(First impressions) No guides for the non speaking Japanese, makes this game hard on your butt
http://www.onrpg.com/boards/77456.html
The reason i give it an average score is because it does nothing different with the formula, most of the same monsters, the areas look almost identical, the good part is that it's an MMO, but like i said if you dont read any Japanese then you will need to invite a friend to the game and force them to go through hell Just to play a very short trial, yes you can keep playing without paying but the problem is that you are only able to go to HR2(lvl). IN other monster hunter games that would seem kinduv crappy cause there are only about 6 ranks, but there is allot more in this one, so if you have a great friend and have some kinduv Apostle power and you see the words in badly translated english then oh yes i recommend this game, but his is only a first impressions because of how short the trial is, so i recommend importing Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G cause at least there are patches that you can use for translation, now if you dont mind im going to go back to good old MHF2.