Review just for the demo, not sure about the full game but I'm reviewing this as a standalone game because the malzeno here is different from in the full game. I've also never played monster hunter before and come from playing mostly soulslikes and tactical shooters.
This was the hardest boss I've ever beaten, taking me 97 hours, far far beyond melania in elden ring. It long surpassed the difficulty threshold where it's no longer fun. The hitboxes and game mechanics are too inconsistent to expect us to beat malzeno without crazy levels of frustration. And spending almost a hundred hours on a boss will bring out these game problems. How do they expect us to play perfectly when the game itself is not perfect.
And losing by time is a very unfun way to lose, a more fun way would be making the moveset actually more difficult.

I own and completed the full thing on switch and was just testing to see if I like pc controls for wilds. Keyboard and mouse isn't my thing, but bug stick go bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
(I died to the stinky knife dromaeosaur)
(jkjk I love izuchi)

Pretty fun