This is probably the most authentic "old Monster Hunter" feel you can get, without diving into the archaic feel of something like Freedom Unite. If you want a good MH game, this is a good one to start with, and if you're not huge into the water fights, Portable 3rd takes those out. Just a good game to play if you want that Monster Hunter experience.

This is a different MH game than the rest of the series before it. Lots of changes to the fundamentals of weapons and combat (especially in Iceborne) make this entry feel alien to older players, but it's the one I started with and still play occasionally.

It's fine. I might come back to it at some point but my main problem with this game was the dialogue was all over the place in terms of tone. It's goofy one moment and then some serious shit happens and it's like, okay?
I was also really easily able to break the game's combat by stacking a thorns effect to like 400% and just smiting anything that dared touch me.

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Vanilla P5 was the first Persona game I ever saw, and that introduced me to this series. Persona 5 has a lot of the same cringy flaws that Golden has, especially with the dialogue, but the Royal story is some of the best content the series has had to offer since Innocent Sin.

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Say what you want about this game and 5, but I really think this is where the series started to take a nosedive. It's just shitty teenagers being shitty for 90% of the game and then tries to be dark at the end when the entire mood for the game up until that point has been the equivalent of a lackadaisical Saturday morning cartoon. This is Persona at its worst.

Despite how edgy the story is and despite how you can't control your party members, I had a good time with it.

A letdown compared to Innocent Sin. It's decent and is mandatory to complete Persona 2 but not nearly as good as its counterpart.

Goddamn masterpiece of the Persona series. No other game in the series gets even close to as good as the story of this game. The encounter rate is a little ridiculous but the story is fucking stellar.

Like the original but with some changes to the combat and lots of cringy dialogue. It was painful to get as far as I did. Not completed but never touching it again.

Neat little game where you play both a team of adventurers and the dungeon master. Not super DLC heavy like other Paradox titles.

The HD mod does this game a massive service and is how everyone should play it. Besides that, just a good hack and slash from the 90s.

It was a fine experience. I expected more from it. I enjoyed playing it but I remember feeling really let down near the end of the game.

2018

Amazing modern shooter with all the good parts of 90s shooters infused into it. Very much recommend trying it out.