Ease of access for obtaining the monster you want and to build it: 0 out of 5
Respects your time: 0 out of 5
Sense of accomplishment: 1 out of 5
Ease of crafting armors and weapons: 0 out of 5
Control of monsters and allies: 1 out of 5
Returned to EDIT and say I do recommend because it's the only game in 'their' library that I can tolerate playing in annoyance: Most of my game play time has been afk with the game running while I do chores because its just a mundane unattractive experience. Doing chores grabs my attention more than this ♥♥♥♥.
Now back to add to the edit. What I hate the most is CONSTANTLY having to stop my exploration to return to town every 20 or 30 minutes to resend MoNsTiEs (cringe) on another expedition and since you can't even see any detail of the monsters in your party you have to go BACK TO TOWN to see their skill level. You can't even see any important details of them while they are in your party. If I want to look at a skill level on one of them to know that I can return to town and switch out my party to level up a new monster skill not knowing if I need to get grinding to level them up some more. Also, there a locks on their skill slots, like 4 - 5 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ locks on them where no skill can be added without a special item to remove the lock. Another thing, getting the monster to retreat where you can get the egg is just overkill with a low chance of even getting it to retreat. You have no control over your ally. They act randomly and do not sync with which attack needs to be delt to an enemy. You have no control over their kinship attacks. The partner does whatever they want and the main character gets pushed off to the side. Its bs... inconsiderate, unthoughtful jack in the box RNG ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.
What's more? You're FORCED to keep 2 monsters in your main party early on, 1 in every other party outside of your main party. This makes the leveling system take up MORE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ TIME and limit how many monsters you can edit and level. The entire monster system ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks! The jackpot sucks. Instead of simply letting you have a permanent buff you have to keep feeding it charms on a timer which makes you have to return to town again and again.. expedition sucks and it makes you return to town again and again.
And the music, where is the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ music in the game? It's silent with the wind, monster footsteps, growling and bugs chirping, that's all you'll hear.
And for the forging armors and weapons... what a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ disaster. By the time you've found out which monster parts you need and actually get them the armor and weapon is basically useless like its left behind. Example, Monster level is 50 and the weapon you should have been able to forge a long time ago is like level 7 or 20 by the time you are able to forge it. The power of the items do not scale with monster power level. You can one shot them but your gear is garbage if you want to manually kill them. 1 shot, instant, manual battle, 1 - 5 minutes or maybe longer.
At 4 years old I doubt anyone even plays this game anymore or will play it but for the slim chance of new players reading this I'll tell you the in game explanation of skills are terrible and lazy. Description of skills and attack, defense or whatever will say ♥♥♥♥ like "Does fire damage: Somewhat, High chance to inflict damage, moderate damage". You get the point but where are the numbers and percentages of the damage or whatever? I just don't understand what the ♥♥♥♥ is wrong with these companies and developers? This game is not complex at all and for a large company like Capcom it makes no sense for them to not give any explanation for stuff like this. I'm so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tired of having to have several tabs open for external guides and info because these mf are to lazy to code it in the game. If they want to abolish paperback game guides then they need to put the information in their games because online guides suck up bandwidth and power.
And, the grind... I don't want to live in the game trying to get a monster. The paintball they give you to throw to make a monster retreat to a cave so you can go grab and egg from it only worked like twice out 20 that I've tried. What the ♥♥♥♥ is wrong with these mother ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥? Its so bad they added a quick kill option to one shot everything when you're over lvl of the enemy. The items are seemly useless with a very rare chance to even do what they're supposed to do. As for co-op... what the hell would they even add that ♥♥♥♥ for games that will be dead after a few months of crackhead, ADHD adderall gamers who want to run in and one shot the entire game and never return after they 100% it?
Compare this game or any RPG to Final Fantasy X and you'll see just how ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up these companies are.
They just don't care and they think they can do whatever they want without even thinking about those who built them up from day one. They OBVIOUSLY hate us and have gone out of their way to hire leftwing idiots to ruin the industry on purpose with their psychosis. It's like they can't even comprehend what the ♥♥♥♥ video games were created for. They just want to ♥♥♥♥ everything up because ruining the fun of others is fun to them. These people need to be fired, silenced and shamed to never be seen or heard from again.
I really miss the old ways with all of my heart. These mf now, they don't know what the ♥♥♥♥ they are doing. Rapacious lunatics and I just can't ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ believe how lazy and inconsiderate devs are these days. Its unacceptable for a big ass company like Capcom to do this ♥♥♥♥ to any game. It could have been perfect but no, making a perfect game like Final Fantasy X or even Legend of Zelda on NES... we can't have that. Making a perfect game is illegal!
If you don't want to read everything I typed... this game will annoy you once you notice the deliberate problems they created on purpose. They do not want us to be happy. What a terrific idea to be popular in this pungent dysfunctional industry that used to be about fun rather than ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ everyone over. Gaming is dead and Capcom is the worst RPG maker I've ever seen. They should stick to making Street Fighter games that are boring and not fun just like this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game. Capcom sucks and all their monster hunter games were made by idiots who don't know what the ♥♥♥♥ they are doing. Gaming sucks.
