User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Discussion of the Week: Monster Hunter Stories Demo/@comment-4702773-20170817160137

Just finished playing some of the demo, and whoa boy, not gonna sugar-coat this one at all. Here we go!

1. No, not really. So far everything about it has bothered me, which will probably be covered in questions below, but it just doesn't appeal to me in any way.

2. "Vast open world" Not really that vast or open. Combat is just rock, paper, scissors with a twist. The twist is that anything tiny will always use the exact same thing so you can't lose, and anything with more than one option will use them completely randomly with no way to gain the upper hand. I could get the same experience by setting my 3DS so that every time I pushed a button it would pick a button at random, or I could just go play rock, paper, scissors with a toddler. Same effect, same sense of accomplishment.

3. No

4. I think somebody said it below, that MH has always had an underlining anime feel, and that this game just focuses on that instead of doing anything decent, but I'm going to add to that. The whole psudo-anime-ness of MH is what adds to the charm. To me its like organs in a person. You know they are there, yeah, and its great that you have them. Hell, I would argue that like organs, MH wouldn't even work without this inner anime-ness. But what happens if, all of a sudden, your organs are outside your body? Well now its just gross and nothing works. That and you die, but that's not the point of the analogy. Keep your organs inside, Monster Hunter. Its better for you, better for us, and better for the carpet.

5. God I hope not, but it probably will. Only silver lining there is that like all MH games, us here in the West probably won't get it, and will have to wait for the sequel-reboot-G-Rank-Addon-game.

6. Well since there are only three monsters, Rock, Paper, and Scissors, whichever will help me defeat the enemy rock, paper, and scissors would be my favorite. What? That's technically all of them? Then I have no favorite because this game irritated me.

7. I will buy the full game if and only if I can tame a Deviljho and devour every single NPC in the village.

8 AND 9. Probably the Narg in the beginning because it got to kill some people. Honestly I have no favorites because every character is some sort of deformed, kawaii'd version of another previous MH character. The Village Chief speaks in rhyme.. the whole time (damn it) which would be funny if he didn't just ramble until he found something that rhymed with Nargacuga. I get where they're coming from. The Loc Lac guildmaster didd his Haiku's, I'm pretty sure the Tanzia guy had poems or something. The Argosy captain with his poor English, that cat in Pokke with her(?) odd speech, I get it. But this is just another example of organs on the outside. Its too much, and its disgusting. And if that brick wall of a man screams "AWESOME" at me again, I'm going to make it a point to put the demo data on a seperate SD card and burn it.

10. Zero, because that's stupid and even hunters from the logical side of this game universe can tame Aptonoth. That and I honestly didn't get far enough into this demo to care. I beat up that Narg at the cave and called it a day.

11. No, and is that suppose to imply that egg hatching is all based on chance?? Seriously?

12. I have not and I will not. I am an avid anime/manga fan. I read Monster Hunger Orage, which was very good for what it was. But I refuse. If I didn't like the game, where at least you had some say in the matter, (and by that I mean not talking to any annoying NPC's) then why would I watch that?

Damn that was brutal, but its just my opinion.