There's a cutscene where it's revealed that Alwin has an allergic reaction to felynes. When he sneezes you can see the background npcs actually reacting and emoting in response to his sneezes. A detail Pokemon can't even do with their main protagonist.
@@dragonstouch1042 Loved that part. Tried to nail the "I'm just happy to be here" look with my character's face and it made pretty much any scene with them in the background gold for me.
Really?! Haven't gotten the game, though it is coming, bought it late, prefer to pre-order in person, so couldn't do that. In the mean time, I've got Rise to pass the time. Too bad Pokemon can't do something like that, most of their npcs are static until you approach them, or are just pacing back and forth. True that most of the npcs in the first Stories were kind of like that too, but at least they improved a bit if true in Stories 2. You'd think Pokemon would improve their npcs as well.
The sad part: Because Gamefreaks main game is Pokemon they don't need to put in as much effort. Spin-off games from a franchise that outside of japan at least is smaller than Pokemon need to do more to harbor attention. I do hope though that the more high quality monster collection games come out the more the Pokemon company feels pressured to actually release quality again. At their time the first Pokemon games were high quality but the improvements to the franchise have been quite lax.
@@No-One-Important-Here dude, it was a recording of an early development build. It's not gonna look perfect, get over it and stop clinging on to tiny outdated details that were revealed months ago. We've already seen screenshot of the improvements of the quality and graphics of the game, and it IS actually better then the first reveal, so I'm sure the 5 fps is not gonna be final.
@@reddragon4528 Ok. Sure, you are right. It was an early build. But it still doesn’t give me much faith on Game Freak. Aside from problematic graphics, they have major plot holes and storylines in games like X/Y and Sword/Shield. Random factories and such are talked about to only go nowhere. This is bad story telling. And don’t try to excuse them cause we are talking about a video game. Pokemon has anime movies, TV series and online shorts as well. The franchise relies heavily on storytelling and the games aren’t doing so hot in this area.
@@No-One-Important-Here ok, if you don't trust or have faith in gamefreak, alright then fine, I can't stop you from that, do as you wish it's your opinions. I personally loved Sw/Sh despite its flaws, and think legends arceus is gonna be very good, but that's just me. As for the other things you said though, I do agree with the problems of x/y, that game was not good at all, but what plot holes in Sw/Sh are you talking about? I don't remember seeing any plot holes, can you give me some examples please, and more context about this factory thing your talking about. As your the storytelling thing, ya... no, sorry but that's wrong. The mainline pokemon games have mostly never been reliant on story as the main focus of the game, it has always just been the gameplay itself. Yes, the anime tv shows and movies are about storytelling, but that's because... _they are tv shows and movies_ . Telling a story is the whole point of them. The mainline pokemon games aren't some Telltale games visual novel, it's not mainly about the story, sure the story is _part_ of the game, but it's certainly not the main focus of the games, and you can clearly tell this by looking at ANY pokemon game frim gens 1-8, with maybe the exception of b/w and b2/w2, those were the only games that seemed to focus a little more on story, and people panned GF for that (it was kinda stupid in my opinion honestly, i loved gen 5 and it's story), so it's clear that people also care more about the gameplay then story. Anyway, just because some medias in the pokemon franchise focus on storytelling, doesn't mean it's the most important thing that matters in every pokemon related thing. I fact, I'd go as far as to say that the whole point of the anime in the first place was to take the games they are based on, and add more lore and character development onto it, that way the people who just want to play the game don't have to sit through much of the story stuff other then the basic set up and events of the game, and the people who do care and want to learn more amcan watch the anime for a deeper dive into the world and the lore and characters, but those are just my thoughts, so you can take it with a grain of salt if you wish.
Was it an improvement of the first game? I played the first one (on the 3DS) and loved it, it was even better than Pokemon. I tried the demo for this one, while using the exploit of getting the anjanath early in the demo, liked it so far.
MH has a smaller group of strongly animated mons, a tangible history, a story told with spirit, and a sense of presentation that a series with something to prove has that Pokémon hasn't had in over a decade. If Capcom would put more resources into this subseries and turn it into a sister series with respect to mainline MH, I could see it being a 10 million seller by simply branding itself as Pokémon but good.
Need to correct you. With the exception of the Rage Rayed monsters, your rider doesn't actually KILL any opposing monsters. In fact the story beats mention how you "make them retreat". Heck the first mission with a partner, you're told that the monsters you fight are *fought frequently* by new riders since they aren't killed by the combat. The reason the menu and such lists the monsters as "slain" and the loot as Body parts is explicitly for the players of the mainline hunter games to not suffer culture shock. But as you can say from a Hunter game, it's satisfying seeing that monster finally enter that collapsing animation, thus victory is done the same way. Paintballs are the keystone to explaining this and what it means is that when the monster flees after the battle, you're able to follow it to it's den. The Quick Win function is your Rider showing the kinship stone and telling the opposing monster to retreat, which it does as it recognizes you as a superior, but the gameplay function has it collapse and you get body parts as loot from it. Just figured you should know ^^
Wow, I had no idea about what the Quick Win function is supposed to be. That's cool. It would nice if they dropped the "slain" term, so that things were clearer. They could say "defeated" or something. It's particularly silly when you "slay" a monster that you've paint-balled and then chase it back to its den.
A good comparison imo is how MHS2 reuses animations from the first one, but it's actually updated and refined like the overworld, 3d models and gameplay, unlike pokemon that also reuses everything since 2014 but with little to no updates on anything but attack particles, literally you get these "woo cool explosion/attack so detailed lmao" while the character stands idle for 10 seconds, and here in MHS2 everything looks so nice and ALIVE, these are REAL magical animals fighting and I'm so angry ppl still defend pokemon's modern mediocrity.
I don't think it's about "defending modern mediocrery", it's that not everyone cares that much about visuals. a lot of people just play pokemon for the gameplay and competitive. Heck there is a lot of people who outright turn off battle animations in the options menu and skip all the cutscenes cause they don't care and just want to play the game.
@@shutup1037 i mean, had visuals EVER been the main focus of a mainline pokemon game before? I'm not saying graphics and visuals aren't important at all, but they definitely aren't the thing that makes pokemon games as successful as they are. Most people don't play pokemon for visuals, they play for the battles and the competitive scene.
@@reddragon4528 if you don't care about the animations and only want to play competitive, then why waste your money when you can play showdown for free?
Still playing the post game and its still fun. The true charm of this game is hunting for rare eggs and strengthening your monstie through the rite of channeling.
Well 'MonsTie' stands from 'Monster [monster]' and Bestie[friend]' In Japanese it's called "OToMon" come from word 'Tomo[Friend] and "Mon" from Monster
I mean, it's still pretty cringy in Japanese, but I'm struggling to think of another portmanteau that wouldn't be too childish or too chunnibyou... "Partner" would be a good combination of dignified and casual, but I don't think it, or it's Japanese equivalent "aibou," combines with "Monster" that well. "Parnster" sounds too much like "porn star," and"Mortner" is just tempting the Rick & Morty fandom to do their worst. "AiMon" is a good way to get the coveted Japanese Rastafarian demographic, sure, but "MonBou" in a game without any dancing sections is going to piss off the mambo enthusiasts.
Just seeing how animated the monsters are in battles, how expressive, full of life they are, makes me so disappointed in Pokemon. I played both the first and second games and they are the most engaging and fun experience I have had with a monster catching game ever
Well to be fair, Pokémon games has more Pokémon they have to account for than there are monsters in monster hunter Also Pokémon games probably has less time to be developed since they have to release main line Pokémon games along side the anime While saying that I’d like to see this level of detail in the remakes or the off side Pokémon games like Pokémon legends
I also want to add that monster hunter stories did most of this stuff on the 3ds! Free camera, monsters on the over world, cutscenes ... granted with the 3ds limitation but still. I wish Pokemon would put some more budget into their games! They have the money to do it yet they won't. Monster hunter stories 2 is phenomenal. I want the next pokemon game to take notes , but they won't..
Money has nothing to do with this. People have the exact same misconception about animation. They think if a product look cheap, it means it has less budget behind it or if an episode is movie quality, that must means it has loads of budget behind it. It has everything to do with the right staff. Capcom probably has some of the best programmers and designers working for them. Gamefreak's staff specializes in working with very limited hardware and trying to get around this scale creep. They are way more familiar with how they design their cutscenes and battle system with limitation to avoid scope creep. It is a very smart way to make new games without overworking their employees but then we get a product is little to no flair. MH stories, even on the 3ds, has massive amount of production value behind it but they are nowhere near the scope creep. Capcom is also very talented when it comes to making good looking games with recycled animation. Come like Mh stories 5, most enemies will animate exactly the same but it will just look way better. They also know how to do cutscenes. Gamefreak has done that with gen 7 but the series doesn't usually commit to full on prerendered scenes.
@@reddragon4528 Don't brag about a game that hasn't come out. This game was shown off years ago, but it certainly wasn't 15fps with a 3fps Chingling. That's just not acceptable
@@nyahnyahson523 do you honestly think that's gonna be the final product of the game? Dude, it was an *early development build* of the game, obviously rushed out just to show off the game for the 25 anniversary direct. You don't actually think that's gonna be the final product right? We've already seen screenshots of the graphics of the game being WAY better then the first reveal, so the framerate is like 99% certain to also be way better as well. Also "that's juat unacceptable"? IT'S AN EARLY DEVELOPMENT BUILD, of course it's not gonna look good. Sure some first reveal footage of some other games might've looked a little better, how does that automatically make legends arceus factually bad? It's first reveal footage, and we've already seen the game getting better, so it ultimately doesn't matter. Why don't you wait until the game actually come out to judge it instead of baseing your final thoughts if the game on one outdated trailer for it. Oh, and before you try to say "YoUr JuDgEiNg ThE gAmE bEfOrE iT cOmEs OuT tOo!!1!" No, I'm not. All I was saying in my original reply was that from what we've seen and know about the game so far, legends arceus seems to have most if not everything that the original commenter said he wanted GF to do. So step off.
The sad truth is that both Game Freak and TPCi know that mainline Pokémon games will sell, no matter what. So why should they even bother putting effort into these games? It’s frustrating that Pokémon is the ONLY thing standing between Game Freak and bankruptcy, at least to me.
That and when you consider that a majority of income that the Pokemon franchise makes comes from merchandising, the games themselves are just another cog in the marketing machine. Sure, the games are needed to introduce a new generation, but that's the only thing the mainline games are meant for at the end of the day.
@@Itachigan22 They can always just use the anime for the new generation Pokemon introductions. Why even bother with the games? Most of the Pokémons’ personalities and characteristics are developed in the anime more so than the games right now anyways. Without the anime, we wouldn’t have known what Mimikyu was all about.
Originally I wasn't too interested in this game but decided to try the demo on a whim and it was the greatest pokemon experience I've had since maybe Gen 2 originally released. Like it wasn't similar to gen 2 Pokemon, but it was so novel it made me feel like a kid experiencing the pokemon games again for the first time. What a great game!
Stories was my first Monster Hunter game, which isn’t a great intro to the difficulty of the mainline series, but it’s a good intro to the world and monsters. And I remember after the first game came out one of the reviews said it was the best Pokémon game ever made. And since then, I’ve been saying that the Stories’ games are better and more heartfelt than pokemon with story and making it more personal to the player than just “the world is ending”. I love Stories 2 and I’m just happy we got a sequel since I, and many other fans of the first entry thought it didn’t do very well.
From a story aspect, when I see riders fighting monsters, I see it as keeping balance in their area's ecosystem. Since there isn't always a nergigante to do that for you. Expect when it comes to the egg-stealing, it's not like you're throwing the egg you've got onto the pavement when you pick up another one, it's more like you gently set your current egg down to pick up another.
Beautiful CG, amazing riding system, detailed and unique monster animation, decently large space for exploration, literally everything I wish the Pokémon franchise can be
A little sidenote about killing a bunch of monsters The game seems to imply that a good bunch of monsters you "slay" aren't actually killed, despite that term A subquest for example has in the describtion for you to beat an individual monster that has been used to train riders for years Or that a late party member later states that you didn't slayed a certain boss
You beat Nergy, and he just get the fuck back up not seconds later, sure he {spoilers for those not far in} but you don't seem to kill things considering they can retreat post combat
Idk, monstie may be cringe, but it grew on me and I kinda love it. I wouldnt replace it. Also lore wise, you actually don't slay that many monsters. In mainline the only monsters you actually fight canonically are key quest monsters and urgents. The rest of the quests are like imaginary. I guess to put it into context while we do hunt hundreds of rathalos gamewise, lorewise your hunter will only have actually hunted 2 or 3 rathalos. Same seems to be true for stories, your rider only actually hunt the main quest monsters and the rest are just there because videogames. Pretty sure canonically your rider is still in their base armor set from the start of the game the whole time.
Idk man, Rider's seem more hardcore than Hunters, I mean canonically not only do they slay monsters (there isn't even the more humane option of capturing like Hunters) but they also steal eggs from monster dens. Like imagine how much in the mainline games they make a whole big deal about Elder dragons forces of nature that disrupt ecosystems in their wake that's why we need to hunt them but here you are, some anime looking ass strolling into a major city center with like 2 Teostras, a Kirin and Velkhana in tow. Hunter's are still better though since they can climb Ivy. I'm like seriously you come in an Elder's Den, steal their eggs and make a dragon your pet yet you don't have the upper body strength to climb some vines without a monster's help? What's up with that?
@@Madrigal025 well the monsties cant be really compared to the normal counterparts simply cause lore/game wiese they cant be normal Monsters starting with you go into a Den ..there lseeps a Kulu-ya-ku but you find like 5 diffrent monster eggs inside sometimes not even one of a Kulu then you can find eggs from Monsters who not lay eggs at all Nargacuga,Bulldrome,Barioth,Zinogre ,Congalala they all give live birth and dont lay eggs like in the anime these Eggs somehow only Hatch when near a rider /kinshipstone otherwise they just lay around doing nothign for ages dont spoil/die ,,but also dont hatch and then Monsters can hatch out of eggs who dont makes really sense like you can hatch a Velocidrome even out of the egg should hatch a Velociprey or a Great Jaggi when a Jaggi should hatch and then grow up into a great Jaggi all this together makes that the Eggs you find are just spezial eggs who would not contribute to the species anyway
@@Madrigal025 "capturing" is more humane? the fuck? oh yeah, im pretty sure the monsters getting captured to be experimented on are really glad at how humane you are for just not killing him then and there but instead beating the ever living shit out of them and then dragging then to the city where they will be kept as ginea pigs for science purposes.
The Switch actually had an amazing Pokemon game before, it's called Ni no Kuni. Of course, I love MH Stories 2 just as much, it is a truly amazing game, but can't help but note that the combination of jrpg and monster tamer that is Ni no Kuni deserves more love as it really nails the monster tamer part.
I am playing the game in Japanese and they use the term "Otomon" when talking about the "Monsties", I might just be a weeb but I kinda find the wordplay a bit better in japanese, as Otomo means companion, comrade etc and mon is just short for monster (think Pokemon or Digimon)
@@MayHugger Well, I guess I'd better bury all my games specifically designed by language teachers to teach people languages. Sarcasm aside, games are actually a great way to pick up new vocabulary and practice. I also often read manga in Japanese because I'm a bit iffy on reading Kanji still, so the furigana helps me to understand, and it helps practice reading and expanding vocabulary. Submersing yourself in a language is one of the absolute best things you can do to learn a language. Years ago in high school I took a Chinese class and our teacher straight up gave us a link to a streaming site and recommended watching shows in Chinese to help with learning pronunciation, expanding vocabulary and seeing how words are utilized in sentences. No, you shouldn't use these as your only source, but used alongside classes and traditional study methods, books, music, shows and games can really, truly help. Besides, learning languages is fun, but having a goal like "I want to be able to read this series" or "I want to play this game in this language and be able to understand it" help motivate people to improve. You can go ahead and study languages however you want, but telling people to avoid something they enjoy that can motivate and help them to study is doing them a disservice.
I love the MH Stories games! I’ve spent countless hours playing the first game and I’m still enjoying this one! I’m a massive long time Pokémon fan and I wish the Pokémon games had the level of quality that MH Stories does. I enjoy MH Stories so much more than any Pokémon game and I hope we get another MH Stories game sometime in the future.
I actually liked monstie as a term, it gets the job done and it fits the dialogue a lot better. Maybe they could have used another term but definitely not monster which people had suggested before. Calling your pet/companion a monster sounds real awful.
I played stories one, but monstie never really stood out to me. It actually just sounded like a natural word in this world since Dan’s personality was just fitting of him calling them monsties. That and the world is overall a bit more open and “kid friendly” so monstie was very much natural. If none of those are a valid reason, I guess the word just grew on me.
Smt 5 is another good pokemon replacement for those disappointed by recent entries. Funny enough Smt was doing the monster collecting thing before Pokemon.
My first game of the MH universe and it won me over, I even bought MH Rise and I’m completely enjoying the experience. Hope it becomes more mainstream and ups Pokémon with this rising competition so I can enjoy both.
One day I'd love to play a Pokemon game, where I can ride on my favorite Legendary Pokemon Lugia, and fly around in a big open world. With the recent Legends Arceus news, it may happen in the future. Capcom is doing well this year. I bought MHS2, and I've been enjoying the game. It's the Pokemon game I wished to have. Now if Capcom would just give us Mega Man X Dive port on the Switch, and Mega Man Legends Collection. Capcom would be forgiven.
Always loved MH series, but from a distance. I often said all i really wanted to do was ride and interact with the monsters, not just kill them. Not to mention the combat was way beyond my skill level. This is the perfect game for me and i've been enjoying it since it came out with no plan on stopping any time soon. Plus, i love the coop in the game - enough for my husband and I to do it together, but the rest of the game can just be on my terms solo XD I hope some company sees the potential in doing something similar with the pokemon universe. Most people would be happy with only a small number of pokemon in a game. 500+ is unrealistic to create and animate not to mention collect and level. Most people would be good with 150 - 200. Could we at least get new noises for the pokemon rather than rehashed fuzzy noises from the original game. Just use the sounds from the TV show if it is that difficult to record/create new noises lol!
I am playing the game currently and i will admit the Monsties can get annoying, but i like this game a lot as I can grind when i want as well as explore the open spaces and even hunt for new monsters to add to my team. Additionally, it does not feel as extreme for me as the Montster hunter games always looked cool but also seem like i would break my controller with how difficult it could be in some fights. But that is just me. Over all, i love this game so far and can't wait to finish it
Thanks for the review, gonna check this out for sure! Also totally with you on the "monstie" thing, it made that cutscene clip look like someone edited it and made it as a parody haha
Pokémon Snap and Monster Hunter Stories 2 Exposed all of Game freak's greedy excuses were caught in 4K or 1080p :D. And no ''Nintendo sabotage'' isn't a excuse since Zelda and Mario Odyssey developers had taken their games seriously.
New Pokemon Snap is a goddamn masterpiece and it just got DLC which made it better. It's a deceptively simple game, with hardcore gamer gimmicks, like getting perfect scores on all the star ranks.
@@chatboulon743 You're right it feels accessible so everyone can pick it up and has depth. Game Freak makes simple things convoluted to hide it lack of depth while cutting out foundations to keep more money.
@@watchthisspace2576 Pokémon snap isn’t a fair example since it’s locked onto one path and you can’t divert from that path Also monster hunter has a lot less monsters than Pokémon sword and shield has Pokémon Monster hunter stories 2 has 128 monsters while Pokémon sword and shield has 400 Pokémon It doesn’t matter what game company makes a mainline Pokémon game, it’s going to be a challenge for any company to make a good Pokemon game with that many Pokémon in it
@@Tyreker Thanks for your comment i respect your view point. Ultimately i could try and make excuses for the highest grossing franchise ever's, inferior quality to smaller less then franchises that make a spec of money in comparison. or i can say hey, Pokémon deserves better. Acting like this is some GTA5 intensive development is hilarious. Cut the Pokémon if you have to, i give zero shits its not like they didn't totally sell it back to us anyways.
@@watchthisspace2576 I’m not making excuses, I’m just telling you that the development for a Pokémon game is a lot harder than you think it is Also they did cut Pokémon from sword and shield, about 400-500 and people spat the dummy at them If we were to get a good Pokémon game with monster hunter stories 2 kind of quality and animations they’d have to spend at least 5-10 years in development It’s just the way it is, it’s no easy feat to make a good Pokémon game with the amount of Pokémon there are and like I said, it doesn’t matter who is developing the game, without spending at least 5 years in development the formula isn’t going to change
Thank you, thank you so much for sharing good opinion on this game. You gained a sub from me both for this review and the Pokemon rant at the end. Quick note: the "Monstie" issue... I blame the english translators. Even if it translates literally like that from Japanese, they could just change how the dialog talks about your "monsties" (like partners, pets etc) in serious scenes. Personally I prefer the JP dub with ENG subtitles and it makes the dialog sound way less cringe all the way through. While Stories 2 sold really well compared to 1 that sold only 300 000 copies (!), more people need to see the quality of this series. Maybe it is the more "child like" spin-off but unlike Pokemon it doesn't focus on being stupidly easy for children, it respects it's players, especially those that played the OG games because knowlege about certain monster in the main line actually helps you guess the type of attack it's gonna use most of the time. The fighting system also requires a lot of thinking, especially on last parts of the story and the high rank part of the end game, because you have only 3 lives, you can just suicide your "pokemon" until you win. I've been waiting for a "harder" pokemon game for years and what I got on Switch was more child focused than what I played in the third generation era as a kid myself. The old fanbase of at this point over 20 year old franchise are simply ignored by gamefreak, they don't want to put more effort than they need to to sell their games and all they need is a logo and splitting the games into two versions with one cool pokemon on the cover. The rest can be done as poorly as they wish, because until it sells, the quality doesn't matter to them. And because of this approach we live in a world where we are happy when we get normal cutscenes in Pokemon like games. You understand that? Gamefreak milks us so much on main line that we are suprised when we get "animated cutscenes" and "good animations". It's actually kinda sad. I wish I had enough money to send a copy of MH Stories 2 to all Pokemon fans that said that Sword and Shield are amazing games and all the main Pokemon content creators, to show them that they are just not given what most games should have. But for now I am a happy fan of MH series that not only gave me a series of games that gave me over 2000 hours of content at this point, but also a series of Pokemon like games that are better than Pokemon and include all my favourite monsters that I can truly ride in open great looking enviorments. Also even though the story is pretty simple in it's overall shape, it has amazing characters and shows some good writing on the mystery ascpect that makes you engaged all the way through. Meanwhile Sword and Shield has plot so simple that I almost predicted all of it the moment the game starts to focus on story. It was one of the most dissapoinitng things about these games, because even with easy gameplay loop, you could at least enjoy the story. But it was shit and the final fights took themselves so seriously it was almost funny. You need almost no effort to finish them that it's also pretty sad. Stories 2 not only bringed some new great characters that I will remeber longer than any of the speechles characters in SwS but also it took into the picture really interesting aspect of the relation between hunters and riders which I was actually curious about. And as the game explained hunters and riders live in MH universe like other animals. They build cities and respect nature but will kill Monsters if threatend or if they need materials nad food for themselves. They don't look at it like on sport, most of the times at least. Taking the gameplay loop of killing a ton of monsters is not really a good argument that breaks this logic though. I don't remember the exact name of this fenomenon but basically the game will not take your overkilling of monsters as part of the story but gameplay will also not stop you, because that would be stopping the player from enjoying the fughting system. Same goes for main MH games and some RPGs like Witcher where Geralt clearly states a lot of times that he doesn't want to kill some of these creatures if he doesn't need to, because thry might be almost extinct etc. but the game will not stop you from slaughtering all the Leshens or other monsters on your way. Off... sorry for such a long comment, but I had to say something while i'm here. I really hope for more great content like this video, it was nice to be able to say something about the Pokemon problem for once too. I'll be wating for the next material. Happy Hunting!
Game freak loves being cheap and lazy only giving the bare minimum to us fans it's so frustrating cause I'm honestly tired of it even pokemon shield was lacking in many aspects and don't get me started with the random popup pokemon but still game freak should just try harder and spend a but, I am a loyal pokemon fan so I just want game freak to be better
hopefully they'll put effort into that one new pokemon region game. i think it was releasing this year? if i was them id take my time on it. take another year if u have to.
@@wonder777warrior6 nah not new Pokémon region, it’s gen 4 remake coming this year and the history of that same region next year But I do agree that they should put more effort into the remakes and the off side Pokémon games since they don’t have to code and do as many animations for so many Pokémon with those games
They will only get better when people stop buying their bullshit. Stop buying the mainline games. Please. If you love the pokemon games and truely want gamefreak to be better, stop buying. Thats the only way they will notice
Cool thing about mh stories is when your character gets into a fight, they actually are in the fight. Not like pokemon where you just make your pokemon do all the work, in stories 2 you have to be in there ready to take hits from the enemy and keep fighting.
I wanna get this game now first time I’m hearing about it, maybe Legends Arceus is gonna be amazing and what a lot of people want for the series to become but I do gotta admit seeing Capcom or Bandai get a shot at this franchise honestly makes me excited to think about the potential of what they could be
Given 3 months? You think Gamefreak only get 3 months? You must be joking. They take years before they release their games and even then, the games Gamefreak releases is still trash. Even if Nintendo gave Gamefreak 10 years for a single game they'd still come out garbage. Gamefreak simply doesn't care because no matter how little effort they put in their games, people will still buy it. Look at the Arceus game coming out next year. It's buggy as all hell and looks like it's meant for the N64. Don't even get me started on the very lazy Diamond and Pearl remakes. Gamefreak has the resources and money to better themselves, but they choose not to.
@@gaius5901 if game freak had 10 years we’d get the best Pokémon game ever You forget that monster hunter has 128 monsters while Pokémon sword and shield has 400 in it after they cut out 400 Pokémon so game freak has more work to do in the time frame they have which is around 3 years and they can’t delay the game to much because of the anime Also game freak isn’t making the diamond and pearl remakes, that’s ILCA who are adding a bunch of new features into the game which wasn’t in the original game
Dropping the first game on Apple Arcade was genius. A lot of people who have not played this franchise up to now will now want to play this series on the Nintendo
I bought this game last week after playing the first one on Apple arcade. I haven’t had enough of the first one, but I started the second one 2 days ago and I am loving it. After this how will I play the Diamond and pearl remakes in 3 months.
@@lubbo5261 you know a game is great when yo pause RUclips so you can pay more attention. I didn’t watch tv for 2 weeks. The game is however very linear so I have to wait to play it again
I'm on at the second island, but this is a great game so far. and a much needed break from the main games of this series. the only thing i'm not a fan of is the gene system. they always have to add that stupid grindy mechanic in all their games... at least how monster leveling is handled is done really well. if you get a new monster at level 1. and your partys at higher levels. the new monster gets significant experience boosts if the level gap is large. a shame for you then. i love monsti its cute just like the aesthetic.
At least, unlike the first game, you get to place the gene _where you want it_ rather than line it up placement for placement. Say, like, top left can only be applied to the top left in 1, but you can put it anywhere in 2.
Gene grinding gets easier as the game goes on and you discover more monsters :v it’s best to wait until, you reach high rank to start making monster build as HR dens will give you much better genes. So don’t worry about it too much for now !
I actually discovered Monster hunter through the stories anime but I couldn’t pkay the stories 1 so i kinda just watched tons of stories videos then i played stories two then i tried world (hated it) and now im a rise addict and im absolutely busted with the charge blade
As an owner of a hacked switch, the games frame rate skyrockets when you overclock the CPU/GPU/memory and it looks fucking amazing. Played through the entirety of pkmn sword, and I had more fun in the first three hours of this game than I did the entirety of pokemon. Love it!
I started playing last week, it had a boring start but it grew on me. I can't stop playing now! When I fight new enemies, I'm like oh God will I be able to beat them?! Most of the time I win, maybe lose occasionally, but I can never get rid of the feeling of being intimidated by new enemies lol I watched the Pokemon Arceus trailer earlier and decided I won't be getting it unless it ends up having the same quality as mhs2. Not worth $60 at all. I'm actually disappointed that not more people are playing mhs2, it's a bazillion times better than pokemon.
I tried the demo for MHR and it was gorgeous, but I just couldn't get the controls/mechanics down. This game looks BEAUTIFUL, like how to train your dragon creatures, and much easier as an entry level game into the franchise. And I think there's a demo on switch too! Hooray
I'm late to the comment, but love the vid. As far as pokemon on concerned. Even in their newest game out...they dont live up to MHS2. STILL! This now years old game....STILL beats out the newer pokemon game. Honestly....i think gamefreak and nintendo have figured out pokemon. You make it cheap, JUST good enough to pass the sniff test, and shovel it out as fast as you can. They make tons of money, put in mnimal effort and sell it to a pre-installed audiance. They have proven to themselves...they dont have to be good. We the fans have shown gamefreak and nintendo, that we will still buy it. You can't convince enough people to boycott pokemon till they improve, so they never will. We will never see pokemon take the effort that Monster Hunter ever puts into their games.
I thought I'd dislike this game before trying it, but boy oh boy nope. The post-game is even addictive AND challenging. GameFreak wishes they could do what MHS2 has done this year. MH in general is killing it this year with Rise and Stories. Highly recommend both.
The switch has another good Monster collecting game: Nexomon Extinction! And Monster Sanctuary is on Switch too. And I love Yokai Watch, but sadly we never got the Switch release here in the West, so I'm probably the only one who enjoyed it... But yeah I agree. Definitely better than Pokemon....
I haven't done Sanctuary yet but I can second that Nexomon is phenomenal. I really want Yokai. I think I'm just going to import it soon and struggle. They brought over the first game so I think I'll replay that and get a hang of playing Japanese before trying the newer ones. I've played import games before and you kind of just start to be able to navigate
Gamefreaks does not care anymore. sword and shield made money regardless of the quality. The sad thing is it became too big of a franchise. It sucks. Some fans Ditch the franchise and play something else. Like me.
Or you know, I can just enjoy the series AND play something else. It's not one or the other. Pokemon still has quality character designs, lore, and locales. it is just the production values and stories that need to match up to being in an HD era. Gamefreak worked on handheld no mroe powerful than gamecube for the past decade. The games are just going to look and play better and better once they are familiar with their new engine and when we start getting truly powerful Nintendo system. There will come a time when a Nintendo system will be as powerful as the ps5 or series x with full on raytracing and 4k support. We just have to wait like 15 years for it.
Recently got the game and I have been having a blast, really gives me the old pokemon vibes! last pokemon I've played was SnM and that didn't really give me the pokemon love that the older ones did. Never really got cringe of the Monstie word since I never found out about it in 1 since haven't played it, guess thats why I'm ok with it.
I always took issue with the fact that they say the monstie goes away during right of channeling when they force you to watch a cutscene where the monstie is clearly absorbed and sacrificed
Also Riders steal babies, kill monsters, and sacrifice babies to other babies. Then proceed to say that HUNTERS are the bad ones. When hunters have always had respect for nature
@@justwantawholename In both games no one has explicity said that "Hunters are the bad guys". It's always been on how they just have a different worldview and approach to things.
@@justwantawholename Right? Riders are literal crib bandits brainwashing children to like them. Then have the gall to say "Look at my bestie!" Like no, give that baby back to its mother and g make REAL HUMAN friends.
Actually, id love to see nintendo let capcom make a metroid game in the style of resident evil, but as a member of the federation force. Samus can not be playable at all. Her suit can be unlockable by beating the game on a certain difficulty or with certain requirements just like resident evil. Or I guess amiibo unlock so long as it's not the only way... but yeah, I love to see capcom make a game in the metroid universe in the style of resident evil.
Haha glad you admit pokemon is better in the beginning. But all jokes aside this game needs attention honestly it's actually pretty good please get this game!
Yessss I really hope the 'Fix Pokemon' crowd would see how creative & exciting MH Stories 2 is as a creature-catching/battling game. If they needed to rally against some kind of comparable game against the current state of Pokemon, then MH Stories 2 is a good bet. (The sad thing is I don't hear many of such people talking about it.)
I hadn't played the first game, but it really didn't matter. This is now one of my favorite RPG games. Everything about it is enjoyable and well thought out. Pokemon lost me but I might try it again if they get better. Capcom should totally take over.
There's a cutscene where it's revealed that Alwin has an allergic reaction to felynes. When he sneezes you can see the background npcs actually reacting and emoting in response to his sneezes. A detail Pokemon can't even do with their main protagonist.
My favorite background action is the MC eating the Moss Dumplings. It’s just so cute
@@dragonstouch1042 Loved that part. Tried to nail the "I'm just happy to be here" look with my character's face and it made pretty much any scene with them in the background gold for me.
@@dragonstouch1042 that's the one I was gonna mention it's the best scene.
Really?! Haven't gotten the game, though it is coming, bought it late, prefer to pre-order in person, so couldn't do that. In the mean time, I've got Rise to pass the time.
Too bad Pokemon can't do something like that, most of their npcs are static until you approach them, or are just pacing back and forth. True that most of the npcs in the first Stories were kind of like that too, but at least they improved a bit if true in Stories 2. You'd think Pokemon would improve their npcs as well.
the monster hunter franchise always has this thing in bringing the games to life with little details
The funny part is that this is Capcom's *spin-off* game, it's not even part of their main projects.
The sad part: Because Gamefreaks main game is Pokemon they don't need to put in as much effort.
Spin-off games from a franchise that outside of japan at least is smaller than Pokemon need to do more to harbor attention.
I do hope though that the more high quality monster collection games come out the more the Pokemon company feels pressured to actually release quality again. At their time the first Pokemon games were high quality but the improvements to the franchise have been quite lax.
@@4ny3ody Game Freak was too busy making Little Town Heroes. And now too busy making static Pokémons in Legends Arceus bob up and down in mid air.
@@No-One-Important-Here dude, it was a recording of an early development build. It's not gonna look perfect, get over it and stop clinging on to tiny outdated details that were revealed months ago. We've already seen screenshot of the improvements of the quality and graphics of the game, and it IS actually better then the first reveal, so I'm sure the 5 fps is not gonna be final.
@@reddragon4528 Ok. Sure, you are right. It was an early build. But it still doesn’t give me much faith on Game Freak. Aside from problematic graphics, they have major plot holes and storylines in games like X/Y and Sword/Shield. Random factories and such are talked about to only go nowhere. This is bad story telling. And don’t try to excuse them cause we are talking about a video game. Pokemon has anime movies, TV series and online shorts as well. The franchise relies heavily on storytelling and the games aren’t doing so hot in this area.
@@No-One-Important-Here ok, if you don't trust or have faith in gamefreak, alright then fine, I can't stop you from that, do as you wish it's your opinions. I personally loved Sw/Sh despite its flaws, and think legends arceus is gonna be very good, but that's just me.
As for the other things you said though, I do agree with the problems of x/y, that game was not good at all, but what plot holes in Sw/Sh are you talking about? I don't remember seeing any plot holes, can you give me some examples please, and more context about this factory thing your talking about.
As your the storytelling thing, ya... no, sorry but that's wrong. The mainline pokemon games have mostly never been reliant on story as the main focus of the game, it has always just been the gameplay itself. Yes, the anime tv shows and movies are about storytelling, but that's because... _they are tv shows and movies_ . Telling a story is the whole point of them. The mainline pokemon games aren't some Telltale games visual novel, it's not mainly about the story, sure the story is _part_ of the game, but it's certainly not the main focus of the games, and you can clearly tell this by looking at ANY pokemon game frim gens 1-8, with maybe the exception of b/w and b2/w2, those were the only games that seemed to focus a little more on story, and people panned GF for that (it was kinda stupid in my opinion honestly, i loved gen 5 and it's story), so it's clear that people also care more about the gameplay then story. Anyway, just because some medias in the pokemon franchise focus on storytelling, doesn't mean it's the most important thing that matters in every pokemon related thing. I fact, I'd go as far as to say that the whole point of the anime in the first place was to take the games they are based on, and add more lore and character development onto it, that way the people who just want to play the game don't have to sit through much of the story stuff other then the basic set up and events of the game, and the people who do care and want to learn more amcan watch the anime for a deeper dive into the world and the lore and characters, but those are just my thoughts, so you can take it with a grain of salt if you wish.
Just beat the game last night and it was a great ride. Totally recommend this game.
@Tibor Andrasi ikr. Just like any MH game, the story is usually just a very long tutorial.
Then you can go to the elder!s lair.Also stop saying that game freak is bad because of this game
Was it an improvement of the first game? I played the first one (on the 3DS) and loved it, it was even better than Pokemon. I tried the demo for this one, while using the exploit of getting the anjanath early in the demo, liked it so far.
@@whitewolf3051 It is. I also loved the first game and this one was even better in most aspects.
"it was a great ride" did you just make a pun?
MH has a smaller group of strongly animated mons, a tangible history, a story told with spirit, and a sense of presentation that a series with something to prove has that Pokémon hasn't had in over a decade.
If Capcom would put more resources into this subseries and turn it into a sister series with respect to mainline MH, I could see it being a 10 million seller by simply branding itself as Pokémon but good.
Pokemon hasn't been good since Black and White 2
I agree. If Capcom put more behind it, it could have a lot of success. I'd love to see a G-Rank expansion-type thing for Stories 2, for starters.
@@samuelwebb2404G rank and starters isn't compatible
@@Amatsu_storm_approach "for starters" is an expression that means "to begin with", "as a start" That's what I meant. Hope that clarifies.
Need to correct you. With the exception of the Rage Rayed monsters, your rider doesn't actually KILL any opposing monsters. In fact the story beats mention how you "make them retreat". Heck the first mission with a partner, you're told that the monsters you fight are *fought frequently* by new riders since they aren't killed by the combat. The reason the menu and such lists the monsters as "slain" and the loot as Body parts is explicitly for the players of the mainline hunter games to not suffer culture shock. But as you can say from a Hunter game, it's satisfying seeing that monster finally enter that collapsing animation, thus victory is done the same way. Paintballs are the keystone to explaining this and what it means is that when the monster flees after the battle, you're able to follow it to it's den. The Quick Win function is your Rider showing the kinship stone and telling the opposing monster to retreat, which it does as it recognizes you as a superior, but the gameplay function has it collapse and you get body parts as loot from it.
Just figured you should know ^^
Commenting so others can see this.
Wow, I had no idea about what the Quick Win function is supposed to be. That's cool.
It would nice if they dropped the "slain" term, so that things were clearer. They could say "defeated" or something. It's particularly silly when you "slay" a monster that you've paint-balled and then chase it back to its den.
@@samuelwebb2404 I agree.
A good comparison imo is how MHS2 reuses animations from the first one, but it's actually updated and refined like the overworld, 3d models and gameplay, unlike pokemon that also reuses everything since 2014 but with little to no updates on anything but attack particles, literally you get these "woo cool explosion/attack so detailed lmao" while the character stands idle for 10 seconds, and here in MHS2 everything looks so nice and ALIVE, these are REAL magical animals fighting and I'm so angry ppl still defend pokemon's modern mediocrity.
I don't think it's about "defending modern mediocrery", it's that not everyone cares that much about visuals. a lot of people just play pokemon for the gameplay and competitive. Heck there is a lot of people who outright turn off battle animations in the options menu and skip all the cutscenes cause they don't care and just want to play the game.
@@reddragon4528 ah yes, just remove everything about the exploration. Just make a competitive game
@@shutup1037 i mean, had visuals EVER been the main focus of a mainline pokemon game before? I'm not saying graphics and visuals aren't important at all, but they definitely aren't the thing that makes pokemon games as successful as they are. Most people don't play pokemon for visuals, they play for the battles and the competitive scene.
@@reddragon4528 if you don't care about the animations and only want to play competitive, then why waste your money when you can play showdown for free?
@@reddragon4528 gameplay stale tho
Still playing the post game and its still fun. The true charm of this game is hunting for rare eggs and strengthening your monstie through the rite of channeling.
Well 'MonsTie' stands from 'Monster [monster]' and Bestie[friend]'
In Japanese it's called "OToMon" come from word 'Tomo[Friend] and "Mon" from Monster
I mean, it's still pretty cringy in Japanese, but I'm struggling to think of another portmanteau that wouldn't be too childish or too chunnibyou...
"Partner" would be a good combination of dignified and casual, but I don't think it, or it's Japanese equivalent "aibou," combines with "Monster" that well. "Parnster" sounds too much like "porn star," and"Mortner" is just tempting the Rick & Morty fandom to do their worst. "AiMon" is a good way to get the coveted Japanese Rastafarian demographic, sure, but "MonBou" in a game without any dancing sections is going to piss off the mambo enthusiasts.
@@lnsflare1 Dude, my ribs 🤣
@@lnsflare1 "gonna piss off the mambo enthusiasts" I can't lmao
@@lnsflare1 pardster
Monstal. Monster + Pal. This way it resembles Monster, but also sounds like a unique name.
Just seeing how animated the monsters are in battles, how expressive, full of life they are, makes me so disappointed in Pokemon. I played both the first and second games and they are the most engaging and fun experience I have had with a monster catching game ever
Well to be fair, Pokémon games has more Pokémon they have to account for than there are monsters in monster hunter
Also Pokémon games probably has less time to be developed since they have to release main line Pokémon games along side the anime
While saying that I’d like to see this level of detail in the remakes or the off side Pokémon games like Pokémon legends
@@Tyreker I’d like to see this level of detail in every game 😂
I also want to add that monster hunter stories did most of this stuff on the 3ds! Free camera, monsters on the over world, cutscenes ... granted with the 3ds limitation but still. I wish Pokemon would put some more budget into their games! They have the money to do it yet they won't. Monster hunter stories 2 is phenomenal. I want the next pokemon game to take notes , but they won't..
It did almost all of it actually, the changes are all quality of life stuff and the addition of the co-op related things.
Money has nothing to do with this. People have the exact same misconception about animation. They think if a product look cheap, it means it has less budget behind it or if an episode is movie quality, that must means it has loads of budget behind it. It has everything to do with the right staff. Capcom probably has some of the best programmers and designers working for them. Gamefreak's staff specializes in working with very limited hardware and trying to get around this scale creep. They are way more familiar with how they design their cutscenes and battle system with limitation to avoid scope creep. It is a very smart way to make new games without overworking their employees but then we get a product is little to no flair.
MH stories, even on the 3ds, has massive amount of production value behind it but they are nowhere near the scope creep. Capcom is also very talented when it comes to making good looking games with recycled animation. Come like Mh stories 5, most enemies will animate exactly the same but it will just look way better. They also know how to do cutscenes. Gamefreak has done that with gen 7 but the series doesn't usually commit to full on prerendered scenes.
"I want the next pokemon game to take notes, but they won't...
Legends arceus: I guess I just don't exist then...
@@reddragon4528 Don't brag about a game that hasn't come out. This game was shown off years ago, but it certainly wasn't 15fps with a 3fps Chingling. That's just not acceptable
@@nyahnyahson523 do you honestly think that's gonna be the final product of the game? Dude, it was an *early development build* of the game, obviously rushed out just to show off the game for the 25 anniversary direct. You don't actually think that's gonna be the final product right? We've already seen screenshots of the graphics of the game being WAY better then the first reveal, so the framerate is like 99% certain to also be way better as well. Also "that's juat unacceptable"? IT'S AN EARLY DEVELOPMENT BUILD, of course it's not gonna look good. Sure some first reveal footage of some other games might've looked a little better, how does that automatically make legends arceus factually bad? It's first reveal footage, and we've already seen the game getting better, so it ultimately doesn't matter. Why don't you wait until the game actually come out to judge it instead of baseing your final thoughts if the game on one outdated trailer for it.
Oh, and before you try to say "YoUr JuDgEiNg ThE gAmE bEfOrE iT cOmEs OuT tOo!!1!" No, I'm not. All I was saying in my original reply was that from what we've seen and know about the game so far, legends arceus seems to have most if not everything that the original commenter said he wanted GF to do. So step off.
The sad truth is that both Game Freak and TPCi know that mainline Pokémon games will sell, no matter what. So why should they even bother putting effort into these games? It’s frustrating that Pokémon is the ONLY thing standing between Game Freak and bankruptcy, at least to me.
That and when you consider that a majority of income that the Pokemon franchise makes comes from merchandising, the games themselves are just another cog in the marketing machine. Sure, the games are needed to introduce a new generation, but that's the only thing the mainline games are meant for at the end of the day.
@@Itachigan22 They can always just use the anime for the new generation Pokemon introductions. Why even bother with the games? Most of the Pokémons’ personalities and characteristics are developed in the anime more so than the games right now anyways. Without the anime, we wouldn’t have known what Mimikyu was all about.
@@No-One-Important-Here
Because that's how TPC wants it done.
friendship ended with pokemon , now MH is my new favorite
How about Digimon? If there upcoming new game get announced.. And is better than Pokémon gameplay maybe that would spark some competition? Hahaha
Originally I wasn't too interested in this game but decided to try the demo on a whim and it was the greatest pokemon experience I've had since maybe Gen 2 originally released. Like it wasn't similar to gen 2 Pokemon, but it was so novel it made me feel like a kid experiencing the pokemon games again for the first time. What a great game!
Stories was my first Monster Hunter game, which isn’t a great intro to the difficulty of the mainline series, but it’s a good intro to the world and monsters. And I remember after the first game came out one of the reviews said it was the best Pokémon game ever made. And since then, I’ve been saying that the Stories’ games are better and more heartfelt than pokemon with story and making it more personal to the player than just “the world is ending”. I love Stories 2 and I’m just happy we got a sequel since I, and many other fans of the first entry thought it didn’t do very well.
the only bad thing about it is that there are no side areas you can visit
From a story aspect, when I see riders fighting monsters, I see it as keeping balance in their area's ecosystem. Since there isn't always a nergigante to do that for you. Expect when it comes to the egg-stealing, it's not like you're throwing the egg you've got onto the pavement when you pick up another one, it's more like you gently set your current egg down to pick up another.
I would LOVE a main-line game with this art style... or just this same game with the regular combat instead of RPG, but I still like the RPG spin.
I actually like this because its different from the original MH games I really honestly enjoyed this game so much. The story was very interesting.
Beautiful CG, amazing riding system, detailed and unique monster animation, decently large space for exploration, literally everything I wish the Pokémon franchise can be
A little sidenote about killing a bunch of monsters
The game seems to imply that a good bunch of monsters you "slay" aren't actually killed, despite that term
A subquest for example has in the describtion for you to beat an individual monster that has been used to train riders for years
Or that a late party member later states that you didn't slayed a certain boss
You beat Nergy, and he just get the fuck back up not seconds later, sure he {spoilers for those not far in} but you don't seem to kill things considering they can retreat post combat
Idk, monstie may be cringe, but it grew on me and I kinda love it. I wouldnt replace it.
Also lore wise, you actually don't slay that many monsters. In mainline the only monsters you actually fight canonically are key quest monsters and urgents. The rest of the quests are like imaginary. I guess to put it into context while we do hunt hundreds of rathalos gamewise, lorewise your hunter will only have actually hunted 2 or 3 rathalos. Same seems to be true for stories, your rider only actually hunt the main quest monsters and the rest are just there because videogames. Pretty sure canonically your rider is still in their base armor set from the start of the game the whole time.
Weird... No, my rider is a terrorist, leaving a trail of dead monsters that would make the guild furious.
Idk man, Rider's seem more hardcore than Hunters, I mean canonically not only do they slay monsters (there isn't even the more humane option of capturing like Hunters) but they also steal eggs from monster dens.
Like imagine how much in the mainline games they make a whole big deal about Elder dragons forces of nature that disrupt ecosystems in their wake that's why we need to hunt them but here you are, some anime looking ass strolling into a major city center with like 2 Teostras, a Kirin and Velkhana in tow.
Hunter's are still better though since they can climb Ivy. I'm like seriously you come in an Elder's Den, steal their eggs and make a dragon your pet yet you don't have the upper body strength to climb some vines without a monster's help? What's up with that?
@@Madrigal025
well the monsties cant be really compared to the normal counterparts
simply cause lore/game wiese they cant be normal Monsters
starting with you go into a Den ..there lseeps a Kulu-ya-ku but you find like 5 diffrent monster eggs inside sometimes not even one of a Kulu
then you can find eggs from Monsters who not lay eggs at all
Nargacuga,Bulldrome,Barioth,Zinogre ,Congalala they all give live birth and dont lay eggs
like in the anime these Eggs somehow only Hatch when near a rider /kinshipstone otherwise they just lay around doing nothign for ages dont spoil/die ,,but also dont hatch
and then Monsters can hatch out of eggs who dont makes really sense
like you can hatch a Velocidrome even out of the egg should hatch a Velociprey
or a Great Jaggi when a Jaggi should hatch and then grow up into a great Jaggi
all this together makes that the Eggs you find are just spezial eggs who would not contribute to the species anyway
@@Madrigal025 "capturing" is more humane? the fuck? oh yeah, im pretty sure the monsters getting captured to be experimented on are really glad at how humane you are for just not killing him then and there but instead beating the ever living shit out of them and then dragging then to the city where they will be kept as ginea pigs for science purposes.
Game Freak doesn’t have to do a good job on their games. Pokemon sells itself unfortunately.
The end is near if they are not careful.
@@busharmann god i wish, if gamefreak went under a good company could take over pokemon.
Glad to see you uploading again. Looking forward to your upcoming vids!
Ayy sup
@@KatanaRikku hey!
The Switch actually had an amazing Pokemon game before, it's called Ni no Kuni.
Of course, I love MH Stories 2 just as much, it is a truly amazing game, but can't help but note that the combination of jrpg and monster tamer that is Ni no Kuni deserves more love as it really nails the monster tamer part.
I am playing the game in Japanese and they use the term "Otomon" when talking about the "Monsties", I might just be a weeb but I kinda find the wordplay a bit better in japanese, as Otomo means companion, comrade etc and mon is just short for monster (think Pokemon or Digimon)
If I get the game, I'll be playing it to study Japanese, so this only adds to the "Why I should Buy" category.
Companmon...
@@technic1285 You should NEVER use a game to study a language, same goes for anime and manga.
@@MayHugger Well, I guess I'd better bury all my games specifically designed by language teachers to teach people languages. Sarcasm aside, games are actually a great way to pick up new vocabulary and practice. I also often read manga in Japanese because I'm a bit iffy on reading Kanji still, so the furigana helps me to understand, and it helps practice reading and expanding vocabulary. Submersing yourself in a language is one of the absolute best things you can do to learn a language. Years ago in high school I took a Chinese class and our teacher straight up gave us a link to a streaming site and recommended watching shows in Chinese to help with learning pronunciation, expanding vocabulary and seeing how words are utilized in sentences. No, you shouldn't use these as your only source, but used alongside classes and traditional study methods, books, music, shows and games can really, truly help. Besides, learning languages is fun, but having a goal like "I want to be able to read this series" or "I want to play this game in this language and be able to understand it" help motivate people to improve. You can go ahead and study languages however you want, but telling people to avoid something they enjoy that can motivate and help them to study is doing them a disservice.
@@MayHugger That's how i learned english back then. I'd say it worked out pretty well.
I love the MH Stories games! I’ve spent countless hours playing the first game and I’m still enjoying this one! I’m a massive long time Pokémon fan and I wish the Pokémon games had the level of quality that MH Stories does. I enjoy MH Stories so much more than any Pokémon game and I hope we get another MH Stories game sometime in the future.
I can’t tell you how riding a mizu into battle makes feel
You don't need to friend, just let us bubble our way into the fight (Help, I can't turn on this soapy leviathan)
I like Mizu's Kinship Animation ngl. It's like "slide my brother into battle! We shall win with the power of proper hygiene!"
I actually liked monstie as a term, it gets the job done and it fits the dialogue a lot better. Maybe they could have used another term but definitely not monster which people had suggested before. Calling your pet/companion a monster sounds real awful.
I played stories one, but monstie never really stood out to me. It actually just sounded like a natural word in this world since Dan’s personality was just fitting of him calling them monsties. That and the world is overall a bit more open and “kid friendly” so monstie was very much natural. If none of those are a valid reason, I guess the word just grew on me.
I hope that Monster Hunter Stories 1 gets ported over to Switch
Smt 5 is another good pokemon replacement for those disappointed by recent entries. Funny enough Smt was doing the monster collecting thing before Pokemon.
And SMT V is coming out soon too. Don't fail us Legends.
My first game of the MH universe and it won me over, I even bought MH Rise and I’m completely enjoying the experience. Hope it becomes more mainstream and ups Pokémon with this rising competition so I can enjoy both.
One day I'd love to play a Pokemon game, where I can ride on my favorite Legendary Pokemon Lugia, and fly around in a big open world. With the recent Legends Arceus news, it may happen in the future.
Capcom is doing well this year. I bought MHS2, and I've been enjoying the game. It's the Pokemon game I wished to have. Now if Capcom would just give us Mega Man X Dive port on the Switch, and Mega Man Legends Collection. Capcom would be forgiven.
It’s gonna have another great Pokémon game in November with SMT V too 😎
Can't believe the wait is almost over for that.
And Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.
@@agents5307 lol
@@BubbysWorld Oh you're here, Bubby.
@@BubbysWorld I know u….
[The world is freaking ending in front of everyone eyes]
Pokemon protagonist: [sociopathic blank stare]
I hate this so much. It feels akward and stupid.
Couple of other great “Pokémon” games on switch
1) Monster Sanctuary
2) Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
Nexomon extinction and Coromon coming in future.
main reason why I love this game more is because the bosses are actually challenging.
The final boss kicked my ass. Had to rethink my strategy and remember his attack patterns. Was rewarding in the end.
@@ShallBePurified a lot of rage rayed monsters usually posed a decent threat unlinked pokemon where you could just go through them easy.
Stories 2 is at 3 million last I checked.
Pro: make a game better than Pokemon
Con: people still call it a Pokemon game
Sad truth
Always loved MH series, but from a distance. I often said all i really wanted to do was ride and interact with the monsters, not just kill them. Not to mention the combat was way beyond my skill level. This is the perfect game for me and i've been enjoying it since it came out with no plan on stopping any time soon. Plus, i love the coop in the game - enough for my husband and I to do it together, but the rest of the game can just be on my terms solo XD
I hope some company sees the potential in doing something similar with the pokemon universe. Most people would be happy with only a small number of pokemon in a game. 500+ is unrealistic to create and animate not to mention collect and level. Most people would be good with 150 - 200. Could we at least get new noises for the pokemon rather than rehashed fuzzy noises from the original game. Just use the sounds from the TV show if it is that difficult to record/create new noises lol!
I am playing the game currently and i will admit the Monsties can get annoying, but i like this game a lot as I can grind when i want as well as explore the open spaces and even hunt for new monsters to add to my team. Additionally, it does not feel as extreme for me as the Montster hunter games always looked cool but also seem like i would break my controller with how difficult it could be in some fights. But that is just me. Over all, i love this game so far and can't wait to finish it
“How to train your Rathalos”
Thanks for the review, gonna check this out for sure!
Also totally with you on the "monstie" thing, it made that cutscene clip look like someone edited it and made it as a parody haha
Wow the monsters actually feel real and not like souless robots lmaooo
I've been loving MHS2, I play it on my days off from work!
Because at the end of the day a monstie is a partner and a pokemon is a slave.
Pokémon Snap and Monster Hunter Stories 2 Exposed all of Game freak's greedy excuses were caught in 4K or 1080p :D. And no ''Nintendo sabotage'' isn't a excuse since Zelda and Mario Odyssey developers had taken their games seriously.
New Pokemon Snap is a goddamn masterpiece and it just got DLC which made it better. It's a deceptively simple game, with hardcore gamer gimmicks, like getting perfect scores on all the star ranks.
@@chatboulon743 You're right it feels accessible so everyone can pick it up and has depth. Game Freak makes simple things convoluted to hide it lack of depth while cutting out foundations to keep more money.
@@watchthisspace2576 Pokémon snap isn’t a fair example since it’s locked onto one path and you can’t divert from that path
Also monster hunter has a lot less monsters than Pokémon sword and shield has Pokémon
Monster hunter stories 2 has 128 monsters while Pokémon sword and shield has 400 Pokémon
It doesn’t matter what game company makes a mainline Pokémon game, it’s going to be a challenge for any company to make a good Pokemon game with that many Pokémon in it
@@Tyreker Thanks for your comment i respect your view point. Ultimately i could try and make excuses for the highest grossing franchise ever's, inferior quality to smaller less then franchises that make a spec of money in comparison. or i can say hey, Pokémon deserves better. Acting like this is some GTA5 intensive development is hilarious. Cut the Pokémon if you have to, i give zero shits its not like they didn't totally sell it back to us anyways.
@@watchthisspace2576 I’m not making excuses, I’m just telling you that the development for a Pokémon game is a lot harder than you think it is
Also they did cut Pokémon from sword and shield, about 400-500 and people spat the dummy at them
If we were to get a good Pokémon game with monster hunter stories 2 kind of quality and animations they’d have to spend at least 5-10 years in development
It’s just the way it is, it’s no easy feat to make a good Pokémon game with the amount of Pokémon there are and like I said, it doesn’t matter who is developing the game, without spending at least 5 years in development the formula isn’t going to change
If they had ti make a term, I'd have called them Mon-Steeds, since you seem to be able to ride all of them.
Thank you, thank you so much for sharing good opinion on this game. You gained a sub from me both for this review and the Pokemon rant at the end.
Quick note: the "Monstie" issue... I blame the english translators. Even if it translates literally like that from Japanese, they could just change how the dialog talks about your "monsties" (like partners, pets etc) in serious scenes. Personally I prefer the JP dub with ENG subtitles and it makes the dialog sound way less cringe all the way through.
While Stories 2 sold really well compared to 1 that sold only 300 000 copies (!), more people need to see the quality of this series. Maybe it is the more "child like" spin-off but unlike Pokemon it doesn't focus on being stupidly easy for children, it respects it's players, especially those that played the OG games because knowlege about certain monster in the main line actually helps you guess the type of attack it's gonna use most of the time. The fighting system also requires a lot of thinking, especially on last parts of the story and the high rank part of the end game, because you have only 3 lives, you can just suicide your "pokemon" until you win.
I've been waiting for a "harder" pokemon game for years and what I got on Switch was more child focused than what I played in the third generation era as a kid myself.
The old fanbase of at this point over 20 year old franchise are simply ignored by gamefreak, they don't want to put more effort than they need to to sell their games and all they need is a logo and splitting the games into two versions with one cool pokemon on the cover. The rest can be done as poorly as they wish, because until it sells, the quality doesn't matter to them.
And because of this approach we live in a world where we are happy when we get normal cutscenes in Pokemon like games. You understand that? Gamefreak milks us so much on main line that we are suprised when we get "animated cutscenes" and "good animations". It's actually kinda sad. I wish I had enough money to send a copy of MH Stories 2 to all Pokemon fans that said that Sword and Shield are amazing games and all the main Pokemon content creators, to show them that they are just not given what most games should have.
But for now I am a happy fan of MH series that not only gave me a series of games that gave me over 2000 hours of content at this point, but also a series of Pokemon like games that are better than Pokemon and include all my favourite monsters that I can truly ride in open great looking enviorments.
Also even though the story is pretty simple in it's overall shape, it has amazing characters and shows some good writing on the mystery ascpect that makes you engaged all the way through. Meanwhile Sword and Shield has plot so simple that I almost predicted all of it the moment the game starts to focus on story. It was one of the most dissapoinitng things about these games, because even with easy gameplay loop, you could at least enjoy the story. But it was shit and the final fights took themselves so seriously it was almost funny. You need almost no effort to finish them that it's also pretty sad.
Stories 2 not only bringed some new great characters that I will remeber longer than any of the speechles characters in SwS but also it took into the picture really interesting aspect of the relation between hunters and riders which I was actually curious about. And as the game explained hunters and riders live in MH universe like other animals. They build cities and respect nature but will kill Monsters if threatend or if they need materials nad food for themselves. They don't look at it like on sport, most of the times at least.
Taking the gameplay loop of killing a ton of monsters is not really a good argument that breaks this logic though. I don't remember the exact name of this fenomenon but basically the game will not take your overkilling of monsters as part of the story but gameplay will also not stop you, because that would be stopping the player from enjoying the fughting system. Same goes for main MH games and some RPGs like Witcher where Geralt clearly states a lot of times that he doesn't want to kill some of these creatures if he doesn't need to, because thry might be almost extinct etc. but the game will not stop you from slaughtering all the Leshens or other monsters on your way.
Off... sorry for such a long comment, but I had to say something while i'm here. I really hope for more great content like this video, it was nice to be able to say something about the Pokemon problem for once too. I'll be wating for the next material. Happy Hunting!
Digimon Cyber Sleuth Hard Mode is the best Pokémon game on Switch that I’ve played.
Game freak loves being cheap and lazy only giving the bare minimum to us fans it's so frustrating cause I'm honestly tired of it even pokemon shield was lacking in many aspects and don't get me started with the random popup pokemon but still game freak should just try harder and spend a but, I am a loyal pokemon fan so I just want game freak to be better
hopefully they'll put effort into that one new pokemon region game. i think it was releasing this year? if i was them id take my time on it. take another year if u have to.
@@wonder777warrior6 nah not new Pokémon region, it’s gen 4 remake coming this year and the history of that same region next year
But I do agree that they should put more effort into the remakes and the off side Pokémon games since they don’t have to code and do as many animations for so many Pokémon with those games
They will only get better when people stop buying their bullshit. Stop buying the mainline games. Please.
If you love the pokemon games and truely want gamefreak to be better, stop buying. Thats the only way they will notice
Other companies are making better pokémon games than the Pokemon company themselves.
i love the character development of our character while in pokemon our face the whole time is 🗿
t. Person who quit after SM
Cool thing about mh stories is when your character gets into a fight, they actually are in the fight. Not like pokemon where you just make your pokemon do all the work, in stories 2 you have to be in there ready to take hits from the enemy and keep fighting.
My fave thing here is that a majority of the 1st game's cast has come back. I want to fight Lute as a DLC boss or something.
I wanna get this game now first time I’m hearing about it, maybe Legends Arceus is gonna be amazing and what a lot of people want for the series to become but I do gotta admit seeing Capcom or Bandai get a shot at this franchise honestly makes me excited to think about the potential of what they could be
I dont know why we cant just say a game is fun. I'm so suck of everything being viewed the the lens of anger
It’s funny this spinoff is better than every Pokémon game no cap
MHS1 was already better so yeah XD
Monster Sanctuary is another amazing Monster RPG on the switch.
Because it's a game that was allowed to be in an actual dev cycle instead of being given 3 months between seasons of anime.
Given 3 months? You think Gamefreak only get 3 months? You must be joking. They take years before they release their games and even then, the games Gamefreak releases is still trash. Even if Nintendo gave Gamefreak 10 years for a single game they'd still come out garbage. Gamefreak simply doesn't care because no matter how little effort they put in their games, people will still buy it.
Look at the Arceus game coming out next year. It's buggy as all hell and looks like it's meant for the N64. Don't even get me started on the very lazy Diamond and Pearl remakes. Gamefreak has the resources and money to better themselves, but they choose not to.
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It was an exaggeration for comedic effect. I know they get more than 3 months lol
@@gaius5901 if game freak had 10 years we’d get the best Pokémon game ever
You forget that monster hunter has 128 monsters while Pokémon sword and shield has 400 in it after they cut out 400 Pokémon so game freak has more work to do in the time frame they have which is around 3 years and they can’t delay the game to much because of the anime
Also game freak isn’t making the diamond and pearl remakes, that’s ILCA who are adding a bunch of new features into the game which wasn’t in the original game
you have a point just imagain what a pokemon game could look like if they got capcom to help on a pokemon project
Dropping the first game on Apple Arcade was genius. A lot of people who have not played this franchise up to now will now want to play this series on the Nintendo
just got it for summer sale and I am glad
It wouldn't even take a major studio to make a better Pokemob game than Game Freak. Fan games have been better for years.
Monstie isn't any worse than being called Meowster by Palico's (Pal / Calico )
the reason they dont take chances like this is because they dont want some other developer to come in and 1 up gamefreak
I bought this game last week after playing the first one on Apple arcade. I haven’t had enough of the first one, but I started the second one 2 days ago and I am loving it. After this how will I play the Diamond and pearl remakes in 3 months.
Man. This game has so many mechanics especially with monsters like nergigante or astalos genes and everdens and notes
To see the developer of this game make the much needed, long overdue, higher quality reboot of Pokemon would be a perfect fit.
Just tried the demo, and damn! This is a damn awesome top-tier piece of software. Very impressed!
Also Capcom has done a few Zelda games on the GBA and they're known as one of the best Zelda games
The last pokemon game that entertained me was Omega ruby. Since there Pokémon just went downhill. And then came Monster hunter and I love it to bits.
Some I actually stopped and watched a gameplay of sun before paying it and didn't like what I was watching
I feel like legends took a handful of notes from this game but not nearly enough
Gamefreak even said in an Interview that they took inspiration from Monster Hunter.
@@lubbo5261 you know a game is great when yo pause RUclips so you can pay more attention. I didn’t watch tv for 2 weeks. The game is however very linear so I have to wait to play it again
@@jakeparkens3690 are you talking about Pokemon or Monster Hunter ^^?
@@lubbo5261 monster hunter. I didn’t know anything about it the cover just looked cool then bam I’m IN IT got hella deep into monster hunter.
I'm on at the second island, but this is a great game so far. and a much needed break from the main games of this series.
the only thing i'm not a fan of is the gene system. they always have to add that stupid grindy mechanic in all their games...
at least how monster leveling is handled is done really well.
if you get a new monster at level 1. and your partys at higher levels. the new monster gets significant experience boosts if the level gap is large.
a shame for you then. i love monsti its cute just like the aesthetic.
At least, unlike the first game, you get to place the gene _where you want it_ rather than line it up placement for placement. Say, like, top left can only be applied to the top left in 1, but you can put it anywhere in 2.
Gene grinding gets easier as the game goes on and you discover more monsters :v it’s best to wait until, you reach high rank to start making monster build as HR dens will give you much better genes. So don’t worry about it too much for now !
Ma'am I thought you were dead, glad you're back.
I actually discovered Monster hunter through the stories anime but I couldn’t pkay the stories 1 so i kinda just watched tons of stories videos then i played stories two then i tried world (hated it) and now im a rise addict and im absolutely busted with the charge blade
As an owner of a hacked switch, the games frame rate skyrockets when you overclock the CPU/GPU/memory and it looks fucking amazing. Played through the entirety of pkmn sword, and I had more fun in the first three hours of this game than I did the entirety of pokemon. Love it!
is it just me or does someone else have the glitch? when I try to move forward it suddenly goes to half of the video
the first one is hard to find an English copy of i might have to just buy it digitally
OMG they seriously called them monsties over mountsters?
Very clever, sir. Very clever. That would have been a better name.
I started playing last week, it had a boring start but it grew on me. I can't stop playing now! When I fight new enemies, I'm like oh God will I be able to beat them?! Most of the time I win, maybe lose occasionally, but I can never get rid of the feeling of being intimidated by new enemies lol
I watched the Pokemon Arceus trailer earlier and decided I won't be getting it unless it ends up having the same quality as mhs2. Not worth $60 at all. I'm actually disappointed that not more people are playing mhs2, it's a bazillion times better than pokemon.
I tried the demo for MHR and it was gorgeous, but I just couldn't get the controls/mechanics down. This game looks BEAUTIFUL, like how to train your dragon creatures, and much easier as an entry level game into the franchise. And I think there's a demo on switch too! Hooray
I'm late to the comment, but love the vid.
As far as pokemon on concerned. Even in their newest game out...they dont live up to MHS2. STILL! This now years old game....STILL beats out the newer pokemon game.
Honestly....i think gamefreak and nintendo have figured out pokemon. You make it cheap, JUST good enough to pass the sniff test, and shovel it out as fast as you can. They make tons of money, put in mnimal effort and sell it to a pre-installed audiance. They have proven to themselves...they dont have to be good. We the fans have shown gamefreak and nintendo, that we will still buy it. You can't convince enough people to boycott pokemon till they improve, so they never will. We will never see pokemon take the effort that Monster Hunter ever puts into their games.
I thought I'd dislike this game before trying it, but boy oh boy nope. The post-game is even addictive AND challenging. GameFreak wishes they could do what MHS2 has done this year. MH in general is killing it this year with Rise and Stories. Highly recommend both.
i played the first game and i am really happy that the original got a sequal
I don't want Capcom even touching Pokemon personally. They can keep making MHS games!
The switch has another good Monster collecting game: Nexomon Extinction! And Monster Sanctuary is on Switch too. And I love Yokai Watch, but sadly we never got the Switch release here in the West, so I'm probably the only one who enjoyed it... But yeah I agree. Definitely better than Pokemon....
I haven't done Sanctuary yet but I can second that Nexomon is phenomenal.
I really want Yokai. I think I'm just going to import it soon and struggle. They brought over the first game so I think I'll replay that and get a hang of playing Japanese before trying the newer ones. I've played import games before and you kind of just start to be able to navigate
Gamefreaks does not care anymore. sword and shield made money regardless of the quality. The sad thing is it became too big of a franchise. It sucks. Some fans Ditch the franchise and play something else. Like me.
Or you know, I can just enjoy the series AND play something else. It's not one or the other. Pokemon still has quality character designs, lore, and locales. it is just the production values and stories that need to match up to being in an HD era. Gamefreak worked on handheld no mroe powerful than gamecube for the past decade. The games are just going to look and play better and better once they are familiar with their new engine and when we start getting truly powerful Nintendo system. There will come a time when a Nintendo system will be as powerful as the ps5 or series x with full on raytracing and 4k support. We just have to wait like 15 years for it.
Recently got the game and I have been having a blast, really gives me the old pokemon vibes! last pokemon I've played was SnM and that didn't really give me the pokemon love that the older ones did.
Never really got cringe of the Monstie word since I never found out about it in 1 since haven't played it, guess thats why I'm ok with it.
Never played a Monster Hunter game before, but this review got me really wanting to! I think I will start with this version
The first time I was flying in this game, the first thing I thought was "I wish I could do this in pokemon"
They actually did just that in Omega Ruby/ Alpha Saphire. You fly around on mega Latinos/Latias.
@@jamiepenzien496 Yeah, but that was kinda late in the game and really restrictive. :(
@@chatboulon743 yeah, you’re not wrong.
@@jamiepenzien496 it was basically "fly" as an item so you never have to shove the move onto a Pokémon again
And now you can do that in Pokémon
I always took issue with the fact that they say the monstie goes away during right of channeling when they force you to watch a cutscene where the monstie is clearly absorbed and sacrificed
Also Riders steal babies, kill monsters, and sacrifice babies to other babies. Then proceed to say that HUNTERS are the bad ones. When hunters have always had respect for nature
@@justwantawholename In both games no one has explicity said that "Hunters are the bad guys". It's always been on how they just have a different worldview and approach to things.
@@alejandroalfaro3800 I’m pretty sure Reverto’s entire character is centered around showing how the hunters and riders are pretty similar
@@justwantawholename Right? Riders are literal crib bandits brainwashing children to like them. Then have the gall to say "Look at my bestie!"
Like no, give that baby back to its mother and g make REAL HUMAN friends.
Actually, id love to see nintendo let capcom make a metroid game in the style of resident evil, but as a member of the federation force. Samus can not be playable at all. Her suit can be unlockable by beating the game on a certain difficulty or with certain requirements just like resident evil. Or I guess amiibo unlock so long as it's not the only way... but yeah, I love to see capcom make a game in the metroid universe in the style of resident evil.
Haha glad you admit pokemon is better in the beginning. But all jokes aside this game needs attention honestly it's actually pretty good please get this game!
I mean Yo Kai watch is another game I would recommend
Got Rise on Switch. I guess I get Stories 2 on PC.
A good game for sure, love it more than the main MH series games, yeah I said it.
Ditto
The whole Monstie thing is really the one thing that I hated about the Demo...
Yessss I really hope the 'Fix Pokemon' crowd would see how creative & exciting MH Stories 2 is as a creature-catching/battling game.
If they needed to rally against some kind of comparable game against the current state of Pokemon, then MH Stories 2 is a good bet. (The sad thing is I don't hear many of such people talking about it.)
Because most of Pokemon fans are not asking for more. Whatever crappy Pokermon game GF releases they re the 1st one to pre-order it !
Pokemon Endgame:
Breed an Competitive team of 6
MH Stories 2 endgame:
You have 3 options, but there is actually no freak given about what you do
This game looks like fun, I'll have to try this game out!
I hadn't played the first game, but it really didn't matter. This is now one of my favorite RPG games. Everything about it is enjoyable and well thought out. Pokemon lost me but I might try it again if they get better. Capcom should totally take over.