Monster Hunter Goes Animal Crossing
Pay a visit to the cutesy Felyne village sometime soon.
This week's issue of Famitsu magazine contains the first solid details on Capcom's latest PSP project. It's something called Monhan Nikki: Pokapoka Airu-mura, which -- once you get past that inscrutable Japanese name -- basically boils down to Animal Crossing with a bunch of Felynes from the Monster Hunter series thrown into it.
Originally announced at a MH fan event in Japan two months ago, Airu-mura is a much more laid-back sort of gameplay experience. "The idea of the game is that you're a Felyne and you're trying to get as many Felynes as possible into your village," producer Tatsuya Kitabayashi told Famitsu. "As the population goes up, the village grows and you'll have more stuff to do. It's a spin-off of Monster Hunter, in that it doesn't have that hunt-or-be-hunted tension; it's something you can be a lot looser with playing."
Capcom is still a little tight-lipped with gameplay details, but so far they've revealed the treehouses these Felynes live in (the village concepts look a bit like a picture-book version of the Ewok tree cities, actually) and the guilds that form the village core. You can undertake quests at this guild, of course, and Capcom revealed screenshots of multiple Felyines fighting monsters in a side-view perspective -- a bit like Sony's Patapon in look. The game also connects with Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, with your Felyne companion from that game coming to visit the village if you connect the two games together via save files.
Capcom has no Japanese release date yet for the game, which its PR department pegged at 40% complete.
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