Very good expansion, a lot of new moves and some really cool fights, a shame that it adds a small amount to the cast (really the lack of deviljhos is really strange) and part of that amount is fucking magma almudron. That piece of shit can go suck a dick or two.

The Apex monsters are completely out. The system was really badly implemented in base rise but it's still a weird decision, it was a bummer losing some of them. I don't know how they will substitute them. (EDIT 2: uhh well..)

The endgame is certainly decent (EDIT 2: fucking no KEKW), at least it's not as bad as rise's (it didn't even have one), but it's at the early game that you notice how small the new roster is. The majority of key quests are base game monsters, and some of them are even more annoying, like arzuros.

The lack of detail still hurts, the world just isn't the same as world's (HAHA GET IT "WORLD" I'M SO FUCKING FUNNY), I guess we can blame the switch for this. On top of that, I still don't like the wyvern ride mechanic, every monster encounter outside of the quest target's is scripted to a fault, leading to monsters like bazelgeuse losing all their personality. The monsters' AI is terrible, it's always enraged (it's even worse with the afflicted, god bless that PoS of an endgame), the input reading system is still a bitch to charge blade players (among a series of problems that plagues CB in this game), rathian's tail flip still poisons you even with a cut tail, khezu hasn't been deleted from the game, almudron still sucks, a lot of things from rise that could have been changed in sunbreak. At least they improved the wall running.

I complained for the majority of this review but I end up having fun playing this damned game. I just hope that the title updates add a shit ton of monsters and cool events. (EDIT 2: hahhahahahHAAHAHAHAHA)

Edit 1: The near genshin level of RNG that the armor augmenting system will bring in the first title update might make me lower this game's score actually

Edit 2: They're pushing the paid dlc way too hard, time to lower the score

Edit 3: Now that we know all the game's monsters, I can say that the roster is excellent, but the power creep is terrible and the monsters spend more time enraged than non-enraged

Reviewed on Aug 08, 2022


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