Ladies and Jim, gentlemen.

This is GamerTag Radio with your host, Danny Pena, Paris Lili, and Peter Toledo.

Hello, this is Kento from Niantik, Tokyo Studio Team, and I'm running marketing for the Monster Hunter now.

Yeah, I'm a huge fan of the Monster Hunter series.

So what made you guys decide to make this?

Because for mobile, because this is a very different game than the actual series from

consoles and PC, right?

Yeah.

So at Niantic, we always think about how to bring people outside and how to bring these people

together and building communities.

So we always think about what are the franchise that could fit to this real world gaming

idea.

Right?

So in the real world, what we value is that the people gathering socially together and also

this sense of exploration.

So in the Monster Hunter original franchise, you also have to explore the world and collect

materials and sometimes meet the new monsters and beat them, slay them together with

your friends.

So that's like exploration, right?

So we thought that it would be great if you can bring this franchise to the real world

because it's going to be even more fun. Because the world is super, super fun.

Right?

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