Mixi has released a cooperative offshoot of Monster Strike, one of the highest-grossing games in Japan.
A funny situation is happening with Monster Strike right now. The stars – Supercell and ZeptoLab – borrow the root mechanics of the Japanese hit, which few people in the West know about.
An amazing thing?
To be honest, no.
To some extent, the story of Puzzle & Dragons repeats itself, which was the first in the world to earn more than $ 1 billion in the mobile games market, did not gain wide popularity outside of its native island (which does not prevent many Western developers from adopting its mechanics and solutions).
The comparison with “dragons” is appropriate here for another reason. Monster Strike is the number two country of the rising sun. On those days when the creation of GungHo has problems with servers or Puzzle & Dragons does not receive the expected update, it is the “monsters” that break out ahead (in the first place) “at the checkout.”
The release of a separate game on the Monster Strike line from such an angle is, of course, a big event.
And that’s exactly what happened last Sunday, April 26: a new product named Monster Stadium appeared on iOS and Android.
By the way, the company chose such an unusual time because of the desire to coincide the release with the start of a major Niconico Chokaigi event (7.5 million people visited it in two days last year), focused on geeks.
From the original, which, we recall, is a classic Asian buttler with a combat system vaguely resembling billiards, the game mainly differs in the presence of a cooperative synchronous multiplayer.
The excellent Smash Land from Supercell, for comparison, has an honest synchronous pvp multiplayer.
Anyway, we are sure that Monster Stadium will have no problems either in terms of downloads or in terms of cash… in the Japanese market.
A source: http://www.serkantoto.com
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