I love how it starts brutally burning everything in sight until the whole Secluded Valley is on fire and then it turns to the hunters like "Ok, where were we?"
And since the Research Commission had previously killed Safi'jiiva during its Siege, it settled for destroying what was left. Good thing, too, because it made sure to thoroughly destroy those cocoons to prevent any other Xeno'jiiva from developing.
Notice it how it seemingly purposefully avoids burning the hunters while burning down the secluded valley it then focuses on the hunters looking at them for a minute then decides to declare attack. it shows intellect a lot of it. That first fire blast at them before it started burning down the secluded valley seemed like a go away blast if anything
@@eawavy2316 I think quite a few of the elder dragons are remarkably intelligent black dragons even more so. Another 2 examples of high intellect is shagaru magala in both it's rise and 4u cutscene in it's rise cutscene it seems to purposefully use one monster to beat up another while in 4u it looks at the player for a long while circling it a bit seemingly recognising you from when it was a gore showing off a bit afterwords, even as a gore it has shown a lot of tactics and knows exactly how it's virus works. And Fatalis, Fatalis lorewise has been known to melt humans and their armour to toughen his hide even more on top of that it mocks humans by walking upright mockery is a high sign of extreme intelligence.
My favourite part of these cutscenes is how despite how ferocious and epic the monster looks, they are about go get beaten to death by some idiot wearing a hawaiian shirt, a jester hat and their pet cat.
To quote RageGamingVideos: "Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the FUCK-OFF BLACK AVATAR DRAGON ATTACKED AND KILLED EVERYONE!"
2 solid hours of attempts, 560hours of MHWI, full dragon attack augmented armour and weapons, not ONCE has a party I’ve hunted with survived his first explosion
Well you first have to deal enough element damage, so his ultimate attack does not kill you, during the first phase. After Alatreon switches to dragon element his horn becomes breakable. Now you break his horn once so Alatreon switches back to the starting element and not the opposite element after unleashing the ultimate attack. Now you repeat this.
We now have some more terrifying context for this cutscene, thanks to the newly-released encyclopedia. I'm extrapolating from translations though, so I could be off the mark. If you look closely at the frozen environment, you'll notice that parts of it resemble the cocoon that Xeno'jiiva hatched from. This is because *that is exactly what they are.* The Secluded Valley is Safi'jiiva's *nest,* and Alatreon just razed it to the ground, which is why it showed up in the first place - it didn't flee from Fatalis after all. In fact, Safi was apparently the trigger for Fatalis's awakening, though it's hard to say when exactly this started.
@Specter Prime Given how rare Alatreon itself is, this is a battle that has likely culled both species numbers down significantly from their original populations. I imagine a lot of ruins and ecosystems that show signs of prior immense destruction may well have been sites of members of both species taking cracks at each other and causing massive collateral damage.
@LadyKatsuyu-kv8eo Whoa whoa whoa..... Is this divebook something canon to the game? If that so, does that means there are *two* Alatreon(s) all this time???
@@gojigiante Ibushi and Narwa are just trying to make the world safer for their offspring, I believe. That's why they want to trash it before Narwa slaps some eggs down
Alatreon keeps shifting elements and when it gets to a point where it can't "contain" them, it just kinda explodes with that energy. In the game we can see it in the form of it's Escaton Judgement attack, after which it then shifts to a different element yet again. I probably got some of that wrong, but that's the basic idea. In the context of the cinematic, it just looked really cool :D
I think MHWI's Alatreon may be older and more powerful than Tri's and Gen/GenU's Alatreon. Why? 1. Iceborne's Alatreon truly has mastery over all elements. The old gen Alatreon had mastery over only four, the exception being Water, and was even equally vulnerable to Water in either of its two states...not as much as Dragon when in Ice/Thunder or Ice when in Fire/Dragon, but it was second best for both forms. Iceborne's can even use Water! 2. He seems more elementally stable in Iceborne. Old gen Alatreon would change elements at random, as if it couldn't fully control its power, and was limited to the elements for its specific mode. Iceborne's Alatreon only switches weaknesses after an Eschaton (if at all), and can use all elements regardless of whether it's Fire or Ice-active. 3. Eschaton Judgment. This essentially forces anyone who dares challenge 5th gen Alatreon to go in with an elemental weapon. Old gen Alatreon had nothing like this, and could be safely challenged with just raw damage without fear of a guaranteed cart.
