The game was beaten on the Nintendo Switch and Sunrise, while I played a few hours on Steam to see the differences.

Monster Hunter Rise is a captivating action RPG that takes Monster Hunter gameplay in a new direction by adding new features and shaking the foundation of how the game works regarding movement. The world is inspired by Japanese aesthetics and promises intense hunts against multiple magnificent monsters, attracting a lot of newcomers and seasoned veterans. The game is a hit-and-miss for a good amount of people, as traditional Monster Hunter players have stated that it does not feel quite like the previous titles, but is good to see Capcom experiment. There is always Monster Hunter World for that classic experience.

If you want to enjoy a different type of Monster Hunter game, then Rise is the perfect title. The introduction of the wirebug along with hoarder missions and two different types of key quests revamps the formula by adding new ways to play and tackle the story. Village quest introduces new players to the world of Monster Hunter while making monsters easier to catch, becoming the perfect introduction course to how hunting works and how important it is to craft new weapons and gear, as well as getting a hand on the land layout.

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There is also the addition of a wolf/dog companion along with the usual cat, giving you more options when it comes to transversing the land on your fur allies and hunting down materials and creatures. They can do actions such as stunning monsters temporarily or allowing you to recover HP by indicating a triggerable AOE healing pool. It makes for a pleasant solo experience if players would rather go that route.

The heart of Monster Hunter Rise lies in its thrilling combat mechanics. With a vast array of weapon types to choose from, players can gear up with weapons and armor that fit their playstyle. Notably, the introduction of the Wirebug significantly enhances mobility, allowing players to scale walls and move around the environment with ease.

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The Wirebug not only makes movement much easier and faster, but it also adds a layer of strategy to the game as it gives one multiple tactical options. It can be used to escape encounters, recover your balance when knocked into the air, surprise monsters from above, and even unleash powerful special moves. This flexibility encourages players to experiment not only with different strategies but also weapons, as each weapon has its unique take on it, enhancing the overall hunting experience.

Visually, Monster Hunter Rise stands out, especially on the PC now that the port is on Steam, where it achieves an impressive balance of detail and performance4. While not as graphically intensive as Monster Hunter World, the art direction beautifully conveys the vibrant ecosystems and monstrous designs of the creatures. The game's performance is generally smooth, with minimal frame drops during intense battles. It makes it enjoyable even in chaotic situations like Rampage hunts or high-level hunts. With my specs (you can see them on my profile) I ran the game at max graphics on 4K with FPS moving between 110-120fps.

The game excels in offering content that keeps players engaged. With more than +30 unique monsters to hunt, and even more in the Sunrise expansion, the game offers a lot of variety and richness in its diverse cast of creatures. That being said, in the village questline there is some repetition of monsters as they are supposed to serve as an introductory course, which dampens the pacing a bit and can lead to a bit of repetition of encounters. Rampage mode (aka horde) adds a twist to the formula, featuring defense-building gameplay that depends more on strategizing than reflex as you create a layout of traps and defenses.

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Monster Hunter Rise has taken significant steps towards making the series more accessible through streamlined mechanics and improved tutorials, making it easier for new players to grasp the complexities of the gameplay. However, veterans can feel that some aspects might have been simplified a bit too much and could result in a loss in depth compared to previous titles if they expect a classic experience. I would say Rise is more beneficial and enjoyable to newcomers than veterans, but if you are the latter don't let that intimidate you, there is a lot to enjoy if you can control your expectations, especially if you avoid comparing the game to World and rather take it as a unique entry.


As with many Monster Hunter games, the story in Rise takes a backseat to the gameplay. While the narrative is thin and consists mainly of minimal cutscenes, it serves its purpose of facilitating the hunting action rather than overshadowing it. The voice acting is quite inconsistent in English, but since the story plays a minimal role when compared to gameplay, the game does not suffer much from this.

​In summary, Monster Hunter Rise is a well-crafted entry in the series, offering an exciting combination of challenging hunts, intricate gameplay mechanics, and stunning visuals.​ It may not completely satisfy die-hard fans looking for depth akin to Monster Hunter World. Still, it successfully lays a solid foundation for future expansions and updates. Overall, it stands as a must-play for anyone looking to dive into the Monster Hunter universe. This game brilliantly captures the essence of monster hunting while introducing fresh mechanics that keep the experience engaging and fun.

Final Rating: 8/10 GREAT

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100 hours playtime and i didn't touch sunbreak yet...

Monster Hunter Rise? more like Balls Hunter Rise

Big sword big damage

I grab the long-sword, I interrupt all my team-mates swings, it's that simple

If you just want to spend 15 mins every now and again killing monsters, then this a good game.

But this is not a good monster hunter game. Sure the combat is cool ig, but the lack of immersive monster behaviors, a tracking system, and a complete abandonment of preparation aspects completely kills this game for me. Also the air hitboxes are criminally atrocious. I have spent a VERY long time trying to like this game, as the new moves a lot of the weapons got are genuinely fun to use, but the rest of the game just sucks.

-The game is braindead easy, I can completely mentally check out and still dunk on most monsters.

-Monsters don't feel as dangerous, and having an additional monster in the area is no longer an added challenge, it is a straight up advantage. Turf wars are pretty much gone. In MH:World when two monsters met, you would be treated to a battle of intimidating roars that leave your hunter stunned before they duke it out in a brutal battle. Now when two monsters meet, they hit each other and then you magically control one, which sounds a lot cooler than it is. Wyvern-riding wore off after about 5 times, and then I really felt the lack of turf wars.

-This game was marketed around wirebugs and switch skills, many of which add aerial attacks, but the air hitboxes are war crimes. you can be on a ledge multiple stories above a monster and still get hit by its attacks and many monsters now have an hitbox above their bodies on half of their moves, making aerial attacks a liability.

-Wirefall trivializes getting knocked down and makes the game even easier.

-Weapon identity and feel is extremely important to this franchise, and there were a lot of interesting things added this time around, but, for some reason, decided to lock all of those interesting features behind quests and weapon forging. So if you didn't know this and tried to lab out what weapon you liked at the start of the game, congrats, you would have wasted your time. You have to grind for many hours just to get all of the quests you need unlocked to unlock all the switch skills, and then you need to make and upgrade 10 weapons for each of the 14 weapon types. This is a big waste of time, and disincentives trying out different weapons since you need to go through so many hoops to even try a weapon out in its full form.

-The maps are wholly uninteresting (aside from the desert) and monsters no longer seem like living creatures who need to eat, sleep, and defecate. In monster hunter world you could tail a monster as it went around the world, scratched things like a cat would, leave mucus, eat and leave carcasses, sh*t, and sleep. Now you load up a map, you know where the monster is, and it's just there. It exists so you can kill it.

-Weakened monsters limp... until they hit the end of the zone and break the sound barrier to get to the next zone while continuing to use the limping animation but sped up. This is immeasurably disappointing and it ruins my day every time.

-Small monsters no longer care that large monsters that could wipe out an entire city are right next to them and will still come to headbutt you, very immersion breaking.

-They took out the focus on preparation. Max and Ancient potions no longer get your health and stamina gauge to the max. They then replaced it with something far worse, Spiribirds. Every time you load a map up, if you want to max your stats, you now have to traverse these boring maps picking up glowing birds.

-You can no longer select which camp on the map you want to spawn at, and you no longer re-spawn at the last camp you traveled to.

-Multiplayer is garbage. It is such a clusterf*ck with four players and four palamutes wailing on some poor monster that I cannot even see what my character is doing. You can no longer see what quests are available to join like you could in world, you either click join on a specific quest and hope someone is running it, or choose random and get sent in immediately without being told anything about it i.e.: the current number of faints, time elapsed, what monster you are about to fight. This lack of player agency turns people away from hunting together which will kill the game faster, and if the devs cared, they could have very easily patched this a long time ago.

-The execution of palamutes is horrible, having to hold and release a button every five seconds to go faster sucks. They also trivialize sharpness, like why even have sharpening in the game if there is no penalty for doing it, it should at least take longer to sharpen if you are mounted, this also applies to healing and doing anything else that uses an item.

-Palico abilities are no longer set based on class, and are now tied to a two pronged RNG system and you can only influence the first and fifth ability. Even if you get the palico with all of the abilities you want you now have a bunch of other rng skills to roll for alongside them. The skills themselves arent very meaningful, but just having a sh*tty two pronged RNG system in the game really tilts me. Also now that you can't change what abilities your palico has, you are pretty much guaranteed to have gotten attached to your palico who has none of the abilities you want.

-The buddy sub-systems suck. You have to purchase and slowly level up a bunch of palicos and palamutes that you don't care about just to use systems that existed without them in previous games like the Submarine Trader (the farm for map mats) and the expeditions (passive monster part income and the only way to get certain gear through RNG pulls). All this does it make it even harder to care about the palico and palamute you make at the beginning of the game, since they no longer feel like companions, and now feel like just another face in the crowd.

-Rampages. Imagine making a critically acclaimed game franchise where you fight monsters with weapons with extremely unique identities. Now imagine making a gamemode where you don't. After already taking out every aspect that makes MonHon, MonHun, now take out the fun combat. That is a rampage. A very, very sh*tty tower defense gamemode, which was the only way to fight apex monsters for a while. You don't have to deal with this garbage once you hit sunbreak, but if my complaints have resonated with you thus far, that will be a tall order.

-Apex Monsters. Over the years, monster hunter has has many different type of monsters that are bigger and badder than their default version but these ones don't have any unique gear. The only notable thing they give is materials for apex weapons, which are just red colored default weapons from the start of the game. These monsters often have unique moves and are more fun to fight (when not fighting them in a rampage), but again, you get nothing of note for doing so.

-Female armor sets are dogs*it, most of them are fan-service to a cringey degree. You will have an armorset based around being in a cold environment with multiple layers and it will have a thigh gap. You will have a very bulky armor clearly designed to take a beating... and it will have a thigh gap. There are so many armor sets that are basically just bikinis. The few dresses look like absolute sh*t, look up the rathian armorset.

Just go back to world.

Love it, haven't dove deep into a Monster Hunter game since Monster Hunter Generations on the 3DS! Feel free to add me as a friend if you want to hunt sometime!

Compared to monster hunter world and iceborne, this game is control wise a nightmare.
I have big hands and to control the grapple shot where you have to push the scroll wheel and left mouse at the same time....just not practical. Furthermore the feel of the game is not as good as the first mentioned two.
I'm very disappointed in this game to be honest.
Perhaps with a controller it's a bit better, but for me it's a waste of money.

It might not have the same immersion and feeling of having a living world when compared to MH World but this game is definitely a game to get if you want any of the following
1. Satisfying combat and movement that gives you satisfaction in mastering the game mechanics
2. Satisfying boss fights that rewards you for knowing the boss's patterns
3. A desire for grinding gear or being a completionist

Redownloaded the game to play back through and it just wont launch. Ive tried all the fixes listed and just nothing. Not recommending a bricked game.