The format of these posts is simple: let's discuss a specific game or series!
Let's discuss the Monster Hunter series. What is your favorite game? What aspects do you like about it? What doesn't work for you? Are there games that gave you a similar experience? Feel free to share any thoughts that come up, or react to other peoples comments. Let's get the conversation going!
If you have any recommendations for games or series for the next post(s), please feel free to DM me or add it in a comment here (no guarantees of course).
Previous entries: Persona, Monkey Island, 8 Bit Era, Animal Crossing, Age of Empires, Super Mario, Deus Ex, Stardew Valley, The Sims, Half-Life, Earthbound / Mother, Mass Effect, Metroid, Journey, Resident Evil, Polybius, Tetris, Telltale Games, Kirby, LEGO Games, DOOM, Ori, Metal Gear, Slay the Spire
I have a slightly different perspective as someone just starting Rise as my first ever experience with this series.
Holy shit, the tutorials are terrible. Massive info dump walls of text explaining too many systems at once, cryptic warning messages to confirm you want to dismiss the tutorials are extra confusing... And despite the massive info dumping, they don't even tell you everything you need to know to complete the tutorial missions as you complete them. When you go to trap your first monster, there's no tooltip to teach you how to use items in the "how to trap" explanation or NPC dialogue. I needed to google it.
And no ability to pause in a singleplayer game? I googled some explanation about pause being on one of the menus, but I couldn't find it. Thankfully, suspending the game on a Steam Deck pauses it, so it's playable.
Also, why was I given massively OP equipment and piles of loot just for logging in? The entire early game is now so easy that it's not fun. I'm only 3 tutorials + 1 "real" mission into the game, so I'm going to try starting over without the EZ-mode loot and give it a second chance, but so far, I'm not impressed.
If I'd bought this through Steam, I'd have refunded it already before the 2-hour playtime window closed.
TL;DR: Terrible new-player onboarding has me questioning if I should push through.
For the ez mode loot it's to allow players to get to the expansion content quickly if they want to, otherwise yeah just don't touch the initial high powered loot you got gifted.