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Monster Hunter World executive director Kaname Fujioka has said that he doesn't mind games that take after Monster Hunter World, like Dauntless.
In an interview with Polygon, Fujioka said, 'I’m perfectly happy and proud to feel that if our game has gotten big enough that people are taking inspiration from it and making their own title.'
Fujioka then went on to describe the numerous copycat games that cropped up on the PSP, before the Monster Hunter series was as big in the West as it is now. In the past when Monster Hunter got big on PSP in Japan for example, Monster Hunter-like games started cropping up on PSP in Japan, but maybe they weren’t as known in the West,' he said.
Fujioka then went on to say that he still believes that's happening, saying, 'We’ve always had people take inspiration from us and use that as the basis for their own creations. I think that that’s continuing with Monster Hunter: World era of the series.'
Fujioka also mentioned Dauntless specifically, which is a free-to-play game that released on May 21. 'I mean, we are creators and we are influenced by all the games we’ve played,' he said. 'It’s definitely not something I feel bad or angry about to see this kind of thing happening. It’s more proof that Monster Hunter: World has gone global, since a game like Dauntless is a global game.'
Check out the VideoGamer review for Monster Hunter World here; it's a really, really good video game.
