![]() There's something about co-operating with friends to take down a hulking monster that makes everything feel good in the world. Teaming up with friends online makes the game even richer. Dodging is far easier with a pad in your hand, and it makes the whole experience flow much better. The game works best with an Mfi pad though, and if you've got one to hand with two analogue sticks you can bump the score at the bottom of the review up by a point. Tapping buttons performs attacks, but you can swipe them in different directions to perform more powerful attacks. The touch controls are a little fiddly, but there are some clever tweaks here and there that make the violence simple. There are breathtakingly huge monsters to take down that require skills, armour, weapons, and equipment far beyond anything you have at the start of the game. But they brim and bubble with possibility. There's no story as such, just fetch quests and slaughter quests as far as the eye can see. You need to keep your sword sharp, your temperature consistent, and your bag empty enough to grab all the spoils of a quest. Some of the wow moments here verge on the ridiculous, and it's easy to get lost taking photos of the aurora-stained night sky, with its streaking comets and twinkling stars.īut as well as the huge scope of the adventure at hand, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite deals with the little things brilliantly as well. It's full of grind, but it creates its world so effortlessly that it feels less like a monotonous slog, and more like the day-to-day trials and tribulations a monster hunter would have to work through. Monster Hunter Freedom Unite is a colossal game, but it cuts its gameplay into small, accessible beats. Satisfied, I scramble up a chest high wall, dodge past the now angry wasp, and duck into the cave. I slide my blade into a scabbard on my back, then cut up the dead creature for its meat and pelt. A few more swipes and it lolls onto its back, twitching a little before it expires. The great beast lets out a roar, so I slash at its back legs. ![]() ![]() As my blade bites, the rest of the creatures scatter, disappearing towards another part of the level. They're ponderous herbivores, bulky mammoths who graze these plains. I don't need to, but I take a swipe at one of the Popo. Clouds drift by overhead, and above a semi-hidden cave a giant wasp buzzes lazily, waiting for me to come too close. In the far distance a huge mountain stretches thousands of feet into the air, its summit wreathed in crisp white snow. Thin plants with little white flowers grow in clumps where the water laps the land. Patches of grey snow are piled here and there. A herd of Popo wander by the edge of the shore, their mighty tusks swaying with each lumbering step.
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