Analysis Of The Monster Hunter Franchise

In America, video games are incredibly common. They are as common as a cell-phone,or even computers. But even with the large majority knowing who Mario or Zelda is, many games are not brought to the United States or are even restricted from citizens outside of the country it was made in. The Monster Hunter Franchise is an example of a wonderful game that doesn’t get the kind of reputation it deserves in America. Monster Hunter Frontier deserves to come to america, for it’s fanbase and parent company Capcom

Monster Hunter games can be explained just by saying the name, hunting monsters. It’s not like ghosts and goblins, more like gigantic lizards or sabertooth cats. Monster Hunter can be divided (for now) into four generations with new monsters and features added with every generation. Almost all allow a personalized hunter though with various changeable features, skin color, hair color, hair style, scars, and markings (face paint and the like). Hunters also have the choice of fourteen weapons allowing for several different styles of game playing. The choice is split between two divisions, a blademaster, or a gunner. There are more weapons for blademaster, around eleven with gunners only having three. While it is largely meant to be multiplayer game, but most games only allow nearby players, and servers for internet play in several games has been shut down. Weapons used are balanced to have around the same advantages to problems, but there can be a problem using a certain weapon against certain monsters. Of course the weapons have differences for any kind of hunter from the full offensive hammer to the back up hunting horn to the long range heavy bowgun.

Story in the games has never been a big point to MH,there is little to no s...

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...lanet 2. In Metal Gear Solid you have the chance to battle a tigrex and rathalos, monsters that appeared in several MH games. In Lost Planet you can make Rathalos armor to fight with. Monster Hunter Frontier has an even larger amount of collaborations with names such Dead Rising 2 and Devil May Cry, and others such as Hatsune Miku.

Monster Hunter Frontier should make its way over to america. There is a good sized fan-base already and a giant perspective audience. The sheer amount of content in Monster Hunter Frontier makes it a magnificent representative of the monster hunter franchise and could be the turning point that can make monster hunter as large as Call of Duty or Assassins Creed in the United States. The little media for monster hunter games and low connectability of current games is why there is little enthusiasm for current releases outside of the Japan.