Last night’s release of a Monster Hunter Rise demonstration appears to have crashed the Nintendo Switch eShop.
The trial variation of Capcom’s upcoming beastie basher was launched at midnight last night, following a Nintendo Direct loaded with juicy brand-new information about the video game.
Switch owners reported struggles attempting to download the demo overnight, and today the Switch eShop is currently unreachable in the UK. At the time of composing, attempting to link to the eShop brings up the following message:
“The server is currently going through upkeep. We apologise for the hassle. Please try once again later on.
“See the Nintendo Support site for more information on server status and upkeep schedules: support.nintendo.com/switch/error”
Quest, strolling gamers through the essentials of the brand-new grapple-like Wire Bug mechanic, plus a Wyvern Riding Training Quest, introducing a freshly announced brand-new function -allowing gamers to hook themselves onto the back of large monsters with iron silk and control their movement, even assaulting other creatures in battle.And once the fundamentals have been mastered, gamers can try some real monster
hunter. There’s a Beginner Quest, entrusting them with slaying a Great Izuchi, and an Intermediate mission, which sees the return of Monster Hunter Generation’s terrific bubble dragon, Mizutsune. These can be played either solo or co-op through local/online play. The demonstration is presently set to end on 31st January -ideally the eShop is back online by then
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Now down for maintenance.