Its REALLY painful seeing your favorite monster in the game and finding out that you can't actually get one. This isn't as big of an issue as it could be as only about 8 or 9 monsters aren't playable, but for the people who were hoping to use these monsters it will feel horrible. Mods could usually help with this, but the modding scene for this game is practically non-existent. Majority of people will have a great time with this game as most of the popular monsters are obtainable, so naturally this might make some people feel a bit bitter towards both the games roster and all of the unquestioningly positive reviews.

Besides that, everything else ranges from good to ok. Combat is fun enough that I've actually been choosing to fight when I otherwise don't have to. The anime visuals are wonderful and I hope to see more of it in other Monster Hunter games, many of the monsters look amazing with it and the characters look really nice too. The gene system feels good at the moment, gives a lot of freedom with building your monster, but I don't know how it is late game at the moment. Characters are generally ok except for Navirou.

Overall game is enjoyable. it's fun running around as an anime girl with my Anjanath, just wish I could be running around with my Seltas.

I'm enjoying the game but I don't think I could recommend it to anyone.

I literally can't use the monsters I want because I'm stuck balancing types and "movement abilities" and only have so many slots. Velocidrome is the only damn thing that has jump until mid-late game and it's replaced with just another one of the great jaggi types. If I want my beefy tigrex, I can't make room for the nercylla I want because they both have climb. It's so stupid, my team is full of monsters I don't care about. I thought it would all be fixed when I unlocked fly but it's not even usable once you enter a dungeon area.

It's the exact same with the weapons. If I use hammer, I can't have hunting horn because I have to cover the three damage types. And each weapon only does one damage type it's assigned. You know what's cool about great sword in the actual monster hunter games? It can do slash AND BLUNT damage depending on what combos you use. You even learn the charge rush maneuver WHICH IS A BLUNT ATTACK. But in this game it still does slash despite that. And then since each individual part has different weapon type resistances that also change depending on what state the monster is in, you gotta constantly swap what weapon your using. It would be a cool system honestly if it didn't completely gimp weapons that rely on stockpiling to use their abilities. The gunlance generally gets one bullet loaded with each attack, two on a won head-to-head I think. But you know what happens by the time I get it fully charged for it's ultimate ability? The part breaks or the monster becomes enraged or what have you and now I have to switch weapons or do no damage. That sucks.

And to top it off, a lot of the cooler monsters, you can't actually have on your team for what seems like no real reason. I can have Nercylla (bug) but not Seltas or Seltas Queen (also bugs). I can have Popo or Anklyo (trash mob) but I can't have Hermitaur (cool crab).

The gameplay is pretty much the same as the first game. Rock-paper-scissors with memorization. The buddy system is cool, there are more monsties, still forced to have Rathalos in your party, etc.

The UI and the game as a whole feels extremely un-polished. There aren't simple things like being able to sort your quests by ONES YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY COMPLETED. Why would I want to even look at un-repeatable quests I've finished? Much less have them randomly mixed together with the ones I'm actively tracking. The quick travel map is just kind of a list of names without any indicator of where exactly they take you. The villages aren't marked with anything different to indicate that they are villages. You can't mark your own map for things to come back to or view areas you aren't in to figure out where you want to go. The villages are designed to make it take as long as possible to get to everything.

But by far, the most infuriating thing in this entire game is Navirou. There are no options to tell him to shut the heck up and every single damn time he pops up dialogue, you have to click a button to dismiss it. Which of course leads to stuff like not picking up items because dismissing the dialogue ate your button click as you were walking by. Not getting back on your monstie to run away in time. Not being able to click the catstand to activate it as you walk by because FOR SOME GOD FORSAKEN REASON, HE WAITS UNTIL YOU ARE ALREADY ON TOP OF IT TO TELL YOU IT'S NEARBY. Not to mention EVERYTHING HE SAYS IS INSANELY BASIC AND UNHELPFUL.

"The monster is asleep! Here's your chance!"
I CAN SEE IT. THERE ARE GIANT BUBBLES COMING OUT ITS NOSE AND EVERYTHING.
"There's a catstand nearby"
YES AND I MISSED IT THANKS TO YOU, STUPID.
"I think you've collected all the bottle caps buddy"
Yeah that's great, I'm currently next to an egg running from a monster and you've prevented me from picking it up and now I'm stuck in a fight thanks.

And he repeats all of this dialogue, every. single. time. without fail. I hate him, I wish he would die.

*ahem* So to summarize, the game is fun and a good addition to the monster hunter franchise generally but it misses the mark on creature collecting, gameplay, quality/polish and is just generally annoying.