Quick little addendum. It was pointed out to me that I missed, I believe two additional April Fools event monsters. That being Kut Ku Rex, a Kut Ku that fights like Tigrex, and a Cingalala that fights like Rajang. These guys weren’t on the wiki and I never saw any mention of them or saw any gameplay online so that’s why there aren’t in here. But they did exist.
Don't know if this helps, would probably be more annoying these didn't pop up in your own search, but I'm pretty sure I found a video made by a Kogath titled Monster Hunter Online - Yian Kut-Rex?! (April Fools 2016). I think there might have been other April Fools variations or something, as I also found with them a two minute 2014 April Fools video that shows a Congalala with it's upper half stuck in the ground releasing what seems like a map-engulfing stink cloud, which after taking a brief beating releases an explosive roar and then Gen 3 Superman flies away. Also found a Cryston's [Monster Hunter Online]:[Dual Blades] - Congala-jang(?) (April Fools Event 2017).
Especially the likes of Velocidrome (the crocodilian scales and scaly spine go _so hard)_ , who on top of that managed to get _his VERY OWN battle theme._ Online was really something else at the time but sadly couldn't last long, what a shame. I do really hope Capcom does care about Estrellian and Merphistophelin at least, and give them new life in the main series, maybe even giving us the former's final stage on top of that. I know it may be asking much but one can for sure dream.
The fact that someone in a design room somewhere suggested "What if Kirin were also a flying cricket?" and not only wasn't immediatly thrown out the nearest window, but also managed to realize that concept spawned directly from the depths of hades as an actually enjoyable thing to fight is nothing short of a miracle.
The fact that someone in a design room suggested "What if Shrouded Nerscylla were also a flying squirrel?" (Viper Tobi Kadachi spawns directly from the depths of hades)
Listening to estrelion made me realise something. There is a possibility that the sunbreak devs brought back the ideas she brought to create Gaismagorm, a possible successor, with the ideas of insects latching to the back of the monster changing its form. So there is a chance estrelion is still with us in some way.
If slicemargle were in a new game, I would want a mechanic where if you kill a popo in the same area he's in, he instantly enrages and the AI prioritizes you even if you're playing with others for a limited time. You're killing his bait and proving yourself as prey the bait is meant for, after all.
24:41 Oh, it’s this one! Probably one of my favourite Online monsters. Extremely sleek design with strong resemblance to something aquatic/lobster-like, but also a brute wyvern. Really unique look + really cool take on Brute Wyverns with large front paws (what we haven’t have besides just Brachydios)
I like this dudes voice and how his opinions on the monsters are very normal instead of "has too many spikes" or "looks stupid". I had fun watching and learned way more about online than i was expecting to
Baelidae is quite literally a species of animal that is called the Crab Spider. They also do have mimicry of large animals similar to the fantastical version we see in MHO. I think he would probably be the common ancestor between the Crabs of Monster Hunter and the Neopteran (I forget what their scientific names are) in the mainline games. That or he is one of them imitating the other.
The idea of Conflagration Rathian being able to set her tail on fire and having stronger fire attacks actually makes sense if this subspecies produces an acidic toxic rather than a simple poison. There are many acids that are extremely volatile when exposed to heat.
Honestly think you undermined Koyaku a bit. Personally I think they look amazing, their moveset looks fun too. The whole fish tail look does biologically make sense as fish are built to be aerodynamic for swimming in water. Koyaku is basically swimming in the air with his steam propulsion. As a bio major I approve. Also gives me seltas queen vibes
Some of what of the monsters remind me of: Slicemargl - Nergigante(Spikes)/Lunagaron(Wolf-like) Estrellian - Malzeno (Butterflies and preference of using tail)
Although I'm not the biggest fan of Flame Blangonga, I find it interesting how it probably inspired Gaismagorm. The animations of him coating his arms and shoving them in the ground to send some rocks flying seem almost completely the same as Gaismagorm's similar ones
I think that for Merphistophelin instead of giving him no wing membrane they could’ve just given him a more transparent wing membrane, so we could still keep the skeletal look and not look as weird
You have a tendency of taking monsters I really disliked or thought didn't fit MH and make me fall in love with them, I can't believe all it took for me to be an avid Estrellian fan was to learn that she was basically a magical girl but monster That's such a cool concept and I can't get over it, she literally transforms midfight too due to her "star butterflies", that's so darn cool!
I honestly like these Monsters a lot better than frontier's (even though I was sold over many of them after your detailed explanations), especially design-wise. It would be a real shame if they don't see the light again, preferably in a mainline, global monster hunter game.
I surely hope that Estrellian would make it to a mainline game and with its adult form in mind.. Even though tencent owns the rights to the monster. Very cool monster
Tartaronis is so ridiculous I can’t help but want it. Also Onimusha is almost really cool, so close. Another banger video. Super excited to see what comes next. I’m along for the ride.
Yeah it's weird that there's two new Shoguns and they both do like, three cool new things, and it makes both of them separate a little lame. Probably should have just made one new Shogun.
This was a blast, hearing your thoughts on Arbiter was what I was really looking forward to.^^ Hope 2024 treats you well and can’t wait to see what's coming next.💖
I genuinely lament the sheer fact we truly may never see monsters like Lightenna, Merphistophelin, and Baelidae due to copyright of all things, imagine the potential that’s been no likely squandered due to the unfortunate circumstances of Online getting shut down. As much as I’d love be wrong, it still seems unlikely. At least this will keep them immortalized rather than forgotten, for what that solace is worth. Online really is a total enigma that I think if I spent more time with, would’ve enjoyed a lot more than just having a more subtle acknowledgment and a deeper understanding, so this helps me know that it was interesting for what it was, and deserves to be respected. Preserving every faucet of Monster Hunter’s history is something we all should strive to do, and pray that Wilds gives us both many new fantastic monsters, and remnants of those who have been left behind. This is a fantastic video Volcanic, I can tell you put a lot of heart and soul into it just as the Frontier series was. I hope this takes off as well.
@@athos9293Yes and no, yes in the form of them being made relatively the same thanks to using those monsters as a base to which they’re technically revived for the modern series, but no in the sense of that idea feeling as though it’d just replace them rather than try to make them be recreated how they are at present. But you are right in saying it could be the next best option if no other choice presents itself viable.
Tartatonis really feels like a flying battleship and that's absolutely fantastic, I wish there was a better way to fight him while he's flying, maybe wirebugs would make the fight better, but I really want there to be a way to board his back and knock him out of the sky with a grappled strike. He's a battleship, why shouldn't we board him like one? also I'd like to see him use his wind abilities to propel himself forward on the ground so he's not just a fish out of water flapping around in the sand.
Absolutely adore both Lightenna, and I think it'd be really nice to expand on the neopteron monster class tbh. All the dinosaur/draconic designs are great, but the more bug inspired ones really offer some variety! On another note, it's so unlikely, but fingers crossed for Estrellian (all/any of them). Them being a "???" monster has so much potential- could even focus a story around them. Sort of like Gore Magala! Not to mention their design being absolutely beautiful to begin with. Totally agree though that if Estrellian were brought back, hopefully they either take the best parts from all three or maybe combine them into a tougher one all around!
fun fact! Onimusha's weapons were generally considered meta raw weapons at the rank you meet him. I never really liked fighting him much though, unless with Sword and Shield's weird backwards flip I-frame attack haha. Also, everything new you saw with Conflagration Rathian is pretty much JUST Conflagration. they were kinda insane. also, Conflagration's lore was that it was a Rathian with a hormone imbalance so it grew Rathalos-like red scales. so.. Intersex rath is interesting!!
As much as I love SuperRAD's retrospectives, I absolutely adore this deep dive on the monsters themselves. 12/10 video you've made here. I'm disappointed in my algorithm for not giving me the frontier videos but I will check them out. I look forward to checking the rest of your videos as well and wish you great luck with your second year goal. Can't wait to see what you put out going forward. Happy hunting, from a new fan.
I always wanted to play the Games that came out in Europe, and its kinda sad that ill never have the Chance again to play that Game with others ^^ But its always in my Memories when i think about the Good old Days where i played Mh the whole day, was searching for things i couldnt find on the internet and watched videos from Frontier, Online, P3rd and unite. Im Happy that so much video Content of it exists :D
Thank you for covering up MHO. ! MHO will be in my heart, in that time when the only PC platform MH are Frontier or just a bunch of emulators, MHO stand out and become a "proper" PC platform MH before MHW come ; KBM Support, item slot MMO style, LV and HR , trading markets for materials, 1 big city for all players hangout (ofcourse the villages too), more than 4 players for siege quest, boat quest for plesioth, etc. Me and some of my friends that time enjoying this game and we still hope, in near future, with Timi Studios collaboration again with Capcom to make MH game, we believe that some of MHO asset will be used and we will see some familiar monsters back from the dead! ofcourse if capcom can bring tencent original monsters to mainlinie that is my hopes too. once again, thank you CR-Volcanic for this video, MHO deserve to remembered by All of MH Fans, and MHO is part of Monster Hunter Franchise too. --Buddy16
Great video. I’m a fan of the Online and the roster ,there’s some missing variants but it’s hard to find footage and you gotta go the extra mile to find the channels will the crazy gameplay but it’s worth it. Small theory I think Estrellian is base on the Zodiac Dragon and the Star Butterflies are the constellation.
Yeah I saw that brought up in the premiere, it sounds like there was a couple April Fools variants that just flew under the radar. Weird that the wiki only caught the Elemental Bulldrome.
One thing I do like is their attempt to make the more 2nd gen or 1gen monster look better and more interesting while also not making them look rediculos, especially with congalala and blangonga i would love to see these sub-species in an actual main-line game with their base forms because both monkeys haven’t seen any action in 5gen hope they come back in wilds.
Bro the variety of monster is insane, this is my biggest gripe with MHW (aside from the barely functional UI). Really hope the Wilds will have similar variety of monster like this and Rise.
Hey! Not so long ago no one would’ve believed what we would ever get a MHFrontier monsters in main series, but here we are! So I’d say you never should lose hope. Besides, I don’t think it is that hard for Capcom to just buy rights for those monsters back, since I don’t really think what Tencent really needs them without MH game to bring them in🤷
Honestly much like with frontier’s monsters( even the over the top monsters), I want to experience all these monsters as well, so I hope that they decide to buy the rights for them one day.
Tartaronis NEEDS a special mounting mechanic where you can get on it's back while it's flying and you need to send it crashing back down. Add that to the fight and it's an instant GOAT.
@@cr-volcanic It's as you said in the video, big monsters can be a little tedious in regards to their fight mechanics, so i always feel like adding raw spectacle to the fight is often the easiest and best fix. And what could be more spectacular than a giant flying sea turtle crashing down to earth and causing a massive dust storm to rise from the sheer impact? (Man that Wilds trailer really got me into sand lol)
I was watching the koyaku charge attack animation and noticed him using his arms to stab into the ground and stop himself. I think it would be sick for him to use his arms to pivot and do a swinging kick or something like that would throw you off, like you think you're safe from behind and then he wheels around to sack you away. Kinda like the singing attack of gonngenn hermitaur but with a bit of fake-out thrown into it.
Know what? With how it looks that we can change more easily between weapons in wilds, a version of merphistophelin that absorbs your current element to change defenses would be cool, having to carry 2 opposing elements on you to get 100% uptime on elemental damage, just make it weak enough to it so it is more of a bonus and not a chore you have to get through for normal dps.
Mephistofelum prolly will need to absorb from the environment for his elemental attacks cos if it's in the player weapons, that just mean raw non-elemental is king again. Unless specific materials depend on Mephistofelum to be in that elemental state, otherwise there's no incentive to bring an elemental weapon at all.
Lots of memories. I'm happy to see I've hunted most of the original monsters of MHO before it disapeared... I was pretty casual on the game and only played a while ago so I had no idea on how much I missed. Still I have fond memories of it, even if I played alone, even if I had an hard time knowing what I was doing and what I had to do, it had the spirit of MH and looked beautifull, especially the maps, I remember stopping and looking at the environement quite a lot.
Yooooo I've never seen Koyaku in any shape or information! Thats sick af design! Like a Steam Train Bullet Land Shark! Gives me alienesque vibes and I love it! - A hermitaur with Crystal projectiles sounds sick and looks clean! - Whats next? One-Winged Yan Garuga?....now hold on a sec... - I can't believe Elemental Bulldrome actually existed - These recolors looks so badass! Honestly just want Wilds to bring back the saturation and vibrant colors to the series!
Haft to say online has a really good menagerie of original creations that do a lot of what I want monsters to do in the series, the only dud for me in disaster wyvern which feels like the idea of a carapaceon got told and forced to be a brute wyvern wether he likes it or not and he kinda suffers for it, The monster variants on the other hand are much more of a mixed bag some being great like the Gonngenn Hermitar and estrellians 2 subspecies and some being very meh like ice charmine and others like flame Tigrex, one eared Yain garuga and sword master shogun being completely derivative of variations that already exists with the main series like molten Tigrex, scared/dead eye/rust razor Regardless tho online had a very fascinating set of monsters and I hope the original creations at least get a chance in the main series one day
For Estrellion, probably need to roll all three into the base one, with the armored mode being the best single combatant, the wing mode having the best control of the butterflies, and the unpowered state somewhat passive, then make Doom and Arbiter what they are, but with more nuance to their use of their emphasis.
I’m very late to the party, but I’m glad more attention is being brought to Onlines roster. There’s a lot of interesting monsters that are in a way, lost to time, and would be lovely to see return, though odds are aren’t gonna come back. Personally, Lightenna, Baelidae, Koyaku, Estrellian and Tartaronus have gotta be my favourites of this cast. Lightenna is an awesome attempt at a stronger Neopteron the series desperately needs, and is almost a Drome equivalent to the Horntaurs. Baelidae is hard carried by its design, what with it being a spider/crab with an awesome skull abdomen. Koyaku is easily the weakest design wise, but it’s sort of similar to Glavenus. Being the Lance to Glavenus’ great sword, which is unique. Estrellian is just awesome conceptually and design wise, it’s super unique, and in a way makes for a precursor to Giasmagorm. I do wish we learnt more on what kind of elder dragon it would become. And Tartaronus is a giant sea turtle that lives in the desert. If this is Onlines equivalent to the Sand God, then I’m all for it, it’s well done
Disaster wyverns design makes sense in an anatomical way. Tail needs to be thick for balance when the torso is so heavy and the legs being a bit on the thinner side makes sense when considering how fast and agile he is
I think the silver lining in not seeing some of these monsters is that its almost like real life. Animals can be regional so i woudnt see some animals unless i really wanted too (emulators) and some animals go extinct so learning about them and what designs they evolved into is very interesting. Its like we are animal observers that are made up but based on real things and ideas. Its so awsome! Thanks for the content ❤🙏 🎉
I kinda like how we're getting something akin to Ceasarber in the form of Doshaguma in Wilds. Still, I'd love to see him back, and preferably with a Ceasarber dam in his home environment. Though I could definitely see him using the bear skeleton rather than the monkey one. The others I want to see come to mainline: Lightenna - A high-tier Neopteron to go toe-to-toe with Seltas Queen? Yes please! Koyaku - The living embodiment of the Lance's Dash Attack on the Brachydios frame? Looks fun! Bring please! Slicemargl - I could easily see this guy being re-imagined just using Lunagaron's bipedal stance rather than using Rajang's skeleton. Merphistophelin - He's basically the demonic lovechild of Alatreon and Fatalis. Imagine how epic his fight could be! In fact, I'd just make his Elemental variant the base version! Also, can I say how much I love these romanized names? Because I love them. Slicemargl is an especially wonderful name.
I'm surprised you didn't mention that Lightenna is basically a giant modified Hornetaur skeleton. I would def choose him as the one monster line to return if capcom picked a MH online monster. Estrelian Arbiter would be a close second. Not sure if there are any unique ecology explanations for the symbiotic nature with the butterflies or if it is just Apeing Zinogere's bug gimmick.
Lightens would probably be my number one as well. As far as I’m aware the connection between Estrellain and the bugs is never elaborated on in specific detail.
Unlike Frontier, Online gives me hope that Gen 6 will represent other Gen Monsters better. Online looks a lot like Wilds, Rise, and World. Just have the models from the Online game, and put them in Wilds
As for the Capcom Tencent side of things, with how big MH has gotten I heavily doubt Tencent would sell the rights to Capcom, or let them make something without Tencent having a good chunk of money taken to them, "luckily" online didn't get to have that many original creatures so what we're missing is not that much but damn, there is some solid stuff in here that sadly may be lost to time forever, some really well grounded monsters that are pure MH and damn Lightenna and Estrellian really do look like banger monsters, who knows maybe there's a surprise awaitinf in the road ahead, for now let's be happy these monsters get documented and preserved
best monster hunter to this day imo´- and it still have been the best weapon handleing and keyboard transition of any real time action rpg of the east asian variaty - i just palyed it for bout 1.5 years then they shut it down in 2018 - now to be fair getting acces was kinda - grayzoneish - and the tranlöastion patches were welp -as far as one could go into a source code - but the vibes the guild mechanics - the grind fight graphics and monsters were insanly divers, decently thought through and very fun to actually play ( but you needed a grindset of a mindset to not get frustrated - i think i killed one mosnter 700 times or more to get he armor done - i actually played that monster so often that i startet watching series not paying attaention to the fight because the weapon flow was so good and hitboxes werent totally absurd
I really wish I had a chance to play this game it has so many cool new monsters and returning monsters that would’ve been so much fun to fight not to mention the locations are beautiful
This roster of original monsters had some very interesting ideas but also some I do not like. Using Rajang's skeleton for a Wolf monster feels completely wrong for me, same with Fatalis' skeleton on a different dragon. Estrellian though is a monster I would have likes to see in the main series and for me the base looks the most interesting. She looks like a more grounded Elder Dragon with the butterflies being the more phantastical element about her
I hope wild just takes a left turn and brings in all the frontier and online exclusive monsters ( even though I'm aware there's no way that could happen efficiently)
You should look at MH explore. They have I think 2 or 3 unique elder dragons. Nef-Garmat which looks really cool and Morudomunto with its horn like crown. BOTH were featured TEPPEN and so we got their official English names from it and new artwork!
For Merphistophelin, I think a good idea to incorporate his power drain ability into the fight, while also increasing his menace, would be to give him his own special lair to fight him in where he has his own... let's call it a pantry/armory. In it, you would see either the remains of certain monsters, or, if you want to portray him as more malevolent, still living monsters trapped in some kind of organic gunk (like the Xenomorphs use to trap their victims in the Aliens franchise)! The monsters would be seen weakly struggling; too physically drained by his power absorbtion to escape their confinement! When he shifts modes/elements, he flies to an appropriate monster and drains it while it cries out pitifully! Sinister and terrifying! I would also add a strategic element to the fight by making it so he can only drain living monsters. If your armor is weak to a specific element, you would mercy-kill the appropriate monster before he can drain it (their weakened condition would give them drastically lower HP) at the cost of temporarily enraging him (his physical attacks become faster and hit harder, and any element he already has gets more powerful)! It would really play up the Faustian theme he has, with his victims trapped in their own living hells! Maybe show the scattered remains of weapons and armor around the lair to drive home that he isn't picky about his prey/batteries!
Damn, guess I'm the only one who got a kick out of Onimusha having the same title as the forgotten Capcom franchise that is basically Resident Evil set in fuedal Japan.
Barlidaes skull design is based on insects trying to scare of predators. So that implies thaz baelidae is afraid of something and I wanna know what hunts them
