History VideoGame / YokaiWatchBlasters

* BonusBoss: A challenging optional boss can be fought after placing 1,000 Insignias on the statues in the YBA Hall, but which boss you face depends on your game version. ''Red Cat Corps'' players can fight [[spoiler:Swirlious Omai]], while ''White Dog Squad'' players can fight [[spoiler:Red Paws]].

* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: ''Yo-kai Watch Busters'' had to be changed to ''Yo-kai Watch Blasters'' in the localized version in order to avoid copyright issues with Creaotr/SonyPictures regarding the ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' franchise. Whismellowman was also redesigned to avoid looking too similar to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, as well as having his name changed to Whisped Cream. The Blaster forms of Jibanyan and Komasan were also altered, looking less like jumpsuits.

* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: ''Yo-kai Watch Busters'' had to be changed to ''Yo-kai Watch Blasters'' in the localized version in order to avoid copyright issues with the ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' franchise. Whismellowman was also redesigned to avoid looking too similar to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, as well as having his name changed to Whisped Cream. The Blaster forms of Jibanyan and Komasan were also altered, looking less like jumpsuits.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: With cheat codes to spam soultimates, certain soultimates can stun lock bosses. You'd think this would mean you'd be able to milk running bosses between battles for oni orbs but they actually ''teleport'' after a minute or so. This however, is subverted in the fact that they however failed to take into account people using cheats to get infinite oni orbs.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: With cheat codes to spam soultimates, certain soultimates can stun lock bosses. You'd think this would mean you'd be able to milk running bosses between battles for oni orbs but they actually ''teleport'' after a minute or so. This is however subverted in the fact that they however failed to take into account people using cheats to get infinite oni orbs.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: With cheat codes to spam soultimates, certain soultimates can stun lock bosses. You'd think this would mean you'd be able to milk running bosses between battles for oni orbs but they actually ''teleport'' after a minute or so.
** They however failed to take into account people using cheats to get infinite oni orbs.

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On top of the original two games, there's the arcade-exclusive ''Yo-kai Watch Busters: Iron Oni Army'' and the sequel games ''Yo-kai Watch Busters 2: Secret Treasure of the Legendary Banbarayar'' (which comes in ''Sword'' and ''Magnum''). ''Yo-kai Watch Busters 2'' was outsourced to an outside team and it doesn't have a version due to poor sales.

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: Subverted for the first time in the games. The English dub scraps Swampy Marsh's original themes for direct translations of the Japanese themes.

* VersionExclusiveContent: ''Red Cat Corps'' and ''White Dog Squad'' feature several different yo-kai that are exclusive to each version (though the games can be traded with). There are also bosses exclusive to each version as well.

* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: ''Yo-kai Watch Busters'' had to be changed to ''Yo-kai Watch Blasters'' in the localized version in order to avoid copyright issues with the ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'' franchise. Whismellowman was also redesigned to avoid looking too similar to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, as well as having his name changed to Whisped Cream. The Blaster forms of Jibanyan and Komasan were also altered, looking less like jumpsuits.

* WholePlotReference: As the Japanese title implies, the game is heavily inspired by the ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' series,

* VoiceGrunting: The characters have words short and short sentences that they exclaim during text.

** Like the main games, they're repeating this success with the ''Yo-Kai Watch Blasters'' spin-off, with various Yo-Kai exclusive to either game version or Yo-Kai you can only get in the games if you link up with any of the three editions of ''Yo-Kai Watch 2''. ''Blasters'' has a third edition but it is simply be a massive free update to the existing games, with a special bonus if the player bought both previous editions.

* EarlyBirdCameo: In Japan, ''Busters'' was [=USApyon=]'s first appearance. He was meant to appear in ''Yo-kai Watch 3'' first, with just a cameo in ''Busters'', but ''3'' was delayed.

* VersionExclusiveContent: ''Red Cat Corps'' and ''White Dog Squad'' feature several different yo-kai that are exclusive to each version (though the games can be traded with).

''Yo-kai Watch Blasters'' (''Yo-kai Watch Busters'' in Japan) are a spinoff of the ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch'' series. Playable on the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS, the original two games came out in Japan in 2015 but were released internationally in 2018.

On top of the original two games, there's the arcade-exclusive '''Yo-kai Watch Busters: Iron Oni Army'' and the sequel games ''Yo-kai Watch Busters 2: Secret Treasure of the Legendary Banbarayar'' (which comes in ''Sword'' and ''Magnum''). ''Yo-kai Watch Busters 2'' was outsourced to an outside team and it doesn't have a version due to poor sales.

* ForeignThemeSong: Subverted for the first time in the games. The English dub scraps Swampy Marsh's original themes for direct translations of the Japanese themes.