User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Jyuratodus/@comment-4969421-20180308121153

Another monster I barely have an opinion of. It's the first of the two new "variants" (?) MHW introduced. A not-subspecies of Lavasioth with mud instead. I don't think it's trying to be a whole new monster, but at the same time there's no explicit, clear indication of it being "tied", for lack of a better word, to Lavasioth. I wonder if perhaps it was an actual subspecies, or even if it had a different name, people would like it more. But again I just don't see it as a new monster, so it's, huh, alright I suppose? I guess I'd probably dislike it if I didn't like Radobaan so much. I mean, I imagine they wanted a monster for the Wildspire Waste's bogs, and maybe they felt Barroth wasn't enough, so instead of making a completely new monster, they just gave us Mudsioth. Not getting a new monster is of course, well, bad. But Jyuratodus as a standalone is not so terrible. Gameplay is decent, moveset is a bit on the weak side but it's an early game fillermon so it's not like I was expecting anything else. It's also almost always swimming, so that's actually quite cool because you have an aquatic monster for an aquatic area without underwater. It's also similar to Cephadrome, but much better because you can actually fight it while it's swimming. And that whole swimming thing also gives it what's essentially two movesets and makes it completely different to Lavasioth, so yay. That's my appreciation for this monster. Like I don't know. This whole comment is just me rambling really. Visually it's just a Lavasioth, I haven't played the game and I just don't really care so I cannot elaborate an opinion when I don't have one.