Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin

Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin

released on Jul 08, 2021
by Capcom

Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin

released on Jul 08, 2021
by Capcom

Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin offers both RPG and Monster Hunter fans a unique new experience with a rich storyline featuring charming characters, challenging quests and friendly encounters with familiar monsters from the Monster Hunter series. Assuming the role of a young Monster Rider who can use a Kinship Stone to form strong bonds with monsters, players can gain experience and improve their skills to form deeper connections with these wonderful creatures. When ready, players can embark on memorable adventures filled with dramatic events and heartwarming friendships as the epic tale unfolds.


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Graficamente hermoso, el combate esta bien hecho pero las misiones e historia repetitiva

Good game, bad sequel. They butchered the returning characters, but the new ones are lovely. Gorgeous graphics, weaker battles in comparison to the original. Love the weapon improvements! Where. Are. The Poogies.

sad to say this but unfortunately pretty messy
at least the magic and novelty of pokemon monster hunter does a lot of heavy lifting

First approach with Stories was thanks to the Switch demo. I thought it was more a typical JRPG instead I got a battle system reminding me of Fate/EXTRA lmao (at least here it's funny).

Stories 2 is just downright gorgeous, the euphoria I feel riding my very own arzuros and tigrex through vast fields is actually unmatched. All the new weapon types added some MUCH needed hunter variety, and made mid-battle weapon swapping actually feel good. At the same time, though, Stories 2 lacked....... something that made Stories 1 feel so good, and I don't think I can pin it down on some glaringly obvious weakness. To be honest, I was kinda bored of this game for most of the time I was playing, and wasn't really sure what this game was offering me to come back to.

Den grinding is still as repetitive and boring as ever, and the monster ranking system which monsters scale stats around railroad you into using only small selections of monsters throughout the game, which badly hurts party diversity and you kinda just can't take one or two faves from the beginning to end because they get so badly outclassed in just the next area.

As beautiful as this game is, the actual landscapes to explore are so barren of anything meaningful that the game just becomes a walking/flying simulator with little reward, it's sad. Stories 2 is a pretty alright game that genuinely has endless potential to improve. It does have the best hairstyle options in Monster Hunter since the mainline 3DS games, so there's that at least!

The best part were the new monsters. Story was alright. Final boss was not as good as the first one. But, it was still pretty enjoyable.