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==Areas== |
==Areas== |
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Bring your Pickaxe and Bugnet, just look around and gather. Let Chino, Jei or Karl kill the monster |
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All of the area feature new looks in MHF2, except for the Forest and Hills. Capcom also included brand new areas, like the town, the mountains, and improved visuals in old areas. Each area has day and night quests, when the night can be very different. In the swamp, gas bubbles filled with poison rise at night, and in the jungle, it rains real hard at night. A certain elder dragon is able to call forth snow storms and rainstorms in certain areas. The heavy snow and rain will disallow you to use your bombs. |
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*NOTE-If you're a BANOOB just wait us on the camp area and sleep. |
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==Reception== |
==Reception== |
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Revision as of 19:16, 21 July 2008
| Monster Hunter Freedom 2 | |
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| Developer(s) | Capcom Production Studio 1 |
| Publisher(s) | Capcom |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation Portable |
| Genre(s) | Hack and slash, Adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, ad hoc multiplayer, Infrastructure Online Download |
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Monster Hunter Freedom 2 is a PlayStation Portable video game and sequel to Monster Hunter Freedom, largely based on its PlayStation 2 predecessor Monster Hunter 2, which was never released outside of Japan. Monster Hunter Freedom 2 is not a direct port of Monster Hunter 2 but instead a portable update of the Monster Hunter series. New features have been added while others were removed to make the game appropriate for its portable platform. It was released in the United States on August 28, 2007. Its Japanese counterpart is called Monster Hunter Portable 2nd.
Missions
Most Missions/Quests in Monster Hunter Freedom 2 involves killing one or two 'Boss' class monsters. Smaller missions at the beginning will involve gathering items and killing small creatures.
Missions are generally divided into three difficulty levels: those from the Village Chief, known as 'Elder' quests; those for a lower Hunter Rank (HR3 or lower)from the Guild; those for hunters who have obtained higher Hunter Ranks (HR4 or above), also from the Guild. Hunters can always accept missions that are available for the same or lower Hunter Rank, but cannot take missions or join missions initiated by other higher Ranked players, unless they have the requisite Hunter Rank (i.e. if an HR5 player initiates a quest requiring an HR of 4, HRs 4, 5 and 6 may join while HRs 1, 2 and 3 may not). There are also quests offered by the village's Training School and the treasure hunter Treshi. Quests offered by the Training school require no items or equipment; pre-made equipment and item sets are supplied. Treasure hunting quests are gathering quests with rare items that you cannot keep but are awarded points to add to your ending score, which you are rewarded for.
The missions (or quests) that are taken from the Village Elder are missions specific to single player, so they are also sometimes considered "lower" rank missions. Monsters inside this mission are weakened in terms of their hit points to suit a single hunter mission, but they only offer basic materials that can only create weapons of lower rarity.
Lower Hunter Rank missions from the guild offers the same materials as Elder missions, but they allow up to 4 Hunters via ad-hoc play or XLink Kai. Monsters have slightly increased hit points in this type of quest.
Higher Hunter Rank missions are considered the most difficult in the game, and are the equivalent of 'G' rank missions in Monster Hunter Freedom and Monster Hunter G. Besides considerable hitpoint increases, monsters have greatly increased damage and can feature new attack moves, making them harder to defeat. Many of the rarest materials can only be found in this type of quest.
Downloadable quests often provide special materials that can create bonus equipment that cannot be created otherwise. Downloadable quests also provide the ability to challenge the White Fatalis, one of the hardest monsters in the game.
It should be noted that all missions in Monster Hunter Freedom 2 can be finished 'solo' (with only one player).
Weapons
Monster Hunter Freedom 2 has the same types of weapons from Monster Hunter 2, with an additional four new weapons for the Freedom series, which are: Long Sword, Gunlance, Hunting Horn, and the Bow. Each weapon class has its own unique feel to it, each one completely different from the other. Each weapon class has around 40 to 50 different weapons ranging from 1-8 rarity, 8 being the highest. All weapons have a certain amount of raw damage that does a set amount of damage depending on how high the raw damage is. Another characteristic that attributes to the amount of damage done is sharpness. Many weapons have elements that do more damage to some monster and less to others. These elements include fire, water, ice, thunder, and dragon. Other weapons have secondary elements, which include poison, sleep, and paralysis.
Item System
Although many items, weapons, and armor are purchasable in the game, the heart of the gameplay in the Monster Hunter series is the integrated creation system for creating items from all of the items which players can forge and carve off killed monsters. Also,you can upgrade weapons making them stronger. More advanced weapons and armor can be created via the merchants in town from these materials. Freedom 2 has 50% more content overall than its predecessor Monster Hunter Freedom.
Item Box and Small item Box
A new addition to the monster hunter franchise is the Small Item Boxes. These are item boxes that are in all the major town locations, which allow the player to access their consumable items without having to travel to their house. It also allows players to sell their items, although it disallows the ability to change or sell Equipment.
Monsters
The monster remain the same from Monster Hunter Portable 2nd, which adds a few new monsters to the series. New monsters include but are not limited to: the Tigrex, a quadrupedal wyvern; Giaprey, an ice variant of Velociprey; Blangonga and Blangos, ice monsters from the primatius group; Carapaceon group, which consists of a variety of giant crabs; Congalala and Conga, pink jungle primatius; various elder dragons; and Akantor, a sort of lava digging dragon.
Areas
Bring your Pickaxe and Bugnet, just look around and gather. Let Chino, Jei or Karl kill the monster
- NOTE-If you're a BANOOB just wait us on the camp area and sleep.
Reception
Monster Hunter Portable 2nd, as it is called in Japan, has sold more than 2.06 million copies in Japan, and has become the highest selling psp game ever in that region. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd has also overtaken its predecessor as the best selling PSP game in Japan[1].
Although popular with gamers worldwide, critical reaction has been mixed, with GameSpot giving the game 5.0 and IGN giving the game 8.3. According to the critics, the good points include the character customization and the graphics. The bad points are the repetitive gameplay and combat system, which is a popular point of contention between those who like and dislike the game.
