User blog comment:Dracosaurian/Monster Appreciation Week: Malfestio/@comment-4969421-20160908145243

yeah xd owls I like owls too,I like animals and nature much like any other User in this Wiki. The realism and life-like creatures of the series is one of the reasons it appeals to us so much. Liking Malfestio because it's an owl is completely fine and I'm nobody to tell people why or how they should enjoy their monsters. High five to all the owl lovers out there and all that shit, I personally see things differently.

I for one play Video Games™ for fun, MH included. Sure when they introduce a monster based on a species I wanted to see MHified, I get hyped like (again) everyone else. But that doesn't mean I will end up loving it when the game comes out. Personally, when the game comes out and that said monster I was waiting for turns out to be shit, I get a little bit upset. Yes they made a [insert species here] monster, that's hype, but it's actually garbage and completely unfun to hunt. Instead of worshipping Capcom because they made a monster based on my favorite animal, I am frustrated the monster isn't good at all and they will probably never make a [insert species here] monster again, a missed opportunity pretty much. And that's what Malfestio was in my honest opinion, a big, overhyped missed opportunity. The monster that was supposed to save the Bird Wyvern class from being uninteresting, bland pieces of guano.

The design is way too simple for a Monster Hunter monster, I mean it's a godamn fucking owl on a fucking hat for crying out loud. How's that original in any way? "B-but the colors!" Fine for you if you're going to defend Capcom taking an animal, throwing a bucket of paint at it and then giving it the TF2 treatment, I am not okay with that. The clawed wings, while not fixing the unoriginal design, were a good edition but they went unused. Malfestio uses its wings when calm. They could have made them rage only but nope, let's make it as bland as it gets. Malfestio's moveset is absurdly small:wing slap, talon jab, charge, aerial charge, confusion cloud. When a fucking DROME has more attacks than a 4 Star Urgent, you know there's a problem. It's 2016, for god's sake. Capcom tries to fix this by giving it Confusion on every attack and a stupid butt dance that makes it shoot a 70 feet long sleep beam for some reason (but hey frontier is still unrealistic amirite dudes xd). Malfestio is simply not fun to hunt. At all. You can either go blademaster and cope with confusion 24/7, or you can grab a gun and shoot the bird down. Either way, it's unfun, tedious, repetitive, monotonous, uninteresting, uninspired, void, bland, dull, tasteless, soporific, tiresome and any other synonym of "boring" you can think of. The only time anyone has felt a sliver of excitement when hunting Malfestio is when they're doing their last key quest involving it, since they won't have to face this stupid bird again.

And if you thought this monster would somehow redeem itself with its equipment, think again. Malfestio equipment is the most useless monster gear in the game, barring none. Great Maccao and other critters have equipment useful for early game, however, when you fight Malfestio you either have a decent-ish armor for the offline campaign, or making new armor sets is pointless since 5 stars is right in front of your face anyways. Not that its skills make it worth anyways, they're as bad as they get. The weapons are also worthless. Sleep has always been a gimmicky ailment, and either way their terrible stats make it unusable regardless of rank.

Yeah remember when we could have decent Sleep weapons in a game with Nerscylla? This is probably the most personal remark from my comment, but I don't get how this thing got to replace Ner. Tell me 1 (one) person who didn't want him back, maybe with a deviant even. Nope, instead we're stuck with this sack of shit owl that offers nothing new aside from bullshit confusion.

Remove.