History VideoGame / MonsterHunterStories

Unlike the main entries, ''Stories'' follows a story revolving about Riders; people who can ride and befriend the iconic monsters of the series in a turn-based RolePlayingGame format. Three childhood friends - Lute (the player character), Lilia, and Cheval - go out of Hakum Village and end up finding a monster egg that hatches into a Rathalos that quickly befriends Lute. Soon after, their village is attacked by a violent Nargacuga that ends up scarring the trio and destroying part of the village. One year later, Lute has come of age to become a full-fledged Rider. As they work hard to become a well-known Rider, they deal with the mysterious Black Blight; a strange phenomenon that drives monsters wild like it did with the Nargacuga from one year ago...

It received an AnimatedAdaptation in ''Anime/MonsterHunterStoriesRideOn''. A sequel, ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterStories2WingsOfRuin'', was released for Platform/NintendoSwitch and Platform/{{Steam}}. In February 2024, the game was announced to be ported to the Switch, Platform/Playstation4, and PC. In addition to HD graphics and full voice acting, the port will also contain a "Museum Mode" which will allow players to view artwork and listen to music from the game.

!This game provides examples of:

* VideoGameVista: After the player defeats the blight-infected Nargacuga, they run up a hill and see the rest of the continent spanning before them.

It received an AnimatedAdaptation in ''Anime/MonsterHunterStoriesRideOn''. A sequel, ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterStories2WingsOfRuin'', was released for Platform/NintendoSwitch and Platform/{{Steam}}. In February 2024, the game was announced to be ported to the Switch, Platform/Playstation4, and PC with the addtion of HD graphics and full voice acting.

It received an AnimatedAdaptation in ''Anime/MonsterHunterStoriesRideOn''. A sequel, ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterStories2WingsOfRuin'', was released for Platform/NintendoSwitch and Platform/{{Steam}}. In February 2024, the game was announced to be ported to the NintendoSwitch, Playstation4, and PC. It will contain HD graphics and full voice acting.

It received an AnimatedAdaptation in ''Anime/MonsterHunterStoriesRideOn''. A sequel, ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterStories2WingsOfRuin'', was released for Platform/NintendoSwitch and Platform/{{Steam}}. In February 2024, the original game was announced for the Switch as well.

''Monster Hunter: Stories'' is a SpinOff game of the popular ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' series developed by ''Creator/{{Capcom}}'', made for the ''UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS'' and later ported to iOS and Android.

It received an AnimatedAdaptation in ''Anime/MonsterHunterStoriesRideOn''. A sequel, ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterStories2WingsOfRuin'', was released for Platform/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}. In February 2024, the original game was announced for the Switch as well.

It received an AnimatedAdaptation in ''Anime/MonsterHunterStoriesRideOn''. A sequel, ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterStories2WingsOfRuin'', was released for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}.

It received an AnimatedAdaptation in ''Monster Hunter: Stories - Ride On''. A sequel, ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterStories2WingsOfRuin'', was released for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}.

* VideoGameVista: After the player defeats the blight-infected Nargacuga, they run up a hill and see the rest of the continent spanning before them.

!!The Ride On anime provides examples of:
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: Whilst the English dub settles for using the original opening themes, the episodes on the Arait Play English [=YouTube=] channel instead uses a unique theme song. An instrumental of it is used for the closing credits.
* ButtMonkey: Navirou is never taken seriously, with various characters making snide and insulting comments on his appearance, gluttony, uselessness, and ego, and a RunningGag involves him getting set on fire by Ratha.
* CanonForeigner: The anime introduces many new characters that were not present in the game outside of the 1.3 update that was exclusive to Japanese versions, with notable examples including Nariki, Hyoro, Mille, Genie, Stone, Anvis, and the Black Riders.
* DamselInDistress: Avinia is kidnapped by Lord Anvis and his Black Riders due to her long-lost village of Kuang holding the secret to obtaining ultimate power in the form of the Rite of Overlapping.
* DespairEventHorizon: Doctor Manelger undergoes this in the second season, losing his will to conduct research due to his past failures and becoming completely despondent outside of eating donuts and stacking cans. Navirou and the Numbers, despite their qualms with helping out their hated enemy, choose to help him rediscover his passion for research due to him having a clue as to where Avinia was taken, which could only be revealed upon him snapping out of his stupor.
* DubNameChange: Oddly inverted, at least at first. The first thirteen episodes of the English dub uses the Japanese monster names. Later releases redubbed lines in those episodes to use the English names, though the episodes released on the Arait Play English [=YouTube=] channel uses the original versions.
* FireBreathingDiner: Lilia's Energy Drinks are noted to be incredibly spicy, with their drinkers developing red faces and having smoke blowing out their noses, and both her friends and strangers alike are wary of them as a result.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: The last shot of Lord Anvis following Gale being freed from his possession and everyone celebrating the end of his reign of terror shows him feebly walking across the shores of Monsonne Plains, his physical body having been broken and battered by Gale's previous HeroicSacrifice, before Shadow approaches him from behind and pulls out a knife while insulting him under her breath, indicating that she killed him offscreen as revenge for killing her sister through a botched Rite of Overlapping.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: Unlike the other human antagonists, which have all displayed comedic and/or sympathetic traits, there is nothing redeemable about Lord Anvis, and when he appears, the series takes a noticeably more serious shift in tone.
* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler: Anvis when under the effects of the Rite of Overlapping repeatedly says "Disappear" as he attempts to kill off the heroes, and Gale falls under it as well when Anvis's consciousness possesses him following his HeroicSacrifice.]]
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: As opposed to becoming a KnightTemplar almost immediately following the aftermath of the village attack like in the game, Cheval, despite wanting to exact vengeance for what happened, has qualms about going through with the eradication of Blighted monsters and wonders if he truly is doing the right thing by killing them off. It's not until [[TragicKeepsake Vlau's necklace]] is destroyed that he fully commits to having Blighted monsters killed off.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Tigrex EX is revealed to have survived its battle with Lute, and upon being subdued by the Numbers and having its modifications removed by Doctor Manelger, it runs off into the wild, free from human influence at last.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Although the show is lighthearted overall, Lord Anvis is a rather cruel and vicious man, getting the Black Riders to rob Riders of their Kinship Stones [[YouHaveFailedMe on the threat of death if they fail him]], [[WouldHurtAChild being perfectly willing to harm and kill young children to get what he wants]], coldly sacrificing one of his top subordinates to test an incomplete Rite of Overlapping, and [[spoiler: laying siege on entire cities and threatening the lives of everyone in them upon the successful application of the complete Rite of Overlapping, which he accomplished by threatening to slit Avinia's throat if Gale didn't comply, forcing him to reveal the remaining lyrics to save her]]. [[spoiler: He was also personally responsible for the deaths of Avinia and Gale's parents, murdering them in cold blood because their dad used an incomplete Rite on him after he held their mother at knifepoint, and this revelation fills the heroes with utter disgust]]. A throwaway line from one of his soldiers also implies that [[DisproportionateRetribution he kills them for the smallest of offenses, such as talking to him at the wrong time.]]

* MeaningfulName: Cheval, in a kind of roundabout way. His name means "horse" in French, but "''cheval''" is also the base of several words in English which are related to riding, such as chivalry and cavalry.

It received an AnimatedAdaptation in ''Monster Hunter: Stories - Ride On''. A sequel, ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterStories2WingsOfRuin'', is in the works for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}.

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: Whilst the English dub settles for using the original opening themes, the episodes on the Arait Play English YouTube channel instead uses a unique theme song. An instrumental of it is used for the closing credits.

* DubNameChange: Oddly inverted, at least at first. The first thirteen episodes of the English dub uses the Japanese monster names. Later releases redubbed lines in those episodes to use the English names, though the episodes released on the Arait Play English YouTube channel uses the original versions.

* PintSizePowerHouse: Monsties are [[FunSize way smaller]] than their wild counterparts, but that doesn't affect their power in the slightest.

* DubNameChange: Oddly inverted, at least at first. The first thirteen episodes of the English dub uses the Japanese monster names. Later releases redubbed lines in those episodes to use the English names, though the episodes released on the Avait Play English YouTube channel uses the original versions.

!!This game provides examples of:

* OriginalGeneration: The anime introduces many new characters that were not present in the game outside of the 1.3 update that was exclusive to Japanese versions, with notable examples including Nariki, Hyoro, Mille, Genie, Stone, Anvis, and the Black Riders.

* TheCorruption: The Black Blight can infect the land and drive monsters crazy and more violent than usual.

* TacticalRockPaperScissors: All Monsties and the player have access to basic Power, Technical, and Speed attacks; and some special attacks have these traits too. If two fighters use attacks with these traits on each other, then a "Head-to-Head" starts and the type with advantage does more damage while the type with disadvantage does less (Power beats Technical beats Speed beats Power). If the player and their Monstie both use the same basic attack and they both have advantage, then they'll pull off a combo with even more damage and the target loses their turn.