I love when great games get modern day remasters, but it's rarely major news these days. At first glance, the recent announcement for Monster Hunter Stories coming to PS4, Nintendo Switch and PC was no different. Yet, for longtime fans, there’s a reason to get excited that risks being overshadowed.
You see, when Monster Hunter Stories released on Nintendo 3DS in the west, it received one of three updates that the Japanese release ended up getting. While western players got access to Version 1.1, content from versions 1.2 and 1.3 was never localized. The later mobile release – including when the game was added to Apple Arcade as Monster Hunter Stories+ in 2021 – came with some new content exclusive to those versions, yet none of the Japan-exclusive 1.2 and 1.3 content made the jump to these releases.
