Thursday, February 26, 2015

I hope you're up for a little more MonHun Nikki: Poka Poka Airu Mura (PSP) love

Early last week, I published a post in which I blathered on and on and on about the stupendously sparkly--and purple--PSP that my pal, Jess (he of the Kiblitzing blog), recently bought and sent to me.

A small handful of photos were included in the above-mentioned post, and two of them featured peeks at the complete-in-box copy of MonHun Nikki: Poka Poka Airu Mura that I recently picked up.


This Monster Hunter spin-off--which is supposed to have a sort of Animal Crossing feel to it, not that I would know--is worth more than just a passing glance, so today I'm giving it a bit more attention.

Specifically, I'm giving its box art, UMD label and instruction manual a bit more attention.



Fun fact: I could've bought the follow-up of this game, called MonHun Nikki: Poka Poka Airu Mura G, for pretty much the same amount of money I spent on the copy highlighted throughout this post, but I went with Capcom's original effort because I prefer its cover art.

The game's UMD features art that's nearly as adorable, if you ask me. You may not be able to tell in the fairly crappy photo above, but the Poogie that sits just to the left of the MonHun Nikki: Poka Poka Airu Mura logo is wearing a watermelon-themed outfit.


The backside of MonHun Nikki: Poka Poka Airu Mura's instruction manual is beyond cute, too--or at least I think it is.

Sadly, that's about all I can say about this Japan-only release at the moment, as I've yet to even pop it into my beautifully purple PSP. I'm going to do my best to rectify that soon, though, as once I do, I'll share my thoughts on it here (probably in a future installment of my "Shall We Do It?" series).

4 comments:

RetroKingSimon said...

This could be the greatest cover I've ever seen (>.<)

Franggio Hogland said...

Well I do agree. It's really cute ^^
I've said for a while that the MH world would fit perfectly in a harvest/gather/building game. Is this it?

Obscure Video Games said...

Good luck with it. Since I don't know Japanese, I had no idea what to do, and I didn't get very far. But it certainly is an adorable game. I'm very interested to hear what your experience is like.

thegaygamer.com said...

I'm back to learning Japanese again, Steve, but it'll be ages before I can translate words in katakana or look up words in hiragana. So, I probably won't get very far either :| There isn't any kind of FAQ out there for it? For shame!