sorry but I'll have to disagree with this review, it seems like you couldn't even pass the phase 1 of quests in the game, which is categorized by an amount of stars depending on the difficulty, starting with 1 star and ending with 5 stars and extra quests which includes a more wide variety of fights; the 1 star rank quests are about gathering stuff and killing small monsters, but at time you progress, you will stop getting those kind of quests and you will be facing giant monsters... there is a story line, you are a foreigner who came into the village in order to become a monster hunter, and to achieve that objective you have to do a certain amount of quests to help the village, where a mysterious earthquake took place and almost destroyed it, so basically your job is to find out what produced that magnitude, but you can't do that by yourself, so you have to join a guild (which provides the quests) to solve the mystery about the village, and not only that, you also recruit people for your "crew", such us a tribe child who joins your quests and give you support, 3 fishermans who provides resources, a cat chef who provides food for buffs and special bonus for your quests, and more.
the game is good, if you play single player, because its pointless playing online where the game truly turns into a gathering-stuff-retro-alimentary-circle game and has no storyline