Monster Hunter Freedom (for PSP)

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Monster Hunter Freedom (for PSP)

• Reviewed by Jorden Lowe

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Basic Information of MHF

• Created by Capcom
• Type of game Action RPG
• Like Phantasy Star Online (DC)
• The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (N64)
• Price 39.99
• Minimum hardware requirements
• PSP game system

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Basic Information of MHF (cont.)

• Actual Hardware required
• Saving games requires 550 KB on a Memory Stick
  Duo/Pro Duo
• Ad Hoc connection for Multiplayer

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Game Summary

• You are a Hunter in a hunter/gather society.
  Your job is to take missions and complete them
  for your village.
• Not much story
• You just jump into the action.
• Players role varies from saving the village, to
  gathering food, to creating things for NPCs.

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Game Summary (cont.)

• User interface
• Player uses a combination of all the buttons and
  the PSP nub.
• Menus for
• Armor
• Items
• Missions

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Game Play

• 3rd person action
• Closely resembles PSO
• Use your weapon along with the PSP nub to move
  around and attack monsters with combinations of
  square and circle.
• Not really monsters, mostly dinosaurs and
  dragons, or as Capcom likes to call them Wyvern

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Game Play (cont.)

• In battle you have to sheath your weapon to use
  items, such as potions.
• Carve the Monsters to gain items for making
  better weapons and armor.
• Mission based.
• If you can find people with a PSP AND this game,
  you can play multiplayer.

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Game Play (cont.)

• Mining, fishing, bug catching, and gathering
  plants to get much needed materials.

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Scoring

• After you make purchases, you gain points for
  upgrading village resources i.e., planting,
  mining, fishing, bug catching, and gathering
  plants.
• After completing enough missions you can take on
  harder missions.
• You also collect money to purchase upgrades and
  items.

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Artwork

• Nice detail with the environments
• Swamps, Jungle, Deserts, Volcanoes
• Armor resembles samurai and medieval armors
• Monsters do vary from the different areas (i.e.
  monsters from the jungle dont look like monsters
  from desert)

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Screenshots
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Sound and Music

• Each environment has its own sound.
• Epic Wyvern trying to kill you music gets your
  adrenalin going.
• Got to love the goofy sounds that they put in
  there for some characters.
• Cat people
• Old wise men
• Cooking up some steaks

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Game Review

• Good points of the game
• Non-stop action
• Your character is very customizable
• The music and environmental sounds make you get a
  feel for the game.
• Each wyvern you kill gives you a sense of
  accomplishment..stupid Kut Ku!
• VERY non-linear

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Game Review (cont.)

• Bad bad things about the game
• The view point
• Slowness of some of the moves (i.e. combos, using
  items)
• The worse thing in the game is the lack of
  tutorial or getting to know the game.
• Multiplayer game
• The game is built off being a multiplayer game.

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Similar games?

• Phantasy Star Online
• Online and offline modes are the same
• Do missions.and thats it
• Very customizable as far as weapons and armor.
• Very addicting multiplayer.
• I would say MHF is about the same as PSO except
  PSO is futuristic and MHF is more based in olden
  days

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Summary

• Audience of the game is Teen, too complicated for
  the kiddies.
• Strength is the action and customizable aspects.
• Weaknesses is the learning curve and multiplayer.
  This is where it could be improved.
• I would recommend to people if they like PSO or
  equivalent.

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