Personally, I'm thinking this should be MHF2 instead of the iffy original, but what the hey. MHF is hardcore, "You keep what you kill" action. It requires patience, perseverance and actual ability to master and defeat all its myriad beasties.

Patapon is kid's stuff. I'll take Monster Hunter Freedom for the kill.

Neither because I suck at both

Patapon because Jim clearly hates Patapon and I'm choosing it to spite him.

PATA-PATA-PATA-PON

Fronz! I am going to keep demanding that you write a feature non Vs. related, while simultaneously supporting it! You have a bright mind, and I know you're capable of writing an awesome "etymology of the vs. culture" feature at some point.

Patapon. It was too darned cute to pass up.

Bonus:
I didn't like the mechanics of the game; it was stylized, but could have been so much more.

PATAPON

Bonus: Art felt like loco roco a little too much.

Monster Hunter

My vote is for Patapon.

Bonus: I felt the game didn't really tell you everything you needed to know (like obtaining ka-ching and the infamous desert level).

My vote is for Monster Hunter.

The one thing I didn't like about the game is steep learning curve ( you really need guides for this game ), and that is why a lot of people never played it for long enough and then make comments on it.

@Ajax
Other than "using their organs to make weapons", you just described the gameplay of any Phantasy Star.

Monster Hunter Freedom 2 - Some of the most fun I've ever had grinding. Great design and style with tons of items, weapons and monsters; as well as recipes, item making, farming and fishing. Being able to adventure with friends and take down giant beasts with guns, swords, bows, bombs and traps, all of which you can make yourself, make it one of the best games the PSP has to offer.

It suffers from some pretty intrusive loading screens, and when the level only takes 5 seconds to load, it makes you wonder why they didn't opt for a smoother loading transition that loads smaller segments of the level instead of entire areas at once, effectively removing the loading screens. The mission setup screen is horrible, movement speed is a little slow and the missions can become tedious.


Patapon - Fun for a while, but with less than a handful of commands it ultimately suffered from a lack of depth and become monotonous and boring. Perfect for short bursts of gameplay between other games, but definitely not something I'd want to sit down with for a few hours and get in to.

A nice idea with sub-par implementation and a repetitive nature of gameplay, often bordering on annoying.

My vote: MONSTER HUNTER FREEDOM 2

@Chronic

well in that case, why'd you pick patapon?

I have to vote for patapon myself due to ignorance on the other choice. Also I didn't like the grinding cause the monsters got stronger while you're basically stuck where you are.

bonus question answer: repetition isn't always fun :(

I defy anyone who hasn't put 200+ hours in, to bad mouth Monster Hunter. The PSP series are the games that changed my gaming habits forever. You have to really live MH to get good at this shit. It's fucking amazing.

I've put in around 500+ hours in MHF and MHF2 and cannot wait for MHFU, I still play MHF2 every day! In fact, I'm giving up smoking right now and using MHF2 as a distraction, I play instead of smoking.

Never has grinding been so un-boring, it's the perfect yet wierd combination of RPG and fighting game, it spills into your real life and has you watching videos on how others do it and reading guides etc.

i have lost so much of my life to MH - I've killed 2 relationships by wanting to play MH more than hang out with my mrs, and i don't care. that save file with ALL of those weapons and armours and stuff is worth losing those bitches for (was not too into them hoes anyway, my fiancee actually plays with me now!)

i've made my 2 PSP owning buddies buy MHF2 and we get together a couple of times a month and hunt the shit out of those monsters till the early hours of the morning.

I gave Patapon 2 a damn good playing, but after a couple of weeks of repetitive pat-pata-pata-pon-ing I got pretty bored.

I will never bore of MH.

i may even have to borrow back my Wii when MH3 comes out. Now that's saying somethng, the Wii sucks balls.

MHF for the mother fucking win.

Bonus - I don't like how they're bringing MH3 to the Wii instead of the PS3. the PS3 would rock the MH world hard! i want, no, i NEED a beautiful High Def Monster Hunter game.

Back to farming G-class Tigrex for some sweet archer armour.

patapon! i love those damn eyeball bastards. Only problem i had was it was a bit short hopefully patapon 2 is a longer ride.

PAAAATAPON.

@Ajax
I could say the exact same thing about Monster Hunter. I never really got into it, but now I want to :-D

wait i'm changing my most hated thing about patapon 2. Disappearing f-cking items. Theres nothing worse than having something good drop buy being unable to reach it in time or WORSE prevented from reaching it due to how long some conversations take. Theres no need for disappearing drops in any game when are developers gonna stop using that shitty mechanic.

isappearing f-cking items. Theres nothing worse than having something good drop buy being unable to reach it in time or WORSE prevented from reaching it due to how long some conversations take. Theres no need for disappearing drops in any game when are developers gonna stop using that shitty mechanic. PhD sociology | online Bachelor Degree |online Masters degree