Monster Hunter Freedom (for PSP)

1. Monster Hunter Freedom (for PSP) Reviewed by Jorden Lowe

2. Basic Information of MHF • Created by Capcom • Type of game: Action RPG • Like Phantasy Star Online (DC) • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64) • Price : $39.99 • Minimum hardware requirements: • PSP game system

3. Basic Information of MHF (cont.) • Actual Hardware required • Saving games requires 550 KB on a Memory Stick Duo/Pro Duo • Ad Hoc connection for Multiplayer

4. Game Summary • You are a Hunter in a hunter/gather society. Your job is to take missions and complete them for your village. • Not much story • You just jump into the action. • Player’s role varies from saving the village, to gathering food, to creating things for NPC’s.

5. Game Summary (cont.) • User interface • Player uses a combination of all the buttons and the PSP nub. • Menu’s for: • Armor • Items • Missions

6. Game Play • 3rd person action • Closely resembles PSO • Use your weapon along with the PSP nub to move around and attack “monsters” with combinations of square and circle. • Not really monsters, mostly dinosaurs and dragons, or as Capcom likes to call them “Wyvern”

7. Game Play (cont.) • In battle you have to sheath your weapon to use items, such as potions. • Carve the Monsters to gain items for making better weapons and armor. • Mission based. • If you can find people with a PSP AND this game, you can play multiplayer.

8. Game Play (cont.) • Mining, fishing, bug catching, and gathering plants to get much needed materials.

9. Scoring • After you make purchases, you gain points for upgrading village resources: i.e., planting, mining, fishing, bug catching, and gathering plants. • After completing enough missions you can take on harder missions. • You also collect money to purchase upgrades and items.

10. Artwork • Nice detail with the environments: • Swamps, Jungle, Deserts, Volcanoes • Armor resembles samurai and medieval armors • Monsters do vary from the different areas (i.e. monsters from the jungle don’t look like monsters from desert)

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14. Sound and Music • Each environment has its own sound. • Epic Wyvern trying to kill you music gets your adrenalin going. • Got to love the goofy sounds that they put in there for some characters. • Cat people • Old wise men • Cooking up some steaks

15. Game Review • Good points of the game: • Non-stop action • Your character is very customizable • The music and environmental sounds make you get a feel for the game. • Each wyvern you kill gives you a sense of accomplishment…..stupid Kut Ku! • VERY non-linear

16. Game Review (cont.) • Bad bad things about the game • The view point • Slowness of some of the moves (i.e. combos, using items) • The worse thing in the game is the lack of tutorial or getting to know the game. • Multiplayer game • The game is built off being a multiplayer game.

17. Similar games? • Phantasy Star Online • Online and offline modes are the same • Do missions….and that’s it • Very customizable as far as weapons and armor. • Very addicting multiplayer. • I would say MHF is about the same as PSO except PSO is futuristic and MHF is more based in olden days

18. Summary • Audience of the game is Teen, too complicated for the kiddies. • Strength is the action and customizable aspects. • Weaknesses is the learning curve and multiplayer. This is where it could be improved. • I would recommend to people if they like PSO or equivalent.

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