The game’s story is divided into village and port segments. By the sixth time, required to craft a full suit of Royal Ludroth armor, it’s not so much a triumph as a slog.
Every fight that matters in MH3U is a boss fight, and the first time you kill a Royal Ludroth is a triumph. That is to say, it’s still a game about two things: boss fights and grinding. At its heart, though, MH3U is still Monster Hunter. Capcom’s formula of iterating on each Monster Hunter installment over the lifetime of a console generation is working in MH3U like it’s never worked before. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate is Monster Hunter Tri – except, well, it’s not.