Hey do you know what yokai watch is? If you do, what yokai would I be??
The "main" character of "Yokai Watch," like the characters of all Pokemon games, isn't really you, but rather the player's protagonist – a young boy. The "character" that represents the player and the boy is referred to as "Sora" and it's called "Yokai Watch" because it's like a Pokemon adventure with the boy.
There is a YOI-style storyline about the game, but it's not the main point and doesn't have a big impact on the gameplay and story – it just serves as a justification for the premise of the game. (The backstory of the game is set in the 80s-90s, which I think is the time period of the most recent of the anime series. The game's backstory takes place in a universe where magical creatures called "Yokai" existed, but they've now all been driven to extinction by a boy with a special ability that can "see" and "control" YOKAI – this ability is called "Rei," and she's the boy's girlfriend, whom he sees in his dreams.)
What you'll find out as the story unfolds is that Sora is a member of one of the "classes" of YOKAI, and one of your other YOKAI adventures is to go "find" and "capture" a YOKAI, and so far you have been "enabling" a YOKAI to go off and kill/capture itself, to help Sora capture it.
There are several "classes" of YOKAI, which are split up into several sub-classes (called "families"). So far you have "normal" YOKAI and "spirit" YOKAI (both "class" names), and it's hinted in the story that a major "class" of YOKAI is "gods" or "demigods." There's a certain amount of freedom in terms of which YOKAI you will be able to "work with" and "catch" and the like, as well as who you can choose to "bring along" to the new adventures, since only "one member of each family" from each "class" will be able to be captured by Sora, so you'll have to decide which "class" of YOKAI is "worth it" for you.
The gameplay itself is similar to all the rest of the Pokemon games – you travel to different "locations" on the map to do various "dailies" (like capturing a YOKAI) and level up your Pokemon (there are multiple "types," but they don't really have any impact on the gameplay).
As of the latest anime episode, the protagonist hasn't "become" a YOKAI or the like – she just has the ability to see/control YOKAI by seeing and controlling YOKAI in the form of "dreams" that are called "Reis." She "watches" and "enables" the dream-YOKAI to help you save the day.
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