freedom unite is the only game ive ever played where im pissed off for like the entire play session but as soon as i turn the game off im like "god what a good game im godlike at this game"

I still remember that I had to kill a total of 62 azure Rathalos to get 5 azure wings, to craft just 1 weapon with them. Took me ~15 hours. Imagine all the stuff you can do in 15 hours in World / Rise. Solo'ing Unite as a kid nurtured me to be a patient man.

I’m a marine biologist because of monster hunter freedom unite, the fantastic monster designs, unique biomes and nature documentary style videos in that game completely enthralled me and filled me with a sense of wonder, curiosity and respect towards nature.

i dont know what exactly it is, but the old MH games seem more mysterious and ancient. love the vibes

I like that with the set of items you’d bring at 59:30, you’d still reset 10 seconds into the quest because you forgot the whetstones. Truly the old Monster Hunter experience.

I just find it really funny that this video ends up feeling like a long hour of harshly and deeply criticizing MHFU but also ends with what amounts to "this game's mechanics are so bad and frustrating. 11/10 best monster hunter game in existence."

SuperRAD : what is monster hunters genre? Me with a heavy bow gun : looter shooter

Nothing compares to slaying a narga with your best friends in the back of english class, cheering silently and not getting caught.

Maybe give a little like, comment, and subscribe this holiday season if you're a real one. I didn't talk about the hitboxes like I wanted to, but I think we all understand that they suck. What really sucks is Rathalos taunt animation because it's a standing hitbox that deals huge chip damage to you and you don't realize right away. Some damage in this game doesn't actually cause an animation to trigger, so you can take an insane amount of damage and never notice. Super weird.

The reward for clearing every training fight like you mentioned isnt just a guild card unlock but unlocks Fatalis g-rank quest. Which then proceeds to unlock crimson and White fatalis. I was the only one in my group of 3 to grind it out which was annoying cuz the fatalis quests are rotating (plus other conditions) to make then even show up to try. Lot of memories of "sleepovers" staying up till 6 am fighting in our group of 3.

I played this game as a kid. Have about 400+ hours into it and never beat the game. Here I am as an adult and I found my old PSP in a closet. It works fine and I have started playing MHFU again. Needless to say, I was quickly reminded how hard but rewarding this game is. Love it though. Gonna grind again till I finally fight a Fatalis and Ukanlos.

MHFU is my favourite game within the series and the one that I always come back to. It has so much charm, that regardless of awful hunts and hitboxes I just want more of it.

I solo'd Freedom Unite completely on my own and I still revisit somewhat frequently on my still working PSP along with Dissidia Duodecim and Blazblue. I did everything on my own including the Treasure Quests, the co-op Training school quests with every weapon and did G-Rank White Fatalis several times (so many time outs when you do it solo). The only rewards I am missing are the Gold and Mini crown awards but I have never gotten those in any MH game because monster sizes are just too random. I was really close to getting the Gold Crown award in W:I but then I lost all my data on the very day Fatalis dropped.

Freedom Unite makes you appreciate a lot of quality of life changes in the newer games, but there is something to be said about area variety, monster variety, and the higher demands that the older generations have. Freedom Unite still has some of the coolest and most iconic areas, and back in the day i remember being surprised and excited when high rank quests dropped a whole new set of areas to explore and even more monsters to bash your head against.

Can we just talk about how good a name "Freedom Unite" is tho? Freedom, because now Monster Hunter is portable and you can take it anywhere, Unite, because hunters unite to take down the G Rank monsters. Brilliant.

I love the monster designs in that game, they look like they are genuinely part of the world. The ideal mixture of fantasy and realism.

AT LAST!! Someone who appreciates Freedom Unite for the masterpiece it is. THIS is the video I've waited for since 2008.

I have like, 2400 hours in MHFU. I've done it all. I completed the hunt "Monster Hunter." I love the game. That said, every monster in this game can fuck right off with their hitboxes. Especially the Plesioth. ESPECIALLY that bastard. G-rank white fatalis is an exercise in self-flagellation. The one-horned demon king is an act of masochism. There are worrisome outliers all over, but I love them dearly anyway

You talking about not flinching Lao Shan Lung had me smile. Some friends and I once decided to try to flinch him as much as possible in Freedom 2 using the completely broken Akantor bow. We managed to trip him so much that he did not even reach the final area, leading to a really buggy looking Cutscene and basically him clipping through the walls before leaving

So happy that I found this video, it really brought back so many memories of playing Freedom 2 and Freedom Unite on my PSP till the early mornings and the Pokke Village OST in the background really hit that nostalgia button! Amazing video!

I miss the simplicity for weapons like longsword. I've always felt that longsword and dual blades were the most high risk, but rewarding weapons. Lack of a shield and being locked into weapon combos at the worst times made you think carefully about what to do. Now the longsword is just mindless counter after mindless counter. Defends better than a Lance

Just got my first MH game last week which just so happened to be MHFU. Then I found your VOD channel and have been watching your play through while doing my own. I'm hooked on this game! And love your content too! Keep up the great work :)

32:54 As a Longsword and Hunting Horn main I can confirm hunting horns plays very differently (and like doo doo) in gen 2. You can't combo recitals.

Really love all these in depth monster hunter videos, to this day Freedom Unite was some of my best experiences in gaming, even been doing another playthrough via emulation recently

This has to be my favorite out of all the MH games. I remember my classmates introducing it back in 2009 and that's basically how our friend group started: PSP games. And out of all of the games we played, this was the one we played and loved the most.

Can't wait for future monster hunter retrospective's really enjoyed the video keep it up

Wow this was a long time coming. Great video!

I looovvveee these kind of videos. Thanks so much for the amazing information, so much fun to watch. ❤️👍🏼

what you say at 30:30 reminds me so much of the nightmare that was grinding deviants in gu which in a way makes me enjoy how many damn materials you get in rise imo good video as always, Rad

I was 9 when it first came out, MHFU is the game that challenges your wits and reading monster movements. Thats the game where I trained my mind set and utilize it with real life, the mindset of sheer willpower and advanced planning, MH world is beginner friendly, Very friendly but it has its quirks, I have yet to play Rise but eitherway DARK SOULS is pretty much the next alley way you can visit.

hey hey great video! I would love to see you do another video like this one for another MH game or just any game you particularly enjoy.

SuperRAD out here making another excellent video essay on Monstie Hunter Fr though I like your structuring in your videos. They do really well on deep diving on the complicated things with any aspect on Monster Hunter, from combat, monsters and how they function, and the progression. Keep up the work homie!

Every wyvern with two legs in MHFU: "I see you are attempting to kill me, but I believe it is time for dance! *Spins in place for over half the hunt*

Just got GU for Christmas so this was perfect timing!

Fantastic video, that was a joy to watch! Made me incredibly nostalgic and smile a lot! Liked and commented for the algorithm!

Thank you so much for this video. Mhfu was my first mh and i loved it so much. Such a great game

This MadMan had the balls to wave at us while Akantor is right behind him

God I miss this game. I was so happy when I crafted my auto reload set and be able to down nargacuga in under 5 minutes with an HBG.

gonna hit this vid with that VIEWER INTERACTION. keep it up my man, some of my favorite stuff to watch on youtube

Currently on my third playthrough of MHFU found the perfect video for my background nice vid as usual SuperRAD

Oh, and have a less condescending comment, thanks for the video, glad you like my favourite game xx

The fact that each new game comes out and I can't set my town theme to Pokke Village hurts me every time. So many fond memories and the tune is just brilliant! It's so comforting after a long arduous hunt. Please Capcom, make it available!

What a awesome video! And the ammount of time u put in... Freedom Unite on the PSP was my first MH game and I absolutely loved it. This game was very uncommon in my friendgroup, so it's nice to hear something about this game from another player. You gave me childhood goosebumps! Carry on!

Great video as always, SuperRad

So basically if you're a masochist you'll love this game

One thing of the training school is that you need to beat all special training to unlock crimsom fatalis in g-rank if i remember correctly

Just wanted to say I'm glad you put this video out. I got Rise recently and couldn't get into it, but it made me revist 3U to try and notice what has been lost that I miss, and I think it really is move away from more simplistic and slower paced gameplay, and towards more "moderness". After that discovery though, I ended up getting interested in the Gen 2 games (in large part due to their older looking aesthetic), and have been trying to find general videos about them (discussions, reviews, gameplay), but have been kinda disappointed by what seems like a lack of content out there about them (not to say that there isn't any - especially with regards to gameplay related content. But in terms of discussions and analysises, I feel like I exhausted what was available pretty quickly). That's why I'm really grateful that you happened to put this video out. Thanks for all the effort you put into it. I really appreciate it.

I do enjoy these videos, I will Like, Comment, and Subscribe. Thanks Rad!

i dropped my pringles any way i wanna play a working copy of mh1 cause i got a copy for christmas but it didn't want to live. love ur vids and ur 3u series

Great presentation. I started with 4U and the farthest I've gone back is actually just 3U. Learning about the older games makes me feel like I was missing out not having a PSP.

I've been "MHFU retrospective" searching on youtube for years now, waiting for a video like this to exist. Thank you!

Super nice retrospective. I began with MHR on the Switch and I recently got myself an RG35XXH. I'm super hyped to play this game now.

I sold all my stones in 4U thinking I was never gonna use them again in endgame. *I needed them. Very. BADLY.*

This was my first Monster Hunter, and I didn't get it. Until I did. The armor sets confused the hell out of me as a kid, and once I figured it out, after struggling through bosses with shit armor, I felt like I was flying on a cloud.

This is gonna be a good hour

YESSIR this is the stuff we need on youtube!

i started in gen 5 and greatsword was my favorite weapon by far because of the simplicity. in going back to older games i have found i enjoy more weapons a lot more because of the simpler movesets. I've been playing 3u with longsword and its really fun.

This was a fun watch. You might have persuaded this third fleeter to try MHFU!

Keep up the amazing work!

This was an incredibly fun video to watch! I look forward to checking out your other entries

Actually you don't have to remember every combination by heart, as the items you have succesfully combined are listed in the menu under "reference"

I remember the speediest way of earning points was actually doing the Kut-Ku training school arena fight. With the bowgun you could kill him within 30 seconds consistently with my record being something like 26 seconds. Run in with pierce equipped and just boop his head over and over. That would often also just stun lock him in place as well making it even easier :D

My first Monster Hunter game. It changed the way I approach every game. Make adjustments instead of just raging. This video is making me miss it.

You got yourself a sub, like and a binge watch. Awesome content.

I completely agree with your point that MH sort of fits into its own genre.

I've some small annotations and opinions. 23:34 The most important utility of the Training School is that you need to complete every solo quest in order to unlock the HR and GR Fatalis quest, also if you want to get all the trophies, you have to complete every quest with every weapon (group quests included). 27:06 The items you mention (kelbi horns and raw meat specifically) are dlc content and without that content you'll have to farm them. 30:27 I didn't feel that with Freedom Unite, but I came from a previous game and also I started playing online when I was already in G Rank, but it is a pretty reasonable feel if you came from a newer game. 58:41 Actually I'd say is best to farm G armor sets, you can upgrade high rank pieces, but it's around the same time to farm in high rank as it is in G Rank. Also I never use Ancient Potions, since you can take 7 Max Potions (5 to combine) to a quest. 1:02:00 At last I would recommend MHFreedom Unite as the best entry to 1-2 gen games (I don't think Gen 1 games are mandatory, at least not for everyone) and it could be more enjoyable when playing online and also easier to get into it, personally I recommend Hunsterverse server (discord) as it is the best way I know to play the PSP games online (I think it also has support for the 3DS games but I haven't tried it) and I've tried different ways to play those games online.

Awesome video👍👍

Flawless review!

i remember playing 10-15 hrs a day ( dont have any job back then ) , i solo'd all the content , and i got 3 save file with 1k+ hr on game time, 1 file my main 1, 2nd file i only use gs, and the 3rd one i only used bowguns. really love this game :)

I also still have not watched the Dos video. I’m about halfway through the video and started monster Hunter with FU on my Vita. This has been a nice nostalgia trip so far.

Beautiful video. Bravo

This is sooo refreshing I spent over a 1000hrs playing this game back in the day. collected fatalis, crimson and wht fatalis armors… not an easy job but I enjoyed. Thank u for revisiting such an epic game.

One thing a lot of people overlook when it comes to gathering ores and bugs in Pokke Farm is the fact that weapons and armor in MHFU tended to require FAR more ore and bugs to craft than they did in games without gathering in the farm. Some weapons, for example, can take 50 or even a whopping 99 iron ore to craft. Yes, you can get all the ore you need by gathering in the farm, but on average it'll take more completed quests overall to make your equipment unless you're also gathering out in the field. The devs balanced crafting costs around the fact that you could gather in the farm.

I remember getting a mod for the psp back in the day that could make you harvest all the farm in 1 button, as well as like skip cutscenes and extra time consuming stuff. Also there were like, custom maps people made, usually arena but also others which was basically user made new quests+ like, boom, 3 tigrexes in the snowy mountains cuz why not. I played this game sooo much man I got like 2000+ hours on it

Great retrospective my man like always MHFU is that friend for life we can always return to and revive some good times while laugh at some weird hitbox stuff i hope sometime in the future we see something, anything of a nod to that era and aesthetic again

HMMMMM, god i've missed the hour long Rad videos. W CONTENT!

My first MH game. Definitely need all the old games remastered for modern hardware. Appreciate the video.

God I remember playing this for the first time in my 6th grade year on my psp, I was very scared of Tigrex for a long long time. I also mastered the psp claw technique.

Great Video, of course! As being a hunter who began with 3U, previous titles were always intriguing as there were differing mechanics as well as monsters that I have always wanted to try fighting, Yama Tsukami being the biggest one. It also just sounds awesome to take a trip back in time to see what Monster Hunter was like before I got into playing it, and after watching this video, I am even more excited to give Freedom Unite by first playthrough. So thanks for that!

Very good video bro!! I still have the game and my zinogre psp. Might fire it up again sometime soon and replay it.

The analysis of how points work was interesting because I've found myself really thinking about their utilization in most games up till now. My best guess as far as how they're utilized is just an alternative currency pool so not every expense is pulling from your pool of zenny, but it feels like the devs are also a little afraid that you'll have to rely too hard on generating points through the weird alternative means that they're usually gathered, so they also don't seem like they're designed to be entirely necessary. They're both there for the convenience of obtaining certain things but are also inconvenient, so they sit in an awkward place in the game. World and Rise may have fixed this issues though due to how much easier it is to gain points and the more interesting things that you can exclusively gain with them.

Hunting Horn main here to chime in about the simplicity of new weapons in MHFU. The VERY limited move pool for HH took some getting used to but then I learned to love the moves I had access to because I could focus on mastering the exact spacing for each move for each monster to get the important head smacks. You definitely want to do that no matter which iteration of the HH you're playing, but the simplicity made it more straightforward and was very satisfying. I'm sorry this comment is getting long but there's a huge caveat to everything I've said. Playing songs is incredibly, unnecessarily frustrating. It makes more immersive sense in that to do it you press R to start playing and then have to spend a second or two per note to activate the buff. And if you get hit, you lose your notes. There is a satisfying skill to pulling off songs on the same map tile as the monster but, especially with the aggression of small monsters, it's most often necessary to retreat, play your songs, and hope the monster doesn't move in the time it takes you to do it. The simplicity of the original HH almost removes the usability of the feature that's supposed to make it unique, especially as a solo player.

This game changed how I view hard work and grinding in video games. 🙏 I definitely pride myself in the amount of time I've spent on this game when I was a kid, hence this was my first MH game. I know other 2nd generation vets feel the same way. I remember finally trying every weapon to try and take out the kushala daora because his wind effect was gnarly 🤣 nice video bro!

The video thumbnail is so good The video itself is also very good

When it comes to gathering I actually have found myself doing it more thanks to the subquests in Rise and the Bounties in World. The reward of armor spheres through this I think makes for a more engaging process. But I honestly don't mind either system.

My first exposure to Monster Hunter was the original game on PS2. I saw the trailer and was immediately sold on the fantasy of the whole thing. I picked it up and even got a network kit for my PS2 to play online. It was probably my first online co-operative experience. I love the modern games, but I think something has been lost over time. The first game really made you feel like a hunter, you had to go out and do prep work for your hunt, spend a couple of attempts learning the monster and how it worked, it immersed you in the fantasy but it was much slower. Over time we've moved from hunting to slaying, which is undeniably very fun, but it's more fast paced and a very different experience.

great vid, I still can't put in words how much the way you say Ukanlos infuriates me.

Even though I truly got into the series with world and became accustomed with it's mechanics. After playing it I wanted to look into the older titles, and tried Tri again with it's wack motion controls (because I don't have a classic controller) then 3U and GU I eventually ended up playing FU and even though it was very polarising for me to play I still enjoyed it and even though I didn't get far into it I do acknowledge that it is a certified classic that I think every monster hunter player should try at least once. It's probably worth noting that I am a longsword main so the drastic changes probably threw me off quite a bit as it wasn't about meter management back then. Very informative video, keep up the great work SuperRAD!

Got a PSP for GTA VCS and then this gem got released after a short while. Hands down one of the best games ever 😍 The grind is very balanced. That's what makes the game satisfying. The days of grinding a G-Rank black diablos just to get the Majestic Black Horn to craft the Chaotic Order Hammer and feeling good afterwards feels different from today's grind. The damage of G-Rank is nasty in MHFU. I love it. Even with full X/Z Armor upgraded to the max, a G-Rank monster hurts really bad. G-Rank made me use bowguns for the first time and it was a high risk/high reward experience. One hit and you are dead. iFrame every move with Evasion and Evade Extender or die. Items are hidden, you actually have to look closely to discover the mining veins, the plants, etc. There is no monster tracker, you have to either paintball the monster, or follow its shadow. I could go on about this game, and its a testament to how frustrating and beautiful this game is ❤

I must say MHFU hooked me into the series. Playing this on trips was a great memory.

I'm actually playing it right now on my phone, and oh god I love how much mhfu leaves you to do and all the things you can do

As a funny tidbit, this was my first monster hunter game and I loved it when I was a kid, so I got pretty hooked on the series, so I appreciate the deep dive into it.

just wanna add some info: 1. if you clear all arena quest it gives you two equipment, one of them is bow charge +1 (which is a must if you are using most charge bow that needs charge +1) so if you wanna make the meta sets for bow usually you need to clear the arena (i think its the low rank arena that gives you that headpiece and high rank arena gives you monster tracking one iirc) 2. if you wanna get into 2G/FU there's an IOS version that allows online coop. its more accessible and the graphics is better, but im not sure if the server is still up or not the game is old but i really think it age like wine and is definitely worth trying out

I joined the MH fandom when MHworld came out because all of my friends were obsessed with it and wanted me to play with them and I downright H A T E D my first experience in the game. I came back maybe a year later and replayed it and have absolutely loved the series ever since 😭🙏❤️ I cannot get enough of it

The training quests do serve a progression purpose in mhfu. If you finish the any tier of the training hall quests, you get a piercing as a reward. The special training one is very much worth it because you will get the barrage piercing, which will unlock an extra charge for the bow, making the akantor bow a really powerful weapon.

Ill never forget seeing that game informer (i think) cover when monster hunter 1 came was coming out

Imagine a world where MHFU becomes popular omg

I started this franchise in rise. It looked good and when I finally loaded it up I was very intimidated and I almost put it off but I instead pushed through and fell in love with it. I eventually got into world and loved it and then got into generations ultimate and love that as well. I’m looking into buying a 3ds to play previous entries as well. I love this franchise

Commenting fot the algorithm. You deserve it Rad!

I still remember going with my brother to pick up this game around launch back in the day. We saw the commercials on TV and knew we needed this game. Still play it today. This game hooked us on MH