The Story:
Your a Monster hunter and what have you come to do? Why hunt monsters of course! But, on your way to the village you get knocked off the mountain by a formidable unknown monster/dragon and you wake up in the village with nothing but the clothes on your back. As you go talk to the village chief, the random people with packs, and of course the weapon and armor salesman. You're given a little bonus of 1500 dollars to start off with (this hardly buys what you need but we'll get to that later) and off you go to fight the monsters.
The Good:
Customization of your weapon,armor,look,type and style/decent controls/huge worlds/fun to kill monsters
The Bad:
Antagonizing long quests/you can't just play for 10 minutes then set it down/you don't get nearly enough money for what you need to begin with/the monsters can only really be hurt with a certain type of weapon meaning you have to have a plethora of weapons or a crap load of money/you have to go on dumb mini quests to gather items to fight your bigger quests
Let's start with the good:
Customization is a great thing, qho doesn't love for a character to look and act exactly how they want them to? You can choose whether you want your guy to be a swordsman (longsword/greatsowrd) a gunner (bow and arrow/arrow gun) or in between (gunlance). They did a nice job of letting you choose what you want to do and how you want to do it.
The Controls are easy to use and easy to learn they can be a little hard to combo sometimes but never hard enough to cause a real problem.
The Monsters are well thought out and have good AI though there can become a pattern (which you'll be thankful of when fighting the big ones you can't just hack and slash your way to) it takes some strategy and some thought to kill some of the bigger beasts but, in the end you get left with a warm fuzzy feeling...the warm being their blood and the fuzz being their fur...what I mean by this is another cool and unique thing about the monsters is once their dead you can "carve" off things from them i.e. you can carve off a vespoid shell from a vespoid. Some items are harder to find some are easier it all depends on the rarity.
And Lets Not Forget The Bad:
The Quests can be very long, if you don't have an hour to an hour and a half just keep walking because it takes a long time to kill these big monsters and it can also take a long time on just this simple little uest to find a flower because the flower is as far away fromy our house as it could possibly be, its annoying when you have to run all the way there, which in some cases can take at least 15 minutes and then run all the way back, all the while getting attacked by small monsters.
The Items can be extremely hard to find and hard to get and if you want that one certain piece of armor or that special sword you've been eyeing you HAVE to get one or multiples (sometimes 10 of a object that can only be obtained once per quest) to make this item. It takes a long time and after killing 30 of a certain kind of creature it gets a tad repetitive. You can sometimes combine items to make other items but don't forget you have to have 2 items to make that special 1.
The Money is used when you have to buy an item you can't make and it can cost the upwards of $100,000 which takes a very, very long time to get and when you go out on a quest just to gather stuff to sell you'll spend 30 minutes running and 30 minutes just kneeling on the ground picking stuff up.
The Summary:
This game has some good elements and some bad quirks but over all its a fair game. It has good customization and good gameplay which isn't something you can say about alot of other games.
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