monster hunter kinda STRESSES me OUT. I’ve never had a game that so thoroughly just… tested me and my patience levels. It’s just… It doesn’t help that my Other Game Instincts keep kicking in and making me forget the button layout. I was carrying a reeeeally breakable egg, and I had to carry it through three zones without taking a hit or doing anything other than walk (or run, but if you ran out of stamina you’d drop the egg.) The key to sprint in Monster Hunter Gen is L and the key to dodge roll is B, but my stupid ass kept going “B IS TO RUN” and I kept dodge rolling with the HIGHLY BREAKABLE EGG and smashing it to fuck. I kept doing it in the same spot, like that bit of zone 3 was just making me lose my goddamn mind. I literally had to resort to using mindfulness and keeping my hand behind the DS to push L when appropriate instead of wrapping it around. After that, they handed me a trainee quest that was just “YO GO KILL THIS STUPID BOSS MONSTER” so I did. They instructed me, oh, if you press X while jumping off a ledge you’ll perform a mounting attack and you can down the monster. I tried it. Either it is INCREDIBLY HARD to pull off, or I am way too dumb because I kept TRYING and the THING WOULDN’T DO IT ARGH. I kept lining the monster up with the ledge, waiting for it to charge/come closer and it was just… Never Quite Right and I got battered to shit. I had to resort to brute force.