In my opinion the people who think that the Wii sucks just say these kind of things because they just played “Wii Sports” or some shit like: “Wii Fit” and not one of the real games like: “Super Smash Bros. Brawl” or one of this games where you can say: “This game sucks so much ass, it’s hard and I died so much that I don’t want to play it anymore. But why the fuck am I loving this game so much?!” Monster Hunter Tri is exactly one of this games which make you feel good, make you cry, make you go mad, make you cry and the make you feel happy in the end, until you go to bed and start crying again. In this order. No exceptions. But now let’s start with the review of a game which make me cry. Not because I’m happy or even sad. Just because it makes me frustrated. The last time I felt this frustrated was when I tried to beat Batman from the 1989 for the NES. Yes.. tried.
The story is told fast: You are a professional Monster Hunter who arrived at the Moga village after a earthquake which feared the villagers and chased away the monsters. You have to complete quests to rebuild the village parts which were destroyed from the earthquake. To rebuild the village and things you have to gather resource points which you can earn by defeating minion monsters and find some resources You have to hunt down the monsters to become more popular in the Monster Hunter scene so you can visit more places and get more quests.
The places in Monster Hunter are very linear. You have a range of areas in one place like the Moga forest. It has like twelve areas in which you can collect resources and hunt monsters. There a a few areas like a desert, a jungle or a volcano which you can visit and collect some items and resources. Monster Hunter has also a combine function in the game. You can combine some items and resources to create more useful items for example you can combine a herb and a mushroom to create a potion or you can combine a stone and a bone to create pick for mining. You also can use this resources to upgrade your weapon or create new armor. There are a few types of weapons like: Sword & Shield, Lance, Longsword etc., which you can upgrade by farming resources from the environment or eviscerate monsters. Each weapon has a different movement set. You have to test every weapon and find your personal favorite.
You have some useful extras to make things easier. The village has a farm which you can use to grow: mushrooms, insects or herbs so you don’t have to collect them in the forest. You also can send out a fleet of fisherman to get some fish which you can use instead of potions.
The real challenge in the game is to defeat the boss monsters. After a short time in which you complete resource quests and defeating some minions, the village elder tells you that the earthquake chased away the big monsters which now coming back slowly. This are the real enemies in the game. To defeat this boss monster you have to use every hunting item which you can get. Traps, explosive barrels, decoy and other stuff. You have to act fast and with strategy to defeat them. The developers will sure have tried to animate you with the chance of hunt down these monsters but you’ll have more depressing moments than after your girlfriend cheats on you with your best friend, your dad, your teacher, the plumper and your mom, just to come back to you and beg for a fourth chance. These bosses kills you with like three hits. Yeah three hits. The problem with the fights is not that these monsters are to hard. When you realized their movement and attack pool they’re just a piece of cake. The hardest enemy in this game is not even the control which become familiar after you discovered your favorite weapon. No, it’s the character itself. After every action he make, drink a potion, eat a steak, whet his weapon, the character makes an annoying pose or movement which costs very important seconds and sure after the lose of the seconds a huge amount of health and increasing the chance of throwing your Wii Mote or controller against the wall or in the TV. But the thrill when you challenge one of these monsters is high enough to do it over and over again… Okay in fact you were forced to face them for like every time you enter the forest. For now it was always the thing when you defeat a boss monster in the quest, it will return to the forest so you have to face like two of them at one day. It sucks, but we’re cool with this.
The graphic is.. okay. I’ve seen better but for the Wii it’s awesome. The monsters are very detailed same for the environment and the NPCs. The effects are cool too and when you defeat one of the real monsters, you can unlock a cut scene which shows the monster in it’s natural habitat. These are awesome movies with very good rendering. The cut scenes look like PS3 graphic. I’m a bit sad about that this game isn’t released on the PS3. (They mentioned the to high costs for developing on the PS3) I don’t have a PS3 because I’m Nintendo fan but I would play it somewhere with my friends.
There is also the possibility to play online together with other people. You can complete quests, trade with NPCs (and can buy potions and the “Switch-Axe” very early in the game) and chat with other people. The possibility to collect items online and bring them back to your village in the offline mode is a nice feature. You can bring back: weapons, money and items. You can sure play in the two player mode but only in the arena where you can only defeat those real monsters with pre-build characters, which sucks after a short time because you get better equip and the pre-build equip remains as it is.
In my homing opinion this game is quiet good. When you managed to master the control of this game it is really funny. There some more aspects of the game I like and dislike but it’s better to play it. It’s a little bit like the NDS title “Rune Factory” but a huge way cooler. A quiet good game worth to play. And there is no more satisfaction after you fight for like twenty long minutes in fear and adrenalin against a boss monster which is like 50 ft. long and 16 ft. high and finally after it collapse and lies before your feet, in the dust where it belongs, take a piss on it’s face, scratching your nuts, smoking some of the strange weed which grows under the stone next to you, while you screaming out loud: “Eat this bitch! Don’t fuck with me!”. It’ll make you feel like you’ve just had the best sex in your whole life. And that’s worth it. Believe me.
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