User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Nakarkos/@comment-26421638-20170310134506

The Latest MAW about MHGen, I'm really curious about what BannedLagiacrus Will do in the next Weeks, maybe a return of DOTWs instead of MAWs? But now, let's talk about Nakarkos!

Nakarkos is our Online Final Boss for MHGen and the opinions about this Monster are really various: some people like it, others don't, some people were surprised, others were disappointed. But we cannot deny that is one of the most original Monsters in the series and also one of the most original final bosses of MH. Me? I like Nakarkos, but I think that is too easy to be a final boss and if I want to be honest I think that MHGen deserved a better final boss than this.

In terms of Design is well done, what in a first instance seems to be a twin-headed "dead" dragon, it reveals to be a huge cuttlefish with two tentacles covered with various keenbones and skulls on the top of its head and on its tentacles at the second phase of the fight. Oh yeah, the area is great, also the first BGM is mediocre but it suits perfectly with our corpse "dragon", on the other hand the second BGM is exactly the opposite: good for itself but doesn't suit at all!

I like fighting this Monster, a little disappointed since is extremely easy compared with other final bosses. I'm not going to spend too much time about the abilities of this Monster, it has two phases, is capable to inflict a lot of different debuffs, can pick up body parts from different monsters with its tentacles and is also capable to fire Dragon beams from the tentacles or a massive one with its mouth. Such a shame that dies so fast that sometimes is not even capable to fire its massive Dragon beam, however, that move is deadly if gets you (I remember when I've spawned exactly at the middle of the beam, my Dragonblighted corpse wasn't having a good time...). The good thing is that there are a lot of tools usable against this Monster: sonic bombs for breaking the body parts on its tentacles when not enraged, tranq bombs for preventing the dragon beam, various projectiles fired from ballistae etc etc. One of the positive traits of this Monster is the availability of its rare (Nakarkos Soul Orb), is extremely easy to find when mining its back, making it even more easier to farm.

Of course I love its death animation scene, but Amatsu is still better IMO.

This Monster offers an unusual equipment, it has two nearly different brands of weapons and armors. Unfortunately I'm not really interested about them. The Weapons made with its bones (white, bony ones) have a huge Raw Damage and an interesting elemental damage, but they have a terrible Sharpness and Affinity. The "blue" weapons are mediocre, however there have an enviable and nearly unlimited Blue Sharpness, something of never seen before beside Frontier. The "bony" Armor have an amazing design, but terrible design and I'm not really interested by its skills, even if the decision to combine Resuscitate and Recovery Spd -2 (a malus) is a good idea. The blue Astral Armor have a terrible design but at least is a good choice for Striker users.

Overall: Undoubtedly one of the most original final bosses and objectively is really well done, even if Generation deserved something a little better than this as final boss. Good design, Good to fight, the Equipment didn't satisfied me but have some good traits and I can understand why some people like it. Even if is completely different from Yama Tsukami, I consider Nakarkos only better than old mossy cephalopod on every aspect. Nakarkos is fine, but In MHXX I want something of better as final boss, but less stressful than Gogmazios, let's see what will be capable to do our Mecha Thing in a "few" days.