Monster Hunter Stories
Monster Hunter Stories is a role-playing game spin-off of the popular Monster Hunter franchise, but features a drastically different gameplay focus. Unlike previous titles in the franchise, Monster Hunter…
Monster Hunter Stories is an adventure developed by Capcom, released 8 October 2016 on Nintendo 3DS, Android and iOS. It currently starts at $9.15 at Gamesplanet.
What Monster Hunter Stories is
Monster Hunter Stories is an adventure game developed by Capcom and released in 2016. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Android and iOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Monster Hunter Stories is a role-playing video game developed by Capcom and Marvelous and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. It is a spinoff title in the Monster Hunter series and features a drastically different gameplay focus. Unlike previous titles in the franchise, Monster Hunter Stories lets players take on the role of a Rider instead of a Hunter, and are able to take part in a traditional turn-based battle system. Major changes and additions featured in this title include hatching eggs and befriending monsters, battling alongside them, executing special kinship techniques, and customizing monsters' abilities and appearance. The game was released in Japan on October 8, 2016…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 50 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Monster Hunter series
Monster Hunter Stories is the 28th of 62 entries we hold in the Monster Hunter series. It arrived 10 months after Monster Hunter Generations. The next entry was Monster Hunter Frontier Z in 2016. Its critic score of 77 is 7 points below the series average of 84. The highest-rated entry is Monster Hunter: World at 93.
How it was received
Monster Hunter Stories holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 9 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel® Core™ i5-3470 3.20 GHz or AMD FX™-6300, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA®GeForce® GTX 960 or AMD Radeon RX 560. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 20GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $9.15 at Gamesplanet, 69% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Monster Hunter Stories launched on 8 October 2016, within three weeks of Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition and Sid Meier’s Civilization VI. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Monster Hunter Stories yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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