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Imo it's the best game to enter the franchise, even today. It's sitting perfectly well between oldschool and newschool. If you like that game, good chances are you gonna like the older ones aswell as the newer ones. And when you start with 4U, playing the older games afterwards (like Freedom Unite for exemple) is a lot easier (easier to get into).
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By Jose Otero
Posted: Feb 10, 2015 8:00 am
After sinking 118 hours into its great predecessor in 2013, I wasn’t sure if Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate could hook me again. Yet, after 20 hours, I can’t stop playing. I want to fight more bosses, acquire more resources, and build incredible weapons and sets of armor. A new focus on making Monster Hunter a bit more accessible to new players hasn’t caused this juggernaut to miss a beat, whether playing the solo campaign or with a four-person hunting party in online multiplayer.
Monster Hunter is best described as a greatest-hits collection of boss encounters. Each beast has a unique fighting style, and uses animated tells (instead of ugly health bars or icons) to allow you to stay out of harm’s way and counter attack if you react quickly. The new lemur-like Kecha Wacha, for example, uses long arms to swing around stages and pop out to surprise unaware hunters. That fight is completely different from going up against the returning gorilla monster Congalala, which uses brute-strength attacks and can cut farts that prevent you from healing.
Beating those monsters rewards you with resources, which are then used to construct cool new weapons and armor to slay more monsters. It’s a fun loop that’s kept fresh by smoothly increasing challenge, and a huge variety of opposition and weapon and gear types. The only times that threaten to break the cycle are a few dull missions that send you to collect eggs, mushrooms, or other raw materials. Those aren’t the monsters I’m interested in hunting.
Most of these strengths I’ve mentioned are carried over from previous games in the series, but Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate changes things up by adding interesting vertical thinking to the already staggeringly deep combat system. These more agile hunters can easily vault up surfaces or scramble up walls with a few button presses. It encourages moves like running, leaping, and bringing down a satisfying mid-air chop on creatures that hang out near a ledge.
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Just when you think the fight is over in Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, the next challenger steps in and ups the level of competition for another satisfying round of combat and loot. Very few games can hook me in for 100 hours, but this installment adds enough new creatures, weapons, locations, and fighting moves to expand and reinvigorate my lust for ...
- Jose Otero
Sure, Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate isn't without some of the series' time-honoured idiosyncrasies, but it's the most streamlined and accessible game yet, and one that's hard not to truly obsess over ...
Feb 10, 2015 · Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate is quite the thing. For those who have played previous games in the series, the set-up is familiar. Within the stat-stuffed trappings of a JRPG, Monster Hunter lives up ...
Feb 13, 2015 · Negative Reviews. 100. Dealspwn. Mar 22, 2015. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate is utterly magnificent. Newfound vertical freedom, extraordinary new monsters and native 3DS multiplayer makes for the best game in the series to date, coupled with a much more compelling storyline and some killer new features. Read More.
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Mar 30, 2015 · I am almost 120 hours into Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, and I still haven't "beaten" it. Capcom's $39.99 Nintendo 3DS ($499.99 at Amazon) hack-and-slash collection-fest isn't a game that's easily or ...
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Feb 10, 2015 · Top Critic. 9 / 10.0. Feb 10, 2015. Just when you think the fight is over in Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, the next challenger steps in and ups the level of competition for another satisfying round of combat and loot. Very few games can hook me in for 100 hours, but this installment adds enough new creatures, weapons, locations, and fighting moves ...
