User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Discussion of the Week: Frontier's End - Part 4/@comment-35010436-20191209055713

1:Well... Another mixed bag. Interesting idea for sure, but quite the mixed results. I wouldn't say they remind me the Deviants a whole lot, but I can see where the comparison comes from. I love the three themes they got.

My main issue with a lot of the fights with them are those little things, the "Extreme Ailments", those things alone can completely ruin the enjoyment of a lot of them. Specifically: Fire and Poison.

My favorite overall is Zenith Inagami, it pulls off the old and evolved individual idea very well with the longer fur with white tips, and the petal like plates growing on the tail. The fight is pretty fun, as is typical for Inagami, and it uses Sleep, which is not too annoying too deal with.

Least favorite design wise is Baruragaru, like... I have some small problems with some other Zenith's like the size of some spikes on Hyu. But this thing just looks... Wrong, like it's trying to go for the uncanny valley feel, and just misses and looks just plain wrong. The fight looks alright, but I really don't like that design.

Fight wise I'm not entirely certain of, either Rathalos or Tigrex. Feeding frenzy's galor and everything wrong with the Fire Element incarnate.

2:Zenaserisu. Quite nice, I like the little details with its behavior, the fight is really fun, has a nice design (bit iffy about its rage mode appearance but that's besides the point), my favorite of the Bat Wyverns.

3:I guess... Eruzerion. Bit of a tough pick, since I'm not exactly fond of Keo or Boga either. But Eru feels the most mediocre of the bunch.

I have a lot of monsters throughout the series I'd love to make some design tweaks too, and out of the three here, Eru is the one I had in mind for the most changes, even if the current design doesn't neccsarily bother me like it does others. The music is nice, not something amazing, but it does its job. The fight can get kind of annoying, but for the most part I don't have any real problems with it. Eru is just kind of the most mediocre out of the (non variation) new monsters here in my mind.

4:Zena and Keo. Toned down in places attack wise obviously, though Keo could still keep a good amount of its destructive ability, since that's kind of the point. Some design tweaking, for Zena, make the wing membrane color change thing either less noticeable, or non existent, and get rid of the flowing water for that as well. For Keo, scrap or find a use for those wing fingers and membranes, maybe use them to releases puffs of heated air idk, change the shape of the horns a bit, smooth out the claws, and scrap or change the design of those "twisting bone structures".

5:Magnet Spike is more interesting of an idea. Could have a good amount of fun with something like that if handled well. A good amount of changes both big and small that I don't feel like mentioning here.

6:It's alright. I don't really have much else in mind to say about it.

7:Cool themes, annoying and to fight, and my least favorite design wise. I think it would've been cool if its electricity in phase one was blue as well, would've made the transition for phase 2 a lot more impactful. And heck, why not make said electricity regular Thunder for Phase 1 and switch to Emperor's Roar for Phase 2 to add to that.

Also... I know this is going to sound extremely petty, but I can't stand that middle horn. Like, I'm perfectly fine with the designs of the others and think they easily surpass the originals, but that one horn on White just ruins it for me, and I'm not even sure how to explain why.

8:My thoughts on that are pretty much the same as Nack's. It made the whole point kind of redundant, like making a Deviant or Rare Species but no original. I'd honestly be happy if that idea never gets revisited.

9:Probably. Not !much else I can really say other than: I can't wait for the day something that isn't that burnt fish fillet shows up. Regardless of what it is if I'm being honest.

10:It will be very much missed, love it or hate it or just in the middle Frontier has made its impact on the franchise, it has had its ups and downs (some updates more than others...) but I've been happy to be able to experience it in the time I have, even if I haven't been able to join in on the closing months fun because awful new computer.

But besides that, its been a fun ride, whether or not it is truly done completely is a bit up in the air still I know. But even if that private server thing does happen, idk if I'll ever really join up again. Maybe, who knows.

And with that all out of the way, have a good night/day whoever reads this, and RIP Frontier (and Online to a much lesser extent).