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Monster Hunter Rise

The bottom line is that there are a few tiny punctual complaints that can be thrown at Monster Hunter Rise. In general, though, the balance of the changes executed by it leans far more to the positive than to the negative. Via its streamlining of various gameplay details, it ends up removing a lot of little annoying quirks that were more bothersome than challenging. Thanks to the beautiful flexibility it adds to hunters’ movement and arsenal, it produces the most thrilling and satisfying battles the saga has ever witnessed. And with a thick pile of progressively tough quests to be tackled, it gives players plenty of reasons to keep going for many hours. The conclusion is that, sure, Monster Hunter has been much harder and demanding in the past, but it is tough to make an argument that it has ever been this fun to play.

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Monster Hunter Stories

Monster Hunter Stories is a nice detour for a property that has spent its long life treading the same excellent ground with varying and usually high degrees of success. With its looks and monster-collecting ways, it is bound to attract a younger audience right into the grasp of its claws; some of the holes of its battle system, though, will leave plenty of room for frustration to sneak into the experience. If gamers are able to overcome that problem, however, what they will find is an enchanting world filled with content, featuring an adventure that can easily last for over thirty hours, hordes of sidequests, and the opportunity to take one’s scientifically assembled team of monsters online to face off against other riders. Monster Hunter Stories is not a total winner, but its quality could pave the way for improvements that may end up turning it into quite a gem, even if the core of its gameplay is derivative of both the line of games from which it originates and the unstoppable Pokemon franchise.

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Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

While many games will turn majestic ferocious enemies into ridiculous punching bags that helplessly stand at the mercy of the main character’s insurmountable power, Monster Hunter shifts the scale with mastery. Both sides of the skirmish could reasonably end up at the receiving size of a humiliating beat-down; the line between who is doing the hunting and who is being hunted is extremely thin. In other words, if we were inhabitants of an awesome world in which the monster hunter profession existed, then Capcom’s franchise would be a very precise simulator; a brutal and unforgiving test that has on the Nintendo 3DS’ Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate its most fine-tuned and complete version.

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Monstrous Grind

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate does precisely what is expected of a new installment in Capcom’s stellar franchise; it does not intend to change the minds of those who look at it as an overly demanding title centered around the incessant beating of gargantuan creatures. Instead, it adorns a well-established formula with new appendices that make it deeper, potentially more time-consuming, and – consequently – better.

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The Next Year Of The 3DS

2013 propelled the 3DS from a mildly interesting system to one that has a little bit to offer for every kind of gamer. It is now a handheld whose greatest games cover nearly all major gaming genres. At the same time, 2013 set some pretty lofty standards for the platform to reach, leaving 2014 in quite a complicated position.

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