User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-6040659-20140127194722/@comment-7584137-20140202110625

On the subject of dark stories, I will agree that the 5th generation of Pokémon had the best villains (come on, who didn´t want to kill Ghetsis by the end of the games?) but X/Y had the darkest story. I mean, yeah, Team Flare fricking wanted to commite genocide, even if their boss wasn´t as much of a evil jerk as Ghetsis (hey, at least HE regretted having to come to such extremes, while Ghetsis abused and destroyed his adopted child to nearly beyond reparation and his only regret was not getting what he wanted) and don´t make me get started on the Mystery Dungeon series.

Even our MH isn´t immune to a few darker elements. Compared to 3U, who involved saving a fishing community from Ceadeus, this one has a zombie-apocalypse like setting XD What I´m saying is that you don´t need a lot of gore or violence to have a "mature" game.