User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-23230538-20131009042333/@comment-17735225-20131009124429

I think making stunning monsters easier is for people who got introduced to the series by the easier titles. This game is actually really hard for people that just played P3rd or 3U. Also it makes solo plays less of a chore, somewhat along the line of 'if you play smart, you'll be rewarded nicely'.

The level system also compensate the 4 people group by making it much easier to die in the higher level quest. (Some people call them 'Artificial difficulty' but that's up to interpretion) The difficulty at 100 lvl quests almost rival Dos/Frontier's difficulty(To some degree).