With Capcom’s premiere monster hunting game’s date of release is jut a few weeks away, it seems they’re bringing out the big guns for the latest, Monster Hunter Portable 3rd. Stemming off from the successful Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker tie-ups the game has recently announced that two familiar titles will also seeing themselves a MH appearance.
The first major (and latest) tie-up is between MH and Yaiba.
You get to use Yaiba’s Supreme King Sword in hunting, well big monsters. According to Siliconera, Yaiba’s Supreme King Sword’s categorized as a long sword for the game. I’m betting my house that this long sword would be a dragon attribute, since well, Yaiba’s Supreme King Sword carries the Dragon emblem on it’s orb (if I recall correctly).
Also the Yaiba tie-up also welcomes the inclusion of the Takeshi Onimaru felyne armor. Your felyne also gets to wield the Demon King Sword which Onimaru uses.
The next tie-up is the felyne detective conan armor which your felyne partners can use.
No other details pertaining to the Detective Conan armor are out yet but hopefully someone would inform me about it (I’m not actively finding updates on MHPH 3rd save for the english release date (or any changes to it) to save myself from being too frustrated that Capcom has not released the english ver. simultaneously).
Another little tidbit of news that I found out was that creator of the Negima manga, Ken Akamatsu, collaborated with Capcom and designed MH own version of the “Hama no Tsurugi” sword Azuna uses in the manga. The MH version is called the “Homa no Tsurugi” and it’s most probably a great sword seeing the huge size of it.