Well depending on your skill only a few hours to get to and kill the last monster. The replay for me comes in getting better mission scores and collecting and upgrading all the weapons and armour sets. Which will take agessssss. Lol
Finally, got the S rank for 3-1, equipped with a +2 Great Sword with water attribute and the second last armor which grant you 6 slash stock and unbreakable skill. First try to use the focus attack to break it's beak, then break its wings in the first "chance" time (better to break the ears along the way), when you get the second "chance" time, using slash attack repeatedly to break it's tail. Finally when the gauge is full, unleash your super attack AT THE FRONT OF the monster, make sure the monster has a entire life bar to ensure full hit. If all 3 hit are successfully landed, the back of the monster will be completely destroyed. It's really hard and I've only been successful once so far, but enough for me
This game is awesome on a mobile device. I only played this one and MHTri, and I like them both. Hope that someday Capcom will run european MHF servers =/ epic fail moment: me and blangonga fell to death, but... i still win
Well, that depends...if you consider getting the "S" Rank in your missions important then yes it has great replay value. However if you prefer something deeper and more worthwhile then no, it's not worth the price tag. I beat it in about 2 hours, and uninstalled it. I don't get the whole "S" Rank boner...finally it was 2 hours of hack and slash, I didn't really see any strategy just tap the screen until the monsters dead. I'm not replaying it over so I can make sure to cut the dragons left nut off to get that fancy S Rank and the Nut Lopper Achievement. To go off on a personal note, ranks and achievements are the developers way to stretching out a game that wouldn't be long or good enough to stand on its own. Kind of like double spacing and bold font on an essay. I love seeing an update with "added more achievements". OH GREAT! No new content but I can get a fake little trophy to impress someone 13 year old in Iowa because I ran around the tree 50 times.
Lmao. I guess you don't like the whole rank/achievement thing haha. The replay is also in collecting everything for me and of course impressing 13 yr olds half way across the world is just a bonus. Lol
It's for that same reason that i hate street fighter. All i do is press buttons for a few minutes, then it's the end of the game. Totally not worth the money- there's no replay value or depth. And Chess? Don't get me started on chess- i hate that nonsense- who gets a boner for becoming a grandmaster? You move the pieces around the board, then, a few minutes later? Game's over! Rubbish! No depth whatsoever. @cyb3rfr3ak: whoa! Weird glitch- you got all S-ranks, but no points??? :0
My worry is that developers are going to use ranks and achievements as a way of making up for lack of gameplay and content. Anyone with a little age can see games have gotten quiet a bit easier. Compare Fallout to Fallout 3. Totally different game types I know but even on hard, Fallout 3 is incredibly easy. When I played Fallout those many years ago, I died walking out of the vault...damn rats. Bring back games that piss you off to the point of a mild rage. However...if you think about it, if todays youth had to deal with losing in a video game you'd see 15-20 emo deaths a day and those left would cry much more then usual
Do they have a "Nut Lopper" Achievement in Chess? Real life achievements would be fun. Imagine you're playing Chess and you make the initial two space forward move with your pawn, suddenly some music plays and a banner comes down with "Pawn Rush" Achievement Unlocked. Some chick wanders in and gives you a little trophy.
I think the take-home message here is that different people certainly get different experiences from their games. Look at JRPG players- they enjoy level grinding so that they can beat the secret bosses etc. but it's essentially doing the same thing repetitively. Often they don't get any better at selecting icons, but their in-game characters do improve. Then with Monster Hunter on PS2, PSP, Wii etc., players enjoyed it because they learned timing and to read the monsters' patterns etc., simply in order to beat the monsters and get parts to make new armour etc. and it was the players themselves who became more proficient at playing the game. Of course, in MHDH, much of that has been pared-down to suit the mobile experience. Maybe a little too far, in my opinion. You don't need to read the movements so much because you have big coloured indicators to do it for you. However, if you don't become proficient at responding to these and learn dodge appropriately, or learn how to efficiently break the monsters' parts, the highest grade eludes you, and if you don't break, you won't get the loot in order to craft superior weapons. People like omonkey, Chexk03 and myself quite enjoy doing that, and working out efficient strategies to do it, but mrdyer doesn't. Horses for courses, i guess. @mrdyer: the thing i objected to was your response to the 'replay' question, since from the tone of your message, it appeared intended to be pejorative of something that many gamers like to do- that is, play the game as fully as possible. I thought you were being a quite arrogant and dismissive in tone, hence my own sarcastic response. If this was not your intention, i apologise, however please note that some people's gaming tastes do differ from your own.
Oh don't get me wrong here, I like a hard game as much as the next guy the games I grew up on were one death and that's it your dead (in the 80's) games theses days are far to easy in general. I've loved the other previous monster hunter games for them being quite difficult have to learn the enemy patterns etc. But I still love this one and being easy just helps I suppose as I'm playing on my iPod and it's just a quick kill a monster I'm after. I do like high scores and achievements as even though they don't really mean anything it just gives you something extra to aim for. I would never complain about lack of content in a game I've only paid £2.99 for, well I'm not sure what my point was no but I've rambled on long enough so there's my views on stuff.
No offence taken, just throwing in my two cents. Someone asked if it was worth the price tag, and I don't believe it is, not that $5 is something to complain about. But of course, thats my opinion. Arrogance and sarcasim are always welcome, after all, this is the internet And what do you mean people have different taste in games?!? Everyone likes what I like! ...(sigh)...at 26 I find myself longing for the past...where a mushroom made you big and a flower made you shoot fire balls for some reason... If I ruffed some MH feathers then I apologise. But come on guys, you're MONSTER HUNTERS! Don't let my post bring you down, get back out there and lop a nut for me
I think that most of the people who like this game are fans of the Monster Hunter series. It is nice to hear the music and see the character and the monsters. It is weird ,however, to kill these monsters so easily. It is too bad they made it so easy...killing the YKK with 5 blows is ridiculous. The crafting is nice but it would be cool to see the carving. Are there any players out there who like this who have never played the others? I love the MH games...when is that one that came out in japan for the 360 coming out in the NTSC region? Anybody?
Do all the achievements work on this game? I read somewhere that the achievements seem to skip some out. Also does anyone have this for iPad that can comment on the graphics?
@mrdyer: i hear you, man- at 32 now, i also think a lot of games fail to recreate the feeling that the oldies gave. That said, a lot of them were unfairly hard, but still found their place with gamers who liked that challenge. @totallyimba: i really feel for you- sorry nobody has commented yet for you on whether the game's ok on ipad!
I have played it on my ipad and it scales pretty nicely. I use just 2x, I don't jailbreak or have retinapad so I can't comment on that. But, it does scale and play well on ipad.
