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In fact it proved so mind-numbingly impossible that I almost smashed my PSP into my own forehead. The first three were okay, but the fourth, called Sinking Feeling, wasnвЂ™t. The village chief has five quests, combining gathering and slaying, designed to get you going.

In the end I gave up this nightmarish tutorial and decided to get something productive done. Five hours later I wasnвЂ™t halfway through it. Normally in games IвЂ™d skip faster than a boxer in training, but in Monster Hunter youвЂ™re forced to soldier through everything because if you donвЂ™t the game wonвЂ™t make any sense whatsoever.ДЄs a Monster Hunter newbie, I thought IвЂ™d give the Training School a shot to get a handle on the game. Pages of instructions on how the game and its various nuances work вЂ“ material gathering, material delivery, item combining, mining, skinning monsters, exploration, quests, guild cards, bonkers mini-games, cooking, fishing вЂ“ and thatвЂ™s not even half of it. There are pages of eye-watering text to digest almost immediately.

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The Monster Hunter philosophy is thus: slay a monster, skin its corpse for coveted materials then craft some badass kit from it. The sword, for example, is a combo-focused, agile weapon that allows the use of items while blocking.

Instead, self improvement comes from upgrading your weapons and equipment and acquiring new skills. YouвЂ™re given basic armour and the choice from a number of weapons, a choice that determines your class вЂ“ in Monster Hunter thereвЂ™s no levelling up through experience points. It acts as your base as you begin your life as a monster hunter.

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You wake in Pokke Village, a heart-warming hub full of generous locals and surrounded by snowy mountains and icy caves. A wyvern (dragon-like creatures) knocks you unconscious. Then youвЂ™re thrust into the world, exploring a mysterious snow-capped mountain. You begin by creating a character вЂ“ male or female вЂ“ in traditional video game character creation fashion. What follows is a report of my personal experience with the game. But CapcomвЂ™s pushed Monster Hunter Freedom Unite as the Monster Hunter game to lead the PSPвЂ™s resurgence in the west and tempt newcomers in, so surely that wouldnвЂ™t be a problem. Normally, we try and pair games with reviewers who either have an expertise in the genre or at least a familiarity. My hands-on at CapcomвЂ™s Captivate 09 event in Monaco earlier this year was the first time IвЂ™d touched a Monster Hunter game.

How can a game so frustrating be so addictive? And yet itвЂ™s phenomenally popular and adored by critics. ItвЂ™s monstrously difficult, the combat is clunky and itвЂ™s as slow as a turtle thatвЂ™s carrying 20 turtles on its back. Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, CapcomвЂ™s MMO-style third-person hack and trap-em-up, is soul destroying.

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