Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G preview for PSP in Japan
Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, yes another new Monster Hunter game, is in development for Sony’s portable and is scheduled to hit that system in March in Japan. It was originally announced at this year’s Tokyo Game Show 2007, where a few details were announced including that this new game would have new missions and monsters (natch). There will be new “G class” quests to undertake, as well as new varieties of quests.
Also assured is the fact that players can transfer their saved data from Monster Hunter Portable 2nd to 2nd G, and it will be a fully featured game, not a half-baked update. Lastly, it will include a new never-before-seen system for the series. And it will probably have to do with the series’ feline mascot Ailu.
Getting another Monster Hunter game is good news for Sony’s PSP portable, cause the Monster Hunter series is phenomenally popular in Japan where the game has amazed huge sales. So it will definitely help PSP sales to have another Monster Hunter game coming.
You may also remember that Capcom recently announced that they have shifted Monster Hunter 3 from PS3 to Wii. Previously the game was a PS3 exclusive, but Capcom scrapped that version altogether and is bringing it instead to Nintendo’s best-selling console. — Via Kotaku
5 January 2008 14:33Ash Hatfield
The beauty of Monster Hunter is that however it is expanded upon – whatever new content is added – at heart the game is still Monster Hunter. Only people who have spent time in this series have any idea what that actually means. It is my hope that Capcom understands the importance of releasing an online version of Monster Hunter here in the states (waiting for MH3 on the Wii would be a long wait). This game is amazing to begin with, but the ability to always find a hunting group online would put this game over the top – expanding its growing following. Another point worth mentioning is there has never been two Monster Hunter releases that have been exactly the same game. This includes all american “versions” of the original Japanese release. Every release is tweaked and expanded. We probably wouldn’t see MHF2G, but some expanded incarnation of it. Lastly – a point NO one makes – Where’s the BLOOD? Where’s the BLOOD!?! The Japanese versions of MH include buckets of blood when battling monsters, and yet the domestic releases always have the blood animations toned down to nearly nothing. WHY? I’m sorry but the blood makes the game better, and I think it would make the game more popular in the US as well.
