Let's talk Monster Hunter.

[TomGuycott]

I think you're looking for a certain KIND of narrative, because there IS one, for what little it is. Granted, I tend to skip over much of it, but you ARE given a loose narrative. You are a new arrival in a village that is suddenly suffering unnatural earthquakes, and the goal is to find the cause of them.

For the way the game is set up I personally think much more than that would only get in the way of this particular kind of gameplay. Its just that saying the game has no narrative at all is unfair. Saying the game's narrative isn't as engaging as it could be is another story, however. That you could argue.