Disclaimer: It is impossible to keep this review as concise as possible in order to give it my full thoughts. Move on if this really a case of tl;dr (too long; didn't read). If you've never heard of Monster Hunter before, you could be forgiven for thinking that it's something similar to Pokémon at first. After all, that was how I imagined it. When my other half was looking at it in Game a couple of years back, I asked him what it was, and he described it thus: "It's game where you have to hunt and capture monsters." However, as one of the uninformed masses in Europe, I found that it was in fact nothing like Pokémon. Nothing like it at ...  Read the complete review

Describing Monster Hunter in a way without simply saying: 'You hunt monsters and that' isn't that suited to one sentence. Hopefully this review can enlighten some of you on this highly addictive action RPG franchise which has taken Japan by storm. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////// For those unfamiliar to Monster Hunter ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Stripping Monster Hunter to the bare bones reveals a basic formula that would appear dull to those still virgin to the series. Hunt monster, cut up monster, make better equipment with monster pieces to fight bigger monster. Repetitive? Sure it ...  Read the complete review

Wow im first to write a review for this product!! Quite weird really because this was my first monster hunter game I decided to buy and did I enjoy it......you can bet your wii I did!! I always thought about purchasing a monster hunter game before on the playstation 2 but in the end I decided not to, but then capcom annouced it was going to make a new monster hunter game for the wii and it sounded quite good but I was still reluctant to buy it. Finally when the game came out I read a few reviews about it and everyone who reviewed it rated it very highly, so in the end I decided to bite the bullet and buy it and I am so glad I did! Before monster hunter 3 I ...  Read the complete review