User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-8874090-20131006161601/@comment-11685710-20131006183523

Oh my...what a mess :D I'll try it, too now ^^

Your character comes as a new Hunter to BaruBare. He's accompanied by the Caravan leader when they encounter a Darren Moran. The Hunter manages to scare it away for a moment, but it still attacks the village. It's repelled and the Caravan leader tells you about a scale his grandfather (or his father, I'd have to look it up, but it doesn't really matter anyway) gave to him. You're going on your first quests and after a while the caravan decides to travel to Shinato village in the mountains, because the leader thinks, that someone there's ablte to tell him more about his grandfather's "treasure".

The arrive at Naguri village, that has been terrorized by the "demon frog" Tetsukabura. You're defeating him and the Naguri people are starting to build a ship for the caravan. (I'm not too sure about the next part, so I'll "shorten" it a bit). You're getting several tasks like hunting a Gypceros, Basarios and Neruskyura and in the end the Naguri manage to destroy a rock, that blocked the volcano. The newly-built Whaleship is setting sails and on its way to Shinato, when Goa Magara appears and attacks the ship on the open sea. You have to fight it and after some time, Goa retreats just to launch a new attack on the ship. The 4 "Heroes" (I don't know what they're really called) appear and repell Goa with their ship and a dragonator and the whole group has to sail to Chico Village instead of Shinato.

On Chice lives an old wyverian woman with several Felyne and Melynx at the beach, but there's also another small Felyne village inside the forest. Those are threatened by a Congalala and the hunter is asked to kill the monster. After you finished that quest, you're told about the Felyne Corps and that they've been attacked by a Zaboazagiru. You kill him and get to know about another monster, that threatens Chico Village (kinda repetitive, I know): Garara Ajara. When you killed him too, you're meeting with two members of the "Hero group". They tell you, that they've been attacked by Goa and that the other two are still in the Forest (Unknown Sea of Trees, this time) One of them is injured. You're trying to distract Goa while the two hunters a re escaping, but Goa still manages to flee again. After rescuing both, you're finally going on a quest to finally kill Goa. When you're done with that you need to kill some other monsters while the caravan is building an airship, because the Leader thinks that'd be less dangerous to sail again and after two or three quests, you're finally off to Shinato.

Once you've arrived there, you're asked to kill a Congala, that went berserk for some reason...it's infected and you're encountering the aftereffects of Goa infecting monsters for the first time. Once the quest is finished you're seeing a cutscene with the "defeated" Goa, that is getting up again and changing into Shagaru Magara, its adult form.

That's more or less how far I am atm, but there'll be some other monsters you have to kill and the monsters in the region of Shinato are becoming more and more violent while the Feral Wyvern Virus spreads farther and farther until you're finally facing Shagaru and killing it once and for all.