Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin Reviews

Playing back through this slowly after getting through most of it on the switch. I really enjoyed the game but screw the switch.

It is not a pokemon rip off. It has a lot of learning patterns, type and elemental advantages and has a pretty good story. I can happily recommend this especially if you're interested in the monster hunter series but afraid of the main stream games.

The game is really fun. Unfortunately the insufferable blight on existence known simply as Navirou is completely inescapable and essentially glued to your ass. Other than that great game. Story is honestly pretty good, gameplay loop is fun, and the monsters are cool.

This game is infinitely better than the prequel, taking advantage of not only everything great the first game brought to the table, expanding on everything that worked and fixing the admittedly very few things that didnt, but also using elements from the mainstream Monster hunter games to bring a brand new experience to the table. The games combat system while simplistic, still manages to take those simplistic design ideas and turns it into one of the most enjoyable experiences in any RPG I've ever played. this is one of the few games where I've gone out of my way to complete as many sidequests as possible just because the gameplay is so enjoyable, the story can take a while to get going and theres a few characters who seem a little off compared to the first game, but they're still entertaining enough to carry the story forward, overall this is one of my favorite games of all time and I cant wait for a third entry.

great game lots of fun story can sometimes be scary *escpecially celtias qeen*

Nice spin off to the Monster Hunter series. If you played the first game and enjoyed that, then I can say that this game improves on basically all gameplay aspects. Predicting enemy monsters attack patterns is far less RNG based that the previous instalment. The story is decent though does leave a few loose ends. Seeing all the old characters from the last game was also a very nice touch, and it's very nice that for most of the game you're joined by AI partners that help you out in combat which frequently includes said characters. They're nice to have, and the fact that they're AI controlled doesn't cause too many problems, and for the most part they help more than hinder. There were definitely a few negatives though. Mostly to do with the endgame. The first being that there didn't really seem to be that much point to it. It's divided into two zones of 9 'tests', but neither reveals anything about the world or advances any narrative. The second set doesn't even give any achievements, and even at max level gear, the difficulty towards the end mostly boils down to the enemies buffing themselves and one-shotting you. But it was for the most part an enjoyable change to the usual MH formula while I wait for the release of the next mainline game.

Overall the game has been very fun. My one and only criticism is that ratha while supposedly being one of the most important parts of the story and progression always seemed to be a second thought. I always felt like I had a better option for the most part and when he was on screen there was never much emotion besides an off screen glare from ratha. Overall very fun game that I have been using to play while waiting for wilds and now that I am on the final fight of the story I can say I enjoyed it quite a bit.

Fun game. Cool art style and designs. Cool attack animations. Good monster selection.

As monster collecting JRPGs go, this is easily one of the best. There's a nice rock/paper/scissors system for attacks that's easy to learn, but changes up with each different monster, plus there's loose type advantages on top of that to add more complexity. Raising monsties is fun and simple, and if you're a Monster Hunter fan (which most people looking at this probably are) there's the extra fun of finding and fighting all your favorites. Plus, there's my favorite feature, which is the ability to automatically beat fights with monsters that are much weaker than you, which makes what little grinding you have to do and backtracking incredibly easy.

The system/mechanic for hatching and managing monsters is extremely fun, but that's the most I can say. The combat is interesting at first but gets really tedious and boring later on especially for boss fights. But the worst part of the game is the story and characters. The player character is useless and does nothing whenever something important happens in cutscenes, it feels like the MC is just kinda... there. Also, the MC likes to molest strangers' faces. Navirou returns and is just as cringy and annoying as he was in the first game. Lilia lost all her brain cells after the first game. Kyle starts off being nonsensical and lacks common sense but he does get better later. Avinia likes spamming flashbacks in every cutscene she's in. The only characters that were actually likeable are Kayna and Alwin.