Weapons can also contain elemental magic - some typical, some not: fire, water, poison, stun, thunder, sleep, dragon etc. Weaponry has an attack rating, sharpness level, and sometimes a defense bonus. New weapons can be created from the parts of creatures you hunted. Using only brute force will get you nowhere in Monster Hunter, since the game requires a lot of patience, skill, and careful observation to complete quests. Certain rare items will bestow significant stat upgrades. Completing quests and beating enemies gives you loot, and loot will slowly lead to more powerful items. The basic flow of the game is to take on quests and complete them. Monster Hunter doesn't have character levels - the combat all takes place in realtime. When one hears the term "RPG," one probably assumes there will be level ups and lots of level grinding. The best way to categorize Monster Hunter is as a mixture of adventuring, hacking and slashing, and RPG elements. Despite lacking mass market popularity, there is a group of hardcore Monster Hunter fans who are almost guaranteed to buy the sequel. Nevertheless, the company is releasing Monster Hunter Portable 2 as Monster Hunter Freedom 2 this week here in the states. The series has not enjoyed the same level of success here in America - so much so that Capcom passed on localizing the PS2's Monster Hunter 2 and Monster Hunter G.
It would go on to become the first PSP game to sell one million copies in Japan, and is still holding steady on Japanese charts, over six months later. Monster Hunter Portable 2 ended up receiving a staggering number of preorders from Japanese retailers, yet still exceeded expectations when it was released this past February. It comes as no surprise, then, that Capcom, being a company never shy to release a sequel (or 10), quickly commissioned a PSP sequel. Selling over a half million units, Monster Hunter Portable (known as Monster Hunter Freedom in the Western world) turned into a surprise hit on the PSP in Japan - its sales significantly outpaced the earlier PS2 Monster Hunter games.
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