It’s amazing … A Japanese company is giving employees the day off for a new holiday ‘Monster Hunter Rise Launch Day’ because so many employees were planning to take the day off anyway.
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– Stealth (@ Stealth40k) March 23, 2021
The Huffington Post Japan spoke by telephone to Hiyama-san, where they said that several employees had already requested on the 26th holiday so that they could play the new Monster Hunter game, which led to them having an official holiday that day. make. Obviously, Mark-On employees were grateful for the decision and many Monster Hunter fans on Twitter wished their own companies would implement a similar policy.
The Monster Hunter series is incredibly successful in Japan, with each new version receiving a lot of attention. This is not a similar situation to that of Dragon Quest, which traditionally sees so much interest on launch days that Square has started releasing new entries on Saturdays to prevent children from skipping school – a fact that has become its own urban myth.
Here’s our last preview of Monster Hunter Rise before the game launches later this week. If you just can not wait, here are 24 things you need to know about the game that can help you prepare before you go digging and start hunting on Friday.
Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.