Expecting a 7-hour retrospecrive on MH Sunbreak within the next day

It's so cursed to see Daimyo hermitaur in the shrine ruins I love it

She was maggin your malo, but she was gorin ma gala

5:22 I'm so happy that we finally have a truly relaxing, soothing village theme again after so long. The real cozy themes like Pokke, Yukumo and Moga are the best.

Yeah we are going to need that retrospective now Rad.

I have 1 complaint:

They didn't add new food for the meals, when IceBorne did that it was a fun change. I can't believe they didn't add Sushi but instead it's till Dango
Edit: this obviously includes the base game too you idiots, it's called an aesthetic and it adds to the feeling of the game. I want Rise to be as good as World and that includes having a variety of visuals for the food, they constantly updated it with different meals so why not Rise?

"Rise was easy"
Me struggling with teostra: 😅 "Yeah, it's super easy."

"Does it make up for base rise's difficulty? No."

"Rathian ran circles around me"

People don't hate the clutch claw/slinger because it's always available to use, they hated it because having to tenderise the monster every other minute to do even remotely reasonable damage was absolute cancer. I still love Iceborne, but I can't defend the clutch claw for that lol.

Rarely do I watch a review before a game I'm anticipating comes out, so I appreciate you dodging spoilers while still providing an informative assessment. Definitely my favorite MH channel.

I haven't heard a melody been described as 'aggressively calming' before 😂

The lower difficulty curve has at the very least kept my non monster hunter friends engaged with Risefor much longer than my previous attempts to get people into the franchise. So I'm not spending nearly as much time doing solo play and for that I'm grateful.

Thanks for the Review it was really well done!

The issue with clutch claw wasn't how "easy" it was to use, although I would argue that wallbangs did far too much damage. The issue with clutch claw was softening and how that impacted monster hitzones. The hitzones were designed around softening. While this isn't a terrible thing in a vacuum, in the actual game it was miserable. Having to soften twice with light weapons sucked, and made me unbelievably happy that I'm a charge blade player. The AI of the monsters in master rank meant there weren't always good opportunities to act on the soften. In some worst case scenarios, actually hitting the spot you softened is impossible, meaning you have to soften AGAIN before you get to actually fight the monster.

14:54 there sure is! Go to setting and then controls and it’s near the top. You can turn it either off (so like how it was pre sunbreak) or off only during hunting. So you don’t accidentally wall ride during a hunt.

Great review, for me honestly difficulty being lower isn't a big downside, having gone through GU recently after completing Rise and for the sake of comparison replayed couple HR and Grank hub quests in MHFU, I'll be fine to have a generally more ''chill'' entry in the franchise. I enjoy throwing myself against a wall, but if I get a game where I don't have to spend a weekend trying to not get bodied by G-rank green plesioth I'm good with that especially if Capcom up their game when it comes to event quests and post launch content, I'll gladly go up against something akin to hyper or apex monsters and suffer when I've done what I want in the core experience.

Figured I would drop my two cents here, since I would say this review is the one that I would say most shaped my expectations going in.  For context, I've played damn near nonstop since release, and am just about half way through MR5 since I'm kind of taking it slow.  Also a 3U vet.

I think you are pretty spot on for the most part, but I will say that the difficulty concerns seemed to me to be a bit overblown.  You do a good job of kind of contextualizing it, but I think the issue actually has less to do with the monsters and more some of the sets.  For example, the dignified set is seriously one of the best SA/ CB sets in terms of skills in ant monster hunter game, and you get it basically mid game.  Some monsters are actually insanely fast (Magmadron) and using slower weapons like Greatsword with them can be really difficult even with highly upgraded armor.  I think some of the difficulty complaints tend to be more weapon or set focused, as some monsters can be complete pushovers with some weapons (Garangolm with CB) while others are a complete nightmare (Magmadron with GS).  I think the issue comes more down to set balancing that seems a bit obscene some times as opposed to monsters being too weak or predictable.

18:05
is it weird that when i saw gore doing that move, my brain immediatly went "oh, better valor sheate"

I started with 3U and since then I've absolutely been loving the increase of mobility of each release. Rise gameplay-wise hits all the right spots for me. I love feeling like a powerful badass with tons of options to handle every combat situation while keeping the combat as engaging and dopamine infusing as ever.

The worst thing about all the new players joining during monster hunter world is, that for the most part, none of them have any idea that for every single main line monster hunter title in the series, MH1, MH2, MH3, MH4, and MHWorld, we have always gotten a corresponding portable game that goes with it
MHFreedom for MH1
MHFreedomU for MH2
MHPortable3rd for MH3
MHGeneratons for MH4
and MHRise for MHWorld
Not liking the portable titles is a fine enough opinion, but because almost none of the World players have figured out how the mainline/portable titles work in the last 5 years, they shit talk rise and cry like the series is doomed and we're never getting another game like world again, even with the trailers for Wilds dropping people STILL think it's going to be Rise #2 instead of World #2, even going so low as to review bomb and spread it to people who might be interested in the series.

Number 1 goal is to be in a position to get a review copy for the next monster hunter release.