![]() Palico Forest Cat (Costume Layered Armor) Palamute Retriever (Costume Layered Armor) Preorder Bonuses for Nintendo Switch Buddy Layered Armors Take note that an Xbox Subscription is required to play on console. Simply choose which edition of the game you want to purchase and press the Pre-Order button. Waves of monsters will assault your base, and you need to prepare for that with the right setup and the traps to slow their aggressive progress.You can pre-order a digital copy of Monster Hunter Rise via the Official Xbox Site for $39.99, and the Deluxe Edition for $49.99. Whether alone or with friends, ‘Rampage’ has an intensity you simply cannot get elsewhere in the game. The aforementioned ‘Rampage’ brings a tower defense mode that is the most utterly thrilling addition to the series. ![]() In a way, regular solo play is almost a tutorial for the meat and potatoes of what Monster Hunter Rise offers, but the desert is where it really earns its keep. Obviously not a problem post-release, and there’s a clear avenue for a personal resurgence with Monster Hunter Rise when it has a larger audience on PS5, but the flaws of solo play are absolutely laid bare when put under the scrutiny of extensive sessions. Unfortunately, it does get a bit repetitive when solo play is your only option. Repetition In Solo Play Bogs Things Down A Bit For this review process, solo play was practically the default option, so it was a relief to find it was more palatable this time around. I really like Monster Hunter World, but to play it solo was almost unbearable. I was quite pleased that Monster Hunter Rise does a grand job of making single player play work. In co-op, you can only choose one, so a new layer of strategy is added in online play. ![]() When playing solo, you can have two AI partners of your choosing from Palico and Palamute alike, and it really adds a new dimension to combat. Palamutes are basically very big dogs that can be used as steeds to get around maps quicker, but they also are able to contribute in battle. But to really get going, Palicoes are no longer the only animal friend you can have. By being initially made for a portable console, Rise regains a compelling immediacy for the series.Īmong the new additions to the series’ arsenal is the grapple hook-style Wirebug (itself an evolution of what was found in World’s Iceborne expansion) to make short work of vertical travel in certain places and can also be used to ‘Wyvern Ride’ bigger monsters, and utilize them as makeshift weapons against other monsters or just to a load of damage to them by smashing their weird skull into a cliff face. There’s something moreish about Rise’s structure and it has a lot to do with how the whole hunting process has been streamlined without losing the obvious Quality of Life improvements from the previous iteration. Perhaps the maps lose a bit of the winding wonder they had in World by being a little more compact and relatively simple in structure, but this still contains all the things that made the hunt a hoot last time around. The fights can still be epic of course, but the buildup to your battles is generally far less laborious in Rise. There’s far less tracking of monsters here, with the impetus on getting into the thick of things as quick as possible. Loading in single-player is massively improved, with an almost instant jump into maps outside of a few occasions where a narrative intro to the mission at hand is required. ![]() It’s still a sleek-looking game, and everything moves at a quicker, more fluid pace than World did. It’s a step back that brings back a little something that felt like it was missing in World. That would be a drawback, but the cleaner, clearer view of what’s going on here actually makes for more efficient, comfortable hunting. ![]() Having begun life as a Nintendo Switch game, Monster Hunter Rise isn’t quite as visually detailed as its predecessor, though it does retain that game’s seamless maps. You’ll be dealing with the Rampage at some point, but for now, it’s time to slip back into the comfy familiar slippers of some good old-fashioned monster hunting. When the Rampage previously occurred, the village was attacked by hordes of frenzied beasts, so it’s up to you, the player, to try and get the jump on this situation before it escalates out of hand. The player is a freshly-anointed hunter in Kamura Village who happens to be starting the job just as signs of an disastrous event known as the Rampage is about to kick off. ![]()
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