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Alexander Cope

Get a taste of Monster Hunter Wild's mount system with Capcom's best alternative to Pokémon

Monster Hunter Stories in-game screenshot.

Many years ago in 2019 when I first got into Capcom’s Monster Hunter series thanks to Monster Hunter World, I scoured the franchise’s backlog to play previous entries in the lead-up to Monster Hunter World: Iceborne’s debut. 

One of the titles that caught my attention was Monster Hunter Stories, a JRPG spin-off released originally on the Nintendo 3DS in 2016 and then later for Android and iOS in 2018. In contrast to the mainline games where you only hunted monsters, Monster Hunter Stories lets you befriend monsters (referred to as Monsties in the game) and fight alongside them much like Nintendo’s Pokémon series.

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