Highlights
- Collaboration occasions have grow to be an everyday sight in Monster Hunter, including content material from different media as limited-time quest rewards.
- The Horizon: Zero Daybreak collaboration in Monster Hunter World and Iceborne allowed gamers to make use of Aloy’s instruments and armor, selling each video games.
- Monster Hunter and Horizon share similarities in gameplay, making Horizon a promising crossover franchise for future Monster Hunter video games.
One of many joys of maintaining with Monster Hunter is having the ability to take part in its collaboration occasions. Since Monster Hunter gained on-line performance, it is added loads of content material from different media as limited-time quest rewards. From One Piece to different Capcom franchises, crossover weapons, armor, and even story eventualities have grow to be an everyday sight in Monster Hunter. Throughout its tenure, Monster Hunter World went so far as including Last Fantasy 14’s Behemoth and The Witcher 3’s Leshen as distinctive monsters, demonstrating that the follow nonetheless has room to develop.
Amongst Monster Hunter‘s extra prolific collaborations have been its Horizon: Zero Daybreak occasions. With one added in Monster Hunter World and one other coming early in its Iceborne growth’s life, these PS4-exclusive quests let gamers flip their hunter into Horizon protagonist Aloy and use a few of her instruments. Not solely did this promote Horizon: Zero Daybreak and its Frozen Wilds DLC, nevertheless it additionally capitalized on parallels between Horizon and Monster Hunter‘s gameplay. Monster Hunter Rise could not repeat the method with Horizon: Forbidden West due to launching as a Change unique, however the subsequent Monster Hunter installment might, and may, crew up with Horizon once more.
All Monster Hunter and Horizon Collaborations So Far
Horizon has rapidly grow to be a promising new PlayStation franchise and shares a number of its attraction with Monster Hunter. A lot of Horizon‘s gameplay entails utilizing numerous instruments to battle large machines similar to Monster Hunter‘s wildlife. Aloy employs totally different harm sorts, traps, and gear crafted from her quarry to get the higher hand, making Horizon resemble a single-player model of Monster Hunter. Thanks to 2 sequence of collaboration quests for Monster Hunter World and Iceborne, gamers have been capable of deliver Monster Hunter and Horizon collectively by way of their rewards.
- Aloy Armor (Full Armor Set and Layered Armor)
- Aloy’s Battle Bow/Aloy’s Adept Battle Bow (Bow and Layered Weapon)
- Felyne Watcher Grinder (Palico Weapon)
- Watcher (Palico Full Armor Set)
- Protect-Weaver (Full Armor Set)
- Banuk (Full Armor Set and Layered Armor)
- Stormslinger Prototype/Stormslinger Adept (Gentle Bowgun)
- Forgefire (Palico Weapon)
- Frostclaw (Palico Full Armor Set)
- Focus (Coloured Pendants)
- Guild Card Background/Pose/Titles
Whereas many rewards have been beauty, the armor items and weapons gamers gained might all be upgraded, and, other than the Protect-Weaver and Stormslinger, Horizon‘s armor and weapons have layered variants. Operating any construct as Aloy sounds interesting, however the authentically protecting Protect-Weaver might be helpful in a pinch, and one in all MH World’s strongest Gentle Bowguns is the Stormslinger Adept. As an entire, Horizon: Zero Daybreak turned out to be a very good crossover for Monster Hunter World, and gave long-range weapon gamers some uncommon collaboration help.
Monster Hunter Might Do So A lot Extra With Horizon Crossovers
The Frozen Wilds’ collaboration quests shouldn’t be the top of Monster Hunter and Horizon‘s crossovers. Each sequence’ monsters and gear are virtually interchangeable, to the purpose the place a future Horizon sport might conceivably get Monster Hunter content material of its personal. Different collaborations have gone a lot additional than Horizon‘s did as effectively, with a number of that includes authentic cutscenes and the aforementioned Behemoth and Leshen changing into Monster Hunter‘s first crossover monsters. Luckily, Horizon‘s current collaborations ought to give it a foot in Monster Hunter‘s door.
Ideally, future Monster Hunter and Horizon titles would synchronize their collaborations like Last Fantasy 14 and Monster Hunter World did. Every would function tales involving monsters and characters from every sport hopping worlds, with Aloy serving to the Hunter’s Guild cope with a overseas mechanical menace whereas somebody from the most recent base camp, or maybe a Palico, directs Aloy in capturing her first flesh-and-blood beast. With iconic Horizon machines like Thunderjaws and Stormbirds serving as prime crossover boss fights, a brand new Horizon collaboration may very well be one in all Monster Hunter‘s greatest but.
