User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Discussion of the Week: Monster Hunter Stories Demo/@comment-25275196-20170814080935

When you make a question list, I really think you should consider doing a numbered list instead of a dot point list. It makes it a pain to scroll up and count all of them AGAIN many times in a row. In any case:

1) I think it's amazing. Everything I could want from a game and more.

2) The open wold is really cool, but if they made it even more open and didn't confine each area to a series of areas, but instead made it a massive open expanse that you could explore at your lesuire and come across all manner of creatures, it would be even cooler. The Rock Paper Scissors combat is better than I expected, due to it simply being a glorified attack command in addition to your usual skill list. It's got potential to be as deep or complex as it wants, and that's what I like about it.

3) If I could miss the entire next month of my life and skip straight to launch day, I would.

4) I like it. It's a nice change of pace from the more mainstream main series, and I reckon that I would even play a main game if it had these visuals. In some ways, it's even more appealing, because it's a distraction from the more serious tone the main games try and fail to achieve. When you have four naked hunters prancing around an Arm-Wrestling table, any and all seriousness is lost, and I quite like a silly atmosphere at times. This game has the potential to be just that; A fun little game that doesn't think too hard.

5) Nah. It's not the sort of thing that could or even should get a G variant. However, a sequel with more monsters and a larger world and a new story could certainly be cool.

6) I named all of my monsters using puns. It was great. For example, I called my Velocidrome Velocity, because it's fast. Get it? I also named my Aptonoth Aptitude because it leveled up faster than the other monsters. I'm looking forward to punnifying every monster in the series and putting them under control. Overall, I liked the Blue Kut-Ku the most in the demo, because of its wide variety of attacks and very high stats.

7) Can you not see my profile pic? Kushala Daora, obviously.

8) I'd say Chief Omna and Dan. The Chief's rhymes are entertaining, and Dan's enthusiasm for everything is so contagious it's AWESOME.

9) That Connecticat that didn't let me use online features. Dammit, demo restrictions!

10) Four, I think. I don't really enter monster nests unless it's either a rare or from a monster I chased off.

11) Yeah, and it's my most powerful Monstie so far. I called it Kut-Blu, get it?

12) I saw seven or eight episodes back when it was first airing, but when I caught up to the latest episode, I never checked back for the new ones each week. I should probably go and catch up now, or at least sometime soon.