Action, Role Playing

Overview

Monster Hunter games revolve around three specific types of locations: the town you live in, where you prepare for missions and improve your gear, the guild hall, where you organize group hunts, and the hunting grounds, where you hunt monsters of various shapes and sizes, as well as hunt for materials and consumables to aid your hunts. The town itself is essentially where you’ll spend your time prepping yourself, and there are numerous things to do around town. Your house allows you to review various documents you acquire, manage your inventory and equipment, save your game, and pet your pig, just because. You also have a kitchen set up in the back, which can be staffed with Felynes, semi-sentient cat creatures who can cook up meals for you that might give you some nice stat boosts… if they don’t poison you in the process. The town square contains your item and weapon shops, where you can buy new gear, build new equipment from component parts, upgrade weapons, and attach stat-improving gems to said equipment to improve your stats. You can also talk to the town elder to take on new quests, the old cat lady to recruit new Felynes, and the other town residents to gain useful information. There’s a farm, named Pokke Farm, where you can mine for valuable ores, plant seeds, scavenge for useful items and insects, and other odd things. You can also head to the training hall to learn basic and advanced techniques with the various different weapons by facing off against monsters of different sorts.

The core game offers, quite literally, hundreds of hours of play and replay value, between the large variety of quests to take on and monsters to slay, for both one and multiple players. There is a large amount of gear to find and build, items to use, and other worthwhile things to work with, and with the large amount of new and existing content in the game, you’ll have a lot of things to experiment with. Players can also import their characters from both prior Monster Hunter Freedom games to give themselves a bonus to start out, with Monster Hunter Freedom 1 players receiving a cash bonus to start off and Monster Hunter Freedom 2 players being given their characters from that game, equipment and all, ready to go, so veterans of that game can jump into this game immediately and get right to the new content. As noted prior, the game also allows for Wifi play for up to four players, either locally or online with a program like XLink Kai, meaning you can jump right in with friends and obliterate monsters with like-minded folks whenever your heart desires.

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Release Date : June 2009