User blog comment:Virjule/MHP3rd coming on PSP2 "NGP"/@comment-1685631-20110127144015/@comment-1955829-20110127184850

If you can't wait for P3rd, try to import the game. Believe me, except for gathering quests in which you should have some problems to get the items (mushrooms, wood, etc.) so you will have to refer to this wiki, you shouldn't have any problem with the language (after all MH isn't a "literary" game with plenty amount of cutscenes and dialogues or even a developed scenario). You don't even have to learn the ecriture system, because the game always uses the same expressions.

For example monster carves are always compounded of 3 signs which designate the monster (恐暴竜 for Deviljho, 雷狼竜 for Jinouga, :峯山龍 for Jhen etc.), then the の for the linking between words, then another expression which designates the part of the monster's body (like 尻尾 for tail, 宝玉 for gem, 鉤爪 for claw, 黒鱗 for scale, etc.). So once you got it's quite simple. Furthermore the ingame icons helps a lot, and even more since there are now different icons for both carapace and any other "body" part (tail, spike, etc.).

Of course the game is a bit expensive to import (as a european gamer I payed 5 ou 10 € more than I should at the european release) but it's not that hard to play it in Japanese. And you got translate tabs on the internet so it's somewhat easy ...