Toukiden 2
Slayers! Go forth and eradicate the Oni menace! Experience the latest hunting action game featuring a dynamic targeted destruction system! The latest installment in the hunting action series "Toukiden".
Toukiden 2 is a action, open world and hunting game
developed and published by KOEI TECMO GAMES CO. and LTD..
Released on March 21st 2017 is available only on Windows
in 2 languages: English and Japanese.
It has received 1,397 reviews of which 1,118 were positive and 279 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 59.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS: Windows® 10 (64bit required)
- Processor: Core i7 870 over
- Memory: 3 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GTS 450 or better
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 17 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c over
- Additional Notes: 3D Accelerator chip , VRAM 1GB over
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Toukiden (TKD) 2 is a decent monster hunting game that has a good story, fast paced action, less tedium and just as grindy. In this game, you hunt Onis, rip their parts off (and gloat), only to realize that they've suddenly become even more dangerous! TKD2 has a compelling story and its storytelling is well executed. This is supported by a cast of likeable characters and great voice acting (Jap dub only) that kept me wanting to see more of it - imo, the biggest strength of the game. The story can feel short if you focus on main quests, so it's better to mix in with side quests. TKD2 uses an open world which features a day/night cycle (mostly immersion, though some side quests require to be in nighttime) and is littered with inscriptions (textual story fragments) and crests (collectables) to encourage exploration. Also, the home hub is an impressively big village which is unfortunately only really relevant during story progression. You can explore the open world with up to 3 additional AI companions and they are very competent. In fact, perhaps too much so because they will most likely carry you throughout your early-to-late single player experience; they will even pick loot for you! One annoyance I have is that there are a few translation errors and there are no subtitles for the things your companions say (when out in the open world), making it impossible to understand if you don't know Japanese. It's also a shame that the open world aspect of the game only applies to single player and not multiplayer. For the latter, it's still the traditional lobby system like most other games. The character creator is decent and looks to be the same as those used in other musou games like Samurai Warriors, but with more options. Compared to other games in the same genre like Monster Hunter (MH) or God Eater (GE), the game takes away a lot of the tedium of hunt preparation as there are no consumables to prepare. Instead, their effects are implemented as skills in 11 collections, referred to as "playstyles" (known as "ATK", "PLN", etc in-game). Each playstyle consists of 4 skills (mapped to the face buttons of the gamepad) with one of them always being a self-heal. As such, the playstyle defines what skills you can use and each skill has limited use (and cooldown) which can only be restocked at designated points on the map. Playstyles loosely define what you bring to your party, for e.g., better at destroying parts, able to taunt or able to AoE heal. The main attraction of this game compared to its competition is the ability to tear off Oni parts and boy is it gratifying to do so! What's interesting is that destroying different Oni parts will alter its move sets, making it more interesting and challenging to learn its moves. There's (most of the time) clear wind up before big attacks and it's still important to recognize them as your own big attacks have commitment and you also have limited healing. That said, I find that many monsters have really OP bullsh*t moves that I don't really enjoy fighting. TKD2 uses the Mitama ("honourable spirit") system to make builds and it's interesting. In a nutshell, you can have 3 mitamas and every mitama has its own list of passive abilities known as "boosts" where you can pick 3 (from each mitama) for a total of 9 boosts per build. Some of these boosts are weapon-specific, working like traits, while others improve stats or improve playstyle-specific skills. Mitamas are unlocked by playing the story mode, side quests and hunting specific Onis; they also need to be "levelled up" in order to unlock their boosts. In total, there appears to be as many as 200 mitamas in the game (excluding DLCs). Every mitama is tied to a playstyle and time period. Depending on the slot they are equipped, the player gains a set of additional evade and attack skills that is dictated by the playstyle of the mitama. Also, when using mitamas from the same period (or hidden historical relationship), you also gain combination boosts. There's a fair amount of thinking needed for finding optimal mitama choices to build synergies which is where the depth of build-making is primarily at. Unfortunately, there's no option to show damage numbers and there are no training dummies to test changes. Although you can see health bars of the Onis, it's hard to know objectively whether you're doing better damage when fiddling with setups. Another thing to note is that there's only few resources online which will pose a challenge when min-maxing your gear/mitama setups. The game has a good selection of 11 weapons which are technical though not quite at the level of MH but definitely more compared to GE; they also feel less weighty but I feel it's because controller vibration during player actions feels non-existent. There are in-game tutorial missions for all 11 weapons which does a serviceable introduction but the advanced stuff will require exploration. The weapons all play very distinctly, and using them do require mastery because you can't just spam-to-win unless your gear outlevels the Oni (which some of the spammy moves might suggest). Interestingly, quite a number of weapons allow you to do airborne combat in order to hit the hard-to-reach places and some monsters are very tall. Overall, I think TKD2 strikes a nice balance between visceral and deliberate combat which works reasonably well on small and big monsters. In comparison, MH's combat works for large monsters, but feels unsatisfying for small ones. In terms of the presentation, the graphics still hold up imo, even if they aren't the best. The color palette, however, is a tad too washed-out for my liking. The music is apt and suitable but I haven't found any strong tracks that caught my attention. The UI and control scheme could be better although it's not terrible. For example, it's hard to find things on a list because you can't sort alphabetically - even though you can sort in other ways. It also doesn't make very good use of the DPad for control scheme, like using it for rotating 3D model when previewing gear. Performance-wise, this game runs great and I've not got a single crash (except one instance of suddenly very long loading which I closed the game and restarted). However, this port is a mixed bag although it's far from a bad one. For one, it doesn't have borderless window mode which is an inconvenience and doesn't allow you to remap controls on the gamepad. While I've never played with keyboard/mouse, it doesn't seem like it would work very well with mouse. It also always launches with its configuration tool which can be bypassed but requires additional manual work/research on your part. Overall, despite some of my gripes, I strongly recommend TKD2, especially for players who like monster hunting as an offline or JRPG experience. However, I'd recommend getting this game only when on sale (which, admittedly, is rare) as I don't think it has a reasonable asking price for such an old title. I really hope Koei Tecmo will continue this series in future as it has pretty good fundamentals down. I think with a bit more polish to its weapon and combat mechanics (like adding more counterplay), the TKD series can become a serious competition to the MH series. But perhaps I compare TKD too much with MH (the gold standard) because with TKD2, it's really become is its own thing and sets itself apart from the others in the genre, like MH and GE. PSA: There are free DLCs available for the game which are not listed on the store page. You can search "toukiden 2" in the store and add them to library. There's also an online manual showing what the game has to offer at [url=https://www.koeitecmoamerica.com/manual/toukiden2/ps4/en/index.html]https://www.koeitecmoamerica.com/manual/toukiden2/ps4/en/index.html .
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10
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Online players
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Developer
KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
Publisher
KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
Release
21 Mar 2017
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