{"id":796,"date":"2024-06-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/?p=796"},"modified":"2024-06-13T12:28:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T12:28:18","slug":"review-monster-hunter-stories-switch-showing-its-age-but-still-worth-the-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/13\/review-monster-hunter-stories-switch-showing-its-age-but-still-worth-the-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Monster Hunter Stories (Switch) &#8211; Showing Its Age But Still Worth The Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Portable monsters for the kids (and kids at heart).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Capcom released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/monster_hunter_stories_2_wings_of_ruin\">Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin<\/a> on Nintendo Switch back in 2021, there may have been some that said, &#8220;Wait, there was a first game?&#8221; It&#8217;s worth remembering that the original outing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/monster_hunter_stories\">Monster Hunter Stories<\/a> came towards the end of the 3DS era; in fact, it was released <em>after<\/em> the Switch had launched in 2017. It&#8217;d be understandable, then, if it was missed by plenty of gamers in a way that its sequel \u2014 on the current and dominant Nintendo system \u2014 was not.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/monster_hunter_stories\">Monster Hunter Stories<\/a> on Switch to right that wrong, and to ensure that Nintendo fans have both tales readily available. It&#8217;s welcome, too; though these kid-friendly RPG outings for the series don&#8217;t push the boundaries of the genre or even add much to the IP&#8217;s impressive global reach, they are a pleasant introduction to a franchise that is traditionally rather challenging. This first entry comes with some enhancements, too, but it also feels unabashedly like the 3DS original, which isn&#8217;t always a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/monster-hunter-stories\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portable monsters for the kids (and kids at heart). When Capcom released Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin on Nintendo Switch back in 2021, there may have been some that said, &#8220;Wait, there was a first game?&#8221; It&#8217;s worth remembering that the original outing of Monster Hunter Stories came towards the end of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}