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For veterans, this means getting to high-level play is even quicker, and there are 25 more beasts to bring down here, alongside that sorely missed portable online play.Īs good as it all feels, there is one potential problem depending on how Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate is played. Better equipment comes after just two or three quests, a stark contrast to the six hours it’s taken in the past. Building the gear to do so, and finding players to join up with online (something you couldn’t do in Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate on 3DS), is streamlined, though. Bringing down an enormous, dragon-like Gypceros in the Sunken Hollow still takes a long, long time even with a crew of hunters. In that regard the game is still as demanding as ever. Climbing up cliff faces, getting up from a knock down, and never having to worry about cumbersome swimming everything feels dextrous and speedy in Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, which in turn makes it easier to adjust to the game’s rhythm of taking quests, gathering goods, making new gear, and slaying big monsters. Marching out into the wild to kill your first of many giant Jaggis, training in each of a baker’s dozen of weapon types, the control improvements are immediately noticeable.

Everything you need to know or do is more immediately accessible and understandable. Cooks that can fix you up a buffing meal, quest-giving hunters guild attendants, and blacksmiths ready to build your gear sit in plain sight when you arrive in town, all on a single screen. Rather than wait to learn about Feylne (those little cat dudes) companions, you design yours from the outset. You make a hunter of your very own using modest character customization tools, and that hunter is then welcomed into a strange new place where they meet eccentric locals on their way to becoming a respected, renowned slayer of beasts.Įvery bit of Monster Hunter 4 brings you into its deeply complex world faster and smoother than it has before. On the surface, Monster Hunter 4 starts out in much the same way as Monster Hunter 3. More inviting to new players than the revised Monster Hunter 3 that hit Wii U and 3DS in 2013, far more transparent and swift than Monster Hunter Freedom Unite on PlayStation Portable, there’s a fluid, welcoming grace that elevates what otherwise feels very familiar. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, however, is the most hospitable hunt to date. No little fairy asking you to listen, the depth of the adventure is your responsibility. And while Monster Hunter has always had a playful sense of humor (little cat dudes!) and a warming hominess (roasting your own meat over a fire), it leaves you largely on your own to discover those pleasures. Not finding the sword, but making a better sword out of the bones of a behemoth you brought down yourself. Monster Hunter’s quests are not about a lone figure’s destiny, they’re about personal growth and cooperation with other real people. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate is the most hospitable hunt to date.

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Capcom’s success came from how the series eschews the hospitality and guiding hand Haruhana was so quick to note in Ocarina of Time. Make no mistake: Monster Hunter the series is a child of Ocarina. And hospitality, never one of the series’ strengths, is precisely what makes Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate so deeply appealing on Nintendo 3DS.Īn overwhelming sense of fantasy world completeness, love of exploring the outdoors, muscular violence focused largely on circling, striking, and chasing after creatures far bigger than yourself while collecting seeds and other spoils of nature in deserts, forests, and lake beds.

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And when players go into a room, there’s a roughness in the way it attacks with its full strength.” The mitochondrial eve of 3D action role-playing games, Ocarina of Time is in many ways the genetic predecessor of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate. “I felt as if someone were saying, “Welcome!” each time I entered a room. “I sensed an immense amount of hospitality,” said Yoshiki Haruhana, character and animation modeler, of his game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time after playing it for the first time in many years.

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Fitbit Versa 3Ĭircle Pad Pro or the New Nintendo 3DS are a must for controlling the game comfortably.

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