[Try it]Super sincere monster version of Pokémon? ! “Monster Hunter Stories 2” Chinese version prologue first experience “Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin”

But can this long-push masterpiece attract those old hunters and players who love RPG to join it? Let’s try it out through the early media now, let’s show you this work together!

The story is told in Masana Village, a village on an island, where there are many horsemen who communicate with monsters and fire dragons that guard the island. But on the night of the festival, fire dragons flew away from the island one after another, and huge red beams of light and violent changes of monsters began to appear all over the world.

Players will play the role of the grandson/granddaughter of the legendary rider. They will successively encounter the dragon girl “Aina” who has come to the island, and a mysterious Ailu “Naby Road”, and will join them in the pursuit of “Wings of Destruction” And the truth of the event.

In addition, although the story and characters are consistent with the previous generation, the style and audience of this time are much more mature than last time. I believe it should be able to attract more “big friends” who love RPG!

The gameplay process is somewhat similar to the “Pokémon” series. While advancing the main story, players must go to various areas on the big map to adventure and fight with monsters, and bring back monsters’ eggs and materials during the adventure, strengthen their equipment and team, and move forward to more difficult areas. In the following, we will briefly distinguish the three links of “adventure”, “battle”, and “cultivation”.

Adventure side by side with monsters to enjoy the fun of collecting and exploring

Although the maps and modules have been upgraded to modern specifications, the gameplay in the adventure phase is basically not far from the previous game. In addition to being able to explore and collect on the big map like this story, the biggest feature is that players can ride monsters and use their special abilities.

The monsters that are tamed as mounts in the game are called “entourage beasts”, each of which has a unique ability to explore. For example, the “jump” of the Velociraptor King can jump over special terrain, and the “rock crushing” of the blue bear beast can break through rocks that block the way. There are also different skills such as “secret movement” or “howl”, or even “looking for insects”. Therefore, the more different monsters you have, the smoother the player’s exploration path will be.

And this time, in addition to the exploration abilities, many new abilities similar to “search for plants/insects/minerals” have also been added. Although it is not necessary to simply advance the plot, it may be helpful for players with a strong desire to collect. .

Three-attribute interlaced combat enjoy a completely different combat experience from the original story

And when you hit a monster on the map or plot, you will enter the battle phase. The combat gameplay this time inherited the previous gameplay, using three styles of “strength”, “speed”, and “agility” to overcome each other, as well as a combat system with “fetters” as the core.

In battle, when the attack of the player character and the monster are each other’s targets, a “frontal duel” will occur. At this time, the player must choose one of the three styles to fight. These three styles restrain each other. Not only will the victory or defeat cause great damage, but the winner will greatly increase the bond value. If you and your entourage use the same style to defeat the same target, you can also use completely A “double attack” without injury.

It is worth mentioning that both monsters and entourage have their own attack styles and skills, and even some monsters will have several stages of changes. In a way, this can be regarded as a test of the player’s familiarity with monsters, like a floating dragon. Shouldn’t any old hunter think it is good at “power” style?

After obtaining the “fetter value”, you can use various weapons and entourage skills.

Entourage skills can be cast as long as they have fetters, but just like some actions in this biography need to be linked, the conditions for casting skills for each weapon here are also different, such as the big sword and the sledgehammer, which need to be charged first. , And the gun gun requires the number of attacks to accumulate bullets. Of course, these skills also have different styles, so if you can win the duel, you can also get fetters, and you don’t need to use it sparingly.

And when you make up the bond value, you can mount the monster and use the special move “fetter skill”. Bond skills are exclusive nirvana skills. Not only can they interrupt the enemy’s moves, but the game also has special animations for each monster that can only be mounted. If you have the opportunity, use it as much as possible!

Since there are differences in weapons, of course there are also elements of “weakness” and “destructive parts”. In addition to the style, weapons are also divided into three attributes: “cut, stab, and hit”. According to the different monsters, the destructible parts of each monster will have weaknesses corresponding to the attributes. And if it is a large enough monster, there will even be more than 5 destructible parts on the body, and these parts are bound to the casting of certain moves. For example, if you don’t want to be poisoned by the tail of the poisonous demon bird, you have to change into a big sword or a hand to cut its tail.

By the way, in addition to weapons, there are also targeted items such as “flash bombs” and “hole traps” in the game. Players who are familiar with hunting should be able to quickly guess how to use them, right?

In addition, a number of “partners” have been added to this game. In addition to fighting with their entourage, players will have a group of partners fighting alongside you almost all the time in the story. And this group of partners will not only help you replenish your blood or resolve your state, but will also automatically trigger a “double attack” with you or your entourage, and also have their own unique bond skills. Even if both sides make up the bond value at the same time, they can also use the strongest “double bond” nirvana together.

Under the operation of these systems, whether it is the fun of fighting or the gorgeousness of the picture, it is by no means comparable to the previous generations when they were alone.

Cultivate monster genes to form the strongest entourage team

But no matter how great the skill is, relying on a companion animal will eventually have its limits. Therefore, in order to increase the team members, you must first go out to find the “lair” of the monsters.

These lairs can be generated through “Destroying monsters to promote homing”, or naturally searched on the map to find them, which is like a small copy. And in the deepest part of the lair, the “egg” of the monster will be hidden. These nests also have a degree of rarity. Among them, the “ancient nests” even hide special items for exchange. If you encounter them, you must not miss them.

And when you find the nest and go to the deepest point, regardless of whether the owner of the nest is present or not, then the familiar egg stealing process follows.

At this point, you can crawl into the nest and search for the eggs you like. Nabiru will remind you of the quality of the eggs by weight or fragrance. But be aware that although you can search multiple times, only one egg can be brought out. And if you steal eggs without defeating the owner of the nest, rummaging for too long may cause attention and trigger a battle. But fortunately, the egg won’t be broken here, so just take the best egg back to the stronghold!

And when you bring the eggs back to hatch, you can start genetic inheritance.

After each monster hatches, it will get a gene disk of Jiugongge. You can use this gene disk to observe the type of genes it inherits. These genes not only affect the abilities of monsters, but successfully concatenate three genes of the same color, and will receive corresponding blessings. There is even a “rainbow color gene” that can correspond to all attributes.

And when you hatch a strong enough monster or the monster has the desired gene, you can breed it through the “inheritance ritual”. At this time, the inherited monster can inherit the genes of an old monster. For example, I want the blue strange bird to inherit a “fireball (big)” gene, so as to gather the fire attribute connection, then I can unplug it from my strange bird and inherit it. Although the monsters that are inheritors will disappear, in this way, you can even breed powerful monsters with heaven-defying skills. To be honest, the fun is not lost to the effort and skill machines in Pokémon!

Conclusion

To sum up, although this game still has some shortcomings in terms of reading speed, etc., as an RPG game with the IP of “Monster Hunter”, this game is unexpectedly quite addictive.