Monster Hunter Stories 2 is coming to PC in July

The adjacent mainline Monster Hunter game, Rise, won't be fashioning its way to PC until 2022, but spinoff collection-and-training spunky Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin is going to be this year's Personal computer consolation prize. Monster Huntsman Stories will release on July 9th and is a secondary title, a turn-settled monster-collecting JRPG around monstie-taming Riders rather than an natural process RPG about monster-slaying Hunters. Though a PC reading had been rumored, and was included in last year's leak of Capcom info, this announcement is the first substantiation.

The biggest surprise with Stories—besides a PC release—is that the previously singleplayer game will have co-op multiplayer quests.

An image from Monster Hunter Stories 2 Wings of Ruin — (Image credit: Capcom)

Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin will glucinium most the fade of the monster Rathalos, and you play a character entrusted with the dangerous Razewing Ratha which (drumroll please) could be a force for good or evil. The game includes a bunch of familiar monsters from Monster Hunter Ma and Iceborne, like Nergigante and Pukei-Pukei, which you can garner and rag around on. (Except maybe Nergigante? How do you get a charge on all those spikes?) Streamer monster for Monster Orion Rise, Mizutsune, is also passing to be in.

Monster Hunter Stories first debuted on Nintendo 3DS in 2017, and was then ported to Android and iOS the following years. IT must've done well enough, since the sequel looks like a much more ambitious and higher-budget crack at the idea of a Giant Hunter collecting game. You can find more about this one at the official Monster Hunter Stories 2 internet site. Information technology'll be released for PC via Steam on July 9th, 2021.

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