GameInformer

Hey what's up you guys? Name's Marcus but you guys can call me by my user name The Monster Hunter, or Monster or MH for short. What about me? Well I'm a big gamer. I love playing video games, watching them, talking about them, and learning more stuff about the video game industry. I came here on GI.com to meet new people, learn new things, have awesome conversations, jokes, and an overall good time.

Outside of gaming I'm sixteen year old who is just trying to enjoy life and find out more things I'm interested in. Right now I like playing Tennis, drawing, watching T.V. (anime being one of my favorites), swimming and more that I can't think of right now to do. I wanna try archery and fencing (yes video games did influence those decisions).

I plan to be an active member and type up a lot of blogs, reviews, comments, and maybe a few guides here and there. I will try to type then as soon as possible but school, computer failures and procrastination will get in the way so bare with me on that. I check my profile pretty often so If you wanna know more about me or anything else just leave a comment I'll reply to it eventually. I'm open to any friend request you want to send me here or on Xbox 360 or 3DS. 

Xbox Live: EVOL FIRESTORM 

3DS: 2105-8646-2058; Marcus

If you wanna know more about me and my gaming history you can read this bog here to get to know me better

That's all I can think to write er.. type here. If there's anything you wanna ask me just comment here or send me a message.  

Current games I'm playing: (Last updated: Tuesday, May 21) 

Xbox360: I borrowed Tomb Raider from a friend. I also played a lot of Dragon Ball, Mass Effect 2, Borderlands 2, and even Dark Souls. A good week on Xbox

• Lost Odyssey: Disc 3, Frozen covered trail, level 32
• Borderlands 2: Siren: level 26; Commando: level 50; Mechromancer: level 8; Gunzerker: level 30
• Dark Souls: level 41, Defeated Quaeeleg.
• Mass Effect 2: Finished several loyalitly missions; level 26
• Transformers FoC: Chapter 11 of campaign
• Kingdoms of Amular Reckoning: level 18
• Far Cry 3: Chapter 5
• Mass Effect 3: N7 rank: 436
• Dungeon Siege 3: level: 15
• Burst limit 2: 13 characters finished in Galaxy mode 
• Tomb Raider: Reached the snowy region of the island.

Wii: I haven't (and won't) be able to play the Wii for some time so I'm putting these games on my backlog until further notice...

3DS: I played Monster Hunter, Etrian Odyssey, and Tales last week. No Fire Emblem

• LoZ: Link's Awakening: In the 6th dungeon, Eagle Tower 
• Rolling Western: Sixth village, second day, 17 stars.  
• Dragon Quest IX: Finished in Gleeba; play time: 34:49
• Tales of the Abyss: About to head to the planet core; levels: 41-43
• Fire Emblem Awakening: Chapter 16
• Etrian Odyssey IV: Reached B3F of the Golden Lair, about to fight the boss; party levels: 38

Upcoming games I plan on buying:

• Castlevaina: Lords of Shadow-Mirror-of-Fate (3DS)
• Pokemon X (3DS)
• Pandora's Tower (Wii)
• Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (3DS)

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate progress log

Since Monster Hunter is a massive game and I'm going to spend several hundred hours in the game, I'm giving it it's own progress log. It'll be updated every Tuesday like the rest of the profile

Play time: 170 hours (yep, already over 150 hours) 

Summary of last week: Created Nargacuga gunner armor, proceed to do more quests and gather materials for armor and weapons.

This week's goal: Continue through 4* port quests and 9* village. upgrade more weapons

• Current quest level: 9* in village 4* in port
• Current amount of weapons: 36
• Current armor sets: 8
• Latest weapons made/upgraded:  Usurper's Firebolt (SnS), Cocytus (H), Queen's Scionfire(HBG),
• Latest armor made: Rath Soul (blade), Nargacuga S (gunner)

My review score: As of the moment, I'm only reviewing 3DS retail games. Each game is give an 5 has to earn or lose points to get it's final score. What determines that is what impressed me, what disappointed me, what worked in the game, and how my play through went playing it. In each review I give a rough synopsis of the story, how the gameplay is, how the controls worked, how the sound track was (including sound effects and voice acting), how the graphics were, the overall value and content of the game, the flaws I spotted throughout the game, and finally a conclusion that wraps up the review. At the end of the review I put a Pros & Cons list which states the good and the bad and how many points were gained/lost. In the end it's totaled up and I give the final score. If I messed up something in the review please tell me so in the comments of the review( always appreciated by the way) or in my profile. If my review seemed wrong or bias, please note I'm not an professional reviewer, just a teenager who is stating his thoughts on the game. 

1. Garbage-(Probably won't ever buy a game that I rate a 1) You should avoid this game at all costs.
2. Awful-(In the same boat as 1) very little good things to be said about a game that gets rated this low.
3. Poor- Too many complaints about the game that makes it unenjoyable. 
4. Bad- Some parts of the game were decent, but there are some significant issues that make it from being better. 
5. Mediocre- an average game, the good and the bad equal the game out to make it average 
6. Okay- Some parts of the game are enjoyable, but some problems keep it from being better 
7. Good- A decent game from beginning to end, some issues here and there, but still good 
8. Great- A game that I found to be quite enjoyable. There may be something that I thought could have been better, but it's still a great game nonetheless.
9. Amazing- A game that I thought, is an incredible game that everyone should give a try.  I got a lot of fun out of a game that gets rated this high. 
10. Masterpiece- A game that is probably one of the best in the industry at the time. A game that I thought had no problems at all, or that the good overrated the bad to an incredible amount . 

Incoming reviews:  

• Code of Princess

Herded reviews:

• Resident Evil Revelations
• Kid Icarus: Uprising
• Mario Tennis Open
• Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
  

Incoming blogs: 

• Done with your game already?
• Should Kingdom Hearts continue after Kingdom Hearts 3?
• Why there should be another Thrillville game 
• What needs be in the next Star Fox game  

Herded blogs:

• The 3DS: One year later
• What needs to be in Dragon's Dogma 2
• Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate FAQ
  

Monster of the week

Monsters is a common sight when playing video games. Whether it's the iconic Goomba from Super Mario Bros., or a Reaper from Mass Effect, you should know your monsters and be ready to fight them with all your might! 

Every Tuesday a new monster will be uploaded to this page with some background info and strategy on how to defeat it. All enemies are accepted, but bosses or any enemy that has some spoilers will not be included.

All MOTW suggestions are appreciated and will be used

I do not take credit for the image above

Nibelsnarf

(Monster Hunter series)

    A  large desert Leviathan that can burrow underground and ambush prey. It uses it's huge mouth to attack and eat prey. Hunters can place bombs to let Nibelsnarf eat and then explode in it's mouth. You can then fish out the monster out of the sand. They are very weak to ice and thunder elements.