Monster Hunter 2

Monster Hunter 2 is the sequel of Monster Hunter. It was only released in Japan because the Monster Hunter series had only a small cult following elsewhere in the world, while being huge in japan. New features include day and night changes, seasons, new monsters, new weapon categories & weapons. The new features now carried over to it's american portable installment & some leftovers of MH2 is carried to MHF2's english expansion. It's Flagship monster is currently Kushala Daora

New Features

 * Able to use items while SNS and DS are unsheathed.
 * Several combinations for the same combination result.
 * Some online items and ores from mh1 are offline in mh2.
 * New Village(Jumbo Village)
 * New Town(Dondruma Town)
 * New Shops(such as the Combining shop, etc.)
 * Able to Mine at the cave by giving the miner Pickaxes
 * Minigames are added exclusively to the MH2 Village(Arm wrestling and Drinking)
 * New Day and Night settings that affect areas during a quest(such as raining in the jungle, acid water on the swamp, etc.)
 * New Pause system
 * Able to combine even with 3 items
 * New Training school exclusive to the MH2 village(since in MH1G)
 * New weapon upgrades and Category
 * New Improve Armor system with a utility for monster materials, ores and bugs for improvement
 * 1st Generation areas are now re-newed into 2nd Generation variants
 * Additional areas are added(1st Tower, 2nd Tower and the Town area)
 * New Offline/Online Monsters
 * Secondary objectives to quests

Release
Monster Hunter 2 did not see a North American release. However, Monster Hunter Freedom 2, a similar game for the PSP, was able to make it to American shores.