Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin Nintendo Switch Review - Is It Worth It?

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[SpaceDrake]

"I've got an Aptomoth called Sausage" is really all the review this game needs.

[galenburnett]

I like a lot how they sort of waddle as they run.

[asunaneros]

I think this is the MH game for me. More casual and very story driven RPG. While I enjoyed playing Rise, I was never really that big of a MH fan. I'm glad MH stories exist. The 3DS game was pretty good as well and I think this is better

[matthewgray]

'There's a forest that outright runs poorly...'.
*Korok Forest flashbacks*

[misspikapika]

Listen yall i dont need a demo or review to tell u to get this game. This is like a better pokemon if ONLY pokemon would be more serious with its audience and made quality effort.

[mitwhitgaming]

Honestly, I am so hyped for this game. Capcom has ironed out almost all of the issues I had with the first one.

[the_AurumOne]

I loved the first game! Can’t wait to revisit this beautiful world once again! 😌💖

[yacobo]

Haven't played everything they've done but it feels like Capcom been knocking it out of the park with their games the past few years

[ffej]

Best part of Alex's reviews is the final thoughts. I'd love to hear Jon and Zions thoughts at the end of reviews

[synbios]

I think I might hate the combat system. There's just not enough control. You've got your "monstie" (which just means monster with a saddle), and you usually have a "battle buddy" and their monstie with you, but you can never control them. I thought that was just going to be for the first partner they give you as a tutorial but it's like that for the whole game. Monsters you fight have inherent weaknesses to weapon types (slash, pierce or blunt) and also their attack type (power, speed or technique) will greatly affect the damage done in return in the "head-to-head" matchups. Additionally, each monster may have an inherent elemental attack type (ice, fire, electric, dragon, water and "non-element") AND a weakness to a type. What's my point in all of this?

You will come across monsters that have weaknesses like: "this guy is weak to piercing speed attacks and fire", but then your battle buddy only uses sword (which is slash, not pierce), has no fire attacks and you can't control what type of attack he'll use. On top of all that, they usually refuse to target the same monster part as you. Oh yeah, and all of the monster parts have their own weaknesses, which again you have no control over how your partner attacks.

A nice little feature is the little symbols that appear over each monstie part that reveal its weapon weaknesses IF you've hit it with that weapon type before. For example: you hit this dragon's wings with a hammer before, and an arrow. The hammer was weak, so a red cross shows up on the hammer symbol. The arrow was strong, so the arrow symbol shines. Irritatingly, the weapon your battle buddy uses will never reveal if it's strong or weak, you'll have to waste your turn switching weapons and attacking yourself to find out. Then when you find out that weapon is weak, well too bad, you can't tell your battle buddy to switch out his weak weapon.

Most of the time there are 4 characters on your side of the battle, but you only control one and a half of them. You can only control your monster's moves if you're using a special move, otherwise they just decide themselves what attack to use. So they may consistently choose the wrong basic attack type and lose matchups.

The battle system simply has too many layers of complexity to leave three quarters of your team's actions to random chance, but that's what they did anyway. Imaging playing final fantasy 7 but you only control Cloud's actions in battle, and everyone else has the computer decide. Seems stupid, right? Well now add three layers of rock paper scissors complexity to that and you've got the battle system for MHS2:WOR.

[Thatdeadpenguy]

Really love the music I've been hearing from this game. Looking forward to playing it almost just for that alone.

[kanhejiswag]

the question remains does it come with a brand NEW HD 3D funky mode and season pass plus knuckles

[aseriouslollygagger]

I am loving the demo for the game. I wasn't planning on playing anymore RPGs anytime soon but this one really got my attention. I'd love the art style and the slow progression doesn't bother me at all, in fact I kind of need that in the game. I like all the parallels with the full monster Hunter franchise, that I find too difficult to play even though I really want to. I can really take my time with this game and enjoy a little grinding. I'm not sure how much time I can put into the demo, probably alot, but I think they sold me on buying the game. It's a really good game for it's target audience, which is probably women and children. Might be too easy or slow for the proper gamer, but they have the regular Monster Hunter games.

[danhedgehog]

had no idea this was a turn based RPG as opposed to the more open games. Think i might enjoy this one more cos i just cant get into the open ones at all.

[mariaattie]

Can’t wait to get into this game 🤩 i’ll wait till I complete Skyward Sword, then it will take my gaming life 😎

[rydrake]

I just got this game 3 days ago, and despite its flaws on the switch version I have no regret buying this game and I’ve played for hours already

[Caelum_NLD]

Can't watch the review because I don't want to know anything before playing the game, but I already gave the vid a like to support the channel. 2 days to go 🤩🤩🤩🤩

[TrvisXXIII]

This game ruined my sleep schedule, haven’t been able to put it down since it’s release

[SwedePotato]

This game and the first one are legitimately tied for first in my favorite series. I adore this even if it’s not the mainline games. These are so much fun. I don’t have a “new” 3DS and for some reason the first game won’t play on my 3ds, I have 2 copies of the cartridge and downloaded from op the eshop and the hshop. I have 0 problems shelling out for an overpriced “new” 3ds just to be able to play the first one.
I spent money for all the extra dlc outfits. There’s nothing I won’t do for this game I swear. I just want to motivate the devs to keep this series going and make a 3rd.

[omarreyes]

All things considered this naviru is a godsend compared to the anime version of the character, in that one he’s got an ego, he doesn’t help but rather gets in the way all the time and has 2 annoying running gags one with an annoying “catch phrase” so yeah, go watch 2 or 3 episodes of the anime then come back to this and I can assure you, you’ll love this naviru