User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Barroth (5th Gen)/@comment-4702773-20180301181727

Since Tri got me into MH, and Brute Wyverns are some of my favorites (Love ya, Jhoey) I can definitely say that this is going to be bias as heck.

Barroth has always been a favorite of mine. As the first Brute that we all fought, there's a special place in my heart for them. They are a wonderful tutorial into how the other Brute Wyverns are going to act. This wonderful tactic of "Bluntly try to smash puny hunter until puny hunter is gone, then smash everything else" that all brutes have, but employ in different ways. Just a good reminder that there won't be a lot of tricks or finesse. Just direct assault until one of you dies.

I do not own a PS4 or XBone, but I got to play through World through a friend's. Barroth feels.. different. Definitely not in a completely bad way. Still hits like a truck, but his charge seems to have taken a back seat to some of the more generic monster attacks that a lot of World's large creatures tend to default to. The new mud isn't what I was expecting. Having to struggle to move an inch, or superman out only to realize you "jump" about two inches more than if you just kept struggling. I get that they were going for more realistic, but getting mudballed or snowman'd was part of the charm of MH. Through all this in-depth and amazing combat, there was always a moment or two that stuck out as silly. And I feel like World took a lot of that away. Its still a breathtakingly beautiful, amazingly fun game, just with a little less of that goofy charm.

Overall, Barroth still remains one of my favorite monsters of all time. Brutes represent that niche of spoon-blunt powerhouses that don't bother thinking before charging in, something that contrasts really well with some of the smarter, methodical monsters (I swear, you can almost see P. Rathian thinking about changing her vertical flip into a sweeping tail just to mess you up) I will say that he seems to have gotten a very generic revamp, which I don't think he deserved.