
You can even ride atop and attack the monster for as long as it will let you come back down to earth. You can attack vertically by climbing walls, and even in mid-air for the first time in a North American release.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate sees a drastic step forward in the combat system, making your characters far more dynamic than they ever were. Hundreds of quests abound for starters, and you could easily suck up dozens of hours without blinking an eye. Once you are into it, get ready to be immersed rather quickly. Capcom decided to try out something new this time and have actually integrated some of the tutorial base into the game itself which should help ease new gamers into the game’s engine much easier.
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While being a Action-RPG series at its core, it’s frustrated curious gamers in the past with its rich, yet complex combat and strategic systems. The Monster Hunter series, while captivating, can be a bit difficult to jump into.

With 98 monsters overall (both new and returning,) this is the largest game by far, and despite it being on a handheld console, the sheer size of this game seems bigger than one little cartridge could hope to hold. MH4U takes things much further than past titles. Defeating them allows you to harvest parts to build better gear and weaponry to take on even more monsters. The Monster Hunter series sees you roaming the world in search of monsters. The game has already spawned a sold out console (which I won’t even link since it’s long gone) and the first wave of the game itself has sold out already.Ĭonsole Availability: Nintendo 3DS (Optimized with New Nintendo 3DS) So popular was this release, in fact, that my longtime friend and Twitch Monster Hunter 4 streamer “Quenchiest” decided to do a 24 hour marathon right at release, and had over 340,000 views and nearly 12,000 followers. Needless to say that when Nintendo was looking for titles to help launch the New Nintendo 3DS, this one definitely had to come to the top of the list. The original Japanese release of Monster Hunter 4 (which never made it here to North America) sold nearly 2 million copies alone within the first 48 hours of release alone, and when the Ultimate Edition (which I’ll refer to as MH4U from now on) was released, it too peaked over that mark.

With nearly 30 million units sold to date, the Monster Hunter series is gaining momentum and gaining it at a rapid rate.
