16th of April, 2021
Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: Monsters, skate boards, and a town called Chicken.
If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What we’ve been playing, here’s our archive.
Monster Hunter Rise, Switch
I don’t know how it happened, but over the past week I’ve gone from Monster Hunter enthusiast to Monster Hunter advocate. A friend had just started out and was learning the ropes – or fumbling at them at least, in the same way I’ve been doing ever since I fell for the series myself with 2011’s Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate – so we got together on Discord for a handful of hunts so I might show him what’s what.
It’s only when trying to distill all the information and all the systems that have gathered over the years in Monster Hunter for someone else that I started to really appreciate it all: how there’s no need to be intimidated by all the stores and NPCs in the village, as they’re only really doubling or tripling up on what you’ll find elsewhere, a bit of convenience that can initially cause confusion. How decorations work, what to hunt, what to wear and what not to and how to go about farming your ultimate piece of kit.