Overview of the game Monster Hunter Generations

The phenomenon of the Japanese Monster Hunter series is rather difficult to explain. Since 2004, these games have systematically conquered the hearts and minds of gamers around the world, once and for all making them loyal fans of the franchise. Today, the army of Monster Hunter fans numbers tens of millions of people. What makes the series so unique? What attracts people in the seemingly rather banal process of virtual hunting for giant infuriated monsters, which today occurs in a variety of other projects? Let's find out on the example of a new game for the Nintendo 3DS pocket console called Monster Hunter Generations.

If to reflect, in due time game Monster Hunter became the founder of absolutely new genre. Hunting for ducks, wild boars, deer - all this in the gaming industry has been a million times. But a safari in a fantasy world full of giant monsters, and even with a great crafting system, thanks to which the player could create from the teeth and claws of dead monsters the most powerful weapons, for gamers was a wonder. The first games of the series suffered from a lack of polishing and a small amount of content, but over time, developers from Capcom improved and expanded their brainchild so much that now criticizing it for something has become quite difficult.

Another tangible plus of the series is the opportunity to fight monsters with your friends. In the modern gaming industry, where gamers often have to kill each other in online battles, the cooperative gameplay is less common every year. In this regard, Monster Hunter gives players the widest opportunities. In Japan, where cooperative games are very popular, on the day the sales of new games of the Monster Hunter series begin, gigantic queues of people with burning eyes are built near the stores. Each of them can not wait to take a virtual sword and together with his comrades go to fight with giant monsters.

In recent years, the new games series Monster Hunter almost completely migrated to the platform company Nintendo. In principle, it is not surprising. The pocket console of Nintendo 3DS sold over 20 million boxes in Japan, so the audience for the game was very decent. On the hands of the creators of the series plays a subconscious desire of players to the constant pumping of their character, expressed mainly in the creation of unique weapons and equipment. On similar principles, the attraction of the majority of modern MMORPGs is based on a person who wants to improve game skills, hang a character with steep gear, eventually rising in the ranking of players to the very top and asserting themselves.

The main character Monster Hunter Generations is in the village of Bern, where the famous Vycadmia is located. In the walls of this scientific school, students learn the habits of dangerous monsters. It is here that you get the official status of a hunter and start working for a guild. Of course, you will be given the opportunity to create your own character from the finished elements, though the subtleties of the settings from the local editor do not wait. Everything is rather superficial: they have chosen a face, a hairdress, color of skin, a voice - and forward, to great achievements. Later you will be available three more settlements - the villages of Kokoto, Pokke and Yukumo, you can navigate between them on the airship. Each of the settlements terrorize dangerous monsters, from which you will protect the unfortunate inhabitants. Actually, this is the plot of the game and is limited. Although it was the storyline, the Monster Hunter series never shone, concentrating on the gorgeous gameplay.

The basic mechanics of the game remained the same. In the village you stock all the essentials for a long journey, choose weapons and armor, then take a specially trained girl quest for a particular monster, and then go on a hunt. The world is divided into separate locations, connected with each other. The set of locations around each of the four settlements is unique and populated with a characteristic flora and fauna. For beginners who have encountered the Monster Hunter series for the first time, I recommend starting with the implementation of training quests. They will teach you how to navigate the terrain, navigate between locations, save game progress, get your own food, fry steaks outdoors, collect berries and mushrooms, handle the right kinds of weapons, track down animals, and much, much more. Only to learn the basics of Monster Hunter Generations, you can take a whole day. So this game is complex. But when you get comfortable, everything will become much easier and more understandable.

Experienced hunters, who are well acquainted with the MH universe, can immediately go on a serious hunt without superfluous preludes. All quests are marked with a certain number of stars. Quests with a mark from one to three stars are fairly simple tasks. But quests from four to seven stars are real trials for a professional hunter. The monsters that you have to hunt down and kill, are not at all pleased with this scenario. Therefore, they will do everything to tear you up with their teeth and claws, crush them with giant paws or a tail-mace, poison you, burn them and put them to an incredibly harsh test. A real hunter must learn how to think like his prey. Over time, you will master all sorts of hunting tricks: learn how to tag your victims so they can not get far away from you, set traps to catch them alive, master the art of luring monsters and so on.

Helping you in the process of hunting will already become a visiting card of the Monster Hunter series charming anthropomorphic cats Paliko. As before, they will fight with you shoulder to shoulder, help to collect valuable ingredients and support you in every possible way in difficult times. In Monster Hunter Generations for the first time in the history of the series you will be allowed to play for Paliko. In the skin of furry animals you can perform as usual quests, and created by the developers specifically for them unique tasks. To the indisputable advantages of the game for Paliko can be attributed to their infinite endurance reserve. After the cat loses consciousness during the battle, it is twice able to automatically recover, unlike the human character, which is immediately transported to the very beginning of the location. Of course, you can find the right armor and skill set for your Paliko. And the fact that seals can be dressed up in characters from Nintendo games like Fire Emblem, Star Fox and The Legend of Zelda, makes them irresistible.

The main character, unlike Paliko, has a certain endurance reserve, which allows him to run quickly for a certain time. Gradually, this scale will decrease due to general fatigue and increasing hunger. Especially it is critical in the event that you are trying to drag to the settlement some kind of heavy load, like a huge wyvern egg. If your endurance drops to zero, you immediately drop this egg and break it. Therefore, do not forget to feed your hero so that he is always full of energy and cheerful spirit. Also remember that each of your quest is limited to a time frame and aimlessly staggering the level is highly discouraged. If you do not keep within the specified deadlines, you lose the award even for a successfully completed quest, and this, you will agree, is a very unpleasant fine.

The combat system underwent serious processing. Now the player is free to choose one of four combat techniques, each of which radically changes the approach to duels with monsters. The first technique is called "Guild Style" - it is ideal for conservatives, which in the previous parts of the Monster Hunter suited everything. You will be able to choose a weapon for yourself and perfect the mastery of mastering it to perfection. The only difference is that now you can use in the fights so-called "Hunter Arts" (Hunter Arts), special skills that can turn the tide of the battle. Adherents of the "Guild Styles" will be able to assign two such skills to their character. It can be a powerful circular kick or the ability to escape from a furious enemy - to choose you. New tricks become available to you after completing certain quests. During the fight, skills are recharged as you inflict damage on the enemy.

The second technique is called "Impact style." Here, special emphasis is placed on the aforementioned hunting tricks. The character becomes available as many as three slots for additional skills, which makes him an even more skilled hunter, and during the battles they reload much faster. The third technique will appeal to fans of the game Monster Hunter 4 - "Air Style" will allow you to attack the monsters from above, soaring into the air and causing them huge damage. Finishes the list of "Adept style", which emphasizes blocking attacks, dodges and rapid counterattacks. Do not worry, between these four techniques of combat you can freely switch during the rest in the villages, so that you will have the opportunity to try all of them and choose the one that is closest to you in spirit.

In terms of weapons arsenal, the game remained true to itself. The assortment of tools for killing monsters in front of a player is simply huge: all kinds of heavy swords, light pair swords, hammers, axes, spears, bows. In this case, each weapon has a set of unique attacks and combos, performed by the appropriate combination of buttons, just like in a fighting game. It is quite expected that the more weapons, the slower it is in combat, and the light weapon is fast enough, but it does less damage. Weapons in the new game has become much easier to pump. The lists of items needed to improve it have disappeared, so you can use any suitable item for inventory to improve. Thanks to this innovation, the need to grind away the rarest ingredients all day long by itself has become unnecessary. Weapons and armor have their own levels. You gain a certain number of levels - the weapon will be upgraded to its new form.

The game was developed on the graphics engine Monster Hunter 4, so visually it is not much different from its predecessor. Of course, I believe that the Nintendo 3DS gland has long been lacking to display all the beauties of the fantasy world, but you can always take the console with you and fill up some giant Cthulhu on your way to work. This is one of the key advantages of pocket consoles - you are not tied to a TV or the Internet. Just take and play, and let the whole world wait. However, no matter how I grumbled at the quality of the picture, on the iron of the updated console New Nintendo 3DS game looks much nicer: higher-resolution textures, the effects visually look more pleasant and so on. The new console also boasts the presence of a second analog stick (in my opinion, too stiff), due to which it is much easier to rotate the game camera than with four ABXY buttons. I preferred to play on the original 3DS, so I had to connect to it a dusty shelf on the shelf Circle Pad Pro accessory. It is an external analog stick, which is attached to the console with a plastic base.

The interface deserves a separate mention. The lower touch screen of the Nintendo 3DS console flexibly adjusts to your needs. You can place on it any information panels and buttons that you use often, and unnecessary elements are simply removed from your eyes. This feature is incredibly convenient, because it's so cool to always have the most important controls at your fingertips, and not jump around the menus in search of the right item. The menu of quick use of objects is also quite convenient. You can escape from the giant raptor, while singing a merry song and in parallel to search in the inventory for a healing potion. At the same time, your ten fingers are enough to combine pleasant with useful. However, all this must first get used to.

Network game supports from two to four players. You can, together with friends, go to battle with the terrible monsters as in the local game mode, gathering in one place with their consoles, and via the Internet. There are no questions to online modes: the network code of developers from Capcom is simply flawless. Everything works almost perfectly. A nice bonus of the game was the opportunity to go hunting in the guise of Paliko. Just imagine: a team of four armed to the teeth of kittens is going to hit the face of a terrible giant dinosaur. The picture is rather surreal, but no less amusing. During the rest in the villages, players can correspond with each other via text chat, and during the execution of quests they are only available conditional communication with the use of blanks.

After spending about 50 hours in the world of Monster Hunter Generations, you realize that you've only gotten acquainted with the tiny part of this monumental game. If you believe the statements of Japanese players who got the game back in November of last year, you can run it for 300 hours or more to complete it. A crazy amount of time for a modern person, if you think about it. The real time course inside the Monster Hunter is almost not felt, which is an amazing achievement for developers. If you doubt - whether it is worth buying such a tightening game in your collection, then first download the free demo version of Nintendo eShop and familiarize yourself with it. This will help you make the right choice.

Pros:

• Incredibly huge game with a huge amount of opportunities and content.
• The system of fighting styles and hunting tricks make the game incredibly dynamic.
• Very thoughtful and consistent learning the basics of the game for beginners.
• The battle with each monster is a real challenge to your skill.
• The game becomes even more exciting in a cooperative with three friends.
• The upgraded weapon upgrade system will please the grind haters.
• The game looks beautiful enough, as far as 3DS hardware allows.
• Finally, you can play the role of charming fluffy Paliko.
• Flexibly customizable interface is incredibly convenient in combat.

Minuses:

• The upper screen of the console noticeably lacks permission.
• Playing on regular 3DS without Circle Pad Pro is very inconvenient.
• The plot in this game - just Paliko wept.

Monster Hunter Generations is a huge and extremely addictive game that will be able to please both loyal fans of the series and curious novices. From the amount of diverse content and possibilities, just the head goes around. In this game, you can live months with small breaks to have a snack, kiss your wife and go to the toilet. The developers polished the almost perfect game mechanics, at the same time, adding completely new elements to it. Slightly spoils the overall picture of inadequate control on the old model of Nintendo 3DS, as well as a palpable lack of its graphics power and resolution of the 3D screen for the output of the ideal picture. Otherwise, this game is really outstanding, so I put it 9 points out of 10 .

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