User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter XX Discussion/@comment-26532315-20170101000459/@comment-4481348-20170101031103

I mean, all the stuff Generations brought I was fine with, Arts and Styles were pretty cool. The new Palico system I loved and gave me more control over what kind of allies I wanted, and Prowler was basically a nice little bonus. My problem was just the monsters, although the new ones were ok, the returning monsters just felt like they were ported from the older games. Lagiacrus being the only exception (I never actually fought Lavasioth in Unite, but heard that he was indeed revamped as well), not only that, the change to High Rank in that game, little to no change at all...and then Hyper? They're just faster and hit harder.

Apex might have been a bit too much, but at least they mixed things up a bit by adding in movesets from their subspecies/counterparts.