Topic: Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin

Monster list has been leaked, if anyone’s interested

Ugh, why do people keep leaking this stuff? >.<
Honestly it doesn't bother me much with the MH games since actually encountering them is the fun part. Hopefully that list isn't the full one....because...seriously? Lucent and Abyssal left out AGAIN?! Also, some deviants randomly missing? Oki then...I guess. lol

Eh, guess I'll put the last part in spoilers...lol

I'm at least more interested in this than in Rise .... It has a story!

@BruceCM
If this is what it takes you get you into the MH series and universe, then the game is doing it’s job. And if does look dope.

But I hope you’ll be joining us for Rise. That game’s release is going to be a momentous event. Half the site will be hunting together 😁 Some of the best memories I have are from hunting with peeps here when MH4U dropped.

Which, MH Rise has a story. It’s just... you have to understand what type of game it is. It only has enough story to keep things interesting, but the focus is on the gameplay. It’s a gameplay focused game, not a traditional story driven RPG. It’s crazy good though. You’ll see!

I mean, Rise does have a story, no idea if it's better than World's (and World's was kinda "meh") or MH4's/4U's (which is my favorite), though. But yeah it seems they're trying to give the games a story that's more than just "a bad monster has appeared, fight others to train up for this monster! oh noez an elder dragon is the actual bad guy!"...or something, I dunno. lol

Yeah, I do understand the basic MH approach, @JaxonH .... They presumably think there's enough demand to do this Story version of it again, so I'm not the only one who'd like that!

@BruceCM
I would certainly hope not, otherwise we may never see a follow up to this wonderful side series. Which, I’m surprised we’re even getting tbh. The first didn’t exactly set the charts on fire. But, here we are. And the game looks significantly better than the first.

I never played a MH game but I can easily say the main series is not for me (combat looks stiff like DS and online multiplayer is something I don't do at all).

Is the other one kind of a Pokémon clone?

Well, I want to see more of it but what they showed so far looks good, @JaxonH .... I'd expect there'll be more shown between now & release, though

I'll be honest: the first one was... OK? Not a favorite of mine. I didn't even bother finishing it, and I have a difficult time returning to it.

This one looks rad, though. I'm really looking forward to seeing more of it.

I didn’t play much of the first one myself, but I love Monster Hunter, and just having a game where I could ride around on a Rathalos was good enough for me. Glad they upped the ante for the sequel though.

@Balta666
No game is for everyone, and the main series very well might not be for you. Having said that, the combat is the most fluid of any game I’ve ever played. It’s the star of the show. The reason people get so addicted is because the combat is better than any other game. That doesn’t mean it plays like a platinum action title. There are animation commitments which plays into the strategy of what attack you choose at any given time. It’s not a game where you mash buttons. Every single slash of the sword must be deliberate and intentional. Even one greedy, extra hit can result in you being punished... hard.

It’s also 100% single player. It just also happens to be 100% multiplayer. It’s both. You can play it by yourself all the way through or you can play it with others all the way through. That’s another one of its appealing features. Some hunters never go online while other hunters only play online.

All this to say, it’s easy to come to misconceptions about the main series because it’s a game that doesn’t often reveal its appeal until you start understanding its mechanics.

This releases July 9th! This year!

Well, 4 months again.
But i'm not in hurry to get Mon Hun Stories 2 as my priority started on April 2021 are getting Beatmania IIDX, DDR , Keyboardmania, Pop'n Music and Drummania PS2 games.
I need to build them quickly to make my Arcade at home games.

Steam release for Stories 2 is same day as the Switch release:

Honestly though, the game looks extremely beautiful. I just hope what they showed wasn't just PC gameplay, and it also looks as good on switch.

I just didn't really enjoy the rock, paper, scissors thing. I also hope that they give you a proper quest tracker that makes it easier to find the stuff for the quests.

I have not seen the gameplay for it yet, i'm probably going to see it whenever I go to youtube.

Definitely looking forward to this! Navirou's voice change is a bit jarring when one becomes used to what's used in the first game lol. I don't mind his inclusion again as long as they tone down his more annoying qualities.

I didn't mind the rock-paper-scissors combat usually, it was the button-mashing events that would randomly trigger that bothered me.

I'm used to Navi's English voice from the anime. lol
(even if he's obnoxious)

It makes me wonder if this is connected to the original game or not, due to the inclusion of Navi. I know that the main character's grandpa can't be the original protagonist though, since the kindship stone isn't the same, and the original protagonist didn't live on an island.