Monster Hunter Freedom Unite
PSP
Capcom
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Monster Hunter Freedom Unite - MHFU
As soon as you load up this game and begin playing you set up your character like most games and you end up in a snowy village after a cut scene. In the cut scene you get knocked off a cliff after fleeing from a monster called a Tigrex. You start off with basic weapons and equipment, like most games. But with the controls, if you haven't played any of the previous games, will take a while to adapt too, no one is good at the beginning, no matter how you think you have played. There is no experience, no stats in your character, it all comes down to the weapon you wield, the armour you wear and most importantly, your skill.
The graphics with this game is just... wow... They are incredible for a handheld game, even better than the PS2 graphics. As soon as you climb to the top of the snowy mountains and look down, you will feel like you are actually there, or if you stand by the lake at night, just what a sight, the scenery graphics are really something.
The sound, incredible, every track you listen to from MHFU is truly brilliant, each song manages to stick in your head and suits every situation. Even some classic soundtracks from the very first Monster Hunter game are featured.
Now... with the skill, it all comes down to how well you can weild your weapon, for example, down the path I have been using which is the Bow path, first I will talk about the bow so its easy to understand what I'm doing.
The bow, which seems like it has one of the lowest attack powers from most weapons seems not very high but once you see what it can do it is truly an incredible weapon. From what I have experienced, the bow is the hardest weapon to master but once achieved, is likely one of the better weapons of choice. How it works is with charges, coatings, charge levels and aiming with distance. The aiming part acts as a sweet spot, if you manage to get the right distance then you inflict extra damage. The coatings add different effects such as sleep, paint, paralysis, power and others. You get a limited amount of coatings for each category but the arrows are unlimited. The charge levels can go up to four, increasing damage the longer you charge. Lastly the charges have another three categories, Pierce, Rapid and Scatter. With pierce it fires a single arrow through the monster and does multiple hits as it travels through, mostly best on long monsters.Rapid fires up to 4 arrows in a line in a vertical style, which works great on the small monsters. Scatter fires up to five arrows in a horizontal line which is best for wide monsters or taking out multiple monsters.
That's about it for the bow, apart from it gets stuck with the gunner armour type, which has considerably less defence than the blademaster armour, which are the two types of armour. Now the skill that you need is, hitting the monster in its weak point, managing to avoid every attack thrown at you and either breaking parts of the monster or severing its tail. Although this seems simple, it really isn't for beginners. Another thing to keep in mind that each quest has a time limit of fifty minutes. MHFU is split into lots of quests that can be redone whenever you want. After beating a quest you get rewards, you can also carve monsters for items, these items are used to either take them to the blacksmith to combine to make a new weapon or upgrade an old weapon, create armour, sell or combine with other items to create new items.
That's it really, there is not much of a story at all but this game is brilliant enough to go without a story, along with teaming up with friends for multiplayer. This game can keep you amused for hours, days, weeks and even months on end, it really does take a while to finish the quests, each one can last up to fifty minutes and even when you need to hunt the same monster again and again for armour or weapons, it really will keep you busy and it doesn't ever get boring, especially with friends, this game is truly a must!
Gameplay - Incredible, hard to get a hold of the controls at first but well worth it 9.8
Sound - Brilliant, going to stay in your head for a while and well worth turning up the volume 9.1
Graphics - Fantastic, truly incredible graphics, makes you feel like you are there 9.6
Lifespan - Can keep you busy for months, even years if you are that addicted 10
Overall Score - 9.7
Definitely worth getting, I would have to say it should have been game of the year when it was released!
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