 Can someone tell me Kylia from Twilight Princess always makes me think about Final Fantasy like legit I always think about Final Fantasy every single time like it's like it's like it's almost like it's not a Zelda song Like I don't believe it and then I'll load up Twilight Princess I'll go to like like Hylia and it's like oh yeah that is from Zelda But it legitimately feels like a Final Fantasy song does it not? Maybe I'm just maybe I'm just hearing things. I don't know. You guys ready to get the stream started? Pretty sure you guys are ready to get the stream started. Let's do it. Woohoo! Transition! How's it going guys? Hope you're having a good day. It's been an interesting day for me that's for sure. Obviously we haven't done a lot of stand alone. Sorry I had some... I gotta advertise this stream by the way. Hold on. Before we get into anything I haven't even booted the game yet. It is installed. I need to go advertise this stream quick. Throw it up on Twitter, Discord, whatever. Get it out there that hey we have a launch stream going on for Monster Hunter Rise. Yeah yeah. Rising to oblivion over here. A link to my own stream. Before it says something close. Alright me tweet out the stream here and get all that jazz going. You gotta do all that social media stuff. Let people know I'm streaming. Alright we got it linked up here on the Twitterverse. Grab the old Discord-y up in here. Ping everyone. Hey everyone. Live now. Bam! Let's get that out in the wild. What else could we do? Where else could we go with this stream? How about Facebook page? Huh? Huh? That's right I have a Facebook page with 60,000 people on. Alright I can't remember the last time I had a post that had 60,000 people see it. But that's a different story. Let me grab the thumbnail. Live now. Get that posted up. Alright. How you guys doing? Having a good day? Having a good day? I was going to say hi to everyone on the stream here quick before we get going here. We got Brian C here. Gustavo Ufakio. Saladist. Napoleon. Mario Partey. Mario Partey. Little Bay is here. Mazarex. Dan is here. Joseph Erickson. Say sorry. Timette Jr. Oof. Christopher Lockhart at the Random D and I'm sure many others along the way will end up popping in. This is the launch stream for Monster Hunter Rise. I'm using my pro controller which is basically dead but I haven't plugged in. I hope I let it charge just enough so it doesn't die and it just keeps going. So let's play some Monster Hunter. Huh? Now, a little background. I have played Monster Hunter before. The Monster Hunter game I played the most of was Monster Hunter Try. So that's just, you know, my personal, sorry, lower my screen here so I got to change the camera a bit. So the game I played the most of was Monster Hunter Try. Make sure I have my volume ready. I got the switch volume cranked. Let's turn that down a bit. No, a save file does not exist. It's a brand new game. English. English confirm. Confirm. Oh, D-pad. That's right. Neuron. Done. Sure. Sure. Sigh my life away. Got it. Confirm. So my history with Monster Hunter is I played the most in Monster Hunter Try and that was a long time ago. Since then I basically haven't really played Monster Hunter. I didn't play World at all. I did play the first demo for Monster Hunter Rise but not the second. So I don't have a ton of experience with Monster Hunter. I've always felt a little put off by some of the controls. It is still, to this day, a more difficult game to control than others. But it's intentionally so to be done in a way that actually lends itself really well for what the game does. But it's an adjustment from basically any other game you play. Basically I can't think of another video game that controls and plays in the way that Monster Hunter does. So because of that, because of that, it's always really clunky for me to get into it. But after a while, obviously, you adjust to get used to it and you, you know, quote unquote, get good. I haven't had YouTube on Switch for a long time. It's only there because my kids snuck watching it. I don't really watch YouTube on my Switch. I should probably just delete it to be honest with that. I'm very curious. It's here as well. Welcome, man. Niven Geisen is here. Welcome. So yeah, let's get going. Monster Hunter Rise. I basically don't have hardly any history. I won't say none but I barely any history with this. So main new features added. Amiibo cannot be scanned to enter lottery at the market. Some Amiibo will allow you to receive bonuses, download content cannot be used. Some bugs have been fixed. So they had a day one patch, of course. What's the options here? Sure, we can leave all the audio, save data's fine, display. That's fine, language, fine. All right. All right, that's all fine. There's an opening song? Hold on, let me crank this. Did I not get, hold on. Did an alert pop up for that $1 donation? Yeah. Thank you so much, Mr. Pete. Did an alert pop up? Did I missed it? I apologize. Let me grab a, let me start off the stream right. Hey, we should have an alert coming for the midnight Naomi thing too. Let me get your, let me get the $1 in. Just having a little beer today. Not going through hardcore. It did pop. Okay, I missed it. I don't actually know what the alerts look like in my life. Now let me turn down the switch now. It's a beautiful song to kick off the game. Midnight Naomi's here. I sent a super chat last night saying to ban somebody, but my phone froze before I could send the next one to let you know I was joking my bad. It's okay. I didn't ban them. You're good. You're good. That's all right, Midnight Naomi. It happened. The stream was also ending like right around that same time. So like there was also your screen froze, but there it is. So it's just my normal ones. So thank you Midnight Naomi for that $5. Yeah, it's one of those things that, you know, it might have froze because the stream ended too. It's neither here nor there. I just like this opening song, even though I'd have no idea what she's saying. It's just a beautiful song. All right, we didn't come here to sit at the menu screen. Right. Oh, he's ripped. Of course he's ripped. He's a monster hunter. You're not going to put a chubby guy like me out there. Well, we're going to play with the guy. Let's see here. Ooh, you choose different backgrounds. What? What does this have to do with anything? Hold on. Does this matter? Wait a second. Choose a type. Okay. Does this matter? Does what background I choose matter? Or is it all irrelevant? So this is a plain white forest. Let's go with some... All right, change expression. I'm pissed off. I don't care. Hey! I'm happy. Look at that face. Look at that face. Come on. That's what it reminds me of. I'm going to leave a little sly smirk. I'm going to leave a little sly smirk. I feel like that sly smirk is more me than anything. Say sorry. For starters, thanks for the five bucks. Thanks for apologizing. It's like how they should unban Wolfstar too. You did nothing wrong. I'm guessing that say sorry is Wolfstar. Anyways, moving on. Just enjoy your alt account. I won't ban this one, I promise. Unless you incite console wars. All right. Let's see here. Change expression. Zoom in. Zoom out. Zoom in. I don't like that hair. I changed that hair. Okay. We can make some changes here. Oh! I don't like that guy's face at all. I don't mind the hair. This is like a Geralt-Orivia look. Except that face is all wrong. These are the default choices. I was hoping they would have like... I don't really like any of these choices. Can I just be honest? They all look like garbage. I mean, I get... No. No. Let's just stick with the default guy, I guess. Feels... Can I... Advance? Okay. Oh! Thank God! Thank God! It allows you to edit different things. All right. For starters... Let's go up my real age in the game, huh? You're gonna be a grizzly fighter at 35? Give me that muscle def. Give me 100% muscle def. You know that's realistic to me. I'm pasty. Sure. I can't move the thing. Dude, I'm super pasty. Let's go with that hairstyle. Here we go. Yeah! We're throwing it up in here. Oh, Nate might not, but I might ban it because it was purposely messing with me once he left. He was messing with you? That's funny. Um... He's goofy looking. All right. Let's find a hairstyle we like. So we got some traditional chick styles. Let's see here. I'm not a fan of that. So of course they don't have my actual style. I'm gonna end up with the default hair. Oh man, you can see the polygons on that one. You ever want to know you're on a switch game? There you go. You can see where they're trying to round the head. You can see it. Switch game, baby. Um, anyways, it doesn't matter. I'm not gonna evolve anyways. That might be the closest to my style, but not really... I don't really have... I'm not wearing my hair up today, but I don't really have my style. So I guess we'll just go with the closest. Hair color. Top bun! The top bun? I don't know if I can handle the top bun, man. Midnight nail. I don't know if I can handle the top bun. Top bun is a very bold choice for me. Very bold look. I have bushy eyebrows, man. Brow width. Better make those things wide as hell. That's not wide. I don't really care. Open those eyes up a bit more. That's right. I want big eyes. Eye depth. Let's see what that does. Very slight alteration. Eye position. No, we're good there. Wait, what about color? I can't change the eye color? Really? Oh, there we go. Eye color. Dude, I've got some blue... eyes, man. They are so blue. You guys can't see it on this shitty webcam, with super blue eyes. Alright, nose. And your nose is fine. Lip... I got some thick lips. There we go. That's a top bun. I got some thickies. Maybe a little less. I got some thick lips. You see this bottom lip? I got some thick lips. Facial hair? Oh, we're adding facial hair. We need some... Dude, I know... I have a friend. Who has that kind of stash? I have a friend. Oh, we got timed out. What happened? What happened? Oh, my God. Who's supposed to be Batman? That's horrible. Oh... You guys can say negative things. It's just console. Nothing console over there. Alright. But seriously, I have a friend who that's exactly how his stash grows out. Exactly how his stash grows out. Not a good look. Oh, my God. It's just not good. I feel like this is just a limitation of the switch. That it looks that bad. Because I feel like it shouldn't look that bad. And that's me right there. Probably as close as I can get to me. I definitely... Who does that? Hold on. Do you guys know anyone who does this hairstyle? That gets rid of the hair here? But who does that? I know people who do this and don't do the stash. I understand that look. Who does this? Who does this? Who? Alright, we'll go with this. A darker cut. Whoa. I don't want to stick with that. Makeup? I don't need makeup. Alright, good enough. I think we're good. Can we confirm? Clothing. Hello. Hello. There. Here come my kids. Get ready. Hi kids. One second, guys. One second. Ah, children. Alright, what do we got here? I mean... Let's show up. What about the flowers on the side? I mean, this is probably like the best outfit. I don't like any of these outfits. So you know what? We're going to go with this with the mid-drift. Not like you're going to see it for that long. Yeah, we can stick with the black. Do you know what? No. What's the pigment look like if I go with a Nintendo Prime blue? Oh, yeah. We're good there. Voice. These all sound the same. Oh, there's a different one. You can wear that, but you can't rock a top, bud. Alright, we'll go with that. Action samples. What do we got here? Okay. Alright, those are just voice samples. All settings. Whoa! Well, I suppose, you know, this screen could be useful if you want to share all your settings with a friend who wants to make a character that looks and sounds and plays like yours. I could see where this screen could be useful to like share it with a friend. I don't care. Confirm. Alright, here we go. Midnight Naomi. Thank you so much. You're making me laugh today. I like it. I need some laughter in my life today. Apparently a beard is called a mutton chop spear. My beard is called a mutton chop spear? Oh, wait. The one that has it shaved right in the middle? Create character with these settings. I'll enter your name. 15 characters. Okay, we're good. Nair. We'll just go with Nate. Can I do a space? I don't think a space is allowed. We'll just go with Nate. We'll keep it simple. We'll keep it simple. Brian C. Without banning him again. You want to give him an honest response? Since you were the one who did it. Oh, I get to create my doggo. He's already blue. Perfect. I don't really have much of an opinion. What clothing do I have? Just color settings for it. I don't really have much of a preference for the dog. What's his name going to be? His name is obvious, guys. I have a real dog. I have a dog right now. I've had four dogs in my life. But this... This... This is my current dog. His name is actually Link. So... Not my first one. I played Monster Hunter Tri, but it's been a long time. I literally hate cats. What do I name something that I hate? You guys give me a name. What do I name this cat? I hate cats. I know the cat's important, but I hate cats. Console War's irony. Basically say sorry, aka Wolfstar. Just shut up and enjoy the stream. Or you could say stuff. You just can't say anything that's console war or mocking mods. You know? Chill, enjoy the stream, talk about Monster Hunter, talk about whatever. Just nothing console war like. You don't have to like Xbox. You don't have to like anything. Doesn't mean we have to incite console wars. That being said, let's... What should I name the cat? Bastard? Do you think they'll let me get away with Bastard? Gotta remember, online game, they might not let me get away with Bastard. I'll show that. MSG. Cranston? Cranston? They might not let me get away with Bastard. They might not let me get away with it. They'll probably let me do Cranston. I can't imagine why they won't let me do that. Didn't really get any other suggestions. I'm pretty sure Bastard, they'll probably won't allow that online or something. You know, might be too... You know, gotta be PC. So... Alright Cranston. Multiple data slots. There I am just chilling with my doggo. And my cat. Kitty cat. Kitty cat Cranston. Say sorry, it's just about referencing prior shit. There's no reason to reference anything. Just enjoy the stream. You give away who you are too easily by your words and actions. See the whole, I hope I don't get banned from that opinion. See, you're just... You're just acting dumb, man. You can have opinions. God. Just don't annoy me. Alright, so who is this chick? There's two of them. They're sisters. Cognac of what? Alrighty then. Sure. Alrighty then. My cat looks all confused. He's like, huh? What? What the fuck? Huh? What is happening? These women tried sneaking in on me for some reason. Yeah, the internet can be an interesting place. That's for sure. Monster Hunter Rise! Let's go. I mean, this dude, this is a switch game, man. Does this not look good for a switch game? Like, I know it feels weird to say for a switch game, but legitimately. Does this not look really great for a switch game? I feel like most switch games that are around this kind of art direction don't end up looking this good. Okay, it's also a cutscene right now. And it ported later. Rampage. What is this? Hyrule Warriors? For a while? Some 50 years instead of 100? Yeah. Wait, wait, wait. I'm trying to read the chat here. Or ill-informed. Um... And I'm supposed to be dressed up for that opinion. Unfortunately for you, Nate does this shit for a living. He's a pro. I don't really do this for a living. Just to be clear here. This isn't my job. But that's neither here nor there. I'm going to find out if you see some of these things. I don't know. I don't know. I don't even know there. I'm going to find out if you see some of these things that just isn't supported by logic or facts and gets dismantled. But if you are serious now, why don't we chill? It just gives you an idea of how your character will look in-game. Okay. Now, Nate, Rampage and all aside, I've got news for you. I got a message from the guild this morning. What is this? Is this The Mandalorian? I started Season 1 yesterday. So now I'm all hyped on Mandalorian stuff. Alright, anyways. Now, Certified Hunter. You really love it now, Squirt. Well, I guess I shouldn't call you that now. You're certified. I don't think it'll stop me. The Quest Maiden. I've been formed in the village of the coming Rampage, like you asked. Yes, thank you. By the way, Nate, I overheard the good news. After a while, congratulations. All you need to do now is register with the guild. So I can start accepting those quests. To do that, you need to speak with Master Hojo, the Gathering Hub. But that can wait. First we go shopping. You need the help of other villagers if you want to succeed out in the field. So, follow me. Follow me. Now, where should we start? Aha, of course. The Marketeer of Mystery. Kigaro the Merchant. All the way to character R to Dash. Okay. What's next? I am holding R. It's a little bit of a sprint. That's not much of a sprint. Welcome to my shop. I've been a long time since we went shopping together. All right, well. Greetings, Master Nate. I was just informed that you have been accepted into the guild. Felicitations! Here you will find a restorative cures and other such items to aid you on your hunts. I often diversify my stock, provide special offers to hunters too. I think you can find the most available. A half price and that's what you do. Real Margins. So, he's like Coles. I always hold off buying what I want until the sale. And when it's on, I swoop in like a Wrathian. Jesus. I have often sensed Lady Hinoa's sharp gaze upon my back now. Anyways, Kigaro, about these items I have to set aside for you. Of course, I'll have them packaged in steadfast as steel. Master Hammond the Blacksmith. Okay, press L to reset the camera. Oh, okay. That's kind of like in Zelda games. Like this, reset the camera. Blacksmith. What's up? Read the chat here quick. It's been way too much time with the characters. Dude, I was on it for a bit longer than I expected. Say sorry, I said, okay, I'll be chill. I just wanted to give an opinion without being banned or at least understand why I'm being banned. All right. I'm just an old dude that can afford a few throw a few bucks. Well, I appreciate you supporting the stream, man. I called Nintendo Prime at 3 a.m. What are you talking about? I didn't answer anybody at 3 a.m. No idea you're talking about Marcos. I know this is really sudden, but when will the giveaway winners be announced? First of April, like always. So the giveaway runs through the 31st. That smirk is kind of unsettling. Yeah, I'm kind of an unsettling kind of guy. That makes 100 in part. Can we go break a hunt? Where do we have to go? To the chef's shop. Yo, Moggy, the chef's tea shop. Okay. The wire bug gauge is displayed at the bottom of the screen. I don't understand. ZL plus A. Can I do it already? Hey! Oh, dude, I love that move. That move is sick. Kind of want that in Zelda now. Some bunny dango. You'll never taste anything yummy in your life, and they'll get your juices flowing for a hunt. A little something for me to celebrate you becoming a hunter. Come back when you're done with your registration. Okay. Big sword. Big ass sword. Where's the chest that has all that stuff? Oh, there's nothing in it. She just gave me all the stuff. Let's get all registered here. Um... Nintendo Prime X Fortnite. Um... Can you talk about your history with this franchise? Uh, I played Monster Hunter Tri for a little while. That's about it. I don't really have any of the history. Do you have Joy-Con wiggle problems when you connect to the tablet mode? I do not. The wire bug and mount makes running around the game feel so much better than the old Monster Hunter games. Well, hello there, Nate. I'm sure you took forever to get here. I thought I was going to croak. You're probably well aware that I hold joy at the guild master of this exceptional gathering hub. What's that? Oh, yes, I was getting into it before you interrupted me. Master, you... Oh, okay. Who the heck is this dude? What does he want? Area action bar? Oh, okay. Wait, pictures can be taken using the camera from the action bar. Okay. Pictures, okay. Pressing, you mean the camera? Oh, you have... Okay. Select camera. Oh, duh, here. How do I have Kahoot do it again? It's not B, X. All this. Wasn't it pressing the left stick in? There's just so much. Stop. Who am I supposed to go? Who am I supposed to go find now? Oh, okay. The one that was getting food. Where'd she go? She was getting food. Sure, let me ride. Let me ride you. Where is she? There she is. Come on. How do I dismount? Let me see here. You're still here? Can I have a camera while I just post a video about the game too? This game? Have you done anything too extensive about any performance issues? Not yet. The whole getting to talk about the character thing. I find this in a lot of games that don't have full freedom of movement. It kind of works on this grid-like movement pattern. Maybe that's something that's always been a bit jarring about Monster Hunter to me. I couldn't line up my character easily to talk to her while I was on the mount. I had to get off. It's kind of like a really minor thing but performance-wise I don't really feel anything off yet. Oh, that's why I couldn't do Kahoot because she has it. I got to give him a name. Let me see it. I mean, come on. What's the name of Harry Potter's owl? Hedwig? Hedwig? Hedwig? Yeah, Hedwig. That's what it is. I had to think for a moment. Even though I know it's a white owl as all the tubers stick together. I got some frame drops earlier in a hunt but nothing since then. Okay. There's just so much in this game. Meowlow and Grats, I'm becoming a hunter. Taking a hub quest that I sent in the mailman have quite the important implement. Okay. Okay, so then talk to Hinoa the quest. Okay. When you are, just head through the quest gate to begin. Okay. Alright, let's go on the quest. Magiskimmer and Switch Pro? Yeah, man. Let's do it. Let's go on a hunt. Back to basics hunt. Shrine Ruins. Duh-duh-duh-duh. Sanctuary abandoned by the gods. These halls of worship want so bustling going to monsters stalking. Midnight Naomi work. Are you going to work? Sorry, are you trying to tell me right now? Midnight Naomi? Wanna work? I wanna grab everything in the chest. I have no idea. I have no idea. So right now, this is like what the demo area was kind of like. This is your tent. You can change your equipment, weapons, organize your items. You don't want to bail into current loadout. We don't really have any other equipment right now. Okay. I can't. Shit, I might work right now. I'm just trying to survive the day. Nah, I've been there. Meet you down by the river pestilage. I probably shouldn't have skipped, but what are you going to do? Alright, let's go hunt a monster and try not to die. Did I waste something? I didn't mean to waste? Yes, I did. Dang it. Waste their potion. Put away your weapons, please. Alright. I don't want to. Alright. Good to see you. You can always read tutorials on the menu. That's good to know. There's just a lot of information thrown at me, and I just want to get into some action. What the... Some of the wire bugs, these bodacious bugs are a must for any hunt. I know, you can do like this. A formal wire dash will face on a wall. To initiate a wall run, use alt to maneuver during the wall. Hold down R to continue running. Looking around for some herbs. Some honey. What was this, poop? Dung! Alright. What monster am I hunting? I don't know yet. I have no idea. This is like the training, so I don't know. Remember that from the demo. You do that. Increase your stamina. Plant over here. Come over here, grab this. What's over here? Blocked off that. Just have to check. Alright. Right on Ace! Got the hang of riding Palometes already. They're super helpful buddies, especially when you need to cover a lot of ground. And you can even tell them to attack while you're riding them. But their attacks won't be as strong as yours. Right? I have no idea what these bugs do. Alright, let's go down and do what we're supposed to do now. It's a very different texture. You have to look at it differently, which can take time. So I've heard. Some comments. I think I'm going to make that poor cube cry. Oh boy. Take him off of me. Dang it. I'm really trying to... I'm probably going to get involved in this combat here. Let's go... Third boiler bug. I'm looking around. Alright. Is that other guy up here? Is that where he is? I was wondering where the other guy was. Is that what I meant to do? I wanted to... Wait, that's not the other guy. What happened to the other guy? Not well. Whatever. Moving on. If you are new, I suggest starting hammer and sword or dual blade. Okay? I might try dual blades. Dual blades sound fun. Kind of like a rogue in World of Warcraft. Recommend to switch axe. Fast travel. Where is he going now? The main camp. Main objective completed. Return to the village. 20 seconds. Returning to the village. Tank doing a leaner. Sorry, I had a... a text. Alright. Well, we're obviously going to take quest rewards. Can I take all? Looks fun. I mean, a lot of intricacies. Master Hunter has always kind of been that way. You know? It's a bit hard to get into when you haven't really played one before. But then once you're into it, like, you're freaking into it. Very important. What is? Okay. So it's online. Not saying I'm ready for an online hunt yet. What's your important matter in this quest? Armors? Why am I yawning so much? I'm disconnected from the chat a little. Why is... Why do I gotta verify it's me? I literally am live streaming. YouTube. What are you doing? My stream is still going, but I get DC'd from my own stream. Anyways, is it running well? Yeah. And what's the village quest? Did you do at least two of these? Uh, the time limits. 50 minute, 50 minute. Reward money. Only one quest that time. Geez, there's just so much. Oh, he's got... I'm yawning so much. I think we're gonna call it a stream. I meant, uh, stream for longer. What is going on with my kids upstairs? I'm hearing like a kamikaze up there, so I'm gonna go deal with them. Um, just wasn't really in the cards for me to get the stream going for as long as I hoped. I am glad that I got started, got past like the first little initial basic quest, got my character set up, so that's good to go there. Hopefully, tomorrow or sometime this weekend, I'll come on for a longer stream, but we'll go for like two, three hours. I try to get, you know, a couple hunts in. A couple good long hunts in. Um, just not, it's just not clicking at the moment with my... I just keep worrying about my kids upstairs, because I'm the only adult home at the moment. And, uh, I need to go be a good dad right now, so. Thank you guys for tuning in. I hope you have a lot of fun with this game if you did pick it up today. Uh, if not, hey, tune in for one of my streams later and watch it and see if it's the game for you. Alright folks, peace out.