I had noticed those big sales numbers too. Indeed, it's nice to see an original Capcom title doing well. It might very well do okay in North America too... wish they'd port it to Xbox though. My PS2 isn't the type to venture online.
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"Re(2):Monster Hunter is doing great"
, posted Sat 13 Mar 11:19
I'm SO excited about Monster Hunterrrr! I've heard only good things about it and I love those little cats. I'm glad they scheduled it for release in America...at some point.
You may just have put the final nail in my coffin of must-buy-this-from-NCS, Iggy. Just finished going thru the game's official website after seeing it listed on NCS' Friday update. I was curious to see if the custom character creation portion of the game could accurately recreate the look of a German monster-hunter character I played in a friend's "7th Sea" table-talk/paper'n'dice RPG campaign from a few years back (back when the game had its own system, before it went d20). I'm ready to buy the soundtrack, thanks to the music playing on the official site, and the music heard in the d'loadable movies. The E3 Movie d'load got me completely jazzed, tho.
While I enjoy table-talk/paper'n'dice RPGs, I've never gotten into console RPGs. But this looks like it's got the human interaction/team-up factor combined with shitloads of hack'n'slash, without all the time-consuming puzzle-solving stuff. Looks very action-oriented -- I think the non-actiony feel of most traditional turn-based console RPGs is what kept me away from them previously. Really thinking I'm going to have to pick this one up.
--Chris
[this message was edited by Dash no Chris on Sat 13 Mar 11:32]
"Monster Hunter is doing great" 
"Re(2):Monster Hunter is doing great"