Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin

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Mixed or average reviews- based on 62 Ratings

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  1. Starlord
    Jul 20, 2021
    10
    I played well over 60 hours doing alot of sidequests Rainbow shiny egg hunting etc. This game honestly holds my interests in more ways that pokemon does, I still love pokemon don't get me wrong, but there's alot more to offer in MHS2.

    1) The Gene System is so deep that you can make any sort of build you want, Crit/Attack/Defensive/Support/ a little from everything it's simply amazing    I played well over 60 hours doing alot of sidequests Rainbow shiny egg hunting etc. This game honestly holds my interests in more ways that pokemon does, I still love pokemon don't get me wrong, but there's alot more to offer in MHS2.

    1) The Gene System is so deep that you can make any sort of build you want, Crit/Attack/Defensive/Support/ a little from everything it's simply amazing honestly.

    2) Engaging Storyline that keeps you investing and want to know more about the main problem of the game and the cutscenes are pure bliss.

    3) Find "Shiny" Eggs is so God damn addictive it's hard to stop! I'm just having a blast finding multiple of the same monstie and combining them to make this super ultra amazing monstie with perfect genes.

    I highly recommend this game to anyone that like MH and Pokemon fans alike!    … Expand
  2. SuperkenGaming
    Jul 17, 2021
    8
    Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin
    Gotta hatch em all
    Monster Hunter Stories 3 is a 24 hour long monster collecting jrpg where you play as your own created character, youre given a ratha egg, everyone is scared, some are all like no things can be different this time and of course team rocket wants your pickachu, this is the just of the story, bring order back to the monster hunter    Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin
    Gotta hatch em all
    Monster Hunter Stories 3 is a 24 hour long monster collecting jrpg where you play as your own created character, youre given a ratha egg, everyone is scared, some are all like no things can be different this time and of course team rocket wants your pickachu, this is the just of the story, bring order back to the monster hunter lands and stop team rocket from blasting of with your ratha.
    At first I absolutely hated Monster Hunter stories 2, I Enjoyed monster hunter world to an extent, but other than that Im not really a fan of this ip.. so after my first 2 hrs, I was having the same feeling, maybe monster hunter isn’t for me.. and then I hatched my first egg,and I was snet back to my pokemon days..Monster Hunter Stories is a mix of hunting down monsters as well as hunting down their eggs,
    as this is like pokemon a party building game, initially this is all you do, take down a monster, grab an egg, get out of their and hatch it, but slowly the game shifts from this, youll just be taking on these over powered angry monsters so the egg hunting I up to you, and this is the most addictive part until you get a team youre happy with.. every once in a while youll see a gold den on your way to a boss fight, youll go inside, grab an egg, trying to get the rarest egg possible.. I loved this aspect, excuted to see the variant of monster I would get.. and if you don’t like a monstie all that much, you can take one of its genes, or moves and give it to a member of your parter, really beefing your team up… I for example had a poisonous lizard monstie that could also breath fire.. I love the idea of mix an matching, giving you different moves and abilities ofr every situation.. then there the battling which is what make up most of your time in monster hunter world, here its rock paper sciorrs like pokemon, red, green, blue, you build up teams that specialize in one of the 3 fighting attacks, and oyu can switch them out freely without losing a turn to adjust to a monsties fighting style, and I hate it.. I hate the fighting here, don’t get me wrong, its so satisfying to finally take a boss down, but it is a drag, these enemies are way too spongy and battles take way too long, they feel over powered… you have 3 lives that are shared between you and your monsties, once all 3 are lost youre kicked back to the village, restock on ammo, get back out there… and annoyingly there are basically never a fast travel next to the boss so youll have to crawl through the dungeon over and over and over until you finally get lucky enough to take down the boss, and i say lucky because these battles just feel random and unfair.. some moves will one hit kill you or your monstie, and worse is you cant see the health of an enmy until you’ve already killed one before.. so youll be grinding and grinding and grinding, using all of your consuables, and just randomly here comes and over powered move youre dead.. do I grind and level up or was I so close that with a new strategy I could pull this off? You don’t know.. and that’s the biggest issue with Stories 2… there is no incentive to grind because you don’t know if its necessariy or if this is just another luck based boss battle…
    Complaints aside like I said I was still hooked, Im a sucker for collecting monsters, and with some changes in the fighting system maybe I wouldn’t aboid every possible fight I could in a dungeon just to get to the boss and get it over with and this could be an amazing game, but for now.. its still great.
    I give Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin
    an 8/10    … Expand
  3. ParanskyRaj
    Nov 5, 2021
    8
    If you like the Japanese visual style and its tactical turn-based battles, you like to upgrade your game characters, you have some breeding tendencies and you don't lack the heart of an adventurer, this is the game for you and take it with all ten hands! The full review is on my gaming site here: https://www.paranskyraj.cz/novinky/monster-hunter-stories-2-wings-of-ruin-recenze/
  4. Inuyasha1
    Oct 9, 2021
    10
    포켓몬스터 + 몬헌 라이즈 느낌이라 재밌습니다ㅋ 특히 가루크 동료몬이 제일 간지
  5. kylemccoy131
    Jan 26, 2023
    8
    Its an improvement from the first Stories game! My biggest critique is its pacing. Sometimes you're doing busy work that doesn't feel like it progresses the plot. But the combat system is a refreshing take on turn-based combat thats more about predicting patterns than finding an elemental weakness. Would recommend to monster hunter fans and people looking for a game with a lot of partyIts an improvement from the first Stories game! My biggest critique is its pacing. Sometimes you're doing busy work that doesn't feel like it progresses the plot. But the combat system is a refreshing take on turn-based combat thats more about predicting patterns than finding an elemental weakness. Would recommend to monster hunter fans and people looking for a game with a lot of party customization.… Expand
  6. Phantox10
    Mar 3, 2022
    8
    El juego graficamente es una delicia, se ve hermoso, aunado a una banda sonora espectacular, el sistema de combate de desarrolla por turnos y en un modo de seleccion de ataque, siendo esto como un "piedra, papel o tijeras" pero cabe mencionar que los enemigos rara vez cambian sus ataques, incluso se vuelve bastante intuitivo; el problema es que ya despues de muchas horas tendremos queEl juego graficamente es una delicia, se ve hermoso, aunado a una banda sonora espectacular, el sistema de combate de desarrolla por turnos y en un modo de seleccion de ataque, siendo esto como un "piedra, papel o tijeras" pero cabe mencionar que los enemigos rara vez cambian sus ataques, incluso se vuelve bastante intuitivo; el problema es que ya despues de muchas horas tendremos que hacer misiones cooperativas en linea para poder enfrentar enemigos mas fuertes y hacernos con sus partes, las cuales podremos usar para crear y/o mejorar armas y armaduras... todo esto sería bueno, de no ser porque es nula la cantidad de jugadores online, de verdad, a veces tardarás tanto en encontrar partidas o alguien que se una a la tuya que preferirás seguir buscando cuevas rarísimas.
    Otro punto negativo sería la progresión, esta es bastante lenta, y como mencioné anteriormente, el juego se va tornando demasiado repetitivo.

    Fuera de lo ya mencionado el juego vale muchísimo la pena, mas aun si tienes amigos con el titulo para hacer misiones en cooperativo.    … Expand
  7. Inuyasha17
    Oct 9, 2021
    10
    Game of the Year 2021 will be either Monster Hunter Stories 2 or Monster Hunter Rise.
  8. Carminuch
    Jul 2, 2023
    10
    Monster Hunter Pokemon, what can go wrong?

    Really fun story, with a wind-waker esque artstyle. I fell in love with this game and am really hoping for a 3rd.

    Great battle mechanics with a rock-paper-scissors system that is simplistic, yet amazing.

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  1. BaziCenter
    Sep 3, 2021
    80
    Wings of Ruin is specifically developed to entertain the fans of Monster Hunter series, but by offering a different approach that feels a lot like JRPG games.
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  2. GameGrin
    Aug 2, 2021
    90
    A fantastic game for both fans of Monster Hunter and newcomers alike, cleverly weaves aspects of the main games into a traditional RPG setting and can stand on its own.
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  3. GameStar
    Jul 15, 2021
    75
    MH Stories 2 suffers from limited variation but is a tactical role-playing game with cool monsters and a lovely storyline.
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