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2015 action role-playing game published by Capcom

2015 video game

Monster Hunter Generations
Monster hunter generations cover art.jpg
Programmer(southward) Capcom
Publisher(s) Capcom
Director(s) Yasunori Ichinose[ane]
Producer(s) Shintaro Kojima[1]
Composer(s) Reo Uratani
Series Monster Hunter
Engine MT Framework
Platform(s)
  • Nintendo 3DS
  • Nintendo Switch
Release Generations / X
  • JP: November 28, 2015
  • Eu: July fifteen, 2016
  • NA: July 15, 2016
  • AU: July 16, 2016
Xx
  • JP: March 18, 2017
Generations Ultimate / XX - Nintendo Switch Ver.
  • JP: August 25, 2017
  • NA: August 28, 2018
  • EU: August 28, 2018
  • AU: August 28, 2018
Genre(s) Action function-playing
Mode(s) Single-thespian, multiplayer

Monster Hunter Generations [a] is an action role-playing game adult and published by Capcom for the Nintendo 3DS. Announced in May 2015, the game was released in Nihon as Monster Hunter X in Nov 2015 and internationally in July 2016. Similar other titles in the Monster Hunter serial, players undertake quests that involve hunting large dangerous creatures, either solo or in multiplayer. Major additions in this installment include special attacks, new combat styles, and the ability to play as Felynes who take traditionally only appeared every bit a companion to the player. Although it retains the core gameplay of previous mainline entries, Monster Hunter Generations is considered a spinoff title according to the developers. An expanded version of the game, titled Monster Hunter 20 , was announced in October 2016, and was released exclusively in Japan in March 2017. An HD port of the expanded rerelease for the Nintendo Switch, titled Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate ,[b] was released in Nihon in Baronial 2017 followed by a worldwide release in August 2018. The game has sold more than 8 one thousand thousand units worldwide, as of September 2020[update].

Gameplay [edit]

Monster Hunter Generations features gameplay similar to past titles in the series. The player assumes the role of a hunter who embarks on quests to hunt dangerous creatures. A hunter's abilities are determined past the blazon of armor and weapons that they wear on a quest, every bit the hunter otherwise has no intrinsic attributes that bear on gameplay. All fourteen weapon types from Monster Hunter four Ultimate, ranging from swords, hammers, bows, guns, and lances, are included in Monster Hunter Generations, in addition to the new Prowler style which allows the player to take the role of a Felyne, a sentient cat-like species.[two] [3] Each weapon has different sets of moves and abilities that can be employed while in the field. Armors grant defensive bonuses to physical and elemental impairment and tin can boost specific skills and attack types through base attributes and the addition of special ornament gems and talismans. To brand a more powerful hunter that can survive against more dangerous creatures, the player takes materials carved from monsters (either slain or captured via traps), too as materials gathered from the various fields and purchased in hamlet stores, to arts and crafts new armor or to craft and upgrade weapons. Defeating more powerful creatures enables even more potent equipment to be crafted, thus creating a gameplay progress through the game'southward loot organisation. New in Generations is the ability to transform armor pieces into new gear like to weapon upgrade paths by upgrading information technology with materials from broad categories, like basic or ores, and having the ability to upgrade a weapon directly to a more than advanced version without the intermediate upgrade steps.[4]

Monster Hunter Generations features new special moves known as Hunting Arts. These moves require the player to wait for the moves to accuse up during the course of a hunt before they tin can be activated. Once ready, the histrion can activate them at any time, afterward which they have to wait for them to accuse up once more before a second utilise. The Arts take different effects such as dealing massive damage, providing buffs, or healing allies.[2] [5] The game also introduces a arrangement called "Hunting Styles".[vi] This system adds different assail styles for a weapon. Each weapon blazon in the game will have four distinct forms.[2] [half dozen] The Guild Manner is a balanced and bones fashion akin to combat in previous games of the series. The Striker Style is less technical simply emphasises the use of Hunting Arts letting the player ready three special attacks. The Aeriform Manner specialises in mid-air attacks allowing players to use monsters as a platform which they can propel themselves off. The Good Style gives players an opportunity to perform powerful counterattacks after successfully evading a monster's attack.[7] Visually, the game'due south combat has been described as flashier than previous titles.[8]

The game will have four new signature monsters along with a number of past flagship monsters.[2] [nine] Included are what are known as Deviant Monsters, previous monsters from other games in the series that take been said to accept mutated and evolved into more powerful forms, which on defeat will yield spoils of gainsay that can exist used to craft loftier-level equipment.[10] The game features four villages which are non-combat areas for getting quests and communicating with non-histrion characters.[xi] 3 villages return from previous titles,[11] and a new hamlet called Bherna has been added.[6] The game includes an improved resource gathering system; resource points on the various areas volition accept more items that can exist acquired earlier they are wearied and the thespian only has to hold down a controller button to continue to collect items instead of pressing the push each fourth dimension, and once per mission, the player can call a Felyne messenger to take one inventory's worth of goods dorsum to a village to store.[12]

Development [edit]

Planning for Monster Hunter Generations began during the development of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate.[half-dozen] The game'south Japanese title—Monster Hunter Ten, pronounced as Monster Hunter Cross—originated from the thought of crossing former and new elements of the serial in the game.[13] Serial executive producer Ryozo Tsujimoto saw that since information technology had been more than ten years since the beginning of the franchise, they wanted to gloat the occasion, putting the idea of the game as "a festival feeling, a special event".[14] Game producer, Shintaro Kojima, noted that "the alphabetic character X looks like it divides the given space into iv… so four hunting styles, four large principal monsters, four villages. They're all crossing."[xiii] The four flagship monsters featured in this championship are Astalos, Gammoth, Mizutsune, and Glavenus.

Originally, Capcom considered adding a new weapon blazon for Monster Hunter Generations. This would have required a lot of development piece of work, so instead they opted to focus on the concept of a player's "attachment to the weapon".[half dozen] The developers noted how players would develop their ain approach to combat, which inspired the idea of the hunting skills and arts as these would further give each thespian to craft a hunter to their unique play style.[xiv] Still, they still needed to balance the strength and effectiveness of these new arts and skills so that Generations would remain fundamentally a game that required the player to read a monster's actions and brand the right moves at the correct fourth dimension, and would keep the animation mechanics found in the master series games.[fourteen] Several features—underwater combat, guild quests, and frenzied monsters—from past titles are omitted in Monster Hunter Generations. Tsujimoto said that this was to emphasize the unique elements of the new title.[15]

As with Monster Hunter 4, Generations includes a number of quests that assistance to orient a player to the various gameplay systems inside the game; this includes special quest lines for each weapon type to help accustom the player to that weapon and its strategies.[14] The Prowler-Felyne hunter choice was aimed specifically for new players of the series, but also to give veteran players a new way to experience the title.[14] With the Prowler way, information technology helps to emphasise the need to scout the monsters and read their tell before making a movement and gaining the opportunity for a counterattack.[fourteen]

While the period between the Japanese release of Monster Hunter 4 and Generations was nigh annual, the producers state they have no expectations to make Monster Hunter an annual series. They found the response from Western audiences with these two games overwhelming, and are working to brand the localization process easier to reduce the time betwixt the Japanese and Western releases, and would like to eventually see a simultaneous release in these regions in the future.[14]

Release [edit]

Monster Hunter Generations was start announced in Nippon under the title Monster Hunter X in May 2015 with a planned release later on that yr, during a Nintendo Direct presentation.[16] A demo of the game was released digitally in Japan on November nineteen, 2015, via the Nintendo eShop. The demo features three quests involving different monsters.[17] The game was subsequently released for Nintendo 3DS in Japan on November 28, 2015.[11] Alongside the game's Japanese launch, Nintendo released Monster Hunter X-themed faceplates for the New Nintendo 3DS,[xviii] and a limited-edition Monster Hunter X-themed New Nintendo 3DS XL featuring the game's logo and iv signature monsters.[19]

For North America and Europe, the game was released as Monster Hunter Generations on July xv, 2016, along with a limited-edition New Nintendo 3DS XL like to the Japanese release.[20] [21] The demo version was fabricated available in Europe on June 15, 2016,[22] and in North America on June thirty, 2016.[23] Players that transfer their Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate saves into Monster Hunter Generations receive an in-game armor set for their Palico.[23]

Like to previous Monster Hunter games, the player can obtain armor sets, weapons and clothing themed to other Capcom games and other third-party titles. Generations includes such themes based on Amaterasu from Ōkami,[24] Chun-Li and Blanka from Street Fighter,[25] Arthur from Ghosts 'due north Goblins,[26] Strider Hiryu from Strider,[27] Link from The Legend of Zelda: The Air current Waker,[28] and Fox McCloud from the Star Fox series.[29] Such costumes are obtained by completing quests that are offered as free downloadable content.

An expanded version of the game, Monster Hunter Twenty, was announced in October 2016. It was released in Nihon on March xviii, 2017.[30] More downloadable content based on other games was made bachelor for this version presently subsequently release. Newly represented games include The Fable of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and the Ace Chaser serial, as well as more than content based on Ōkami and Strider. Japanese singer Daigo was also represented in the game.[31] The expansion too featured a collaboration with Crewman Moon equally part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the franchise. The Felyne cat companion resembles Luna and wields Sailor Moon's Cutie Moon Rod weapon.[32]

On May 26, 2017, information technology was announced that the game would exist ported to the Nintendo Switch nether the Japanese title of Monster Hunter XX: Nintendo Switch Ver., and it was released on August 25, 2017.[33] Save data from Monster Hunter X is able to be transferred to this version of the game, while progress can also be swapped betwixt the 3DS and Switch versions of 20. Like Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate before it, XX features cross-platform multiplayer.[34] Capcom stated during the June Electronic Entertainment Expo 2017 event that at the time it had no plans to localize the Switch version of Monster Hunter Twenty for Western audiences, though they did announce Monster Hunter: Globe to come up to personal computers and other consoles.[35] This later inverse, every bit the title was released for Western markets as Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate on August 28, 2018.[36] Ultimate allows players to transfer saved games from the 3DS Generations games.[37]

Reception [edit]

Following the 2015 Tokyo Game Show, the Computer Amusement Supplier'southward Clan named Monster Hunter Generations every bit 1 of 10 winners for the "Time to come Sectionalization" Award.[45]

Prior to the game's launch, Capcom expected to sell ii.v 1000000 copies of Monster Hunter Generations by March 2016.[46] The game sold over 1.5 million units in its first 2 days,[47] and every bit of Dec 24, 2015[update], the game has sold over 3 million copies.[48] Japanese sales tracker, Media Create reported that Monster Hunter Generations sold through over 91% of its retail stock in its first week. Total software sales in Nippon during the week of the game'due south launch were the highest recorded and then far in 2015, with Monster Hunter Generations contributing over 75% of sales. The launch besides led to a ascension in total hardware sales, with sales of the New Nintendo 3DS Forty increasing by over 360% from the previous calendar week.[49]

Co-ordinate to the NPD Grouping, Monster Hunter Generations was the best selling game in July 2016 in North America, and, alongside renewed involvement in Pokémon games resulting from Pokémon Get, helped to boost 3DS sales over all other consoles and eighty% better than 3DS sales the previous year.[50]

Capcom reported that Monster Hunter Generations had exceeded four.1 one thousand thousand units sold worldwide by September 2016, with sales in Western countries described equally "solid".[51] As of September 2017, Monster Hunter X/Generations has sold 4.iiimillion units for the 3DS.[52]

Monster Hunter Twenty sold i.7 million copies by April 2017.[53] Every bit of September 2017, Monster Hunter Twenty has sold 1.8million units for the 3DS.[52] The Switch version sold 84,377 copies in its first calendar week in Japan, debuting at number1 in the charts, selling 48.9% of its initial shipment.[54] [55] As of Nov vi, 2017, shipments of the Switch version exceeded 350,000 units in Japan.[56]

As of December 2018, the total sales for Monster Hunter XX reached 3 million units worldwide.[57] As of September 2020[update], Generations had sold 4.3 million units for the 3DS while Generations Ultimate has sold 3.9 one thousand thousand units for the Switch and 3DS, for a full of 8.2 million units sold beyond all versions.[52]

Accolades [edit]

Twelvemonth Award Category Effect Ref
2016 The Game Awards 2016 Best Handheld/Mobile Game Nominated [58]

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Monster Hunter 10 ( モンスターハンタークロス , Monsutā Hantā Kurosu ) in Japan
  2. ^ Monster Hunter XX - Nintendo Switch Ver. in Japanese

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External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • Monster Hunter XX official website (Japanese)

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