Fantastic weapons variety, probably best I've ever seen in a videogame. Weapons very different thus you are playing almost different game every time you switch. Taking into consideration that the game is huge you could multiply it by number of weapons and imagine what enormous value game has for it's price. Monsters variety as well very rich. Game world is beautiful and gives great vibes. It is objectively great game that you should at least try.

Now negatives, because I'm quite burnt out at the moment and have some cons to share. For a game that emphasises on precision and methodical approach to each hunt there's a lot of randomness to encounter. Hitboxes very often are questionable. Some monsters skills leave you nothing left to do except just to stay there in a corner and wait until effect wears off. You will be upset, disappointed and quite frankly enraged very often with this game. Better to prepare for it mentally early. Learning curve is there, it is quite steep and even if you master game mechanics to some degree it will never be enough to feel safe and confident.

Materials farming ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ more or less bearable on low and high rank, but on master rank for some hunts it becomes absolutely unbearable. Why materials have random chance to drop? Literally each horned monster has horns, why the F I'm unable to get horns from a slayed monster? Even when I break the head. Absolutely unnecessary pachinkofication of the game. Player forced to farm annoying, busted monsters, sometimes with absolute cancer abilities in order to get needed gear. If I find some monster encounter fun to re-run I'll do this by my own volition, I don't need to be forced, game. Especially I don't need to be forced to feel annoyance.

There are people with thousands of hours in a game still unable to gather all decorations they would like to obtain. Good for those players who prefers to be motivated this way, I'm not one of them. I hate games that treat you like a donkey chasing a carrot. It can be acceptable to some extent, but thousand of hours? No, thank you.

The only reason I'm not leaving negative review after all those claims is because game felt ok before master rank, but last couple of dozens of hours soured my attitude severely. So I try to stay objective as possible and recommend it with warning about some points that could be not a problem for some players.

Fantastic weapons variety, probably best I've ever seen in a videogame. Weapons very different thus you are playing almost different game every time you switch. Taking into consideration that the game is huge you could multiply it by number of weapons and imagine what enormous value game has for it's price. Monsters variety as well very rich. Game world is beautiful and gives great vibes. It is objectively great game that you should at least try. Now negatives, because I'm quite burnt out at the moment and have some cons to share. For a game that emphasises on precision and methodical approach to each hunt there's a lot of randomness to encounter. Hitboxes very often are questionable. Some monsters skills leave you nothing left to do except just to stay there in a corner and wait until effect wears off. You will be upset, disappointed and quite frankly enraged very often with this game. Better to prepare for it mentally early. Learning curve is there, it is quite steep and even if you master game mechanics to some degree it will never be enough to feel safe and confident. Materials farming shitfest more or less bearable on low and high rank, but on master rank for some hunts it becomes absolutely unbearable. Why materials have random chance to drop? Literally each horned monster has horns, why the F I'm unable to get horns from a slayed monster? Even when I break the head. Absolutely unnecessary pachinkofication of the game. Player forced to farm annoying, busted monsters, sometimes with absolute cancer abilities in order to get needed gear. If I find some monster encounter fun to re-run I'll do this by my own volition, I don't need to be forced, game. Especially I don't need to be forced to feel annoyance. There are people with thousands of hours in a game still unable to gather all decorations they would like to obtain. Good for those players who prefers to be motivated this way, I'm not one of them. I hate games that treat you like a donkey chasing a carrot. It can be acceptable to some extent, but thousand of hours? No, thank you. The only reason I'm not leaving negative review after all those claims is because game felt ok before master rank, but last couple of dozens of hours soured my attitude severely. So I try to stay objective as possible and recommend it with warning about some points that could be not a problem for some players.