User blog comment:WolfQueen/Discussion of the Week: Related Species/@comment-1758220-20150208220239

1. I don't really know how much I like the idea of related species. Most of the time with these guys, Capcom bothers to make an all-new model and the monster's behaviour and attack patterns are so different from the original monster as to be unrecognizeable, yet they still make it look like, say, a Tigrex, when it could have been something more fresh visually. The reverse of this occasionally happens, where they make a new model that barely does anything different (Monoblos and Dah'ren Mohran). Makes me wonder if the roster spot could have been better spent on an actual brand new monster, if they're going to build a whole new model with such different animations anyway.

2. Yian Garuga is pretty cool. He's conservative and realistic in terms of design, and he sports enough new moves to feel like a different experience. This is a combination of traits that few of the monsters on this list possess. Runner up would be Farunokku. Surprisingly natural appearance for a Frontier monster, and not offensively OTT considering some of the other entires here.

3. Zerureusu and Unknown are utter dogsh*t. They're cringeworthy, fanart-tier Deviantart projects that somehow made it into an actual MH game. Stupidly OTT in terms of both design and gameplay, and to and insult to it all, act as yet ANOTHER subspecies in the Los/Ian families. Varusaburosu and Diorex are not far behind. They all look like fanart that you'd find on the Fanon wiki that was made by an edgy twelve year-old. Sometimes the Frontier B-Team can put together some great monsters worthy of the MH universe, and other times they completely drop the ball.

4. Honestly I don't think I'd care if they never do anything like this again. Just stick to monsters and subspecies, in my opinion.