Update: The Monster Hunter x Ninjala collab is now live. As detailed below, it features new themed Avatar Costumes based on armour from the game, special emotes for grilling monster meat and sharpening your weapon, and Gum Utsusemi that lets you transform into a Palamute or a Palico.
Original Article (Thu 8th Apr, 2021 13:00 BST): GungHo's online arena brawler Ninjala launched in June last year as a free-to-play Switch exclusive and has been steadily building a solid fanbase in the months since. Back in January, GungHo celebrated six million downloads, so it's definitely doing something right. Across its five seasons (so far), the game has had several 'collabs' — limited-time crossovers with other game series — and the latest collaboration brings Monster Hunter Rise-themed avatars, items and more to the game.
Scheduled to begin at 7pm PT on 27th April, the collaboration will run for a month until 6:59 PT on 26th May, the developers put out a tweet as well as one of their regular developer diary videos which gives the full rundown of the themed items featured (see below).
Players will be able to don Monster Hunter Rise-themed armour, crack out Monster Hunter emotes (including "BBQ Success", "BBQ Fail" and the everyone's favourite "Weapon Sharpening"), and also get their hands on an IPPON decoration, stickers and assorted in-game goodies.
The juiciest of these collab items — the armour 'styles' — will be tied to a new feature: the onimously named 'Collab Gacha', a Gumball Machine that will presumably introduce an element of chance into which style you end up with.
Quite how expensive this collab will get for Monster Hunter fans is a little unclear at the moment. Previous Ninjala collabs featured the Puzzles & Dragons series and — perhaps most significantly — Sonic the Hedgehog and pals. That last one came with some truly eye-watering prices if you wanted the cosmetic Sonic skins — the amount of Jala (Ninjala's in-game currency) needed to grab all three available skins came to a whopping £48. Gulp!
We can but hope that this new gear is a little more affordable, but that seems unlikely, no? That word 'gacha' usually means the wallet is in for a beating.
Let us know if you're down for this Mon Hun collab (man, it just ain't fashionable to finish words these days). And if you've got no idea what this Ninjala thing is, our review might be of use.
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Well Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me!
They look cute.
But unfortunately i still don't have the game.
Welp looks like I'm jumping back in again.
Just for this event I will give it another try, I played it when it first came out it and it was so bare bones back then, I think it had like two maps lol
Does anyone know if its improved a lot? Loads more to do etc?
I tried this but just couldn’t get into it.
Now I'm tempted to give a try
Does this finally have more than 2 maps now?
@UltimateOtaku91 @NinjaWaddleDee there's 5 main maps now and sometimes they add maps for specific LTMs which happen during weekends. Also they introduced new weapons and perks since. They also give out free in game currency every now and then just by logging in. I do jump into it from time to time but played the most at around season 2 and 3. It's an alright game for me.
is this game worth downloading
@path4smash sounds cool. I enjoyed the gameplay in the beginning, so maybe I'll re-download it.
After finding about the BS that was the Sonic the Hedgehog collab, I am done with this game! 💢
Also I really hate the whole limited time / limited release concept, its such a scummy business move... 😠
I love Ninjala, but I don't really care about Monster Hunter. Still, this'll be great for those who are into it!
this was such a weird but welcome collab lol. and for anyone wondering theyve added more maps, weapons, and equipment over the past 4 seasons. they literally just add more every season so anytime is a good time to try it out. they even have an in depth tutorial finally
So if Nijala gets a monster hunter rise crossover I wonder what Rise will get from Nijala. since it's a rise crossover it makes me think its a tradsie. I don't know anything about Nijala but is there anything that could switch over to Monster Hunter?
@NintendoCopium maybe. give it a try and play at least 5 games and just see if you can stick with it. I played it but never got back to it
This is probably the smartest collab that Ninjala has done to date. I mean you take a game has been super successful and sold millions at this point, and then put it in your own game.
First, it was having the Rocket League-esque mode as a Featured Battle, and now this. 🤔
If they continue to do stuff like this, Ninjala will start to become known in the gaming community.
@dartmonkey
THANK YOU SO MUCH for writing this article, I really appreciate it. You even updated it to let people know that it’s available. I know you guys usually do that, but I haven’t seen that done with Ninjala that often if at all.
is it wrong that im so into monster hunter that i will get back on ninjala for this event?
I don't like MH enough but that Rathalos skin looks cool.
@GetontheStiix
No, not at all. If this collab (or any other collab, LTM, or anything else special that Ninjala does) gets you back into Ninjala, that’s awesome.
I hope other people have the same reaction that you do, regarding this collab. 🤔
I wonder what @TimeVolt and @JaxonH think of this collab. 🤔
Hey @dartmonkey, do you or anyone else @NintendoLife play Ninjala a lot, or are really into it? Sorry to bug you by tagging you again, but this a question that I’ve had for a while now. 🤔
@SM3DASislit
I think it's an amazing collaboration. I love the Rathalos armor set and steak cooking animations, and the fact the jingle plays and everything, and you can even mistime it and burn the meat like in MH.
I'm not sure if it's enough to persuade me to play the game, just because it's multi-player only and I tend to stick to single player games. If it were a single player game I'd probably already have bought it just for this.
@SM3DASislit Hey, no worries. Nope, it’s not one that I’ve played myself and I don’t think anyone here really kept up with it post-launch — it seems to be doing well, though. So many games!
@Chibi_Manny I'm not contesting you on that first point, but limited releases in free-to-play games are a reality, you can't exactly fault a game company for not having collab items forever, there are 2 companies that have their fingers in the pie, and it takes money to license things, yes it is playing into FOMO, but its understandable, and not something you should shame a company for. Unless you already hate them, in which case carry on.
@SM3DASislit Its good. Not exactly my cup of tea for the emotes and utsusemis, but the outfits are definitely cool, though I'm a FtP player and already made a big purchase this season, so I'm not taking chances with the gacha, I'm not that desperate. The collab is definitely a smart one, what with the relevancy of monster hunter rise, but people might get turned off by the gacha aspect. Also I kinda wish that they used gacha tokens for the collab gachas as well, because I haven't used any of them, so I'd have a pretty good chance of getting the 1 or 2 outfits I wanted right then and there, though thats just a wish.
For calculating gacha rates, I believe the rate of getting an outfit is 5%, so using the benchmark of 1800 Jala, pouring the same amount of money into it would get you a 37% chance of getting the outfit, alongside 81 weapon skins, it would take only 1200 Jala to have a 25% chance, and 2800 for an over 50% chance.
Chart I used here: https://www.quora.com/If-there-s-a-5-chance-of-something-how-many-times-would-you-need-to-do-it-before-it-would-happen
Sorry for the late responses guys, I've just been pretty busy recently.
@JaxonH
I'm glad you think it's an awesome collab. I was even thinking, "I'm kind of surprised that JaxonH hasn't responded to this yet", so that's why I tagged you.
I mean it has a separate Story Mode, it's $10 per Chapter, but they have had a sale on them a few times, so I'm sure they will have it on sale again sometime in the (somewhat) near future.
@dartmonkey
Okay, thanks for letting me know. That would probably explain why there was a bit of a Ninjala article drought on NintendoLife even though there were articles on other websites and the official Ninjala website.
I hope you guys keep on writing Ninjala articles, even if it isn't very popular with the users on here.
I hope I'm not being too blunt, or rude.
@TimeVolt
Okay, thanks for letting me know. Yeah, I haven't used the gacha feature either. It definitely is the smartest collab that they have ever done. I believe that you can also find the gacha rates in the Gumball Machine area in Ninjala. I think you just have to go to either the "Info" or "Details" part of the Gumball Machine you want to use.
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