Monster Hunter Wilds is among the most anticipated video games of 2025, and with good cause. The earlier two video games within the sequence, 2018’s Monster Hunter World and 2021’s Monster Hunter Rise, had been acclaimed by critics and audiences, and each broke gross sales information, with World nonetheless ranked as Capcom’s second-best-selling recreation of all time at over 26 million copies offered.
Nonetheless, Monster Hunter has been round for a very long time, and there have been many video games earlier than World and Rise ushered in a brand new period for the franchise. Whereas the franchise was already mega-popular in Japan pre-World, Monster Hunter had extra of a cult following in North America. However the video games have at all times been good.
Followers curious to check out a few of these older titles can seize a number of basic Monster Hunter cartridges for round retail worth on Nintendo Swap and 3DS proper now–and the most effective place to start out is with Monster Hunter Generations Final. You’ll be able to seize the Swap model for simply $10 through the eShop (usually $40), and those that choose shopping for bodily media can snag a duplicate for $43.54 at Amazon. Generations Final is out of print now, so bodily version costs fluctuate repeatedly. You’ll be able to consider Generations Final as a biggest hits album, because it compiles a staggering variety of monsters and locales from the franchise’s historical past till World. If you happen to solely need one outdated Monster Hunter recreation, Generations Final is the best choose.