User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Paolumu/@comment-26421638-20180407110021

Well, my MHW Career is probably ended, lost my progress and the game became completely unplayable to me due to costant crashes, and this happened exactly one day before the Spring Blossom Event. Perhaps an update could fix something, but I bet that will be released during the SB event... What a pity... In any case I won't see MHW as I did before. This game gave to me a couple of good memories but also an insane amount of bad ones... And speaking of bad memories...

... There's a MAW dedicated Paolumu. "From the frying pan to the fire", they said.

It is just a fluffy bat, how could be interesting something like this? Or alternatively a bat that failed to properly use a q-tip and fused into an abominable creature... Or perhaps is just a cameo appearance of Woobat from Pokemon... In any case is pathetic. They wasted a good opportunity to make a bat-like Wyvern.

In terms of gameplay is were this Monster have major flaws, when it fights on land is just capable to do Flying Wyverns generic attacks: bites, tail whips, charges... And nothing else (a small Ludroth or a Blango perhaps have a wider movepool). When it flies is the moment when Paolumu tries to do something of different, and the result is not impressive. It's just as annoying as any other flying Monster in World and beside the aerial splash attack, is not a treat. One positive thing that I could say on it, is the exclusive attack that Pao makes in its nest, that's OK.

Equipment? Oh yeah, almost forgot... Pointless. Also I need to figure out why some of its weapons have a hidden Blast status...

Overall: I'm not joking, Monsters like Basarios or Khezu are better and more inspired than this thing. Basarios is almost useless but at least isn't as bad as Paolumu. I'm aware that Paolumu was supposed to be a low-mid-tier Monster but there are a Lot of monster of the same level way better than this (Rathian, Zamtrios, Barroth or Radobaan for Example). Uninspired, boring and worthless, I'm not going to miss this Monster at all...