I’m pretty sure I saw a Nerscylla in there… That’s like a big spider that wears other dead monsters on its back as armor. But on that less powerful hardware, it’s easier to get away with the low-resolution graphics that let the series’ deep bench run rampant. Monster Hunter Rise hasn’t been announced for anything but Nintendo Switch yet.
If I’m lucky, it will be exactly the sort of fully fledged Monster Hunter game I’ve wanted since 2018: one with the breadth and depth of older games, plus the smart changes made for modern sensibilities. In other words: it seems like a step forward, not a completely different style of game.Īll of which is to say this seems like a fully fledged Monster Hunter. It seems like a new wrinkle to combat in the same vein as the Clutch Claw from Iceborne, or the Hunter Arts and Styles from Generations and Generations Ultimate. More than that, though, you can incorporate this organic grappling hook into your arsenal. A new feature called the Wirebug lets players Spider-Man around the map and climb mountains, Breath of the Wild style. But that doesn’t seem like the case, either. My chief concern was that Rise would actually be “Monster Hunter Lite.” The lack of a number or the World branding had me picture a scaled-back spin-off. But it’s easy to glean some of the QoL that’s been retrofitted from MHW. The Direct dig into this sort of minutiae as much a nerd like me would like. Quality-of-life features - like consuming items on the move and more limited equipment durability - were also locked behind the big kid consoles. Generations Ultimate was built on the aching back of a 3DS game, Monster Hunter Generations, which still sported load times between locales in a single region. Though it also carried the baggage of even older tech. That’s how MHGU brought hundreds of monsters and their variants into a single game on Switch last year. Less definition usually means less expensive. Sick-Ass Fashion & Fatalis Make Now the Best Time to Play MHW.In MHW, Kulve Taroth Is Monster Hunting at Its Finest & Most Frustrating.The PlayStation 5 is Sold Out Everywhere the Day Before It Goes On Sale.
Yet the lower-fidelity graphics and wider variety of beasts leaned decidedly closer to the previous Monster Hunter generation than the PlayStation 4, Xbox, and PC game. The electric flying squirrel… thing… makes an appearance in the trailer, alongside “old school” opponent Arzuros. These features (or things very close to them) were all introduced in MHW and its Iceborne expansion. They can help you in combat, using things like umbrella shields. Except these pals are puppers called Palamutes. The video package mentioned things like seamless hunting grounds, turf wars, and riding animal companions. Nintendo promoted the “ Monster Hunter Direct,” which showed off Rise and its Pokemon-like cousin, Monster Hunter Stories 2. It seems very much like a true bridge between two different generations of lizard-lashing. And while it looks a lot like the older games in the series, it has as much in common with Monster Hunter World as the aged Nintendo iterations. It was hardly a secret that Capcom would announce a new Monster Hunter Switch game today, following in the footsteps of Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate before it.