Long time MonHun player with thousands of hours across multiple games and I can say this is by far the worst monster hunter game. Lets take a look at why:

The armour sets are uninspired both visually and practically using high textured assets that have a lot less impact and visual appeal despite having obviously more time spent designing their movements

The weapons are all reskins from previous games or otherwise bland for the same reason as the armours, and then they also made elemental damage useless in the damage formula in favor of spamming status ailments or playing pure phys damage.

They removed the preparation aspect of gathering and crafting, while simultaneously making huge open areas between the soft-coded fighting zones that they COULD have filled with useful items but instead have more useless garbage like rocks or stones for slings which you'll almost never use

The monsters themselves lack diversity with an overwhelming majority of them being either fire types or brute wyverns, which are the least interesting to fight as it devolves into getting guard bonus on lance or GS and tanking every hit, or playing a dps class like bow which is overtuned with evasion+ and dodging every attack, or stunlocking with HBG and constantly swapping ailments and traps to avoid actually dealing with attack patterns

The only good addition I can think of was the final boss, but it was a complete slog getting there, as they make you fight the same set of monsters twice with no real new additions for HR.

Perhaps the worst part is that they went back on their word about DLC expansions being free, adding the Iceborne expansion as paid DLC for the half of the game that they didn't release.

Overall I'd recommend you get a MH3U for a balanced introduction to the franchise, with MHFU line of games or MH4 depending on which platform you want to support as followups. I'd say to pass on this one since for beginners likely it'll ruin the experience, and for veterans it'll feel lackluster and bland. This game completely betrays its original fanbase in order to market towards a more generalized audience, but it even fails at doing that correctly by making combat repetitive, uninspired, and stale.

Long time MonHun player with thousands of hours across multiple games and I can say this is by far the worst monster hunter game. Lets take a look at why: The armour sets are uninspired both visually and practically using high textured assets that have a lot less impact and visual appeal despite having obviously more time spent designing their movements The weapons are all reskins from previous games or otherwise bland for the same reason as the armours, and then they also made elemental damage useless in the damage formula in favor of spamming status ailments or playing pure phys damage. They removed the preparation aspect of gathering and crafting, while simultaneously making huge open areas between the soft-coded fighting zones that they COULD have filled with useful items but instead have more useless garbage like rocks or stones for slings which you'll almost never use The monsters themselves lack diversity with an overwhelming majority of them being either fire types or brute wyverns, which are the least interesting to fight as it devolves into getting guard bonus on lance or GS and tanking every hit, or playing a dps class like bow which is overtuned with evasion+ and dodging every attack, or stunlocking with HBG and constantly swapping ailments and traps to avoid actually dealing with attack patterns The only good addition I can think of was the final boss, but it was a complete slog getting there, as they make you fight the same set of monsters twice with no real new additions for HR. Perhaps the worst part is that they went back on their word about DLC expansions being free, adding the Iceborne expansion as paid DLC for the half of the game that they didn't release. Overall I'd recommend you get a MH3U for a balanced introduction to the franchise, with MHFU line of games or MH4 depending on which platform you want to support as followups. I'd say to pass on this one since for beginners likely it'll ruin the experience, and for veterans it'll feel lackluster and bland. This game completely betrays its original fanbase in order to market towards a more generalized audience, but it even fails at doing that correctly by making combat repetitive, uninspired, and stale.