Monster Hunter Rise Interviews Reveal It'll have "Huge Content, As Usual"

Following the announcement of Monster Hunter Rise and Monster Hunter Stories 2, both exclusively coming to Switch in 2022, Capcom gave a joint interview to multiple Japanese outlets. Famitsu, Dengeki, 4Gamer, Game Watch, Game Spark each published interviews on Oct seven. With Monster Hunter Rise Producer Ryozo Tsujimoto and Director Yasunori Ichinose. Hither's a summary of everything we learned on Monster Hunter Rising through these brand new interviews.

Monster Hunter World is only on consoles and PC, and a lot of players nonetheless desire to play on portable. Monster Hunter Rise is hither for that. Every bit such, MH Rise was specifically developed with the Nintendo Switch'southward portability and characteristics in mind.

The biggest new feature in Monster Hunter Rising is how hunters employ a special insect chosen Wirebug to move at loftier speed and climb on walls, rocks etc.

Monster Hunter Rise includes the fourteen per-existing weapon types of current MH, with no new weapons. However, each weapon has new special moves using the Wirebug. Mastering these new movements will exist the cardinal to defeat some of the new monsters.

The title Monster Hunter Rise comes from the fact the game has a focus on nimble movements thanks to the Wirebug, and how y'all can stitch walls, and thus "rise".

The Wirebug might look like a reference to old Capcom game Bionic Commando. but it isn't. Information technology's non what they had in listen and information technology'southward a pure coincidence.

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The thought of the Wirebug was born from trying to break the usual routine of Monster Hunter, bringing in more liberty in each subjugation, and strengthening the relationship between the hunter's movements and the monster'due south movements.

Monsters can't attack the Wirebug or do annihilation that would restricts the players' employ of information technology.

The Monster Hunter Rising development team started thinking about which engine they'd employ (the RE Engine was picked) and planning the game'due south concept right after finishing Monster Hunter Cross (Generations), which released on November 28, 2022. This means Monster Hunter Rise was in development since 2022. While doing the planning stage, the MH Rise squad provided support for the evolution of Monster Hunter Double Cross (Generations Ultimate), and they too exchanged ideas with the Monster Hunter Earth squad.

Monster Hunter Rise has a Japanese atmosphere because it's been ten years since the last MH game which did, Monster Hunter Portable 3rd. They wanted to do it once more. Yasunori Ichinose was as well the director of MH Portable tertiary, and he really likes those kind of Japanese themes. The new monsters in Monster Hunter Rise are based on Youkai to go with the Japan feel of the game. They noted they're not making everything in the game 100% Japanese-themed though.

The new companions, the Palamute, are much more aggressive than Palicos. I way to defeat certain monsters is to properly coordinate with your Palamute. If yous adopt cat-like companions, you can still selection a Palico.

Monster Hunter Ascent will reward players exploring every nook and cranny of the map like JRPGs do.

Right at present the development team is focusing on finishing the game'south chief story content, and endgame content that'll proceed players busy for a long while. They're also planning to release Event Quest updates after release. For at present, there are no plans for doing a large extension like MH Globe Iceborne.

The Monster Hunter Ascension Amiibo volition unlock special equipment. Amiibo from other games too will requite you lot special items.

Tsujimoto said he wasn't told the details regarding the Monster Hunter Hollywood pic, but if possible he'd like to practice a collab event with it someday.

They were likewise asked how big Monster Hunter Rise volition be:

Ryozo Tsujimoto: "We oft go asked that during interviews. I always avoid answering a specific number of hours. But I can say we consider MH Rising to have the same corporeality of content as a typical MH game. The volume of Monster Hunter Ascent won't exist very different from the rest of the series".

Overall, there'south still a lot more info, new monsters, story elements etc in Monster Hunter Ascent they tin't reveal yet. Ichinose most notably brought up how the game's Japanese trailer includes the words 百竜夜行 which is a pun on Japanese idiom 百鬼夜行, Hyakki Yagyo, designing a horde of Yokai.

That'south all the info from the latest Monster Hunter Rise interviews.

思いのままに翔けあがれ！狩り場のフィールド内にエリアの境界はなく、自在に駆けまわれる。"翔蟲"や"壁走り"をはじめとする数々の新アクションを駆使すれば、狩り場はハンターの思いのままだ。https://t.co/YJcFmrUTBe #モンハンライズ #MHRise pic.twitter.com/y979yc4ErF

— モンスターハンターライズ公式 (@MH_Rise_JP) Oct 2, 2022

Monster Hunter Rise launches worldwide on March 26, 2022 on Switch. Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin is coming on Switch worldwide in Summertime 2022. You can preorder MH Rising on Amazon to aid out DualShockers: Regular Edition, Deluxe Edition.

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