Let us consider for a moment the duality of Monster Hunter. At a basic level, it couldn’t be easier to explain – practically everything you need to know is right there in the title! This is a series about tracking enormous beasts, clobbering them into submission, then crafting their bits into better gear, fancier weapons – endlessly repeating that cycle until you simply can’t muster the enthusiasm anymore. But it’s also a series that’s accrued such a vast wealth of interlinking and often comically opaque systems over its two decades of existence that even old-timers like me usually end up having to resort to a Google.