monster hunter stories: the legend of zelda

Capcom doesn't make you wait for these battles to get good. Though a few missions revolve around hunting weaker grunt creatures, which can be killed in a few hits, most of your hunts revolve around boss battles that start out lasting roughly 12-15 minutes. Behold: Monster Hunter Rise, the series' best game yet and likely the tipping point for anyone who has yet to sharpen their blade on its whetstones. These days, Western gamers are finally embracing a powerful, portable console in droves, and Capcom has responded in unbelievable fashion. As a result, uptake in the West exploded, and MHW became Capcom's biggest-selling video game of all time.

(I'm not sure I ever saw four people in the States playing a PSP in public, let alone doing so in a closely huddled group.) It wasn't until the series landed on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Windows in 2018 with Monster Hunter World that Capcom corrected some key series stumbles, mainly mid-mission loading times and online multiplayer.

I've always found that peculiar, because as a bullet-point list, MH sounds like the ultimate in hardcore Western gamer catnip: deliberate slow-and-powerful combat ( Dark Souls), teaming up with friends for epic PvE battles to amass loot ( Diablo), and deliriously tough and crazy-looking monsters and insane weapon variety to match ( Borderlands).īut the series mostly thrived in Japan on PSP-in a nation much better poised to support 'local wireless co-op adventuring,' one of the PSP's flagship features. Since its 2004 launch on PlayStation 2, the Monster Hunter series has stomped in bold-yet-unsteady fashion-like one of its titular beasts-toward legitimacy in the West. Platform: Nintendo Switch (coming 'early 2022' to PC)

Monster hunter stories: the legend of zelda