First shown to the public in January 2015, Monster Stadium (“Monsuto Stadium” in Japanese) is now ready for release.
Maker Mixi (2121) has announced that the spinoff title to Monster Strike, it’s mega hit action game, will be released in Japan on iOS and Android this Sunday (April 26).
The rather unusual date was chosen because Japan’s biggest homegrown video sharing platform Nico Nico is holding the Chokaigi 2015 this weekend, a large-scale, 2-day fan event where Mixi has a booth to show off its new game game to fans.
Monster Strike is a billion dollar game that Mixi is leaving untouched: while Monster Stadium connects to the original app (players can transfer monsters via a unified log-in), it will be a separate download.
The biggest change is that Monster Stadium will focus on player-vs-player battle while Monster Strike is largely a single-player game (in the questing part) with an innovative multi-player mode on top. In that mode, a team of players need to cooperate to kill computer-controlled monsters (not other people).
There will be no dramatic changes to the core game loop: it’s still the goal to enter a stage, kill monsters (together), level up, and repeat. But in Monster Stadium, up to four players must kill monsters faster than the other team inside an arena.
So while Monster Strike is turn-based and only offers a cooperative multi-player mode, this app will be time-based and only offer competitive multi-player mode.
This is the main flow of the game (translated by me):
While Monster Strike is available in English and other languages, Monster Stadium has so for been announced for the Japanese market only.
