Monster Hunter 2

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Monster Hunter 2 is the sequel of Monster Hunter. It was only released in Japan because the Monster Hunter series had only a small cult following elsewhere in the world, while being huge in japan. New features include day and night changes, seasons, new monsters, new weapon categories & weapons. The new features now carried over to it's american portable installment & some leftovers of MH2 is carried to MHF2's english expansion. It's Flagship monster is currently Kushala Daora

[edit] New Features

• Able to use items while SNS and DS are unsheathed.
• Several combinations for the same combination result.
• Some online items and ores from mh1 are offline in mh2.
• New Village(Jumbo Village)
• New Town(Dondruma Town)
• New Shops(such as the Combining shop, etc.)
• Able to Mine at the cave by giving the miner Pickaxes
• Minigames are added exclusively to the MH2 Village(Arm wrestling and Drinking)
• New Day and Night settings that affect areas during a quest(such as raining in the jungle, acid water on the swamp, etc.)
• New Pause system
• Able to combine even with 3 items
• New Training school exclusive to the MH2 village(since in MH1G)
• New weapon upgrades and Category
• New Improve Armor system with a utility for monster materials, ores and bugs for improvement
• 1st Generation areas are now re-newed into 2nd Generation variants
• Additional areas are added(1st Tower, 2nd Tower and the Town area)
• New Offline/Online Monsters
• Secondary objectives to quests

[edit] Release

Monster Hunter 2 did not see a North American release. However, Monster Hunter Freedom 2, a similar game for the PSP, was able to make it to American shores.

Monster Hunter Series
First Generation	Monster Hunter | Monster Hunter G (Japan Only) | Monster Hunter Freedom
Second Generation	Monster Hunter 2 (Japan Only) | Monster Hunter Freedom 2 | Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Japan Only) | Monster Hunter Freedom Unite
Third Generation	Monster Hunter 3
Other	Monster Hunter Frontier (Japan Only)