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Bringing the Monster Hunter franchise to the masses
- Beast Hunter Now has actually been an enormous hit with over 15m downloads
- Can modifications to mechanics like Hunt-a-thons keep the momentum going?
- And what’s next in shop for Niantic’s brand-new hit video game?
Beast Hunter Now, Niantic’s AR spin-off of the very popular Monster Hunter franchise, has actually exceeded 15 million downloads worldwide. Entrusting gamers with searching down and slaying a substantial bestiary’s worth of animals, Monster Hunter Now brings the franchise into the real life by overlaying your hunts onto genuine locations and having you look for their concealing locations by moving around in reality.
Beast Hunter was a significant title for the early PlayStation and PSP consoles, before actually striking its stride and increasing to mainstream prominence with the release of Monster Hunter World and later on Rise. Beast Hunter Now on the other hand takes the exact same formula that made Niantic’s Pokemon Go effective, letting gamers collaborate to hound well-known faces(?) from the franchise.
The Wild Hunt
Whether AR video games can be effective is a concern that’s been sneaking onto individuals’s lips just recently. Pokemon Go has actually stayed rather fixed in regards to development, and lots of modifications to mechanics like avatars have actually had gamers whining. While Niantic appeared to be fumbling for a brand-new hit for a while, they look to have actually discovered it with Monster Hunter Now.
At over 15m downloads in under 6 months, the video game has actually made modifications to essential mechanics like hunt-a-thons to much better aid gamers link. And while it might not have the broad appeal that franchises like Pokemon have actually had, it appears that Monster Hunter Now has actually gotten in touch with a substantial audience that enjoys this somewhat less animal-friendly take on animal ‘gathering’.
To commemorate, the group at Niantic have actually likewise launched a special advertising code [MHNOW15M] to be redeemed at the main Monster Hunter Now webstore.
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Iwan Morris
Iwan is a Cardiff-based freelance author, who signed up with the Pocket Gamer Biz website fresh-faced from University before transferring to the Pocketgamer.com editorial group in November of 2023.