and then we do a quick test-fight.
We, of course, absolutely annihilate the guy, because we're just that good.
With that, we finish the quest.
Aaaand, look at that.
We can finally upgade our yokai watch and continue the story!
So, we return back to Timers & More, where we can finally upgrade the Watch!
Except this is Yokai Watch.
So, we first have to fetch Mr. Goodsight some Herbal Leaves for his herbal tea.
Somehow, this is essential to getting our watch upgraded.
So, we go to the medicine store, get the herbs, and we're done!
Huh. That easy?
This isn't the yokai watch I know.
Where's the over-complicated fetch quests?
Oh.
Of course.
Now we gotta find the guys screwdriver.
At least that seems essential to repairing our watch.
So, we go to shoppers row.
There we go, great.
Alright, so now we're finally done!
Well. Not quite...
We get ambushed by demons the moment we leave the store.
Sure.
At this point I'm entirely unsuprised.
This is terror time.
It's an event that can happen occasionally when you're out at night.
Basically, you gotta avoid Gargaros, this big demon, and take the exit door.
At the end of the event, you get rewards based on how many oni orbs you collect during it. Which, well, they're collectibles that are just randomly scattered about.
I collected 5.
Why am I telling you this?
Well, because somehow, I managed to get marbled beef as a reward from this event.
Marbled beef is the most expensive meat food item. Meat is one of the most expensive food types in the game. We just got $180 worth of beef. Before this, we had a grand total of five dollars.
Anyways, this is completely irellevant and almost entirely useless to us. We don't need high-ranked food items to befriend e-ranks, so we don't need tons of money. Moving on!
Finally, we can go back to timers & more.
And...
Mr. Goodsight finally agrees to repair the damn watch.
One cutscene later, and...
Finally, holy shit.
We can now go back to our school, and figure out what that scary shadow was about!
Yeah, we were going to do that, remember? 1500 words ago?
Surely you've been taking notes, right?
So yeah, let's get started - time to fight that boss!
So, we go inside the school, and there's strange ominous fog.
Surely this will only bode well for the future.
Aaaaand, there's a giant skeleton rolling gacha capsules.
So, yeah. The trick here is to just avoid these capsules that roll you all the way back to the entrance of the current floor, using the classrooms (which occasionally contain hostile yokai) as cover, and climb up to the rooftop.
We do that.
What, did you expect and in-depth description of the classrooms interior design?
Oh, right. We also befriend this guy.
"If I was your teacher, you'd be my pet"?
Sorry Mynimo, I'm already taken.
Anyways, we call him, uh...
'Nobody'. Sure. The odyssey and all that. Get it?
Anyways, there we go, we're on the rooftop now!
Oh, look at that!
The problem was a giant gambling skeleton!
Naturally.
So, the thing with this fight is basically this:
Gutsy bones attacks you, and ocassionally turns the crank on the gacha machine, which releases a random effect.
In order to deal max damage, you target the bandage, destroy it, and then attack the heart for crits. Fairly simple!
Alright, let's see if this is challenging at all.
It should still be designed with E-Ranks in mind? We only just upgraded our watch after all.
Yep, its a cakewalk.
Also, i forgot that you can counter Gutsy Bones attacks, so its pretty possible to do this fight without even giving him a turn to attack.
Skeleton defeated, day saved!
Now, cut to a day later, and apparently we gotta run some errands.
While doing so, we come across an interesting rumor...
Yup, seems to be the real deal.
That was fast.
Aaaand, apparently it's the fault of this fat cat.
Huh.
Also it made our head big.
But then!
The cat starts talking.
And it reveals that, apparently, it's been looking for us.
There's a terrible crisis happening right now, and it needs our help!
Plot is happening!
Apparently, we gotta go to Harrisville for that though.
Yep, we're finally leaving Springdale!
To ensure this, the cat hypnotizes us, and makes us forget the encounter.
Not very polite, but oh well. Show must go on, i suppose.
So, due to this, we suddenly have the inexplicable desire to visit our grandma!
Who lives in Harrisville!
Convenient.
Aaaand, that's where we're gonna call it for today!
Stop by next time when the gang will break the space-time continuum and meet the abstract concept of small-town tourism!