User blog comment:Plexioth- xD/Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate/@comment-58.109.67.194-20110917041253/@comment-76.69.6.109-20110917051513

Well, now at least we know that you can switch between city and village by talking to that cat.

It's really blurry so take this with a grain of salt, but it looks to me like the bottom screen has two buttons: オフライン(offline) and オンライン (online). Do the Japanese games refer to local multiplayer as online? I've never tried them.