Toukiden 2

In case people complaining about how terrible the optimization of this game. Check first if you are running this game with your GPU. At default, Toukiden 2 will run with your integrated graphics. Go to your System Settings > Display > Graphics, and add Toukiden 2's exe file and set to high performance. If that fixes your issue, you're welcome in advance.
Anyway, for my review. This game is a 10/10 to me. Below is my detailed scoring.
---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }--- (If I will disregard the game crashing while launching and the GPU issue which I stated above, but anyways these 2 bugs are annoying if you do not fix it)
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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Toukiden 2 is by far the most interesting Monster-Hunter-Like. You may be wondering why.
Because it actually innovates on its own series mechanics, and the genre's fundamental mechanics. An accomplishment that very few MH-likes manage or even try to achieve.
Toukiden 2 is also the most depressing MH-Like because the game is dead.
Even during publisher sales Toukiden 2 remains a staggering 66.49 CDN. For reference it is 30 dollars less than MH Wilds, 15 dollars more than Rise, and 25 dollars more than World and when did this game come out on steam? 2017!? Worse still those two games go on frequent sales while Toukiden 2 here gets 1 or 2 random discounts a year, if you're lucky.
On top of that the DLC quests are not free, so you have to pay real money to experience all of the quests that Toukiden has to offer.
Oh, and the keyboard controls suck. You better have a controller if you want to play this.
Lets touch on some positives for a minute.
The World and presentation is pretty good. Toukiden 2 puts alot of focus on its characters and story, there's also some world building but that starts to fall by the wayside the further you get through the story.
Something I include in presentation are the Tutorials. I can happily say these are usually really good! Optional missions from their own quest tender that'll show you the ropes for every weapon, and every standard loadout, with simple 1 time popups for most other information.
(You can of course view these again from a certain menu)
Back to why this game is depressing. This greatest downside aside from price comes from odd inconsistencies.
Its not hard to get used to these inconsistencies, they just reek of lacking polish.
I'll use the areas with poor or no communication as the easiest example of these.
Despite the great tutorials the game offers nothing effective for weapon trees, mitama sources and locations, or even how certain equipment statistics work. You'll have to find the player made spreadsheets for those.
Furthermore there are no subtitles in standard gameplay for dialogue, and that ends up trickling down to impact a few of the games cutscenes.
The greatest advantage is the combat and skill systems, which are both surprisingly free-form and are what I can only describe as "Refreshingly limiting" as Monster Hunter continues down a path of excessive powercreep and experimentation.
So here's what you'll have access to (not including the variety of weapons)
9 passive skills, 3 active skills (and a heal) that function akin to items or spells, another 2 active skills that have unlimited uses. Of course all of these active skills have cooldowns independent of one another.
But that's not all. You also have two part breaker attacks you can use after filling their corresponding meter. 1 just breaks limbs, while the other breaks limbs or completely severs certain limbs.
This system pairs very well with the faster paced combat and NPC hunters allowing for a full party in every mission, even in singleplayer.
As a whole if I had to assign Toukiden 2 a number grade I'd say it earns an 8 out of 10 and is well worth trying if you're a fan of Monster Hunter (particularly if you've played more than just World, Rise, and soon to be Wilds)
Though if I'm being as objective as possible it's probably a 7/10 due to the price and the handful of glaring unpolished holes.

Old monster hunter but faster.
Though it kind of feels more like a traditional RPG than a MH-like. The goal is to drain the monster's HP before you run out of resources, instead of dancing with the monster, sneaking in hits, and punishing openings. I'd recommend MHW over this, but this pretty decent if you're just looking for more hunting content.

While there are some things (quest area markers) that would improve the game a tiny bit, its honestly a fun game. And the story line itself is amazing. I have had this game on PS4 for years and my PS4 crapped out on me and I couldn't play it anymore until I finally found it on Steam and have relished the chance to play it again.

Some people might compare this to Monster Hunter. They would be right. But I think it's closer to God Eater than MH in terms of combat feel. Some would also comment that it looks like Samurai Warriors. They would also be correct.

Weapons feel floaty. The attack weights of the sword and the club feel exactly the same. There are loads of particle effects on screen when all four members of the team whack something in the face. Pair that up with skills effects emanating from the team, you will get a screen full of greens, yellows, reds and blues. Then, you realize that you don't actually know if you're hitting a soft spot or a hard spot based on damage indicators because they appear for a literal split second. Do you know the difference between hitting for good damage vs not? The size of the damage indicators are 2 pixels bigger if you do more damage, that's how.

But they are tied neatly in a package. It's not the best package, but it is a great package. The amount of content in the package is tremendous and lovely. Well worth the price.

I don't know what else to say except I like it. Nice voice acting, nice cutscenes, nice CGI, nice combat feel, nice movements, there are almost no loading screens, nice big open world, nice looking monsters, and very nice B.A.T. (Big Anime Tiddies).

Rating:
IWantToWearBenizuki'sThighsLikeAPairOfHeadphonesAndDominateMePleaseThankYouArigatouGozaimasuOnegaishimasu / PleasePleasePleaseMakeBetterUIsTheseAreHorribleToLookAt

P.S. The best way to get a smoother combat experience is to always have four team members. Otherwise, the game feels like a slog if you're going solo or even as a trio.

i loved the details in system and play style functionality and the story is great in my opinion

I love this game. Played it on console first, then had to get it when it came to PC. Lots of fun, and very engaging and interesting. A bit like Monster Hunter, of course, but it seems to have a distinct personality of its own.