I chose Scorned Magnamalo. I love that murder kitty.

Pink Rathian already out there, so at least they’re doing variations.

I’m too mesmerized by his undulating veiny neck to notice!

I’m pro-Joe

Love that chonky armor

Yeah, that’s what I’m reading. Won’t go too far down the rabbit hole with the US version then.

Yeah, but the pool of monsters is much smaller. Even with variations, there aren’t nearly as many monsters as there are Pokémon.

I play way more retro games due to packages like EmuDeck being so slick.

Rise is indeed a different beast entirely. It plays much faster, especially with the addition of Wirebugs for whipping around the environments through the air. Palamute riding is also a game-changer. I tell people that Rise is much more “playable” than past installments.

Way back in the day I had heard that Monster Hunter was the new hot game in Japan, and they had just released Monster Hunter Freedom Unite on PSP. At the time I couldn’t make heads or tails of it, but I beat my head against it for a while. For some reason I stuck with the series almost out of sheer refusal to accept that I didn’t grok it, but then Monster Hunter Rise came along. 700 hours later across two platforms and I’m more of a Monster Hunter fiend than I ever was.