Its a great game, challenging and has a variety of weapons each being interesting to play, as well as a lot of awesome monsters with their own fighting styles. And exploring the location and gathering the materials you need for a fight was always a highlight to me. You could play locally with friends as well! I think I spent over 500 hrs in the monster hunters on the psp alone
Don’t forget to configure the DS4 in retroarch, I think theres an option where it will map the controller automatically.