User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-75.70.4.192-20120704042900/@comment-3062343-20120704075935

"The game's story with the greatest number of NPCs in series history." I hope this doesn't mean that MH4 will be more story-focused, as playing in Japanese could potentially be difficult if that were the case. Apart from the monster-climbing, which I'm still not 100% sold on, I'm either positive or neutral about all the other things listed there, so I guess that's good overall. Kind of a shame about the lack of underwater though. Despite finding it frustrating on occasions, I thought it could be excellent with some refinements. Maybe the other new changes to the game could make underwater difficult to implement, which I suppose is understandable. Always good to hear of new weapon types (I presume it means weapon types rather than individual weapons, as the game's obviously going to have new weapons).