User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-68.49.124.68-20130107025607/@comment-4212769-20130107084038

What's the problem of having 14 monsters returning from 3rd gen?

It's, again, a matter of view. You can see it how you want, there isn't a wrong.

Andrew's logic is totally reasonable, as we don't only look at what generation it comes from but also which game it was in recently and it returns from. The monsters return from the last game they were in, not from the first. Returning from a point in time when you were still there for a time is impossible. (It sounds not that right, but I guess you get the picture.)