Monster Hunter (Series)

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The Monster Hunter series puts the player in the unlikely role of a scavenger looking for monster corpse parts in order to upgrade weapons, armor, etc.

In the hunting quests, as the hunter progresses through the game, the monsters will become more difficult to defeat, but will consequently provide better items for the hunter to use. This is the most important section of the entire series of games, as killing a monster is the only way, in most circumstances, to carve a monster for its various body parts. Hunting quests can not only increase in difficulty through bigger and stronger creatures, but also through the online only addition of "plus level" monsters. These beings are exactly alike in appearance to their normal counterparts, but have a great increase in damaging ability and health reserves.

In the gathering quests, the hunter must "gather" items. These items may be simple to gather, like herbs, or require tools to gather them, like ore and fish. Other quests may require the player to kill monsters and hack off correct parts of meat or bone. These quests generally give out the least amount of rewards, but in some cases give valuable items. Although these are more than occasionally challenging, all gathering quests are required to be completed in order to reach the highest hunter rank in online play, as well as a way to earn items that can be used for rare novelty weapons such as the "Teddybear" hammer weapon.

[edit] Games in the Series

Monster Hunter

Monster Hunter Freedom

Monster Hunter 2

Monster Hunter Freedom 2

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite

Monster Hunter 3 - (Japan only)

[edit] History

The original Monster Hunter was released in North America on September 21, 2004. It was later remade and expanded in Monster Hunter G, which was released in Japan and was brought to North America and Europe as Monster Hunter Freedom for the PlayStation Portable. The sequel, Monster Hunter 2, was also released only in Japan on February 16 in 2006, and then brought to North America as Monster Hunter Freedom 2 on August 28, 2007. Again, this "portable upgrade" brought some new things with it that the original game did not have. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G is another expansion to the PSP Monster Hunter game.