User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Nargacuga (5th Gen)/@comment-37617547-20200216065401

The good ol' Nargacuga. After Generations/Generations Ultimate's Nargacuga, which wasn't exactly at it's best shape (though I found G-Rank Narga quite scary honestly), it returns in this game, in Iceborne, at it's best shape.

While I was skeptical at first due to base World's notoriously bad habit of ruining many returning monsters, experiencing Nargacuga in Iceborne's beta was probably my best experience in my whole career in the series, as it gave me hope for Iceborne (and luckily, my hopes were mostly right except for one issue that I'll cover much later after this).

Enough chit chat, let's begin: Nargacuga's gameplay changes in this game are relatively simple, just a couple of new tail moves that might cause you serious trouble if you're not paying attention. And finally, the tailspikes inflict bleeding and can act as some sort of mine traps. My criticisms are two: first, it only does the wingslash once and that's it, they could have given it a doible homing winglashes. Second, the Odogaron like walk could have been chained into all other attacks. But overall, it's an improvement over the older Nargacugas.

Have no preferance when it comes to it's growls, but I definetely really love it's new BGM, which has some Pokke melodies on it.

I still perfer Barioth over Nargacuga, but Narga still managed to be a great monster on it's own.

Next weeks comes my first wall in my series's career!