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Solomancer McMancer (Looking for Work) 🍉 @solomonmcman.bsky.social · Nov 15

I'm Solomon, an illustrator and character/creature artist with a passion for worldbuilding. Consider supporting me on Patreon or Ko-Fi to help me realize my goals.
Current project: a TTRPG set in my fantasy setting of Narcoscir, called SeQuester: Crowns and Nails.
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Solomancer McMancer (Looking for Work) 🍉 @solomonmcman.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah the Omega fight is great. But the problem with everything Wilds does well is that it shines a spotlight on the things it does poorly. I would describe it as good meat on bad bones. I genuinely don’t know how the expansion could fix my problems since they’re all deep-seeded.

Solomancer McMancer (Looking for Work) 🍉 @solomonmcman.bsky.social · 12h

My b I haven’t actually played 2 yet I just assumed it had more of a gathering focus bc of the sim elements. Yeah I noticed favoritism. Like we got Kokoto and Pokke but not Moga? We got Yukumo instead which I never hear anyone talk about over Moga, which is actually a mainline village.

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Solomancer McMancer (Looking for Work) 🍉 @solomonmcman.bsky.social · 13h

Part of what bothers me is they change so many things, some changes I like and others I don’t, so it makes it difficult to figure out where they went wrong sometimes. For example: overall I think the weapons in Wilds feel fun but the prep and builds are so milquetoast it brings the whole thing down.

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Solomancer McMancer (Looking for Work) 🍉 @solomonmcman.bsky.social · 13h

Maybe they’ll consider it since Wilds isn’t doing nearly as well as they wanted.

Solomancer McMancer (Looking for Work) 🍉 @solomonmcman.bsky.social · 13h

Would be nuts if they went back and updated GU since a lot of people still play it

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Solomancer McMancer (Looking for Work) 🍉 @solomonmcman.bsky.social · 13h

That’s the worst part, a lot of the deviants are highlights in the roster but the context around them is dog water

Solomancer McMancer (Looking for Work) 🍉 @solomonmcman.bsky.social · 13h

It’ll never happen but a PC release +new patch would go crazy

Solomancer McMancer (Looking for Work) 🍉 @solomonmcman.bsky.social · 13h

Something I will keep preaching is that the old skill system in Monster Hunter was better. They didn’t need to get rid of it, just replace the spreadsheet with meters that fill up and activate the skill when they’re full and the confusion would have been dispelled. Set building isn’t fun anymore imo

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Solomancer McMancer (Looking for Work) 🍉 @solomonmcman.bsky.social · 13h

Not to have a boomer take but I still don’t know how I feel about MH after GU. I’ve enjoyed them but I hesitate to call them good, it’s difficult to say why.

Solomancer McMancer (Looking for Work) 🍉 @solomonmcman.bsky.social · 13h

Something GU does VERY well though is the endgame, or lack of it. There’s just so much content they didn’t have to make and endgame loop. No weapon augmenting, no leveling up quests (except Deviants), no nothin. Because the game has so much to do you don’t need that stuff. Pretty cool.

Solomancer McMancer (Looking for Work) 🍉 @solomonmcman.bsky.social · 13h

The beginning is ROUGH. I believe it’s trying to simulate old monster hunter at first before getting wacky so the entire beginning is just gathering quests. It gets better as it goes once you start unlocking more Hunter Arts for each weapon.

Solomancer McMancer (Looking for Work) 🍉 @solomonmcman.bsky.social · 13h

I’m thinking about loosening up and yapping here more. Maybe I’ll make an alt instead? Idk yet. Either way the only media I’ll post is my art so I’m not too worried it’ll get lost between yap sessions.

Solomancer McMancer (Looking for Work) 🍉 @solomonmcman.bsky.social · 13h

While replaying it I’ve been plagued with the feeling that GU could be fixed by a single title update but it came out before the time they started doing those. Imagine they patched the deviants to be less of a grind and restored Charge Blade’s moveset from 4U (number nerfs can stay)

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Solomancer McMancer (Looking for Work) 🍉 @solomonmcman.bsky.social · 13h

Also if you want deviant gear you need to, no exaggeration, fight the deviant like 50 times for an armor set and even more for a weapon. And you need the fully upgraded set of you want it to do anything. Fascinatingly the ones added in GU are G-Rank only and have less hunts so those are better.

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Solomancer McMancer (Looking for Work) 🍉 @solomonmcman.bsky.social · 14h

Been replaying GU if you can’t tell

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Solomancer McMancer (Looking for Work) 🍉 @solomonmcman.bsky.social · 14h

The game also feels at odds with its 2 identities a lot of the time. On one hand it’s a celebration of each generation which includes MH1 and 2 so there’s a lot of gathering quests. But then the game is also a hyper party game spin-off with no story. The vibe is strange.

Great game!

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Solomancer McMancer (Looking for Work) 🍉 @solomonmcman.bsky.social · 14h

MHGU is such a fascinating case to me. On paper it should be my favorite Monster Hunter and maybe it is overall but it has some fumbles in key places that are difficult to ignore. I don’t like how Charge Blade feels (big problem) and the deviant system is a messss. Upgrading weapons feels weird too.

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Solomancer McMancer (Looking for Work) 🍉 @solomonmcman.bsky.social · 14h

LETS GOOOO INKA!!! THATS MY FRIEND LOOK AT HER GO

Trench Crusade @trenchcrusade.bsky.social · 15h

++ MAXIMILIAN-CLASS KNIGHT ++
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