User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Discussion of the Week: Frontier's End - Part 1/@comment-28847569-20191110203647

1) It's been a good while, but I believe it was this very Wiki, when I was browsing through monsters.

2) Kind of, but kind of not. While it can be limiting to be locked to one engine for so long, Dos' engine already had a number of notable features, like its day/night and seasons system and weather mechanics.

3) Eh, not really. I would guess that Frontier wouldn't really work too well with underwater combat (counting each weapon and style, that's 84 moveset revisions), and Tonfas seemed to cover all of the vertically the Frontier team wanted (although I guess those will be talked about when we get to the G-series updates).

4) Not really; I just think Frontier and the main series took separate development ideologies. While the main series mostly focused on setting, ecology, and lore in the attempts to create a plausible ecosystem, Frontier focused on creating unique and distinct fights in order to make the game stand out. I personally prefer the main series' route, since Frontier's monsters could be too gimmicky for their own good imo, but neither are really objectively "good" or "bad."

5) Espinath; my favorite Frontier monster. The concept for the monster is simple and yet distinct, and despite having some jank common with 2nd Gen monsters, its still an enjoyable fight.

6) Berukyurosu. It's probably the first "ugly" Frontier monster imo, with its random tendrils, ugly shade of green, myriads of pointless spikes that go down its back, and bright-yellow tail. Fight-wise, it isn't much better either due to its tendencyto fly 90% of the time or to choose an attack and spam it. Beru/Dora plopping down and spamming AoEs has been some of my least-enjoyable experiences in Frontier and Online.

7) HC monsters were a pretty cool concept and a neat way to make some monsters harder without just boosting stats (coughWorldcough) or copying another monster (coughOnlinecough). It was also pretty nice how almost every monster got a HC version.

14) Granted, I've only picked up Frontier recently, but aside from the easy answer of monsters, I think I'll miss Mezeporta Square the most. It's such a lively little town with a lot of things going on.