Topic: Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin

Beat the Royal Tigrex.

Then went on to beat Duramboros, and am now on my way to find the Nargacuga. Been splitting my time between this and Zelda Skyward Sword, which has been difficult. Both are such incredible games.

Finally got my baby Tigrex after five more battles. That was a pain, but it was worth it!

Didn't realize you could not only inherit new genes, but also stack copies of existing genes in order to strengthen abilities. That's pretty cool.

@Joeynator3000 Oh, sorry, I meant those existing monsters as rideable, although they did add a couple through missions that weren't on the story if I remember correctly: Glavenus and Great Poogie. Yeah, I waited that DLC for a long time and it never arrived, it was really annoying.

I can't beat Khezu. All of their attacks either instantly kill me, or my partner. All the monsters before this were a cakewalk, and I don't think I'm underleveled at all. I don't really know what I should be doing, and I broke the head, yet it can still let out screams and generate lightning.

After four battles where it continuously died, I finally managed to get the Royal Monoblos to retreat. I think I can happily just focus on main story stuff in this region now.

...So, I finally heard Bazel's name in-game...I always used the "bay" sound..."baw"? "baw"zelgeuse? Wut? lol

How do I go about preventing a monster from one hit killing my partner or their monster? It's a huge issue where the monsters lock onto them, and attack them, instantly causing me to get a game over, despite the fact that I wasn't hit at all, and can actually take more hits than they can.

Ratha finally hatched. It's so cute! This game is definitely going to be tugging on my heartstrings, I can tell.

@VoidofLight Welcome to my suffering, lol. It sucks not having full control over your party.

@Ralizah It's especially painful when the other starting partners didn't get completely destroyed like the third one I just got is.

I found every partner to be quite functional with the area and monsters I was fighting. In fact, I never lost because of them, I was the one getting knocked down and it actually just happened with one monster, although I did find challenge with a couple of them. They did make wrong decisions from time to time, but it usually didn't affect much at all. I don't think I have a high level either, as I tend to use Narcaruga a lot just so I can avoid unnecessary battles.

@VoidofLight Maybe you had really bad RNG luck, besides those monsters are definitely annoying. You could use a horn or something to rise your allies defense. I'm a bit surprised though, they should tank at least a hit at full health from what I remember of that part.

Forgot to ask...does the Run Away option work every time now? Or am I just super lucky because it has never failed...seems kinda cheesy when a strong monster manages to get me, yet I can simply run away and the monster is gone.

@Joeynator3000 So far, it's every monster. I haven't tried bosses though.

@VoidofLight You mean story bosses and stuff like that? I don't think you even get the option. But yeah, in the first game there was a small chance that the monster would stop you from running away, hasn't happened a single time here. lol

@Joeynator3000 You can't run away from scripted/boss battles and when a monster attacks you in their nest. I remember an interview in which they said that they listened to the feedback of the first game so I guess they probably made that change to avoid complaints.

@roy130390 I don't know why I said "I don't even think you get the option" when I knew, lol. Anyways yeah I know about scripted/story bosses. xD

So they just took that part out then, ah well.

@Joeynator3000 not sure they took that completly as I believe there are some gear with extra percentage of chance of running away succefully but I don't think I have done it more than once or twice and was I was also succefull

I am about 50h in and should be close to credits and have to say this game is really really good. I have even getting my hands on co-op multiplayer (something I never care about).
Actually on that have anyone got a dog egg yet? I participanted in 3/4 of those but never got that egg in the runs

So I finally beat the story and I had a great time with it. I went into my first high rank den and had by butt immediately handed to me by a random encounter 😂.

@Balta666 What eggs you get is dependent on the quality of the den, even for the palimute den. So for basic quality dens i got one dog in 6-7 dens, for rare i got one dog in one den, and for super rare all four eggs were dogs. the normal dog is found in the low rank den, and the elemental ones are found in the high rank.

@alpacatears Was it remobras cause those things destroyed me when I fist hit high rank.

And I have roled credits. Really enjoyed my time so far and will come back for harder challenges at some point but now is time for Ys IX that has been waiting on the shelf for 10 days