Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate’s campaign will focus on elite hunters

The development team dishes the dirt on all the new improvements

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate is the expanded version of Monster Hunter 4, which was previously going to be a Japanese-only title. Nintendo Australia will be publishing the game in early 2015, and the development team have begun a series of development blogs that will update players on the progress of the game as well as what will be new from previous games.

First of all, the game will now feature a G-Rank difficulty, which is an improvement over the original Monster Hunter 4, which only went up to High Rank.

In terms of the storyline, the game will revolve around “Lead Hunters”, a group of hunters who take on special requests whom are seeked out because they aren’t your average hunters – they’re the best of the best. Each of the new hunters has specialized knowledge and techniques, traveling the world to take on all kinds of different requests. Players of the original Monster Hunter game on PS2 will also be happy to hear that Dondruma Town, the town that acted as an online lobby area, will be the main setting for the story of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate.

As with previous games, the flagship monster, “Serlegios”, will allegedly use their legs like we’ve never seen before from other monsters. Serlegios will be joined by several other, never-before-seen subspecies in the game too.

The Felyne companions have also received some upgrades, including one cool trick shown in the video where they can launch the player up to the top of a monster, or take stamina from monsters to help the player.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate will be releasing in Japan on October 11th, later his year. It’ll be coming to Western territories in early 2015, exclusively for 3DS. Nintendo Australia are publishing, so as soon as we know a date, we’ll let you know.

We’ve provided the full video diary below, though it is in Japanese. Kudos to SiliconEra for the translation.

James Mitchell

Avid gamer since I was as young as three years old when I received my first NES. Currently studying full time and consider myself a balanced gamer. Enjoy games on all systems, from all genres, on all platforms. Sometimes feels like he's too optimistic for this industry.