Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin

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6.2

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  1. hkjhkjh
    Jul 11, 2021
    7
    WARNING: If you are sensible to low/inconsistent FPS you should rather grab the PC version since the Switch version tends to run in the low 20 in more open areas and during cutscenes whereas in buildings and smaller areas the framerate can go up to 40fps since the framerate is not capped to 30fps. That goes for both docked and undocked.
    But other than that the visuals are great in both    WARNING: If you are sensible to low/inconsistent FPS you should rather grab the PC version since the Switch version tends to run in the low 20 in more open areas and during cutscenes whereas in buildings and smaller areas the framerate can go up to 40fps since the framerate is not capped to 30fps. That goes for both docked and undocked.
    But other than that the visuals are great in both docked and undocked (I assume 1080p docked and 720p undocked) and the game itself is really fun. Even if you aren't into the main MH games you still can pick this up and enjoy it if you are into JRPGs. The battle system is great and tactical, there is a lot to explore in the overworld and the story is interesting so far. I hope Capcom can fix the performance problems cause if they do the game definitely would be a 8-9 but with the issues I can only give it a 7    … Expand
  2. MadBert91
    Jul 17, 2021
    7
    Llevo 23 horas jugadas. El juego en sí está francamente bien, es entretenido, sin un nivel de complejidad exagerado, requiere un poco de planificación y táctica pero es lo que se esperaba lógicamente. En Nintendo switch no está bien optimizado y es muy frecuente encontrar zonas donde los FPS se resienten bastante y va a tirones. Afortunadamente por norma general es más que jugable peroLlevo 23 horas jugadas. El juego en sí está francamente bien, es entretenido, sin un nivel de complejidad exagerado, requiere un poco de planificación y táctica pero es lo que se esperaba lógicamente. En Nintendo switch no está bien optimizado y es muy frecuente encontrar zonas donde los FPS se resienten bastante y va a tirones. Afortunadamente por norma general es más que jugable pero esto le resta un puntito, otro puntito que pierde a mi parecer es en la falta de doblaje al castellano, sé que es algo habitual en Nintendo, pero por lo que cuestan estos juegos y las ventas que tienen en el mundo hispanohablante no tiene justificación y por ultimo el tercer punto que le quito y sitúo mi nota en un 7 que es buena nota es la repetitividad excesiva en combates y en guardias de monstruos que son clones unos de otros, le falta un poco más de mimo en términos generales. A pesar de todo es un juego divertido y recomendado.… Expand
  3. OnionSama
    Jul 18, 2021
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'll give it 8 if this game is called MH Rider. The game play part is interesting and good, the fighting has enough depth, getting eggs and breeding strong monsters are really addictive, although the dungeon exploration is repetitive and tedious.
    But, if you put “Stories” in the game title, it’s not acceptable to tell a story in such a way. After playing the whole game, I feel like this is the best way to describe my character: The grandchild of a legendary rider, The “aibo” of a legendary cat and his legendary friends, the ruthless egg stealer and monster fighter, and most importantly, the Cameraman. I don’t even feel I was needed in the story, unless you need me to make some stupid desicions to help develope the story.
    Please find your writer from RE or DMC, or from Persona or DQ if you still want to make a dumb character. You Monster Hunter guys don’t know how to write stories don’t you?    … Expand
  4. Dar1ism
    Aug 16, 2021
    6
    Huge fan of the monster hunter series. I love all the different monsters and the art style of this game. However, the story just does not draw me in and the rock paper scissors combat is boring. There are things to enjoy in this game, but the grind just doesn't quite feel worth it to me in this one. The game has frozen on me a couple times as well.

    Update: As I continued to play I did    Huge fan of the monster hunter series. I love all the different monsters and the art style of this game. However, the story just does not draw me in and the rock paper scissors combat is boring. There are things to enjoy in this game, but the grind just doesn't quite feel worth it to me in this one. The game has frozen on me a couple times as well.

    Update: As I continued to play I did find the story to get a bit better, and actually started to enjoy the game more. HOWEVER, I came back to lower my score because the game has completely crashed on me twice in a row as the final cutscene is about to start. This is completely unacceptable. Capcom acknowledges the issue on their site.    … Expand
  5. paulo012
    Jul 30, 2021
    6
    The game is great (think pokemon in the monster hunter series) and mirrors perfectly the style and gameplay of the first iteration.

    BUT the performance is so poor, so often (less than 15fps) that the game becomes a chore to play. I personally cannot play with such terrible performance as it makes me nauseous. CAPCOM needs to step in and fix these issues if they want people to recommend    The game is great (think pokemon in the monster hunter series) and mirrors perfectly the style and gameplay of the first iteration.

    BUT the performance is so poor, so often (less than 15fps) that the game becomes a chore to play. I personally cannot play with such terrible performance as it makes me nauseous. CAPCOM needs to step in and fix these issues if they want people to recommend this title to friends....    … Expand
  6. JaggedCarpet
    Aug 5, 2021
    5
    One word: Navirou. That annoying, butt-ugly, useless sack of wasted space is enough for me to knock five whole points off of this otherwise fun game. He's a selfish and childish... thing that brings literally nothing to the table. His voice makes you want to puncture your ear drums so you don't have to hear it any more.
  7. lattes
    Aug 29, 2021
    6
    Want to love this game, but I cant.
    The difference in power by monstie classification is ridiculous. It feels bad to use most of my favorites because they are that much worse than the higher tier monsters.
    Not only they force you to keep ratha all the way to the end of the story, but the riding actions are so restrict that you also probably will have room for maybe 3 monsties you really    Want to love this game, but I cant.
    The difference in power by monstie classification is ridiculous. It feels bad to use most of my favorites because they are that much worse than the higher tier monsters.
    Not only they force you to keep ratha all the way to the end of the story, but the riding actions are so restrict that you also probably will have room for maybe 3 monsties you really enjoy (that probably will end up swapping anyway, doing to the star system).
    Another negative regarding the riding actions is that they seem really clancky, sometimes I have to press 20 times the b button to nargacuga turn stealth on.
    The areas feel like they aren't connected at all, and the map system you use to teleport just sucks. I wish they gave us a normal map too look the caravans.
    A huge problem of this game is the repetitiveness. The way you progress the story is really repetitive. The way you farm for genes is really repetitive. The dens areas are really repetitive, and what is worse, sometimes the normal map areas look really close to the den ones.
    I avoided many battles, but even so there was a point were I got bored, because they tend to be really easy (even with low star monsties) and really long (especially if you are using your favorite monsties). The animations are great, but you'll eventually skip all. One thing that makes the battles slower than they needed to be are the mini cutscenes for changing weapon and things like that. Also, there's a "animation lag" between each move, each hit and etc.
    The story is nice, but also feels like some moments don't conect really well together, probably because of the way they change your partners, and the repetitiveness of this formula.
    Not having how to change your monsties element or even just colour is just really dumb.
    Don't fool yourself if somebody says it's a loveletter to MH fans, there is barely a ok quantity of addition to the mostie rooster compared to stories 1.
    There are still many great things about this game, in production value it deserves a better score, but in real enjoyment, this is what I can give.    … Expand
  8. Bodhi_Hoatzin
    Aug 13, 2021
    7
    Very cute spin on the MH franchise that adds a lot onto what was brought to the table by its predecessor. Combat is simple on the surface but more complex underneath and makes for a very fun spin on the turn-based formula. Things can get a bit redundant - mostly exploration - but not to the extent at which grinding feels detractive. The worst thing I have to say is in regards to the horridVery cute spin on the MH franchise that adds a lot onto what was brought to the table by its predecessor. Combat is simple on the surface but more complex underneath and makes for a very fun spin on the turn-based formula. Things can get a bit redundant - mostly exploration - but not to the extent at which grinding feels detractive. The worst thing I have to say is in regards to the horrid performance on Switch with fps sinking into single-digits at some points which really shouldn't be acceptable. For this reason alone I strongly recommend the PC version instead.… Expand
  9. Sensou
    Feb 12, 2023
    5
    Finally buying it out of endless curiosity. Although, I've said that I won't make a purchase for this game due to performance issue but I decided to try it out due to my excitement with MH Rise and MHGU.

    As I said, I like the gameplay mechanic. It's basically turn based JRPG, no problem at all with simple mechanic of rock-paper-scissors. Previously, I only commented on performance    Finally buying it out of endless curiosity. Although, I've said that I won't make a purchase for this game due to performance issue but I decided to try it out due to my excitement with MH Rise and MHGU.

    As I said, I like the gameplay mechanic. It's basically turn based JRPG, no problem at all with simple mechanic of rock-paper-scissors.

    Previously, I only commented on performance and how wasted the stable feature as you can't nurture your monsters as they have provided you with an asset of the small version of each monster in the game. But, since I'm able to fully play the game now, there are just too many flaws and problem with this game that keeps me hating it even more as I progress through the game.

    Performance still becoming the main issue of the unpleasant experience. The graphic is not even that high or even the texturing in the game. Everything seems basically soft and flat but the game unable to properly running at a stable frame-rate. Weirdly enough, everything runs smooth on Lulucion where Lulucion seems to be filled with lot of people other than the other 3 previous village. Work on that MHS team, MHR could run flawlessly so it just unacceptable for MHS to be running like a crap.

    Graphic is the 2nd biggest flaw. I truly never value game based on it's graphics as I keep thinking that good graphics is just a bonus and it won't heavily impact my experience but it's different with MHS2. It's not because of the soft texture or low resolution but the graphics of the game is not consistent. It seems they have 2 separate art direction characteristics for human and environment. It's make the art direction (?) of MHS seems not consistent and that hurts my eyes. Once again, it's not because of texture or low resolution, its all about consistency and they are not consistent with how they approach it in art perspective.

    Last is of course the story and Navirou. It's better to just remove the story altogether as they can't make an engaging story. You know what? You can make a good story by just working on the lore of the monster itself that has been built in MH series and I believe that will be a lot better than creating a cheesy anime kind of story. Navirou is way too chatty and our characters is just like an NPC. I hate how the closure of Kuan Village's Arc, our characters seems stupid and weak all of sudden and because of that creating a small destruction of Kuan Village. And you better remove Navirou in the next installment, if you plan on continue to work on this series, that cat is useless and annoying. So many of my action got obstructed of his dialogue, so I need to mash the button to make sure my button input is being inserted to the system as well as skipping his dialogue.

    So many things gone wrong in this game but those 3 points above completely makes me stop to play the game anymore after 18+ hours into the game. Shame, because the gameplay mechanic is absolutely addictive and engaging. Well, the AI of your companion is sucks thou.    … Expand
  10. shw079
    Feb 4, 2022
    6
    This is a mediocre RPG game at best. It becomes quite repetitve very soon and loses its charm.
  11. vickykoi
    Jun 22, 2023
    6
    the game was honestly too hard during some battles and i gave up. nergigante was just one of those annoying fights of many. the frames are pretty bad on switch but it didn't bother me too much. mostly i think the difficulty lies in not knowing monster elemental weaknesses and which type of attack to use. you also never know what level the enemy is, so if you keep dying you just have to gothe game was honestly too hard during some battles and i gave up. nergigante was just one of those annoying fights of many. the frames are pretty bad on switch but it didn't bother me too much. mostly i think the difficulty lies in not knowing monster elemental weaknesses and which type of attack to use. you also never know what level the enemy is, so if you keep dying you just have to go farm more levels.
    the story is also a bit childish, though the final boss and artwork design was really nice.    … Expand
  12. Madbert
    Jul 9, 2022
    7
    Jul 17, 2021

    Llevo 23 horas jugadas. El juego en sí está francamente bien, es entretenido, sin un nivel de complejidad exagerado, requiere un poco de planificación y táctica pero es lo que se esperaba lógicamente. En Nintendo switch no está bien optimizado y es muy frecuente encontrar zonas donde los FPS se resienten bastante y va a tirones. Afortunadamente por norma general es más que    Jul 17, 2021

    Llevo 23 horas jugadas. El juego en sí está francamente bien, es entretenido, sin un nivel de complejidad exagerado, requiere un poco de planificación y táctica pero es lo que se esperaba lógicamente. En Nintendo switch no está bien optimizado y es muy frecuente encontrar zonas donde los FPS se resienten bastante y va a tirones. Afortunadamente por norma general es más que jugable pero esto le resta un puntito, otro puntito que pierde a mi parecer es en la falta de doblaje al castellano, sé que es algo habitual en Nintendo, pero por lo que cuestan estos juegos y las ventas que tienen en el mundo hispanohablante no tiene justificación y por ultimo el tercer punto que le quito y sitúo mi nota en un 7 que es buena nota es la repetitividad excesiva en combates y en guardias de monstruos que son clones unos de otros, le falta un poco más de mimo en términos generales. A pesar de todo es un juego divertido y recomendado    … Expand
  13. ZYMROD
    Nov 26, 2022
    7
    Es una secuela bastante correcta de su entrega en 3ds. Sin embargo, se torna un poco repetitivo y la falta de variedad le juegan en contra si vienes de jugar MHS 1. Como nueva experiencia es correcta, pero se siente con potencial desaprovechado.

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 89 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 73 out of 89
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 89
  3. Negative: 0 out of 89
  1. Nintendo Force Magazine
    Oct 7, 2021
    90
    Monster Hunter Stories 2's story and gameplay work in tandem to make this entry a standout in the franchise and in the creature collection genre as a whole. The gameplay is addictive, and the story and characters kept me invested in the finer details of the world. Plus, there is plenty to do after you've completed the story. If you're intrigued about this series or a fan who's wondering if it's worth your while, I say give this one a shot. And ride on! [Issue #54 – September 2021, p. 71]
  2. Gamepressure
    Sep 11, 2021
    80
    Wings of Ruin’s strengths are easily noticeable and will keep you playing it for weeks. Its story may not be groundbreaking, but what it offers is crafted with love and is geared to both fans and newcomers to the series. It’s definitely not your average Monster Hunter game, but its mix of RPG and Pokemon-like elements make it its own kind of wonderful.
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  3. PLAY! Zine
    Sep 9, 2021
    90
    If you never loved the Monster Hunter series, yet you found yourself intrigued by it, this could be your moment to fall in love with its world. The original Stories was an easily overlooked game since it was exclusive to the 3DS. However, this sequel is not just more available, but also an amazing and charming title on its own. And players that don't mind the more simple stories will have nothing but love for this sweet little adventure, which is anything but tiny.
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