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I haven't been this excited about Capcom's MH since they announced MHP3rd, which I had to get a hold of, and now play an english patched ISO.

I originally bought a Wii for Tri, and was pretty impressed with online, but the gameplay just didn't draw me in, and the water combat was piss poor. For some odd reason, I grabbed MH3U, knowing it was the exact same game with some added content. Needless to say, I got the jist of it, the content was the same until endgame HR, and felt like I had wasted time I could've put back into MH Frontier.

But, MH Frontier was Japanese, so I had the gruelling task of reading guides of what each menu had.

But MH4U has online integration on the 3ds, which takes out the middle man of the Wii U and making online accessibility with others a much more plausible cause. And the issue I had back with the PSP was local play, and had to Xlink kai.

SO anyways, MH4U is amazing. The gameplay is still core to the series, limited movement while in combat, but the biggest change I've seen and played is the fluidity. Weapons seem a lot more limber? I don't know how to word it precisely, but it just feels a lot more quicker paced.

Things I've noticed is added combo paths. I'm a greatsword user, ever since MH on the PS2, and the biggest change I've noticed is just how "unlimited" combat movement is with it. You can charge attack 3 ways now, overhead charge, backdrawn charge (when you paddle smash) and side charge (pressing A and then A again will bump you into another charge, which a last A press unleashes a big AoE slash).

The only things I'm disappointed in is the difficulty, but it is a demo, I went balls deep and went for Gore Magala and it's just a Tigrex, Nargacuga reskin with some of it's own personal abilities.

But there is the elder Gore Magala, which I'm hoping, will completely thrash me.

Anyone else care to share their experiences of the demo so far?

I'm liking the demo so far. tried out the insect glaive and I might make that my main weapon instead of sword and shield which I've been using since forever xD

I hear a lot of people used SnS in MH3U, which made me scratch my head as it's one of the weakest raw output along with elemental.

I could see SnS being up in the higher tiers of status afflictions, but even then, wouldn't DS be better for output?

I'm iffy on the new weapons though, I can see the glaive being OP'd since you get insta buffs from the insect, and you're so mobile it's ridiculous. Charge Axe is pretty cool, but the lack of combo makes it kind of a dumbed down weapon, but until I see raw numbers, I'd rather choose an SnS over CA.

What's funny is that I've been garbage with Lance from PS2 > PSP > Wii and MH3U, but in MH4U, I can actually use it.

It doesn't help that the camera's not dynamic, and I don't like controlling it with the same finger I use to move my character. Using the soft D-pad on the touch screen isn't a whole lot better either. And yes, I know you can swing the camera to the back of your character with the L button.

I'm not into games that basically force you to play with friends to make any sort of progress. Of course, it doesn't help that all of my friends hardly or never play any games like this.