Turning towards a new era of MH, this title was quite ambitious and really overhauled a lot of that I would say some was definitely for the better. But still brought along many problems as it abandoned many things that were already fine enough. It was also a sort of return to form, so many people was not expecting to go back to the MH1 weapon lineup sans LS and the newly introduced Switch Axe.
It had a pretty good handle for a solo experience, not as fun as Dos but this being a bit more modern I think people can definitely have fun with the village portion. The online though, definitely felt like there was a huge conflict of interest in how they wanted to design the whole thing overall and it left one of the messiest feeling online progression of the mainline titles. My personal biggest gripe was how they handled the weapons, their controls are generally more than fine but made hitting the monsters with it feeling very unsatisfying, one big thing missing would be the near removal of Hitlag, which will be a repeat thing with this generation of MH.

I do consider this another important MH milestone though, so it is worth playing just for the value of that alone. There is also a fanserver up for this game so you can experience all of what this game has to offer.

A la par con Portable 3rd. Si no tuviese solamente como 4 armas y 5 bichos, lo pondría por encima de los MH que he jugado (que no son muchos pero hey).

De lo que he jugado me encanto el online, la estética visual (soy muy fan del agua como core en los jueguitos) y lo de añadir los bichos a tu librito con el puntero. Supuestamente el combate en el agua es rarete a melee pero como yo fui a distancia se me hizo super chulo y muy poco lioso, además que la mecánica de personalizar la ballesta con distintas partes esta guapísima.

Algún día lo empezare de nuevo ya que perdí el save.

I really loved this game as a kid but it has major flaws that held back the series for a long time, I liked this game as much as I did because it was my first MH game but its probably the worst game in the series for a lot of reasons.

>an extremely slow start where you dont get to fight your first big monster until 1-2 hours into the game. I'm sure a lot of players quit before this.
>removal of 4 weapons from Freedom Unite for no sensible reason
>online that required you to grind out levels by repeating quests over and over to progress - doing your key quests was not enough.
>underwater combat was just not a great idea although it enabled some cool monsters like Ceadeus.

Kickass monster hunting action now on the Wii. Features a completely redone engine and different areas and monsters than the PSP games as well as the new switch axe and medium bowgun. Unfortunately some of the old weapons were removed and the total number of monsters isn't as high as in the Freedom series, but the new attacks of the recurring weapons make up for it and the amount of original monsters is the highest in the series so far, so if you're bored of Kut-Ku, definitely give this a try.

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My first Monster Hunter game!

It's honestly so weird to think that was was a lot of peoples' gateway into the series (prior to World, obviously) was the game that basically had the fewest monsters. Most of them were original too. I did enjoy the time I had with this one, though, especially knowing as little about the series as I did at the time. Fond memories typing in that incredibly cramped Wii online chat and making friends I'd never talk to again.

Also never really minded the underwater stuff, Lagi's actually still one of my favorite monster fights. The fishing stuff for the Gobul level was really cool too, would honestly love to see more stuff like that in the future.