Monster Hunter Rise hands-on preview – a beast of a demo
The Nintendo Switch gets its own exclusive Monster Hunter game, that looks set to boost the series’ popularity even further in the West.
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They got to start playing the demo a few days ago and are really liking it:
"Monster Hunter Rise was announced last September, along with role-playing game Monster Hunter Stories 2, but until now it hasn't been entirely clear what it is. Within a few minutes of trying the demo it becomes obvious that this is a full fat Monster Hunter game, with a scale and ambition that is almost the match of Monster Hunter: World – as well as an open world environment that immediately feels reminiscent of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild. There are also some nods to the series' glory days on the PSP, with a slightly more streamlined approach to the titular goal, and a range of significant new features. Capcom could've tried to create a cut-down version of World but this is much more than that: a brand new game created from scratch for the Switch and with a distinctive feel all of its own."
"Rather than being an abridged version of Monster Hunter: World, Rise already feels like a significant new entry in the franchise. That said it's the graphics that grab you at first, as they're considerably better than we were expecting. Clearly they're not as good as World, with a lot of shortcuts taken with the landscape in terms of object detail, but that not only keeps up the frame rate but ensures the monsters can look as good as possible."
