User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Glavenus/@comment-4969421-20161126123959

Oh well, here goes. The comment  everyone Pike was waiting for. That's right, I'm gonna hate on Dinovaldo. Are you ready? Are you ready?

First of all, though, please let me make a personal complaint. I'm tired. Tired of the two series that compose the franchise, Main and Frontier, constantly copying each other ideas. Like an endless tennis match. What's worst, though, everytime this happens, it deepens the gap between the franchise's two player bases. The constant fight of who does a concept better, or which series is the best. Comment chains devolve into serieswars, even if it's something as inocuous as a music theme. It's really terrible. I've seen what polarization does to other fanbases, the Smash Bros fanbase for example, with infinite Meleefags vs Sm4shfags wars and the like, and it makes me sad thinking the MH fanbase might turn into that eventually.

However shit like this this is the very reason serieswars happen.

I mean, Dinovaldo is literally, L I T E R A L L Y Abiorugu. Fire breathing tail bladed dinosaur Brute Wyvern. Abiorugu was already half-Deviljho, you can't deny that, yet it did introduce new stuff on its own. This, on the other hand is the EXACT same concept. Not a single difference. It baffles me how in the same game that introduced a load of unique, never seen before monsters we also have this. Not only that, but it's (of course) the one flagship that gets shilled over the others. Like, hey guys, look at this super original monster! Except it's not! I don't even know WHY Capcom had such a mighty need to copy the Frontier Dino anyways. Raizek represents the first generation of Monster Hunter, so he's a Flying Wyvern since they were the most prevalent class. Gammoth is a Pelagus/Fanged Beast, a monster class that not only debuted first in the second generation of MH, but also had monsters such as Congalala and Blangonga, and even had a Pelagus "powerhouse", Rajang. The Third Generation of MH brought up Underwater combat and Leviathans, monsters perfectly adapted to their watery environments; so it perfect sense that Mizutsune is a Leviathan. Glavenus is meant to represent the Fourth Generation, so it's a... Brute Wyvern? A class first introduced in Third Gen? Wait what? Why? Why have it be a Brute? What is worse, why have it be a Brute Wyvern when there's been THREE (3) monster classes first introduced in MH4 which have been sitting there COMPLETELY unused for YEARS (No, subspecies don't count)? Why not have a Snake Wyvern, which are popular. Why not go the unexpected route and have an Amphibian or even a Temnoceran. Nope. Brute Wyvern. It's not even that Abiorugu is a super popular Frontier monster either, I mean, it's not unpopular but it doesn't really make it into high places in popularity polls? (Feel free to prove me wrong on this one, I'm not 100% sure). So the question is Why?

Design-wise: Abiorugu v2.0 except based off a diferent dinosaur, with bigger spikes (hahaha wow the Frontier memes are STRONG am I right friendos?) and a bigger (almost laughably oversized) tail. How thrilling.

Gameplay-wise: Adept bait. Pretty much the same as Abio as well. Inb4 "b-but it's different! m-muh m-muh-m-muh heating mechanic! Yes so fucking what. Nice point. Abio has the whole fighting in pairs shit and the combos, I mean yeah! It did 1 (one) (una) (une) (ein) (ichi) thing differently (VERY minor, to boot!)! Rejoice! The monster is saved! No.

Equipment-wise: Outclassed :^). The normal and deviant armors' designs aren't even different either.

In a nutshell: This monster is shit.