Monster Hunter Rise is Getting a Visit from Okami’s Amaterasu This Week

It'south been fifteen years since Hideki Kamiya'south stylish activeness-adventure Okami was released, but the game still has its passionate hardcore fans. Well, those fans ought to be happy, because today Capcom announced Okami's wolfy protagonist Amaterasu is coming to Monster Hunter Ascension! The crossover will offer the "Ammy Costume" layered armor set, which makes your Palamute mount await similar Amaterasu herself. You can check out a trailer for the crossover, beneath.

Amaterasu is still looking good later on all these years! Players will need to complete a special Event Quest to get the Okami armor – no word on what that volition entail yet, merely they usually aren't also daunting. Several free "Capcom Collab" updates have been promised for Monster Hunter Rising – the Okami crossover is the 2d, following a Monster Hunter Stories 2 collab in June. A new roadmap is promising at to the lowest degree five Capcom Collabs in total.

Haven't been keeping up with Monster Hunter Ascension? Information technology's definitely worth a look, as Wccftech's Kai Powell deemed it his favorite Monster Hunter all the same in his full review…

Despite my overflowing love for Monster Hunter Earth, I think Monster Hunter Rise might actually overtake it as my favorite original championship in the series. The means that Capcom has streamlined the onboarding and pre-hunt experiences to give players more fourth dimension to focus on the actual hunt itself show that Capcom wants to respect the histrion'south time, specially when they're trying to get three friends together for an afternoon of hunting. […] Monster Hunter Ascent might offer the serial' best entry for first-time players while series veterans will fly over the competition with the new Wirebug mechanics.

Monster Hunter Rise is available now on Nintendo Switch and will launch on PC in early 2022. The Okami DLC will exist available on July 30.