Randy_RedGuard

Randy_RedGuard

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Re: Soapbox: Monster Hunter Rise Is The Perfect Hybrid Game

Randy_RedGuard

My Monster Hunter Rise Review/Rant from someone who has played MH3U-Rise (My Play through was 51hrs, Bow)

I really good game for the first 50 hours some of the most I have had recently. Once you beat the last urgent quest the game just stops suddenly. I don't care for the stories in MH except MH4U (The best MH in my opinion) but when the game sets up the concept of we got get the elders but then just no more new quests ruined the whole flow of the game.

Not much of a grind. I grinded the 2 elder dragon sets and got the best weapons for the bow, don't see any other reason to play anymore. I loved grinding different sets in MHGU but in Rise I just thought "I can just wait till the Zinogre quest to get the best defense and skills" or "Wait till I get the next HR and get the same set I have now". I also found that you need lots of money in this game if you want to make lots of different gear or upgrade old sets and the game just doesn't provide it unless you just farm the elders and sell every material you get from them.

The rampage, fun concept and good execution. I had a lot of fun with this mode... for the first 10 times. It starts to get stale once you know how to counter each type and where to best put the placements. With some rampages having apex monsters which is just the same monster but now it has inta kill moves and is darker and you just kill them with a spam of the splitting wyvern shots. Is basically like hyper monsters in MHGU but they don't get there own unique sets for some reason?

Love the hunting horn rework but will miss the old days of having a HH join my lobby and think "Oh boy can't wait to see what this guy can do!". It used to be such a thrill to have one join because some HH mains were gods at them and could do some crazy things. Now its just go to head hit A, B, A+B, finale and repeat. I'm happy it does more damage and has much more appreciation and player base but, now its just a shell of its former self for better or worse.

The game was too easy. I think I only died at least 5-15 times max progressing in the game and most of them from transition from low to high rank because your armor just becomes paper. After I beat magnamalo on my first try in game after the demo I knew what I was in for. I wished the game was a little harder not even the elders were hard (besides some of the insta kill tail flips or lasers) when one you can just spam the splitting wyvern shot and the other just has easy to dodge moves.

Finally, the survival mechanics being removed from the game lost some of its depth from having to go an unknown environment and adapt to it to survive and hunt your prey. Now its just you aren't hot from being in a volcano? I would always forget my hot and cold drinks sometimes but it was my fault so I had to play more carefully knowing that getting hit would get rid of all my red(recoverable) health or that my stamina refills slower so I need to make sure I can still dodge attacks. It can get annoying sometimes and slow down the game but the "complexity" was fun to me.

The game left me wanting more and the game can't deliver in its current state. I will play it again when they finally release more content in April. A solid 7/10 not as good as MHGU (which I have almost 300hrs) but could have been worse.