Monster Hunter(モンスターハンター,Monsutā Hantā)is a Japanesemedia franchisecentered on a series offantasy-themedaction role-playingvideo games that started with the gameMonster Hunterfor thePlayStation 2,released in 2004. Titles have been released across a variety of platforms, including personal computers, home consoles, portable consoles, and mobile devices. The series is developed and published byCapcom.
| Monster Hunter | |
|---|---|
 Logo forMonster Hunter | |
| Genre(s) | Action role-playing |
| Developer(s) | Capcom |
| Publisher(s) | Capcom |
| Creator(s) | Kaname Fujioka[1] |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2,PlayStation 3,PlayStation 4,PlayStation 5,PlayStation Portable,PlayStation Vita,Windows,Wii,Wii U,Xbox 360,Xbox One,Xbox Series X/S,Nintendo 3DS,Nintendo Switch,Android,iOS |
| First release | Monster Hunter March 11, 2004 |
| Latest release | Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak June 30, 2022 |
The games are primarily action role-playing games. The player takes the role of a Hunter, slaying or trapping largemonstersacross various landscapes as part of quests given to them by locals, with some quests involving the gathering of a certain item or items, which may put the Hunter at risk of facing various monsters. As part of itscore gameplay loop,players use loot gained from slaying monsters, gathering resources, and quest rewards to craft improved weapons, armor, and other items that allow them to face more powerful monsters. All main series titles featuremultiplayer(usually up to four players cooperatively), but can also be playedsingle player.
EarlyMonster Huntergames sold well inJapanand other Asian countries, popularized by the series' use ofad hocmultiplayer features on portableconsoles,and became a cultural phenomenon. The early games in the series have been critically well received in Western markets, but generally languished in sales, in part due to the games' steeplearning curve.However, withMonster Hunter: World(2018), Capcom aimed to attract a global audience using the power of advanced home gaming consoles and computers and released the title simultaneously worldwide.Worldbecame the best-sellingMonster Huntergame within three days of its release, and became Capcom's single best-selling video game of all time with 21 million sales as of July 5, 2022, including more than 70% outside of Japan. By May 2024, the series has sold more than 100 million units, with nearly half attributed toMonster Hunter: WorldandMonster Hunter Riseand their expansions.
Games in theMonster Hunterare generally catalogued as either part of the mainline series aimed for console players, and portable versions for hand held consoles. A number of spinoff games featuring different gameplay genres have also been developed for consoles, computers, and mobile devices. In addition to games, the franchise has ananimebased on the spinoff gameMonster Hunter Diary: Poka Poka Airou Village,Monster Hunter Stories: Ride Onbased on the spinoff titleMonster Hunter Stories,amanga,Monster Hunter Orage,and a book,Monster Hunter Episode.[2]Afeature filmdirected byPaul W. S. Andersonwas released on December 3, 2020.
An animated film, subtitledLegends of the Guild,was released on August 12, 2021, onNetflix.
Gameplay
editThe core feature ofMonster Hunteris itscompulsion loop.[3]Unlike traditionalcomputer role-playing games,a player's Hunter does not grow and has no intrinsic statistics or attributes whatsoever. Rather, the Hunter's abilities are instead defined by the specific weapons and armor selected. The player can equip weapons, armor, and items most beneficial towards completing a given mission, and if successful, the Hunter is awarded in both in-game money ( "zenny" ) and loot representing parts from the monster. These parts, along with other resources collected while on missions and/or through mission rewards, can be used to forge or upgrade new weapons and armor which then can be used in against more powerful monsters and tackle more difficult missions, completing the compulsion loop. Harder missions are typically restricted by a hunter's rank, which cumulatively increases as the player completes specific missions designated by the quest giver. Mission rewards are often generated randomly, often requiring the player togrindthe same monster repeatedly to get the right parts. Weapons and armor have intrinsic bonuses or penalties towards certain types of elemental or physical damages, and may provide special skills which can be fine-tuned through the mix-and-matching of equipment pieces.[4]
The games feature a variety of different weapon classes, ranging from swords, hammers, and bows, with the most recent titles (Generations,World,andRise) having a total of fourteen classes.[3]Each weapon class has a unique set of combat maneuvers and reflect a number of different play styles based on speed of attack, damage strength, range and the application of buffs and debuffs to monsters and allies.Monster Huntergames use an "animation priority" combat, committing the player to a move until the animation is completed and leaving them potentially vulnerable to a monster's attack.[5]Further, players are encouraged to watch their Hunter's health and stamina. Losing all health will force a retreat to a base camp, and after three such retreats, the mission is deemed a failure. Performing most combat actions consumes stamina, which recovers in a short amount of time; once exhausted of stamina, the Hunter becomes vulnerable as they pause to catch their breath. Monsters and other environmental hazards can also inflict blights and other negative status effects that impair combat abilities. Combat is centered around watching for a monster'stellsprior to an attack to be able to dodge it and/or make a counterattack, and looking for openings to unleash strings of attack combos, depending on the Hunter's current weapon.[6]Unlike most otheraction games,Monster Hunterfights have been compared to a series ofBossfights.[3]
Nearly allMonster Huntergames have a single-player mode; in these, the Hunter is often accompanied by a Felyne or Palico, a bipedal sentient cat-like creature that supports the player with limited offensive abilities in combat. Felynes also assist the player in cooking meals, maintaining gardens, and returning them to camp if they are defeated in battle.[7]The noises of Felynes are created using the real-life vocalizations of cats owned by the games' development team, causing them to compile a library of cat noises stretching back to the originalMonster Hunter.The noises are sometimes arranged in order to depict a situation that would be impossible to subject a real cat to, such as being attacked by a monster.[8]
MostMonster Huntergames released with support for four-player cooperative online modes, allowing the group to hunt down stronger versions of monsters, though this support has since been disabled in older games. The games typically have a main quest line, frequently called "Low Rank" or "Village Quests", which can take up to fifty hours to complete. Once completed, the game opens up with new "High Rank" or "Gathering Hall" quests, featuring stronger versions of monsters they have previously faced, as well as new monsters not yet seen and unique variants of these foes, all of which provide better components for more powerful weapons and armor sets, providing hundreds of hours of potential gameplay following the main quest.[9][3]Most titles have a third rank of difficulty ( "G Rank" or "Master Rank" ), released after the base game. These add more monsters, locations, weapons and armour sets to the game.[10][3]
Development history
editThe firstMonster Huntergame was one of three titles Capcom had developed to take advantage of the processing power and online capabilities of thePlayStation 2,which according to Ryozo Tsujimoto, who has been the series' producer sinceMonster Hunter Freedom 2,had begun to matcharcade gamesin capabilities; the other two such titles wereAuto ModellistaandResident Evil Outbreak.[11]Tsujimoto consideredMonster Hunterto be the culmination of the work of these other two titles once it was released.[11]He also felt that the game was intended for such cooperative play so that players of any skill level, working with others, could feel accomplished in taking down giant creatures.[12]Monster Hunterproved a success, selling over 1 million copies, principally in Japan.[12]Enhanced versions of the early games, adding more difficult monsters and end-game quests, were released with a "G" affixed to the end (such asMonster Hunter Gfor the first such game); for those titles that were released in Western regions, these were often, though not always, affixed with theUltimatemoniker. A second team worked to develop a series for thePlayStation Portable.These games often had a more lighthearted tone and expanded upon the palicoe system. In Japan, these games were released under the "Portable" title, while in the west they were released under the "Freedom" title. Even after these naming conventions were abandoned, this established the general tradition of one team releasing games for home consoles and a separate team releasing a portable game a few years later.[3]
The series took off explosively in Japan withMonster Hunter GandMonster Hunter Portable/Freedomon thePlayStation Portableand even more so once its sequelsMonster Hunter Dos,Monster Hunter Portable 2nd/Freedom 2andMonster Hunter Portable 2nd G/Freedom Unitewere released which supported up to four players.[13]Handheld systems are generally more popular in Japan and due to the country's high population density, it was easy to find players to hunt cooperatively with, making it a phenomenon there.[14]Capcom's Ryozo Tsujimoto stated thatFreedom 2was released at a time when players in Japan would not normally gather at a friend's house to play games together, so the networking capabilities of the PSP helped to drive the success ofFreedom 2and accelerate sales of the series beyond the original PlayStation 2 titles.[15]James Miekle, writing forPC Gamer,had worked forQ Entertainmentand lived in Japan during the release ofMonster Hunter Portable 3rd,which was the best-selling PlayStation Portable game of all time and described how even during work, impromptuMonster Huntersessions would break out between employees and there was extensive marketing ofMonster Hunterbranded consumer goods.[13]
WhileMonster Hunterhad been successful in Japan, its popularity in Western markets (primarily North America and Europe) languished. In contrast to the Japanese culture, Western markets favored home consoles and computers during the mid-2000s and because of a thinner population density, most players relied on Internet-based gaming rather than local ad hoc networking.[14][13]The series also struggled with a difficultlearning curvethat had made the games off-putting in Western markets.[16]
The series had little popularity in the West until the release ofMonster Hunter 3 Ultimateon the Nintendo 3DS, a console that had gained a sizable foothold in Western markets. WhileMonster Hunter's popularity in the West was still to a niche group, Capcom saw the potential for more growth there and took steps to better localize the next few titles to make the series more attractive;Monster Hunter 4was the first game in the series to break one million sales in Western markets.[14]Capcom recognized there was still room for further growth of the series there; in an October 2016 interview, Capcom chairman Kenzo Tsujimoto said they were looking towards increasing the popularity of the games in the Western markets, recognizing that gaming consoles like thePlayStation 4andXbox Onehave dominance in these regions over handhelds.[17]Monster Hunter: World,the series's first major entry targeting home consoles and computers, was developed to be more alluring for Western markets without trying to make the game simpler, with the main development teams in Japan working more closely with Capcom's Western offices to identify such improvements.[16][18]A number of changes in gameplay were made that took advantage of the consoles' new technology; notably, while the prior games had split each hunting area into different zones as necessitated by limits of the console hardware,World's used seamless zones and several changes to gameplay were made to account for this.[3]Worldbecame the series' best-selling game, achieving more than 21 million units sold by 2022 and making theMonster Hunterseries Capcom's best-selling series followingResident Evil.[19]
With the success of the changes to the formula defined byWorld,Capcom decided to continue this approach with the series' next major titles,Monster Hunter Risefor the Nintendo Switch and Windows,[20]and forMonster Hunter Wildsfor PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, and Windows.[18]
Games
editBelow is a list of games in theMonster Huntermain series. Each generation has a number of entries that are derivative of the original release. While the first four main titles were numbered, the subsequent installments, starting withWorld,use a keyword instead of a number to reflect a central concept for that game.[21]While the games have often been split into the numbered mainline games and the portable titles by players, this distinction is not held to the same degree by Capcom, according to Tsujimoto, and instead each title is based on "what it is we want to achieve with this title, what we want the player to experience, which hardware we're gonna target and how it's gonna affect the gameplay. The games just come together the way they end up each time."[22]
Main series
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| Monster Hunter | March 11, 2004 | September 21, 2004 | May 27, 2005 |
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| Monster Hunter 2 | February 16, 2006 | ||
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| Monster Hunter Tri | August 1, 2009 | April 20, 2010 | April 23, 2010 |
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| Monster Hunter 4 | September 14, 2013 | February 13, 2015 | February 13, 2015 |
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| Monster Hunter: World[23][24] | January 26, 2018 | January 26, 2018 | January 26, 2018 |
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| Monster Hunter Wilds | February 28, 2025 | February 28, 2025 | February 28, 2025 |
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Portable series
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| Monster Hunter Freedom | December 1, 2005 | May 23, 2006 | May 12, 2006 |
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| Monster Hunter Freedom 2 | February 22, 2007 | August 28, 2007 | September 7, 2007 |
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| Monster Hunter Portable 3rd | December 1, 2010 | ||
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| Monster Hunter Generations | November 28, 2015 | July 15, 2016 | July 15, 2016 |
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| Monster Hunter Rise | March 26, 2021 | March 26, 2021 | March 26, 2021 |
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Other games
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Release years by system: 2006 – Supported DoCoMo phones |
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Release years by system: 2007 –Microsoft Windows 2010 –Xbox 360 2013 – An updated version calledMonster Hunter Frontier Gwas released on Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360,PlayStation 3,Wii U 2014 –PlayStation Vita[30] 2016 – Another updated version calledMonster Hunter Frontier Zwas released onWii U,PlayStation 4,PlayStation 3,PlayStation VitaandXbox 360 |
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Release years by system: 2010 – Released on PlayStation Portable 2011 – An expanded version calledMonster Hunter Diary: Poka Poka Airou Village Gwas released on PlayStation Portable |
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Release years by system: 2011 –iOS |
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Monster Hunter Online Original release date(s):
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Release years by system: 2013 – Microsoft Windows |
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Monster Hunter Spirits Original release date(s):
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Release years by system: 2015 – Arcade |
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Release years by system: 2015 –iOS 2015 –Android[33] |
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Release years by system: 2016 – Nintendo 3DS[34] 2024 – Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows |
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Release years by system: 2020 - iOS, Android[36] |
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Release years by system: 2021 - Microsoft Windows,Nintendo Switch |
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Release years by system: 2023 -AndroidandiOS |
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Other media
editVideo games
editA female Monster Hunter appeared as a playable character via downloadable content inMarvel vs. Capcom: Infinite.The game also features a stage called "Valkanda", which combines Val Habar from the fourth installment withWakandafrom the Marvel universe. Rathalos and Tigrex, two of the series' flagship monsters, make a cameo appearance inMetal Gear Solid: Peace Walkeron hunting missions.[43]Rathalos appeared as a special event monster to fight inFinal Fantasy XIVas part of a cross-promotional event withMonster Hunter: World,with theBehemothappearing inWorldin return.[44]In 2018, Rathalos also appeared as a Boss character and a summonable Assist Trophy in the crossover fighting game,Super Smash Bros. Ultimate,[45]while severalMiiFighter costumes based onMonster Hunterwere added post-launch in March 2021 a few weeks ahead ofRise'srelease.[46]In 2020, Rathalos made a limited appearance inCygames' mobile titleDragalia Lostas part of an in-game event.[47]In 2023, Rathalos made an appearance as a limited-time Boss in the mobile gameArknights,as part of the latter'sMonster Huntercrossover event titledA Flurry to the Flame.
TheMonster Huntergames themselves have offered crossover events with other Capcom and third-party properties, allowing users during the event to earn armor and weapons inspired by the other property. For example,Monster Hunter Worldhas had promotional events that includeResident Evil,[48]Mega Man,[49]Assassin's Creed,[50]andThe Witcherseries.[51]
Anime
editA series of anime shorts titledMonHun Nikki Girigiri Airū-mura Airū Kiki Ippatsu(ja:モンハン nhật ký ぎりぎりアイルー thôn) was broadcast beginning August 10, 2010. A sequel,MonHun Nikki Girigiri Airū-mura G,was produced.[52]An anime series based on the franchise premiered on October 2, 2016.
Manga and comics
editA manga titledMonster Hunter Oragewas published jointly byKodanshaandCapcomin April 2008. The author of the manga isHiro Mashima.There are four volumes total with the last volume published on May 4, 2009. An English release ofMonster Hunter Oragefirst took place on June 28, 2011. Elements fromMonster Hunterwere later included in theWorlds Unitecomic crossover fromArchie Comics,which featured several other Capcom andSegafranchises making guest appearances in the previously runningSonic the HedgehogandMega Mancomic lines.[53]
Card game
editA trading card game titledMonster Hunter Hunting Cardwas released in October 2008 with periodic updates planned.[54]
Merchandise
editIn 2013, severalMonster Hunter 4figures were given away as prizes in Japan, including ones based on Felynes.[55]In 2014, aMega Mancrossover toy was released,[56]a set of Felyne-themed 3DS XL accessories,[57]as well as a 24 karat gold Felyne statue that cost almost $30,000 to celebrate the series' 10-year anniversary.[58]In 2017, a highly detailed doll of a Felyne was released by Capcom for 162,000 yen.[59]More unusual products include Felynetoilet paper-holders.[60]Beyond merchandise, a Felyne-themed car was used to promote the series at the Odaiba Motor Festival.[61]In 2022, merchandise featuring the characters was utilized in a public safety promotion as part of an ongoing partnership between Capcom and local Japanese police.[62]
Film
editA film based on the series has been in conception since 2012 by directorPaul W. S. Anderson.The film was formally announced by Capcom in October 2018, with production starting that month withImpact PicturesandConstantin Filmand was released in the United Kingdom and China on December 4, 2020. The film is based on aUnited Nationstask force falling into an alternate dimension where Hunters fight off monsters and the force joins the Hunters to prevent monsters from returning through the portal to Earth. The film starredMilla Jovovich,Ron Perlman,T.I. Harris,Diego BonetaandTony Jaa.[63][64][65][66][67]
Animated film
editIn 2018, Capcom and Pure Imagination Studios announced that they are working on a 3D animated filmMonster Hunter: Legends of the Guild.The special was written by Joshua Fine, and features a fledgling hunter taking down an Elder Dragon.[68]Originally slated for a 2019 release, the film was released on August 12, 2021, onNetflix.[69]
Digital collectibles
editOn 21 May 2023 Capcom released the first digital collectible NFTs of Monster Hunters on the Veve platform.
Reception
editSince the series debuted,Monster Hunterhas sold 97 million units across all titles by December 31, 2023. It is Capcom's second highest-selling series, followingResident Evil.[70]The series surpassed 100 million units by May 2024, with nearly half of those sales attributed toWorld,Riseand their associated expansions.[71]
Total worldwide sales forMonster Huntergames exceeding 1 million units, through March 2023 are listed below:[72]
| Title | Sales (millions of units) As of December 31, 2023 |
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| Monster Hunter World | 19.60 |
| Monster Hunter Rise | 14.20 |
| Monster Hunter World: Iceborne | 11.60 |
| Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak | 7.10 |
| Monster Hunter Portable 3rd | 4.90 |
| Monster Hunter XX/Generations Ultimate | 4.70 |
| Monster Hunter X/Generations | 4.30 |
| Monster Hunter 4G/4 Ultimate | 4.20 |
| Monster Hunter 4 | 4.10 |
| Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G/Freedom Unite | 3.80 |
| Monster Hunter 3G/3 Ultimate | 2.60 |
| Monster Hunter Portable 2nd/Freedom 2 | 2.40 |
| Monster Hunter 3/Tri | 1.90 |
| Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin | 1.80 |
| Monster Hunter Portable/Freedom | 1.30 |
Several commentators consider the series' Felynes or Palicoes to be an integral staple ofMonster Hunter.[8][73]The Palicoes inMonster Hunter: Worldreceived a great deal of social media publicity when their vocalizations attracted the attention of real-life cats of players.[74][75]
See also
edit- Dauntless,a free-to-play game with a similar gameplay mechanic but which requires an Internet connection to play
- Freedom Wars
- God Eater,a video game franchise with a similar gameplay mechanic
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- List of Japanese role-playing game franchises
- Lord of Arcana
- Soul Sacrifice
- Toukiden
- Wild Hearts
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