Took me two years to actually get around to finishing this despite loving MH and vastly preferring the old style they used here to World's vibe.
This game makes me sad.
You can stop reading here. That's the "review."
It brought back everything I liked about MH pre-World, while keeping all the good QoL from World, and adding a few new things for good measure. But the experience just feels so off.
Movement's better, everything is faster, but the maps are worse. They look better and more distinct, but the level design for some areas is incomprehensibly bad, because they overshot the verticality. This hurts me because my favorite thing about 4U was the verticality.
Combat is more fluid, but wirebugs are annoying. They're still better than the Clutch Claw spam of lategame World/Iceborne but spidermanning around lost its appeal very fast for me, other than getting right back to it after being knocked away.
Rampages suck. Rampages SUCK. The devs agree and it will never come back, and for that I am thankful. No more time will be spent talking about it.
Menu management is probably the worst it's been. There's about as much stuff to keep track of as XX, but the menus are spread all over the place. The delay between menus/traversing areas drives me insane. All the hoops I have to jump through to get a simple thing done drive me insane. Even the Gathering Hub isn't safe from having its menus all over the place and being a hassle to just make a proper lobby.
I was so excited that Village Quests are back, and they do absolutely nothing with it. You get one piss easy fight and the credits roll instantly, then they send you to the hub. I thought of every other MH doing this better and went to sleep early out of disappointment. Reportedly Sunbreak does this a lot better, but I'm still mustering the courage to start it after wrapping up Hub Quests.
They brought back the amazing armor/weapon designs every game except World had, and I'm very thankful for that. I just wish they had made it less of a chore to get through the game and actually get those.
I bought this at half off and I still feel like I got scammed.
Maybe Sunbreak will deliver.
This game makes me sad.
You can stop reading here. That's the "review."
It brought back everything I liked about MH pre-World, while keeping all the good QoL from World, and adding a few new things for good measure. But the experience just feels so off.
Movement's better, everything is faster, but the maps are worse. They look better and more distinct, but the level design for some areas is incomprehensibly bad, because they overshot the verticality. This hurts me because my favorite thing about 4U was the verticality.
Combat is more fluid, but wirebugs are annoying. They're still better than the Clutch Claw spam of lategame World/Iceborne but spidermanning around lost its appeal very fast for me, other than getting right back to it after being knocked away.
Rampages suck. Rampages SUCK. The devs agree and it will never come back, and for that I am thankful. No more time will be spent talking about it.
Menu management is probably the worst it's been. There's about as much stuff to keep track of as XX, but the menus are spread all over the place. The delay between menus/traversing areas drives me insane. All the hoops I have to jump through to get a simple thing done drive me insane. Even the Gathering Hub isn't safe from having its menus all over the place and being a hassle to just make a proper lobby.
I was so excited that Village Quests are back, and they do absolutely nothing with it. You get one piss easy fight and the credits roll instantly, then they send you to the hub. I thought of every other MH doing this better and went to sleep early out of disappointment. Reportedly Sunbreak does this a lot better, but I'm still mustering the courage to start it after wrapping up Hub Quests.
They brought back the amazing armor/weapon designs every game except World had, and I'm very thankful for that. I just wish they had made it less of a chore to get through the game and actually get those.
I bought this at half off and I still feel like I got scammed.
Maybe Sunbreak will deliver.