Recent reviews by Ciraeon

A chuckle, with plenty to do and micromanage if you want, or just deal with in broad strokes if that suits your fancy too. A pleasant enough idler to leave open in the background and poking occasionally, without having to leave it for weeks to get anywhere with it.

Not recommended at this point in time.

For background, I have several hundred hours on the PS4 version as well as prior MH versions on DS.

The current state of the game feels like a poor PC port, only made worse by the expectation that after waiting 6 months for the PC release so they could 'get it right', they ported it poorly.

Pros: + Fairly well optimized, if anything it's a prettier game than console.
+ Fast loading times are a much better QoL improvement.

Cons: -- The controls are horrid. Having to rebind is problematic, since you are binding vague classes of actions, not actions themselves. Getting melee and ranged comfortable to play requires them to have wholely different, and still unintuitive at times, control schemes since it requires buttons to be moved for one mode and not others.
--- Online is broken. For a team game whose PS4 online implementation was essentially bulletproof, but not flawless (parties that would be consistent through runs, rather than having to disband every. damn. time.) the online just doesn't work. You will constantly get disconnected, you will constantly have failed to joined quests even though you are on Discord with your friend. You will get dropped from lobbies, you will have lobbies entirely disappear and dump everyone in them out into their own offline instance. You cannot attempt to rejoin aside from failing your mission then going back to town and manually trying to reconnect and rejoin. After PS4's multiplayer made MH so good to play in groups, this is a horrible thing to do to a great game.
-- Obviously a port. Sometimes keyboarding works. Sometimes it doesn't. Enter generally works when you need to confirm somethine, backspace and esc are less likely. So many "This button does 4-5 things" situations when we have a whole keyboard we could use for binds. And then the keyboard version of the radial menu (which isn't enabled by default, which is BS) is entirely unbindable.

Verdict: Playable if you enjoy the series and game. If you have the option, keep playing it on console or hold off buying until it's fixed. If you're a solo player, the broken online won't matter and it will just be an annoying to control game instead of a vast disappointment.

It's amazing that most of the negative reviews are about low frame rates.
Turn down the quality settings from what you think you 'should get'. I'm playing it on low, at half the resolution my screen can do, and you know what? It's still a very pretty game. It's still a lot of fun to explore and collect. Whether a game runs as well as you think it should run on your equipment shouldn't be the deciding factor on whether you enjoy a game or not.
That said, there are a few bugs, and I have had to restart the game a couple of times due to them. At no point have I been disappointed in this game yet.
A solid 8/10.
Full disclosure: The game was a gift from my SO.