My HONEST Opinion of Monster Hunter Stories 2 

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As someone who never got hooked by the mainline MH games and loves JRPG, Stories 2 is definitely an amazing game for me. MH Rise and MH World are both great tho

I like how they pretend how we are just knocking them out, but uh.... we get meat, and bones....

4:48 Clarification, the parent monster you just fought is not knocked out They’re dead. You killed them and stripped them for parts, and THEN steal the unborn babies

When it comes to lore, you are technically doing each quest on MH games once, that's why it gets a checkmark when it's finished. It's more like Borderlands, you can do quest multiple times, but the story happened already. And only monsters who disturbs the balance of nature are being hunted.

Pawsitively Clawdacious! I played the original Monster Hunter Stories, and I had quite the blast with it. So naturally I picked up the sequel and enjoyed it even more. My only complaint is how they took away the gimmick that you can change your Monstie's element. I want to have an electric Blue Yian-Kut-Ku again. It was the best thing for me in the first game.

"Monster never changes attack" Then theres me fighting a Rathian in the first game and deciding which attack to use that will end mostly wrong ang killing your character in 1 or 2 hit.

Loved Monster Hunter Stories 2. I didn’t play the first one so I had no idea what I was walking into. It was a fantastic ride.

I did love the “quick finish” feature. It allowed me to quickly get back to my obsessive pursuit of more powerful genes.

I loved the game, but Navirou was tough in english. I've changed the audio to japanese and it was way smoother and actually pretty cute.

Absolutely loved this game, and it lasted me a long time too. This felt like what Sword & Shield should've been.

10:32 You didn't even mention half of the mechanics, like double attacks, type-less skills that aren't part of the power-speed-technical trio, AOEs, monsters that attack multiple times a turn, monsters that use all 3 types starting about halfway, instant-wins when you get higher level, your monsti's skills, etc.. It doesn't exactly 'evolve', but it definitely expands as more mechanics are used more frequently.

Capcom has really been on a roll though. MH: World, Ryse, and Stories have all been unique and awesome games!!

I love the format of the video with you sitting in front of a green screen, talking about what’s happening on the screen behind.

I’m loving this game. Am I the only one who doesn’t mind Navirou, even with English audio? I think he is so cute!

Not being able to train and level up the monsters feels like such an obvious missed opportunity that it's almost as if it wasn't included by mistake.

Navi's voice is so much better in Japanese, just saying. Like the whole game is. I loved MHS on my ds and I absolutely love MHS2, this is the perfect game for me. I love Monster Hunter games in general but there's just something about the Monster Hunter Stories that speaks to me! I love battling monsters, the story, animation and naming my monsties. I've cried so much during the amazing cut scenes that it's almost embarrassing. This game is so addictive, I sometimes forget to continue the story because I'm hunting eggs and trying to get a monstie with good genes lol.

Have a great day everyone.

One big difference from the first game is that they removed the element change from the first game, so no more changing your Monsties appearance and Kinship Attacks to a different element. Worst part, it wouldn't be that hard to fix, because it's works on old and new monsties, like Kulu Ya Ku, Pukei-Pukei, Tobi-Kadachi, Mizutsune, and Gammoth. Edit: You look at the baby Monsties in your Monstipedia. But yeah, I want to raise the baby Monsties so bad, too though.

Well done, Wood! This is really fun and funny! I also like the “sit beside the background video” style that you do as well.

Saw your tweet that this video wasn’t doing well so came to check it out. It’s really well done and funny.

I'm hoping if there'd be a Stories 3, they'd add a character placement/movement mechanics similar to Divinity: Original Sin. And add the rest of the weapons!

really enjoyed the review! been psyched for this one! I thought Wood would love this game, I really did; but ya strict turn based doesn't always hit you right. imo the co-op and pvp are where the endgame is at! check out YS IX: Monstrum on Switch after it's patched! Riiiide On

I completely forgot how much I loved your video’s man! Great job!

Positively clawdasious! I always enjoy your vids. And you be nice to the old wood. His videos where fun to watch as well!

"She can violate my rights" oh my god Brock is just...nO

I don't like when people over simplify the story, cause really you can do the same to almost all JRPG stories. And honestly most stories are rather simple outside of one or two sudden twists. But honestly most JRPG stories are Bad things happen, hero gets chosen, hero gets stronger, and hero saves the day.

Wow Wood! That green screen makes the background look way cooler! Great job

Awsome video wood and Kim hope ya have a awsome day

Great video my dude but I think the story was pretty good while it didn't change my outlook on life ar made me question my values the story was good enough to keep me engaged which is already better than all of the other mh games combined and on top of that the growth of your character is great and I know I'm in the minority here but I love naviru because life never misses a chance to kick him in the balls and he retaliates with comedy and a positive outlook instead of crying

Absolutely hilarious video, but also very well done! I played the demo (I’ve never played Monster Hunter before and was told it was like BOTW so I thought I’d try it). I actually kinda liked the demo, but I also found many of the complaints you said. Not sure if I’ll still pick up the full game, but overall I enjoyed it. Thanks for the informative video! Definitely lets me know what’s really happening before I buy it.

Thanks for your review on Monsta Hunna Stories 2 Wood, you always nail your reviews!!

Awesome video wood thanks for the information

The game is amazing, long time pokemon fN every sense red and blue came out, honestly this has to be just as good as any pokemon game I have ever played. I have put 250 hours in the game and still playing. Wished it had a better pvp system cuz pvp is soo fun. 250 hours into the game and still playing.

It is my first game in the MH franchise and since I have none to compare to, I like the game! The battle part does get repetitive at the end. As for Navirou, I don't have issue with him and seems like he is only punny in English. I changed to Japanese audio and he sounds normal. I do WISH my character would speak though.

Loving your reviews. Pawsitively Clawdacious!

Thank you for posting content

Pawsitively Clawdacious. Looks like an interesting game for the switch. Since I never win anything, Ill have to look at picking it up! Great review.

Monsters dont always use one type of attack, they sometimes use yellow typeless attacks which you need to have a sharp eye to notice and figure out the best way to deal with an attack that cannot be countered.

Pawsitively clawdacious! Your reviews are always amazing helps me really decide if I want to buy or pass. Thank you for all you do!

Pawsitively clawdacious, love the Chanel and love your review, you always give good advice about witch game are good or a pass. Love your work, keep it up

1) The developers love Navirou. They are happy people don't hate him in this game. I personally still think he sucks, but he sucks less than the previous game (I did not play in English, I would not do that to myself) 2) The story feels SO SIMILAR to the first game - I often got this strange confusion as to who the Red was. Another Rathalos they call Ratha, more holes in the ground, more monsters going crazy, is Ratha a bad boy, or a good boy? Can you control Ratha? 3) I found the combat fun, once you over level you can just quick complete the bulk of battles so it didn't wear out it's welcome. I was often sad seeing cute monsties and not being able to interact with them. The biggest sad point for me is that High Rank doesn't completely take over the world - as hunting becomes stuck into dungeons after that point - rather than sailing around and making good use of out the spaces they spent so much time in.

I think the story is fine. Not revulutionating storytelling but good to keep me engaged. I was astonished by the looks and ton of details when talking to npc‘s. I was so happy after waiting for years that mhs2 was produced. I think the idea that the monsters movement could be more randomized and visible in it‘s behavior would be a really great addition. As well as the part of raising the Monsties. I hope this sells really well and see where it progresses to.

Two videos in two days 😯 I was not prepared for that 🤣🤣 Thanks for the review!

Love the video pawsitively clawdatious!

pawsitively clawdacious! it looks like a interesting and fun game, thanks for the video :)

10:34 not unlike the damn unskipable gigantamax transformations on pokemon blue dog and red dog

Im imagining Wood, looking back at this or any other video and say, "Why am I always shouting". Don't worry Wood awesome video, and I like ur energizing and enthustiac personality. Awesome review, I been curius about this game

Those magic hands vanishing at 3:51... brilliant!

To be fair Wood: the more high rank monsters do switch up their attack pattern more!

I loved this game! I switched to original audio though after playing demo. I would most definitely not finish the game with English voices...

Hi beatumup , great channel I’ve only been playing rise and this game and wow !? Love these games but couldn’t get on with the previous games

Keep making such great content Wood! Love your vids!

Navirou, in the Japanese version, is actually amazing. As soon as I heard his American voice, I died a little in the inside knowing that people played this game with that annoying voice the whole time.

Pawsitively Clawdacious. I’m glad you brought up the premise of the story, nicking the eggs! I’ve got to say I played the demo and I honestly felt a bit icky about it! However I’ve since heard how great the game is and have some FOMO. So I hope I win a copy!

Pawsitively clawdacious! I was waiting for you to review this after I tried the demo lol

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Beats ups: there not much difference except new characters, story and world… You mean like every game sequel lol

Damn, awesome video and review.

I look up "beatemups monster hunter stories 2 review" I leave to do somthin. Come back and I get the notification he made one, Very Poggers

Hearing the P5 music has seriously brought life back to my dream of persona 5 on the go. 🥲

Yes please Wood, I would love this Pawsitively Clawdacious game please

Great video! It was very fair and well researched. Pawsitively Clawdacious

Thanks wood for the review i have waiting for this for months hahaha

Pawsitively Clawdacious! I recently got into MH and this one looks like such a good addition to the series. I hope to try it out!

i just finished the story! i don’t think i’ll ever get sick of this game, it’s really great! my only complaint is that i want to punt navirou into the sun

8:33 I like that you threw that in there. "If you played Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory, you get it" is what you really mean with that armor onscreen.

I love this game so much. Actually studying a monsters behavior so that you can nope it on everything it does is so rewarding. Yes, there is this morality issue of slaying monster and taking their eggs but for me with a combined playtime of almost 3000 hours on Generations Ultimate, World Iceborne and Rise, I have grown numb in hunting them and putting them down. Awesome review though. Keep it up. :) Edit: English language Navirou is more tolerable for me than World's Handler. XD

Pawsitively Clawdacious! Really enjoyed this review! I played the demo and I found it super fun as well, but was equally as disappointed to find out that we couldn’t train the baby monsties 😞 Thanks for holding such a cool giveaway, Wood!

It took me hearing 2 lines of Navirou's English voice before I instantly changed to Japanese, and never looked back. The Japanese voice is far better, and I didn't have any complaints for the rest of the cast either.

I just played the demo and now I want this game

Pawsitively Clawdacious. Fellow Texan, can relate to your outside stream how it gets dark quick and the bugs swarm in.

woods is the reason i am buying a nintendo switch tomorrow. i have been watching him for 2 years and he has been my favourite youtuber. i have tryed convinising my parents to let me buy a switch myself but they said no untill now and i want to say thank you woods even if you don't see this.

Currently working through the story on this and its definitely pawsitively clawdacious!!! Lol

Yay new video!!!

Thanks wood for brightening my day up once again after a anxiety filled first week of school. This video was (you know what I’m going to say) Pawsitively Clawdacious

Loved playing the game. Sunk around 60 hours into it, which for me is kind of a miracle, even did some of the post-game stuff. Despite the faults, it's fun and definitely worth if you like this kind of game

I'm really enjoying Stories 2. Being a MH fan, it's a nice casual way to enjoy the franchise when I'm not really in the mood for a real hunt. That said. The game would be SO MUCH BETTER if that cat never existed.

Pawsitively Clawdacious! Recently bought a switch and so far I'm loving it. Only game I have so far is one you've reviewed. Immortals: Fenyx Rising, finished the game in 2 days and being the completionist I am I went back to collect everything before I start NG+. Almost done.

on the DS the monsters had a pattern like two technicals and the one power attack, so you had to pay more attention to the battles. And these patterns changed when they were mad

yeaaaaah the first game didn't sell that much despite being good (there were like 3 trailers, 1 is the official game and the 2nd is the epona dlc. the 3rd was the anime). I blame nintendo for that. also my only complaint atm bit of a spoiler so don't read on your own saftey kinda wish we had an exclusive look on the rathalos wings. they're basically same aside from the scales being black, the wings having a different pattern, the eyes looking night blue and the chest being a bit more detailed.

I honestly don't know why people seem to have Navirou so much He has never annoyed me at all

The rush when you get your first Royal Monstie Egg, amazing!

Persona music spiced up the vibez, luv the vid 🔥🤘🏾🖤!

As a person who literally knows nothing about this series, except that it’s pretty popular among certain people, I have to ask. Can you customize your character with different outfits? And will I be completely confused if I choose this as my intro to the series? This game looks so cute and right up my alley.

I dunno, the thing I dislike most is really just Navirou's voice. In the first game, he was annoying at first but he grew on me and was really cute and his "monster hunter" voice was really cute. But the English voice for him in this game is just...tiring and feels like it doesn't fit. It's too low for him and speaks with such a strange dialect that it's kind of annoying. I dunno, I have sensory issues so I'm typically sensitive to voice acting and I see this a lot in "average" English dubs of anime where it feels almost overacting or like the voice actor is forcing. Other than that, I like Navirou as a character and especially in the first game, he was really enjoyable. Overall, I really love this game. I was never a Monster Hunter fan because of the graphics, but Monster Hunter Stories, the first one, really got me into it and I ended up diving into Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate cause I got it at a second hand store for a good price and ended up loving it. Playing this second MHS? It does a lot of improved things I enjoy, but there are certainly changes I don't enjoy as much. It's usually just small things like having to press A to hatch the egg, how the menus look especially with the right of channeling (it's really overwhelming and difficult for me cause of my sensitive eyes and it can actually make me somewhat dizzy, the first game had an easy-on-the-eyes menu imo), no rewards for completing your monsterpedia (just from what I can tell, if I'm wrong lemme know), not having short animations for gathering, not having multiple monster egg patterns (tho I can understand why, I wish there were at least two different colors for eggs), and other small stuff like that. It doesn't bring the game down, however, and I still love the game no matter what. It's a wonderful sequel. I love the improved customizations, the added battle buddies is nice though I do prefer battling alone in the story, the expanded world is really great, and the added monsters are all great choices. The voice acting and graphics are solid, the online is really fun. I do miss customizing my rider card, I was really disappointed to see that was just changed to be just a phrase, but none of it really ruins the game for me. The story is really fun, I enjoy the new Ratha though I do wish we didn't have to keep the exact same nickname as before. Especially with Guardian Ratha, it was kind of confusing since we now have like 3 different Rathalos named Ratha. I wished we could have named the Rathalos we hatched since in the first game Lilia named it, but it felt like we should have a chance to name it, but I also understand how that would have affected the story/cutscenes. To finish it off, it's an incredible game. I wasn't excited about the addition of voice acting, but I thoroughly enjoy the English voices (I've only ever played with the English voices). I honestly absolutely love this game. I still do prefer the first one in a lot of ways, but both are incredible games and separating it from the first, the second is a solid game. Great customization, great progression, intriguing story, amazing characters. Some things aren't always clear, at least to me, and I've had to use google to try to figure some stuff out, but it's never taken away from the enjoyment of the experience. I do wish they'd make it more clear that you couldn't get certain monster eggs in dens until you fought them (if they did, I must have missed it) because I ended up with a bunch of repeat monsters trying to get other monsters that I would have gotten if I just kept playing the story. I like to take a break from the story and just explore and set up my monsters/team and the first thing I do is always get all the eggs that I can so if more were added, I wouldn't have realized this. This was in the first game, but not to the extent that it is. In the first game, you'd be able to collect most every egg available at the time. Rarer monsters would be the only ones added after a bit of the story aside from the Lagombi egg since it was related to the story. But I didn't realize that so I was trying to get some eggs before I had even encountered the monsters because I saw on the guide that I could get them. A lot of my complaints are just small things due to personal preference/play style/personal sensory issues and the like. I'd say anyone would be able to enjoy the game and I'm also glad that it wasn't necessarily a direct sequel so even if someone didn't play the first game, like my friend, or didn't finish the first one, like me, then we can still enjoy it without really getting spoiled. The most you'll see is recurring characters like Avinia and Navirou and it may cause some confusion, but it doesn't ruin the game at all. I like that. If it was more of a sequel, I probably wouldn't have played it yet since I'd try to finish the first game. It feels like its own distinct game that can be enjoyed despite it being Monster Hunter Stories 2 and I really appreciate that. I've always found indirect sequels like this a lot more fun since it doesn't restrict others. Sorry this comment got so long, but Monster Hunter Stories is my current hyperfixation/one of my biggest special interests so I love to ramble. There aren't too many flaws, at least in my opinion, and it's a great entry into the Monster Hunter series if you've never been interested in the mainline games like me or my friends or even if you're a big pokemon fan or into "monster collecting" like games then this is perfect. The pokemon aspect is what got me to download the demo of the first game all that time ago. Also I appreciate the online and how it works. As someone with severe social anxiety, I often avoid online co-op modes, but doing the co-op in this game was nerve-wracking at first, but it's never been a bother for me. I feel on even footing with the player I get connected with even if we're vastly different in levels and it's pretty fun to just hop on and do a quest and most players always thank you for the help with the stickers. It feels really inviting and I love collecting their rider cards and examining their team. Since it's so simple, it is really inviting and is a feature I actually enjoy, especially when I can help someone out who's lower level than me. I never feel "lesser" just cause I'm so much lower in level and I don't have the same "cool" monsters from late-game that they do, I feel on even footing which is something I rarely experience in online co-op modes. It's really nice and I definitely appreciate it. Love the video and loved seeing your opinions on it :) I always love seeing your reviews especially of games that interest me or I have played. Keep up the amazing work and content

As expected of Wood another Pawsitively Clawdacious review 🤘😽🤘

Been looking for something w\ Pokemon similar combat but different (more difficult and just different in general). Looking forward to this

Good thing I pick Japanese Navirou. He's voice is tolerable.

"Pawsitively Clawdacious" Thats Right, I love the game so much, It was first introduced to me by a friend of mine, when I first got my hands on my friends copy of the game, I never wanted to let go, It was just plain good. It was amazing how you can hatch monsters and ride them.

I didnt know this existed til E3 when the second one was shown. Now it's most of what I play on the go and I made sure to get the second one too for when im done.

12:55 The size of the map doesn't really affect performance. Density of objects and npcs, things that need to be calculated and rendered, are what actually matter. That town has a lot of foliage, plants, NPCs, some monsters, etc. And if it got patched quickly, then they probably just didn't get to optimizing that area before the cartridges were manufactured.

I'm not sure if it's just me, but I actually enjoy navirou. He's hilarious with his cat puns and interactions with the poeple around him, the only annoying thing about him is that he has to talk when you enter the nest area of the den or you get too close to the riding skill areas

The silent protagonist doesn't work at all if you put someone/something else to speak for you, it actually feels worse. It was so weird watching my character not say a word when other people are clearly trying to have a conversation in the cutscenes. It's no problem when it just a text box, but when it's animated and you can't just put ... , it's just feels weird. And so the most surprised moment for me was actually the last cutscene where my character actually calls his monstie, after not uttering a single sound for the entirety of the game

Great video

That video was pawsitively clawdacious!!! Lmao.......🤣😂😅🥰 Seriously though great video as always 👌🏻

This game is AMAZING 😁 although I've got so many games now not played half of them all the way through. But so far this game is gorgeous funny, fun and just darn brilliant 😺 and I love navirou he's hilarious and so cute.

Actually beat this game this morning! Definitely had fun with it, the story is pretty cookie cutter but the art style still got me w each cutscene. Overall it’s a solid pickup and worth the 40 or so hours I put into the game.

Pawsitively Clawdacious! I'll just tune out the parts that the cat speaks in.