"The guardian knight of peace in the Kingdom has returned" "Anyways, here is another quest for you where you have to kill him, this time in Hazard edition"
What I love from recent monhun series is certain Elder Dragons, like Nergigante and Malzeno are by no means evil. Instead they act as the protector of balance in nature.
Now imagine a buddy cop movie with Malzeno and Nergigante, where the former is the well kept professional whilst the latter has absolute crackhead energy
There are very few, if any monsters that are "evil", just as there are few, if any that are truly "good". They are, at the end of the day, animals. Perhaps some of the more powerful elders like Amatsu and Fatalis are capable of sapient thought. We know that at least the Serpents (Narwa and Ibushi) can think in full sentences. But Primordial Malzeno is just guarding its territory, which happens to coincide with the area around the Citadel. Perhaps it regarded the humans of the Citadel as not being a threat, so it left them alone. It also kept rejecting the Qurio because they are ultimately parasites. What makes me curious is why the Qurio were so intent on making Primordial Malzeno their host.
Yeah except nergigante’s characterization is unbelievable, way too far-reaching in terms of area it observed, and comes out of nowhere in what’s practically a retcon, while Malzeno has a much more familiar “dragon guardian of a small location of people” energy.
Aucun monstre n’est mauvais, même l’ennemi ultime Fatalis agit contre l’humanité parce qu’il a « torturé », exploité et tué les anciens dragons. Doom a la capacité de ressentir la souffrance des autres dragons et a mis fin à l’ancienne civilisation pour cette raison. Les seuls qui ont eu des actes « méchants » sont les chasseurs
Primordial Malzeno is such an interesting beast. His scales, a suit of armor His tail, spear His wings, shields His wing talons, swords and blades Truly a paladin knight within the scales of a dragon.
@@quack-tastictictac1630 I think that too im sure they are good guys but man the fandom really is cringe. The way they comment as if they are making a poem about a monster. Thats just cringe
I do love that contrary to how many elder’s act, Malzeno is one of the few who is actually a protector. His scales looking like a knight’s armor is perfect, and his contrast from the Dracula inspired Quirio afflicted Malzeno is a great omage to a lot of interpretations of Dracula’s origin
I love how much intelligence they're giving the elders in recent games. Specifically in Rise with Narwa and ibushi being quite intelligent (albeit full of malice). When Primal stares at the hunter you can see its intelligence; with it spreading its wings as some kind of sign of respect. Love it
The wing spread also may be a way of showing some trust. Outside part of wings have scales which can even block qurios and be used as a shield and blade, but inner parts should be soft and vulnerable, like cat's bellies, so exposing your only weakness is a very risky move for Malzeno
i love the contrast between rise and world. the final in world is a destroyer that needs to be stopped and the final in rise is a protector that needs to be saved
After seeing Fiorayne and the Hunter aid it in fending off the Qurio, Malzeno understood that the humans meant no harm. Malzeno may be the first Elder Dragon (outside of Stories) to form a mutual understanding with humanity.
What about inagami in Frontier? I mean, things did happen and it ended up mad at humanity, but they did have some sort of mutual understanding at first.
The first is actually Ceadeus. All the tremors it caused in Moga Village is actually an attempt to break its evergrowing horns. We helped it do its job and then it swam away peacefully.
I just wanna point out how we fight off Qurio swarms with Malzeno for an 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 This is especially so given the Citadel lighting flips from the fortress' right to its left (Facing the main entrance into the place). We fight them off from sundown to sunrise... Quite funky
We already knew that Malzeno wasn't malicious outside of the influence of the Qurio, but getting this first-hand confirmation is so satisfying. People have pointed out that Malzeno's theme has this tragic feel to it and now we can say pretty confidently that that was intentional.
I do wish they added more of a gameplay mechanic to helping malzeno kill the qurios? Capcom can reuse the qurio ball assets that gaismagorm use to represent the qurio attacking malzeno.
Primordial's outbursts in his third phase are just that though. It was trying to expel the Qurio and their foreign energy from its body. We're supposed to be collateral damage during these specific attacks (even if gameplay wise it does target us).
this is probably one of the best cinematic in sunbreak. its… i can’t even put words together how AMAZING this cutscene is. i’m not gonna lie, when fio started crying, i started crying. this game is a little too close to my heart
A knight was saved from becoming a bloodthirsty vampire. Malzeno staring at the hunters felt like it was saying, “thank you, brave human warriors” before flying away into the sunset
This is the best possible ending for the 5th gen The whole theme of this gen was that killing everything at sight without the proper research has serious consequences like how killing malzeno only helped gaismagorm or killing ruiner nergi allowed shara isvalda to come out safely or killing velkhana accomplished nothing and was just a waste of recourses that could be directed to fighting shara... So finishing this gen by helping a monster instead and the monster actually thanking you and then leaving "that is implied to result in it going out and probably fighting more curio" is the best possible ending we could have gotten
My favorite part about this cutscene is when you see it for the first time, the malzeno has all the broken parts from when you just fought it. My friend who I was playing with first pointed it out to me when he said the tail was still cut
2:03 Some say, if you listen real closely You could catch a glimpse of the ages past, when people used to be able to talk to dragons as per the monhun lore anyway
Malzeno is such an peak in terms of design. A vampire noble in its standard form when it's infected by Qurio, and a noble knight in its primal, uncorrupted form. I personally love Shagaru Magala and Nergigante, but in terms of design, I really have to give it to Malzeno
also I'd like to point out that this cutscene actually shows the part break damage done to it beforehand (I assume it doesn't do so in the Gallery though)
@@90210FR this video didn't, but in the actual quest it does, everything to horn breaks to tail cuts In the gallery it shows an undamaged Primordial Malzeno
Malzeno wasn't evil all along. We save this certain one from the Qurio's corruption, which formerly turned individuals of the species into what we know as a "normal" Malzeno (could be considered as a risen elder now that I think about it) and lead to the Kingdom's destruction 50 years ago. We've now slayed these remnants of the Qurio and saved a piece of this species, if not the whole, from becoming the monster we knew before. A very poetic end to Elgado's story. We saved a paladin knight from the archdemon's plague.
Bro this is why monster hunter is such a great franchise, the many stories, the characters (wyveria, human, even the monsters) all have such an important role and even if this series has had its up and downs, mostly ups, it will always be an incredible series, and as many have said, seeing Malzeno free and returning as a true guardian of peace and flying into the sunset, just wow
In a way, we saved a mighty Paladin from the temptations of the devil, being Gaismagorm and the Quirio. Godspeed Primordial Malzeno, may your tales of us reach the hearts and minds of other monsters...
@@90210FR Stfu you both I've seen you comment nothing but negative interaction just to shat on players having fun Go and touch grass and let people enjoy what they enjoy Timmy
So instead defeat the all mighty dragon, we save him from corruption, glad to know, i haven't played mhr sunbreak but this is a good ending, i only played mhw so this might be my next adventure.
I was kinda late, but 3 months ago, I started to play MHW.. and I got really curious with MH Sunbreak, so I played it too..well oh well, I never looked back. I mean, MH Sunbreak's biggest positive is the combat mechanics.. When I go back to MHW everything is slow. 😅 But, MHW has the best story.
@@godofredo0409 yeah i have watched some gameplays and that makes me hesistate to play sunbreak, fast mechanics cool moves but i will give a try in near future, i hope next game will combine the visual of MHW and combat mechanics of MHR sunbreak so we can have one more great monster hunter game.
@@ThuanNguyen26090 yes ,mh rise/sunbreak is fast paced. It is almost made for only combat.. MHW is more a true "Hunting" because MHW lets you interract with the environment and MHW has a great story/plot. I never care about visuals when it comes to gaming.. The only thing I hate about MHW is the clutch claw.
You know what’s funny? In almost every MH game the big threat is a large monster, but in this game the big threat, and not just of this game but lorewise one of the largest threats the entire MH world has ever faced, comes from one of the smallest creatures; the Qurio.
The Qurio are bad enough, but there's also the Qurio Virus, the pathogen that the parasites carry in their saliva and guts. That's what ultimately kills most of their victims.
This is honestly makes me love the franchise even more. A lot people say that monster hunter is about saving nature from its self but in actuality nature is fine ether way. It’s honestly more about the humans and their understanding of the creatures they live alongside with, which can apply to us in the real world. By grossly exaggerating the presents of an elder or monster of high risk the guild and mpcs always assume “yep that monster is the issue, kill it” and melzeno is a perfect example of this. Melzeno if anything was keeping the citadel and the ecosystem in check, only with its death the citadel turns into a lifeless graveyard. The guild just assumes and then has to face the consequences later when a crap ton of Qurio are released and are free to drain everything. This also applies to our world, when a key stone species is taken out of an environment very notable effects happen to the environment. Sharks are a good example of this, despite being called man eaters by the internet and killed for their fins they keep check of the fish and other prey items that feast on the sea grass, when sharks are taken out the prey then will continue to consume the sea grass which then doesn’t allow the grass to grow back and thus leads to ecological collapse. Heck even with things like the rampage only effect humans because they put their village right in front of the red stronghold or etc and then they blame magnamalo. When in actuality they just settled in a bad spot, it’s like set camp in flood plain and then blaming nature because you don’t understand it. Sorrow for the long essay,, just something that came into mind.
@@lztallxoshi2383 they do. But sometimes the Guild misunderstood a situation. Like when they hunted down a Lagiacrus but it turns out that Ceadeus was the one causing the problems.
The Guild has been pretty fishy in recent games anyway, so I'm guessing that's the story they're building up. From the disappearance of Alatreon records to Malzeno's missing history, there's a bunch of things going on up there.
From what I remember one of the big themes is maintaining a balance with nature. While most of the normal quest descriptions don’t reflect that to often when it comes to big threats that can shake that balance is when you actually get to see how hunters help in keeping the ecosystem together.
When you’ve notice that a original Malzeno looks pretty frail and skinny, and the Primordial looks like it’s eaten, and has body weight. Tells you that the flying leaches are just pest/ parasites.
I love how Primordial becomes one of the top tier elder dragons, not by some gimmicky element or special power, but by simply brute forcing his way to the top with physical power and skill like Nergigante. Pure badass.
I think it's a bummer the "let's kill the qurio and save Malzeno !" part wasn't actually playable, I was so ready to play but eh, it's still a very nice and satisfying ending !
During the end cut scene, it's like it was saying "thanks" to them for saving it from the control of the quero, I look forward to saving it in my go around
so it's true then, Malzeno without quiros he's like an angel watching all over the kingdom until the quiros corrupt him. we actually need more MH that the quest is not to slay but save a monster or fight with monster just like Leshen in world where pukei fights with geralt.
Malzeno still seems to be a protector even with the corruption of the Qurio, he alone(till we killed him) put the burden of keeping the qurio to himself to starve the final boss to prevent him from rising and destroying everything. The kingdom thought he was the one to destroy everything due to his activity, but truly, he was the one keeping the qurio and Gais in check
@redragon8551 that's exactly why I love the ending so much, I realized he's a misunderstood hero from the main quest, we finally get a redemption for him.
Why do I get the feeling that in either MH6 or the eventual MH7 that we are gonna have someone on our side that's a rider, and we can do quests for him to help him get eggs so the monster he rides changes? Or maybe we can somehow end up with gameplay of base monster hunter, but when we do enough damage with our monstie we can hop on and fight the monster that way?
A little fun fact about this cutscene is whatever broken parts Primordial Malzeno sustained during its fight against you in this specific quest, will show up in this cutscene, like the chipped off horn from breaking its face and a missing tail spike from cutting its tail are very noticeable. Watching the cutscene via the gallery again will only show the version that has no broken parts.
the ending where malzeno flew off into the distance with its theme sounding more somber and somewhat heroic without the choirs gives that feeling of Frisson i needed to end this monster hunter entry. Bravo capcom
Sees how Malzeno attacked the innocent and lay waste to an entire kingdom after his futile effort to defend it from a greater evil: eh no, we just lacked the greater imagine, it’s not like we can read the thing’s mind to understand what is actually happening, we still managed to slay Gaismagorm so, no, we aren’t the bad guys.. I still don’t get why so many people try to paint this bad image to the hunters honestly
Monster hunter is probably the only game where monsters your actively trying to kill has got some tragic backstory Malzeno was like a knight, a guardian of the kingdom, he protected it from gaismagorm and successfully did, but in a process got corrupted and in doing so destroyed the kingdom it protects and the person it protected was now killing him because of misunderstanding
Primordial Malzeno’s my favorite monster of all time! Not only is it a spectacular fights, it’s also the Nergigante of Rise Sunbreak. Because they serve as a part of nature’s balance mechanism.
I really love monster hunter, and in recent years, it has become a better mirror for nature. It's not a game where you poach innocent creatures. it's where you protect the balance of nature by saving the needy and slaying the root of destruction to save the world
I love how knightly Primalzeno looks compared to "normal" Malzeno, the contrast between the two is so beautiful 5th Gen monster designs in general have gone so hard, Shara, Gaisma, Zorah, and Bazel all come to mind.
Vlad III, aka Vlad the Impaler. Legend tells about his brutality towards anyone who dared to challenge him. In history, he was a revered military commander, and in the 2014 film Dracula Untold, he was a father (portrayed by Luke Evans) who fought to save his son. Indeed, Dracula means "the son of a dragon", and that dragon must be the Primordial Malzeno.
Im being honest the ending of sunbreak is better than iceborne,imagine defeating a black dragon and didnt get any special cutscene.But in sunbreak they fixed it
Really wish there was an ending where primordial malzeno Flyed with you and fuain back to elgado and made A truce to when elgado and kumura is under threat he will come to their aid. That would be a much better ending but i am good with the current ending
