Each egg hatching is like opening a booster pack as you never know what you can get. Hatching the monsties was the highlight of the game for me. Sometimes the nest will have patrolling monsters guarding the nest while sometimes the monster will be asleep or even completely absent from the nest! Players will have to explored random-generated maps until they find the nest. Monsties are obtained from gathering eggs from monster dens that are scattered in the open world sections of the world. There are a lot of weapon skills that uses shell charges which are multi-hitting and paired with my destroyer (L) charm, I was getting a lot of additional parts for each battle.
I really like the newly added gunlance in this game as the piercing type weapon will gain shell charges per turn and you can gain additional ammo on top of that. There are 6 weapons that a Rider can use: Greatsword, Sword and Shield for cutting weapons, Hammer and Hunting Horn for Blunt weapons and Gunlance and Bow for Piercing weapons. You will stop the enemy from attacking and will gain a large amount of kinship gauge. Double attack happens when you and either your ally monsties or Hunters have chosen the same attack style against the enemy. Should you win the head-to-head duel, you will take reduced damage while inflicting heavy damage on the foe.
Head-to-Head is when you and the enemy monster directly targeted each other with any of the style-typed attack. The game also have 2 other battle mechanics: Head to Head and Double attacks.
Players with prior experience in the Monster Hunter Series will find the elemental weaknesses very helpful as most of the monsters previously encountered in other games do apply here. Players can utilize various strategies to defeat their foes such as using power, speed or technical attack styles, similar to a rock-paper-scissors system, as well as elemental weaknesses. Monster Hunter Stories 2 is your typical JRPG where players engage in turn-based battles against various monsters and other non-player character riders. With that said, let us begin the review! Gameplay mew-chanics and review
However, that should not deter players from picking up this game as it is a new adventure. I have not touched the previous game, Monster Hunter Stories. Some notes before I begin my review: I have only played Monster Hunter main line games and the only experience with JRPGs that I can recall is Pokémon and Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core. With that all out of the way, will Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin be another hit run for Switch Players to pick up? With the focus of character development and narrative experience, Capcom plans to ride on the success of Monster Hunter World and the most recent Nintendo Switch release, Monster Hunter Rise, to get more players into the Monster Hunter universe.
A trailer for the game has been uploaded to the GameXplain YouTube channel.Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin, the sequel to Monster Hunter Stories, will launch on July 9, 2021, for Nintendo Switch and PC (via Steam). Nintendo announced during the recent Partner Showcase that two new Monster Hunter games were coming to the system - Monster Hunter Rise and Monster Hunter Stories 2. There have been rumors circulating about a new Monster Hunter game on the Nintendo Switch for months now, and we finally have the details. Related: A New Monster Hunter Has Been Announced (Yay) For Pachinko Machines (Nay) Monster Hunter Stories was more akin to games in the Pokémon series, as the player had to find eggs and train their monsters from a young age, so that they become potent fighters and help the main character finish quests.
The game is a more kid-friendly RPG than the regular Monster Hunter games, as the player befriends the monsters and uses them as allies/mounts, unlike the mainline entries in the series, where the player brutally murders them and makes armor from their skin. The original Monster Hunter Stories was released for the Nintendo 3DS in 2016.