Monster Hunter Freedom 2

Monster Hunter Freedom 2 features new weapon types and new monsters which also means new armor sets. Weapons that you may be unfamiliar with are the Long Sword, Gunlance, Bow, and the Hunting Horn. The Long Sword has an ability that is related to a Dual Blades Demonization. Every attack that hits a target increases the Spirit Gauge, which when full will increase your sharpness, and using the Spirit Blade attack will knock even a mighty Tigrex down and scrambling. The Long Sword is also lightweight, making it extremely maneuverable.

The Bow is similar to a Bowgun, in that it is a Gunner weapon and that it has Coatings which are the Bow’s “shot.” The Bow has a line that shows up when you hold down the R button for easy-to-see range and to see where the arrow will end up. The bow is different from the Light Bowgun and Heavy Bowgun because it has levels of charge, which differ by what is released. The different variations of arrows you can have are Rapid, Pierce, and Scatter. Rapid fires quickly for escaping monsters, Pierce fires an armor-piercing arrow that can go through even the toughest armored wyvern with ease like the Gravios, and Scatter splits the arrow into many, making it easier to put a status ailment onto a wyvern. These different arrow types change depending on which level they are. If you had a Scatter level two, five arrows will be fired instead of three if it was level one. Levels of power are important to the Bow’s success. If you had the first charge Scatter level two, second charge Pierce level three, and the third charge Rapid level one, in order to use the second and third charge you will have to hold the triangle button until you hear or see a flash (one flash for the second charge and two for the third). The only drawback to the Bow is that charging up the Bow to use the other charge levels takes stamina, which does regenerate fast, but if you are out of steak and unable to find something to eat, your stamina will decrease until you can’t use the third charge level.

Similar to Freedom, Freedom 2 starts you off with bone weapons of every type and the basic quests or one star that begin with the gathering and a couple of hunting quests. The guild quests are also the same except for the new monster quests. The Training School contains both single and group trainings that will give you coins to create rare pieces of armor and weapons that you wouldn’t otherwise be able to create. The beginners training is useful to anyone new to Freedom 2 because of the new weapons and their uses. Training School quests can also be downloaded for both single and group training. The farm is different in a few ways. In Freedom 2, the farm has bee hives, where you can collect honey for Mega Potions or anything that may require honey. There is a Popo, a new monster similar to the Aptonoths, that you can collect dung from for your plants. There is a trick to collecting the dung, though. Last but not least, is the cave. The cave contains a humongous sword that will be unlocked later in the game and can be mined using elder dragon bones.