Within a couple of hours you'll be on a bona fide hunt, and additional tricks you need to learn will be taught to you along your journey. Previous games in the series have involved hour after hour of dull tutorials, and that's pretty much gone with MH4U. The barrier to Monster Hunter entry used to be pretty high, and to developer Capcom's credit, a lot of work has been done to fix that.
This particular incarnation was released there last October, and it's now available in the US and Europe for the first time. MH4U is an expanded version of Monster Hunter 4, which debuted in Japan way back in 2013. It's a third-person action RPG - think Dark Souls, but not so unforgiving, or Zelda, and way less forgiving. Despite being one of the biggest gaming franchises in Japan, its presence in Western markets has been extremely limited. If you're unfamiliar with what Monster Hunter is, or what's so Ultimate about this game, you shouldn't feel ashamed. So I decided to offer up 100 hours of my free time to see if I could learn to love Monster Hunter.
I use up the precious few vacation days I have crawling through Persona Q's dungeons or leveling up familiars. I've always felt like I should be into the series, though. Sure, I'd played an older Monster Hunter on the Wii a few years back, but I gave up 15 hours in, shortly after the grueling tutorials ended. The subject: "Review Code - Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for 3DS." The email: "Assuming you want this?" I didn't. It was roughly two months ago that I received a midnight email from our gaming editor Ben Gilbert.
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