Monster Hunter Rise

(??? 2021 ???)
It's more Monster Hunter. What sets it apart? It has QOL improvements from World and then some extra ones of its own. I love that you have a dog friend you can ride around. This makes traversing the map way less tedious. The new monsters are pretty cool. I really liked that they had these little stylized old school Japanese cutscenes introducing each monster. Very cool. In general it's got a big Japanese weeb vibe. Which for me is kind of take it or leave it.

But overall it's another Monster Hunter game. They added some extra battle mode thing where it's almost tower defense where you man turrets and shoot monsters invading your base. Again, this is vaguely reminiscent of World. Arguably just about as tedious. I wasn't a big fan.

2023-12-10
Coming back after playing through the whole game again to reach up to Sunbreak and I gotta say the step down in graphics from World is pretty bad. But the final high rank boss fight is actually very cool. And Magnamalo is a pretty sweet new enemy. I dunno I think I gotta ding this one down for just being more of the same and kind of a stop gap before the next big thing from them.

Dropping this from a 79 to a 73.

2025-03-11
Coming back after Wilds I really just didn’t give a shit about Rise. I did the main story and was bored and did almost no High Rank. It’s mid. The weeb shit sucks. The style is boring and lame looking. Graphics suck. Feels too arcade-y. Dropping to a 65