User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Xeno'jiiva/@comment-25119729-20180827213233

Xeno'Jiva is yet another shit final boss and quite honestly the most boring to me. Nothing about its fight is in any way exciting or challenging. Its sheer size means that unless you back yourself into a corner, almost every attack can be dodges or avoided all together, because it doesn't have a single move it doesn't heavily telegraph. Unless you aren't paying attention or are not familiar with its moves, there is no way in hell that you will get hit less alone have to heal during this fight. The most damage this thing pumps out is from the FIREBLIGHT you get from walking over heated terrain ffs. Its entire flight mode is a gimmick you are supposed to abuse, so it never even gets the chance to do anything with it. Was this entire thing designed for the baby boy casuals that World try to reel into the MH franchise?

The visual design is nothing to good either. For the most part, it looks like your standard dragon, with the only exceptions being the claws, tail and head. The claws are only different because in addition to the normal long claw in the middle, it has two smaller claws on the sides each, which makes it look a little bit like an insect appendage. The tail literally just has two floppy skin extensions. And the head is only notacable because of the fake eyes and the proportionally long horns. The fact that it is partly see through doesn't do it any favours since there actually isn't anything interesting to see in there. Concept Art for the original Xenomorph shows how to actually make such a thing interesting. The constant glowing it has going on is honestly the best thing it has going for it, especially when it gets heated up and becomes glwoing on its entire body. To bad it doesn't change anything about the rest of it though. And to top it off both themes are mediocre at best. The frickin cutscenes that introduces it has the best version of its theme and it is never used again!

Finally the equipment. It looks awful except for the cat armor (and even that one is kind of meh depending if you like the bride theme). The only good equipment in terms of design are the male armor sets. Every weapon is just a simple bone looking design, except now there is glowing alien jizz on it. Fucking perfect. As if World didn't have enough shit designs already. And that's not speaking of the stats themselves. Power Prolonger isn't good on every weapon, being immune to blights in a game were 3 blights are only aquired by accident or by purposefully letting yourself get it, and Flinch Free deprives you of i-frames from knockbacks and doesn't negate the truly crippling effects (Roars, tremors, stuns and paralysis). The weapons meanwhile smuggle themselves in completly random trees and have both shitty raw damage, below average dragon element and low Elder Seal to boot. Who the hell is supposed to use it?

Xeno'Jiva is honestly a dissappointmend on every level. Nothing is good. Nothing memorible. Quite honestly Vaal Hazak should have been the final boss.