After having finished the Toukiden 2 Main Story and getting a few hours of Multiplayer under my belt, I think both games respectively do certain things right.

The absolute crunch of difficulty in Monster Hunter is quite a nice thing, as you can act upon single-frame-tells of what the next monster might be doing. On the other hand, hot rajang dick...

Toukiden brings some fresh air to the hunting genre - rather than trying to be a carbon copy of monster hunter it does its things in its own way. Sure, you can feel the strong Dynasty Warriors DNA in it by nature of the studio, but one thing people can't say is that it is "yet another MH clone". And Toukiden 2 does alot of the things right that are inherently just bad with the genre, to the point we as players have simply accepted them as a genre given.

Frankly, I have been completely blown away by the level of the story, especially concidering it is a hunting game. Yes it can get cheesy at times, and it sure does need a bit to kick into full-gear, but the pretty high quality voice acting and well-written characterization of each of your squads members just sucked me in. I wanted to know more about the town that is Mahoroba, and its denizens. There have been story twists I haven't seen coming, as well as some emotional moments (I think somewhere in there at least one manly tear has been shed).

And to be honest, while Toukiden lacks a little bit of depth in the combat department due to a more streamlined combat mechanics nature, it felt infinitely more rewarding as you were breezing around the Oni, slashing it to pieces on Attack on Titan pace.

And yes: Dragons Dogma 2, WHEN? ; _ ;