![]() Ports for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series, were released in 20th January 2023, with the Sunbreak expansion to follow later in that year. A Microsoft Windows version was released on January 12th 2022, and an expansion, Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak, was released in 29th June 2022. It is the sixth mainline installment in the Monster Hunter series after Monster Hunter: World (2018) and was released worldwide on March 26, 2021. I guess I just need to get my 100+ hours in before the stacked Q1 of 2022 kicks off in earnest then.Monster Hunter Rise (モンスターハンターライズ| Monsutāhantāraizu) is an action RPG game developed and published by Capcom for the Nintendo Switch. We’re a week out from Rise’s launch on PC, and it’s going to mark the start of a killer year for games. If you do bite on the game, and want some expert guidance about how all the crafting, hunting and fighting works, our in-depth Monster Hunter Rise guide is available at the link. If you're dubious about trying out Monster Hunter Rise on PC, all I can say is this: there's a reason it's shipped over 5 million copies on Switch alone. Monster Hunter, for many, is a social game, and so being able to effortlessly bray and bark as we get swatted by an angry Magnamalo is another surprisingly tempting charm the PC release has over the original. My monster-hunting senpai and I typically set up Xbox Live parties and chatted via another platform when we got our hunt on last year… not an ideal setup for many reasons. Last, but not least, there’s in-built voice chat in the PC release. The increase in clarity from the 756p docked/540p undocked resolutions, too, is night and day on PC from the demo alone, it’s allowed me to clock some extra details and nuances in monster design that were lost on me, squinting at my Switch in the dark at 4am. ![]() Not with that gorgeous, well-realised art direction. Hitting the option to apply improved textures makes the world feel so much more alive and welcoming – sure, it’s never going to look like Monster Hunter World, but it doesn't need to. Gliding under an Elder Dragon’s fireball with no health remaining, parrying a tail swipe and and then breaking a monster’s tail clean off, throwing yourself off a cliff and onto the back of a furious bear before riding it into the side of a mountain… these madcap, timing-sensitive and twitch-reflex baiting moments make so much more sense when everything is running at 60FPS plus. Some of the best moments in Monster Hunter have always been the near-death misses and the just-in-time knockouts. Putting some time into the Monster Hunter Rise PC demo at the end of 2021 was eye-opening: unlimited frame rates show off how buttery and smooth this game can be when it’s not tied to 30FPS (like it is on Switch). ![]() On PC, with 4K graphics, higher resolutions and framerates, and the option to mess around with advanced graphics settings… the whole thing is just going to be more fun. Sweating out a Rampage on the Switch is all well and good, but when there’s over five or six monsters and four players on-screen at once, the hardware starts to struggle a bit. This also means there’s a new ending for the game that wasn’t present when the title first launched in 2021 – if you’re eager to get caught up and ready to play the Sunbreak expansion that’s due to land this Summer, you may as well do it on a platform that has all the bells and whistles and that won’t slow down on you when you’re just about to body a Barioth.Īnd that brings me to the real reason I want to get back into Monster Hunter Rise on PC. If you did pick up the game on Switch but put it down once the credits rolled the first time, chances are you’re missing out on some cool new stuff, too: all of the new monsters and quests that were added to the game will be present in Monster Hunter Rise at release, basically cloning version 3.6.1 of the Switch game. I don’t really think I can say I’ve actually played the game until I’ve charged headfirst into the flagship monster Magnamalo, dressed as a rapid blue hedgehog whilst my dog – cosplaying as everyone’s favourite furry entrypoint, Tails – stabs it with the sword it's holding in his mouth. It’s traditional for Monster Hunter titles to continue updating the games long after release, and in the months since it first hit the Switch, Rise has been updated with armor sets and weapons tied in with Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin, Okami, Street Fighter, Mega Man 11, Ghosts ‘n Goblins Resurrection and the non-Capcom Sonic the Hedgehog. Why? Why would I want to make such a commitment when we’ve got the likes of Elden Ring and Horizon Forbidden West approaching rapidly? First up, I never got to experience all the DLC that got added to the game post-launch. ![]()
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