It’s time to start grinding FATEs and earning minions as the Final Fantasy XIV x Yo-kai Watch collaboration returns to the game. While FFXIV fans are looking forward to the launch of the newest expansion, Dawntrail, in July, Square Enix is ensuring the final few months of Endwalker are absolutely packed with events.
Announced during the 80th Letter from the Producer, the Yo-kai Watch event returns for the first time since August 2020 and will continue until the 48-hour pre-Dawntrail release maintenance.
Yo-kai Watch, a highly popular media franchise in Japan, centers around monsters from Japanese mythology, albeit in a more cute and cuddly form. In this exciting collaboration, FFXIV players are given a chance to collect a series of weapons associated with some of the iconic Yo-kai Watch characters, as well as 17 minions and three mounts. To do this, players must equip a Yo-kai Watch accessory and earn Yo-kai Medals, which they can trade for various rewards.
The Yo-kai Watch: Gather One, Gather All! crossover event first ran in 2016 and was repeated again in 2017 and 2020. The 2020 iteration updated the event to include items for the Gunbreaker and Dancer jobs that were introduced in Shadowbringers after the initial Yo-kai Watch crossover had long ended. At the time of writing, it's unknown if the 2024 edition will add new weapons and minions for the Reaper and Sage jobs added in Endwalker.
Details and a full event page for the Yo-kai Watch collaboration have yet to be released, but the Yo-kai Watch crossover is one of many parts of a packed few weeks of collaboration events in FFXIV leading into Dawntrail's launch.
From May until Dawntrail’s release in July, the game will see the return of the Moogle Tomestone event, the Make It Rain Campaign, and the Dragon Quest collaboration. Endwalker’s patch cycle may be coming to a close, but it’s going out with a bang.
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