Tuesday, August 28, 2018

You should know what you’re in for with Monster Hunter on the Switch

If your first Monster Hunter game was World — which is statistically likely since the game has now sold more than 10 million copies worldwide — and you’re hungry for more, I have good (and possibly bad) news. The good news is that Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate is out today for the Nintendo Switch, and it’s great. In many ways, it’s a better package than World.

The possibly bad news is that it’s also very different than World.

Monster Hunter World was a huge overhaul of the series, which had always been hugely popular on handheld systems in Japan but never found as much success in the West or on home consoles. Designed from the start for the PS4 and Xbox One, with a PC version following later, World not only represented the first...

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