User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Velocidrome(4th Gen)/@comment-1780011-20150319143615

I think its great to see Velocidrome back but I also feel they just missed the mark of making him something special. For one it's always kind of bothered me that a lot of the monsters from older games retain a lot of their animations which look sloppy when you compare them to newer monsters.

It's little things like how he still hops on the spot to turn to face you which I think looks really awkward and would have been better if they just changed it so he turned like Great Jaggi. Also his pouncing looks a little awkard cause its still the old animation whereas his new attack where he steps back and lunges forward with a bite looks great. I think they could have done with giving him a few more attacks like Great Jaggi such as tail slaps or a few more bites. It would have also been nice if he could command the velociprey like Great Jaggi (drome can call more velociprey but as far as I know he can't make them all attack you at once like Jaggi does) however I think it's awesome how velociprey will swamp you if you get pinned. It's a shame he's really bad at aiming his pin though.

It's great to see him with a rage mode and to have him limp though and his colours are really nice, his hands look really weird to me though almost like they're too big for him. I'm not a fan of the music because the "drome" theme isn't bad persay like I think it suits seltas but the fact they took away the dog wyvern's theme and the fanged beasts' theme away for it is annoying. The typical drome theme from 3 would have suited Velocidrome and the other two dromes in this game fine.

Lastly, probably my main issue is his armor looks awful, I don't know why they kept the design the same when it looks like it came out of a old PS2 game (because it did) and what's worse is they don't even change the design for G Rank for any of the dromes. I wouldn't use it just on how ugly it looks.

Still, great to see him back, I hope if he comes back in future games that they improve his animations, armor and give him a few more tricks.