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This isn’t a huge deal, but you will definitely accidentally somersault into a neighboring cave while trying to avoid a monster’s attack, which is annoying.

The levels are separated into discretely numbered areas with short loading screens between them.

It’s tough to deal with some of those elements today. But for World, Capcom did a fantastic job of preserving that DNA while judiciously excising unnecessary elements. I played most of those games myself, and at the time, I might have even defended some of their quirks as part of the series’s DNA. The harder adjustment, however, is that Generations Ultimate is mechanically and structurally the same as pretty much every other pre- World game. (The 3DS version isn’t being released outside of Japan.) The game has received resolution and texture bumps in its transition to the Switch, of course, but returning to simple plains and empty caves is jarring after the lush, living environments of World. Most obviously, the fact that this started out as an expanded version of a 3DS game means that it’s basically two generations behind World on a technical level. This makes its belated Western release feel like a relic from the past.

In Japan, Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate came out a year ago for the Switch and 18 months ago on 3DS as Monster Hunter XX. It was more open and fluid than past games, with a world that felt truly alive. Designed from the start for the PS4 and Xbox One, with a PC version following later, World not only represented the first significant technical upgrade in the series’s history, but it was a major redesign of its structure and systems in a bid to make it more accessible. Monster Hunter World was a huge overhaul of the series, which had always been hugely popular on handheld systems in Japan but never found as much success in the West or on home consoles. The possibly bad news is that it’s also very different than World.

In many ways, it’s a better package than World. The good news is that Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate is out today for the Nintendo Switch, and it’s great. If your first Monster Hunter game was World - which is statistically likely since the game has now sold more than 10 million copies worldwide - and you’re hungry for more, I have good (and possibly bad) news.