Then you equip that stuff and go back to kill something else, or sometimes the same sort of thing again. Once you've successfully murdered or restrained something, you cut bits off it and make them into stuff. Then, you (usually) try to kill something. You kit up your hunter with potions, food, whetstones - any number of dozens of gewgaws, tchotchkes and baubles. It's worth mentioning here that I'm going to assume a rough working knowledge of the game before I go on - but if you need to know the basics, take a look at the sidebar below for the key concepts.įor the benefit of anyone who's never played a Monster Hunter game before, here's how it goes down. Thankfully, Monster Hunter is more Clooney than Wilderstein, and the new features add another charming wrinkle to its sparkling smile. The changes here are considerable, with deep ramifications for combat, and I feared that this might have been one facelift too many. So I approached Generations with some caution. Refreshing the mechanics without disturbing the series' perfect balance of difficulty, charm and achievement, MH4U's tinkering left me wondering whether there was anywhere left for the developers to go. Nonetheless, each iteration of the series manages to do just enough with its new lick of paint to keep me coming back for more - gilding that wonderful lily of the central gameplay loop with near-perfect filigree.įor me, Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate was the apex of the series so far, recovering perfectly from the misstep of Tri's clumsy underwater combat by adding dry-land verticality and the frenzied rodeo of monster mounting.
I must have sunk somewhere between 500 and 750 hours of finger-cramping killing and crafting into Capcom's series, and, although I'm not exactly a god-tier G-Rank player, I know my way around a Kut-Ku's cojones. Being a long-time fan and a three-time reviewer of Monster Hunter, I feel like I've seen it all.
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