Video: Capcom Launches Cute Monster Hunter Training Academy Series

This is long over due. They should've had this at launch. So many people try it and quit because they just can't get a good feel for it.

Cute, looks just like the Meownster Hunters' quests without the strings on everything.

I'm someone who is interested in the series but have no idea how to jump in. Something like this is very appealing to me.

I started to play it last week thanks to @JaxonH, who generously supplied me with a copy of the game. Love the lock on monster camera.

Over a hundred hours? Maybe a tad more than that for those that play it.

Pretty cool! The series have a steep learning curve and to be honest, I felt overwhelmed at first too. Though, once you beat a monster, you can't stop, it's so addicting! Hundred of hours is easily loss on this.

I've only started this a few days ago, but I've put hundreds of hours into monster hunter 3 ultimate, so I shouldn't need this video. Monster hunter can be quite daunting at first, so having a video tutorial is very wise.

What about MH Vet videos, lol.
I wouldn't mind some G-Rank tip videos/ o.o

Very nice. Although the best way to learn is just play and Google what you wanna know.

But a few tips for beginners, courtesy of JaxonH:

1) Gathered resources can be combined to make better resources. Make it your goal to combine every possible item in the combo list in order to unlock the entry. Before your first combination of each entry there will be ????? but after you combine it will tell you what that combination will make. For instance, green herbs and blue mushrooms combine to make potions, and then potions can be combined with honey to make mega potions.

Buy all 5 "Book of Combos" from the merchant sellers. Only one or two will be available when you start but as you progress the others will become available for sale. Store them in your item chest and they will increase your odds of combination success rate.

3) When you reach high rank, there is an armor charm and power charm for sale from the Gathering Hall merchant. Buy them and keep them in your item pouch at all times. Once you fight a Deviljho and procure 2 Deviljho Talons, combine them with the charms to craft an Armor Talon and Power Talon. These are much more powerful than the charms, and, can stack with charms for even more stat boosting, ultimately you'll want one power charm, one power talon, one armor charm and one armor talon in your item pouch for maximum defense and damage.

4) Armor spheres upgrade armor. Use them along with the required resources to keep your armor defense up to scratch.

5) MH is all about skill sets, so craft armor in full sets. Reason being, each piece of armor gives a few points toward a skill. Once you reach 10 points the skill activates. Making full armor sets of the same type of armor ensures you reach all 10 skill points, otherwise you'll have a few points in a whole bunch of different skills but none of them will be high enough to activate a skill, so they do you no good. You can also have negative skills by reaching -10 points in a given skill. You can use decorations and talismans to gem out negative skills, or add a few needed points to activate a skill you're close to having. For example, if you have -10 in thunder res the negative skill is activated and you take extra damage from lightning attacks. But use a +1 Thunder decoration and you'll bump it to -9, so the negative skill is no longer active.

This has been Monster Hunter Tips by JaxonH. In next week's tips we'll dive into hunting strategy!

This is a great Idea! It helps people that still have.jot tried Mh (like me) to understand better the game and maybe give it a try.

Pretty neat how Kayamba makes a small cameo in the animation.

@JaxonH Great tips there, thank you very much. I've put about 60 hours in so far so only just beginning.

A good move on Capcom's part, although they need to look at improving the in-game tutorials when it comes to future iterations. MH4U's tutorials just throw an immense amount of text at you, all of which is very hard to absorb. Some more interactive tutorials would be better for new players.

Otherwise, it really is a game that you can only learn by really investing time into it. You have to fight monsters multiple times to learn what their telltale signs are and how they move. I find this makes it a superbly deep game to enjoy, but again, newcomers may struggle to get it.

Best bet is to learn by playing with others, especially if they know what they're doing. They can guide you on things like armour, charms, skills, weapons and monsters and you'll accomplish more as a team. It sounds perhaps a tad arduous for a mere video game, but once you get into it, it's just so fun and addictive. I've played 310 hours so far and I could honestly play for the same amount of time again.

It is a great game, fun and addictive. But it doesn't last forever. There comes a point where you feel you have done everything, or you don't feel you can progress more than just keep geting new kinds of armorsets. Once you have been claimed the biggest G-Rank crown, the game is more or less done.
I would be happy if I still had a flame for the game, unfortunately got bored after 340 hours, cuz the gameplay is very much the same throughout the whole game.
And there are so many other great games you don't want to miss out bcuz of only playing MH hundreds of hours.
Although I would be happy with a new MH game, will be a day-one purchase for sure! =)

For those with a smartphone, there is a free app called "MH4U Database" that will help you quickly track down elusive items you may need for crafting, learn a little more about monsters, and build theoretical armor sets to check out skills and stats. It works so much better and faster than any of the wikis you encounter online. Definitely worth a download for a quick ref MH4U pocket guide.

"unfortunately got bored after 340 hours" lol. Only a Monster Hunter player would suggest this wasn't enough. I've been gaming since the 80s and I don't think I've ever played a game that much. I think I'm currently pushing 130 hours on MH4U (Still only HR4, and I'm stuck in the 8 Star single player quests), but I come back to it periodically when the spell grips me again. It's really increasing my backlog.