<Tr> <Th> Genre (s) </Th> <Td> Role - playing </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Mode (s) </Th> <Td> Single - player, multiplayer </Td> </Tr> <P> Yo - kai Watch 2: Bony Spirits and Yo - kai Watch 2: Fleshy Souls, released in Japan as Yo - kai Watch 2: Ganso (Japanese: 妖怪 ウォッチ 2 元祖, Hepburn: Yōkai Wotchi 2 Ganso) and Yo - kai Watch 2: Honke (妖怪 ウォッチ 2 本家, Yōkai Wotchi 2 Honke) are a pair of role - playing video games developed and published by Level - 5 in Japan and Nintendo internationally for the Nintendo 3DS . The games are a sequel to 2013's Yo - kai Watch, and were released in July 2014 in Japan, and in North America and Australia in late 2016, and in Europe in 2017 . Much like their predecessor, the games put players in an open world, befriending and battling various yōkai; ghosts and apparitions originating in Japanese folklore, that cause mischief in daily life . In Yo - kai Watch 2, the memories of the protagonists Nathan "Nate" Adams and Katie Forester are erased when the Yo - kai Watch itself taken away, leaving them with no recollection of their past adventures . However, they soon stumbles across the Yo - kai butler Whisper once again, and their adventures resume . </P> <P> Developed in the wake of the first game's rising popularity, Yo - kai Watch 2 became one of the most highly anticipated releases in Japan in 2014 . Released to positive critical reception and an overwhelmingly successful commercial response, the games easily became two of the best - selling games on the Nintendo 3DS, boosted by the established popularity of the Yo - kai Watch anime series and various merchandising efforts . By February 2015, the games had sold an accumulative 3.1 million copies . A third version of the game, Yo - kai Watch 2: Shin'uchi, was released in December 2014, which further expanded upon the changes introduced in the original Ganso and Honke versions of the game . By June 2015, Shinuchi had sold over 2.6 million copies . The game was released in English regions as Yo - kai Watch 2: Psychic Specters on September 29, 2017 . </P>

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