I joined the MH community on Word Iceborne, even when I encountered Fatalis for the first time not knowing any of his lore, his very presence was truly terrifying, a fear only strengthened when I began to dig deeper into his story. Admittedly I did underestimate him because of his stereotypical design at first thinking "This guy's so basic compared to everything I've fought so far." But what honestly frightened me most was his armor, the concept of his continued existence through possessing a hunter through the armor and becoming Fatalis was truly a frightening concept. Amazing dragon, amazing design, amazing lore. <3 100/10
Disagree with a fair few points of your review although a few of them are due to ignorance. So there's multiple paths and ways to complete missions sometimes hidden within the levels themselves or unlocked via having multiple players in the game (alternate intro mission with 3+ players in your game for example) theres a boss rush gauntlet like the first game encouraging a lot of replayability, and there's multiple pathways in the final mission with multiple factions and different variations of akrid. Not to mention the absolute multitude of VS's and weapons. The vagabundos for example have their own stage in the final over G level, femme fatales too. No hate intended at I love lost planet 2 to this day
4:20 A little problem with this analysis is that that "Extra fantasy" aspect doesn't just apply to Xeno'jiva but to all Elders in general, while most regular monsters try to have some in-game biological explanation to them, Elder are meant to be a "It just existe duh" feeling to them. Stated by Capcom in their 15th Anniversary Book
Regarding Sam losing his sword. I think it's worth noting that Sam tells Raiden "you deny your weapon its purpose", while he himself doesn't have any higher purpose. It's as if he is fighting because "that's what weapons are for". Give him a shovel, and he'd dig a sick fucking hole. Give him an axe, and he'd chop down every tree in sight. He fights because that's what he's "supposed to" do. Raiden has a goal, but isn't willing to fight. Sam is willing to fight, but doesn't have a goal.
2024 here. To be fair, Dungeons and Dragons started the system were two legs were a wyvern and four a dragon. Thanks to them have that. Chinese Dragon are more snake like and are still dragons.
My leading theory is that Xeno’jiiva was hatched way too early, so the form we could be seeing is a fetus, not fully developed or grown, and Safi is what it was supposed to hatch in, or a small Safi with little control over its energy or little power, the reason we see Xeno hatch and use a bunch of destructive energy is because of the amounts of bio energy it absorbed, causing it to overload
Evolution is not specialization its mutation and the ones with favorable mutations thrive and survive and reproduce, this makes creatures that do not fit their environment either pitiful or, in the case of fatalis, horrifying. This is something that monster hunter does think of the reasons for the niche, fatalis never needed a reason to thrive, it is danger and fire and that alone is the reason it is still around in that form, because the no mutation mattered to the lifeform.
If they ever bring her back they need to make them back at least a 10 or 100 times bigger like the Zora Magaros fight just to make it a better fight with more cinematic fight.
Nobody mentioning the fun fact its a female mantis bug and usualy their the most agresive compared to their male counterparts so in turn your seeing a intelectual assasin to me the bigest fear is she on her own can be a threat without the need of the mech even crazy is she can do it with anything in nature so imagine the endless posibility she can fight and variants
I think if even a dummy like me got the message then the game did a good job I think it's important to specify it's the hubris of humans putting themselves above the nature and not just a part of it is the message Shara and Nergi send at the end and I honestly love it. Game's story is flawed, but it is a good story in my book, just because of the themes it touches
Sadly not even part of the dev team were told that this was important to the game, since they dont have subs for the music, so non english speakers will understand the dialogues but not the music.
My Monster Hunter moment was in my first game of this series, which was World Iceborne. It was my first Anjanath hunt, which I was already having a blast with. But he runs away at about five to ten minutes into the hunt. He ran upwards towards the spot where you meet Tobi Kadachi, little did I know that a Rathalos would swoop in, grab the Anjanath and throw it off the nearest cliff. That's when I knew I would keep playing Monster Hunter
The only one ive played/playing is iceborne. First nemisis was Anjanath i got 1 shot sooo many times. However my ultinate nemisis waa raging brachy. I didnt understand how to beat it and ended up not playing the game for over a year. I came back and after a while tried again. 3.5 hours later i finally get the kill. It was the most satisying experiences, my adrenaline was through the roof
I hope wirebugs, wyvern riding, and Ahtal-Ka all return in a game together someday just because I want to fight Neset using wyvern ride. Like you still have to climb on it and destroy some of the webbing and cocoons, but you can finish it off with a mounted punisher.
wasn't the reason fatalis came to ether exist or despise humans, and wipe humanity back to the stone age, because the fallen ancient kingdom got so technologically advanced they hunted multiple elder dragon species to near extinction, to make an oversized mech-like automaton monster abomination of their own, simply refured to in lore as the "Ancient Weapon"? because that might be the reason why hunting technology doesn't go beyond Blade, bow, and gun based highbred weapons
for most of the boss fights in mgr, the music has no lyrics when the boss is holding back. for example, the lyrics for mistral's fight only come in at the 3rd phase, and the lyrics for sams fight briefly stop when he loses his sword because he chooses to fight barehanded for a while.
