Pros~

- Detail in character design, aka your hunter, is very very good .

- MC finally have a voice! Same as your palico

- Easier gathering ( no need to crouch like you are po*ping for materials and take 5 seconds. Now its 1 sec )

- Mixmatch attire ( can wear both male / female )

- Single player mode ( at least its something? )

- NPC are lovable and at least you can para-social attached your love to them.

- The monsters design are very good and unique. The sound design from the monsters is even better

Cons~

- I am sure everyone has been saying the optimisation is sh*t. Yes its dogsh*t. It doesnt even make sense how my VRAM is not even hit the minimum and yet it still dips.

- Colour correction is definitely weird here. For me, it look washed ( wash being the game looks like you put in Photoshop, go to Exposure and if offset is 0, this looks like +0.0250 )

- Must use frame generation

- Despite having a voice for MC, IF I AM NOT MISTAKEN, there is only 1 female voice, i.e voice 6. 1-5 are males.

- Dialogue pacing. Saw some streams that when one of them talks, there is like a 1 sec delay until the others speak.

- Some spoiler I check if there is a garden. You want to set up a garden asap as it helps. Apparently googling tells me you only get it after the main game? wow.....

- Saw a stream where the guy said "less tutorial". Never went away. And yes, in my games, its annoying too, popping up

Neutral

- For some weird reason, you have to be super precise ( infront of her ) with interacting with Alma. The interactive button doesnt appear if you are besides her. Same with the Seikrit. You cant go upclose and click X or O to ride. You have to specifically press the 3 buttons.

- I am not sure if this game is easy or hard. It feels really easy compare to Worlds / Rise.

- Story isnt the greatest but at least it has a strong narrative story instead of monster A appears = background story = hunt monster A, monster B appears = background story = hunt monster B

- There isnt any really good memorable OST / music that you will get attached to.

- While the UI is a better improvement than the previous games, there are some stuffs in the UI that are worse. Example: When you have your current armor and want to change to a new armor, you want to check out what is the new skill + what does it do. Instead of pressing 1 button to check it, you have to press the sub menu, select skill and then checking what the skill does. Also I am not a fan of how there is a comparison armor/weapon skill when left is current and right is replaced when World / Rise ingrain us to just see 1 tablet to show what skill is added and remove

Since I am 10 hrs in and in chapter 2, I'll add / remove some of these points but as it stands, it feels weirdly correct . Finish the main story campaign. Still relying on the mods to give me a 20-40FPS boost by removing / lowering behind the scene processing

[b]Pros~[/b] - Detail in character design, aka your hunter, is [b] very very good [/b]. - MC finally have a voice! Same as your palico - Easier gathering ( no need to crouch like you are po*ping for materials and take 5 seconds. Now its 1 sec ) - Mixmatch attire ( can wear both male / female ) - Single player mode ( at least its something? ) - NPC are lovable and at least you can para-social attached your love to them. - The monsters design are very good and unique. The sound design from the monsters is even better [b]Cons~[/b] - I am sure everyone has been saying the optimisation is sh*t. Yes its dogsh*t. It doesnt even make sense how my VRAM is not even hit the minimum and yet it still dips. - Colour correction is definitely weird here. For me, it look washed ( wash being the game looks like you put in Photoshop, go to Exposure and if offset is 0, this looks like +0.0250 ) - Must use frame generation - Despite having a voice for MC, IF I AM NOT MISTAKEN, there is only 1 female voice, i.e voice 6. 1-5 are males. - Dialogue pacing. Saw some streams that when one of them talks, there is like a 1 sec delay until the others speak. - Some spoiler [spoiler] I check if there is a garden. You want to set up a garden asap as it helps. Apparently googling tells me you only get it after the main game? wow..... [/spoiler] - Saw a stream where the guy said "less tutorial". Never went away. And yes, in my games, its annoying too, popping up [b] Neutral [/b] - For some weird reason, you have to be super precise ( infront of her ) with interacting with Alma. The interactive button doesnt appear if you are besides her. Same with the Seikrit. You cant go upclose and click X or O to ride. You have to specifically press the 3 buttons. - I am not sure if this game is easy or hard. It feels really easy compare to Worlds / Rise. - Story isnt the greatest but [b]at least[/b] it has a strong narrative story instead of monster A appears = background story = hunt monster A, monster B appears = background story = hunt monster B - There isnt any really good memorable OST / music that you will get attached to. - While the UI is a better improvement than the previous games, there are some stuffs in the UI that are worse. Example: When you have your current armor and want to change to a new armor, you want to check out what is the new skill + what does it do. Instead of pressing 1 button to check it, you have to press the sub menu, select skill and then checking what the skill does. Also I am not a fan of how there is a comparison armor/weapon skill when left is current and right is replaced when World / Rise ingrain us to just see 1 tablet to show what skill is added and remove [strike] Since I am 10 hrs in and in chapter 2, I'll add / remove some of these points but as it stands, it feels weirdly correct[/strike] . Finish the main story campaign. Still relying on the mods to give me a 20-40FPS boost by removing / lowering behind the scene processing