Monster Hunter Rise: Release date, Gameplay and more!

Monster Hunter Rise is an upcoming action role-playing game developed and published by Capcom. It is the sixth mainline installment in the Monster Hunter series after Monster Hunter: World.

Here’s everything we know about Monster Hunter Rise :

Release date

Monster Hunter Rise is being developed for the Nintendo Switch and is scheduled for worldwide release on March 26th, 2021. A Microsoft Windows version of the game is also in the works and will be released sometime in early 2022.

Trailer

Gameplay

Rise will follow many of the new conventions for the series introduced through Monster Hunter World while also introducing new features such as an animal companion called a palamute that can be used to ride across the map or into battle, and the use of wire bugs to grapple around the game world vertically and mount and ride certain monsters in the game.

Like all it’s predecessors, Monster Hunter Rise has the player take the role of a Hunter, tasked with slaying or trapping large monsters using a variety of weapons, tools, and environmental features to damage and weaken them while surviving their attacks. Successful completion of the offered quests provide loot, typically in the form of various monster parts from the monster, which are used to forge new armor and weapons that can be used to take on more powerful monsters, forming the series’ notable core loop. Several of the series’ monsters return along with a host of new monsters developed for Rise.

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All fourteen weapon types  that have been present in both Monster Hunter Generations and World, which mix archetypes of swords, shields, staves, bows, and guns, will be present in Rise.

Rise features both single player and local and online multiplayer modes with up to four hunters in a group. In single player modes, the player hunts with both their Palico and Palamute companions. In the online modes, players select either the Palico or Palamute to join them.

The game will have some form of cross-compatibility with Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin, which is planned for release after Rise, but have not been detailed in full.

Get ready for the latest installment of the series as Monster Hunter returns to it’s handheld roots this March!