User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-99.67.20.85-20121010233833/@comment-5043481-20121013175607

I agree, from what I have seen of other platformers, scripting is common. They do it by making it so there is basicly only 1 way through everywhere, and you start at one end, and go to the other. They can be a lot of fun, yes, but not for monster hunter. The loss of freedom would kill gameplay.

Also, most scripted platformers you can only move left-right and up-down. This limitation makes scripting easier, and somewhat inevitable. With 3 dimentions, like MH, it would be much harder, and it would seem as though you are going through a maze all the time. That would really suck.