Thought a lot about Gen5 in general and here are my thoughts, coming from Tri.
This is my personal opinion. If you like Rise or World as it is, it's okay, you don't have to agree with me.
But these thoughts come with my experience how I discovered this franchise, and how it is now turning into something else.
Don't forget your old Hunters capcom.
We would love to stay for what we fell in love with
Not for massappeall.

We start with the positivs:
- Plenty of Monsters, old and new, many with new or enhanced attacks.
- Armors and Weapons looking really good (Especially the weapons compared to Worlds).
- Graphic is beautiful.
- Kamura is such a calm and nice village. Can recommend the music DLC's. Real bangers.
- Hinoa & Minoto.
- Maps are great Remakes. It's such a nice feel to see parts of the old World blending together in an non-lodescreen Map. That's pretty cool tbh.
- Endgame is there, with Sunbreak. If you try to get many R10 weapons, you gotta grind a lot of afflicted Monsters to get the Materials. Still, people complain and getting one meta set.
- Music and Artstyle is lovely. Like the adding of choirs and the Japanese Art Style of the Questbook, Quest Complete Screen etc. is such a nice touch.
- Wirebug is fun but a bit over the top sometimes.

Now to the fun part: What I dislike:
And this will probably piss of so many Gen5 newcomers, and they're are the loudest out there.

- Monsters are way to easy.
That has been said millions of times but hear me out:
The game got too fast in a bad way.
They gave hunters so much mobility that Monster don't know how to counter it.
Master Rank improved Monsters speed: and that's a problem.

The game turns into a hack and slash.
Your damage is more important than preparation or positioning.
Where is the feel older Monster Hunter titles have, where you gotta make sure to not stand at certain points or place your attacks more precisely?
It's coming from that enourmes speed and I don't think that fit's Monster Hunters style.
I don't want clunky combat, don't get me wrong, but reduce the speed.
Call me boomer but that trend that everything has to be fast is trash.
It doesn't fit Monster Hunter for me.
It feels weird but maybe that's where this franchise goes and I have to simply dropout if it isn't for me anymore.
I say to the newcomers that don't have this perspective, and old hunter that may understand what I mean.
Monster flinch way to easy. 2 players can stunlock most Monsters even without the HBG.
It's pretty disgusting.
Wyvernriding is fun but also busted and almost the same issue like the clutch claw:
You missing out on dmg if you don't use it, but not using for the reason of "you don't have to use it" is handicapping yourself which is not part of the player.
But you'll be fine without so may just skip that.

- It's all about Damage and the Race
Damage numbers are an big indicator for that.
It's all about DPS, DPS, DPS. How boring is that.
So little do fun builds and try creative ones with all the different skills.
All they do is Attack and Affinity Residentsleeper.
That's common in older titles as well, yes, but why even bother with so many skills if the player just uses a handfull of them.

Ah yeah, Monsters are shown on the map.
Like everything else.
From the get go.

Wait what?
We supposed to hunt them.
When you hunt something you normally don't know where it is.
World did a okay-ish way with footprints.
I liked that you still have to search them, and unlock Map markers with a higher skill.
But every Monster always on map?
That's trash, sorry. It's just another indicator for slay slay slay.
There is no hunt feel anymore.
Quest's are literally one Monster after another.
No gathering needed, no exploring needed.
Just go and kill stuff. That is not what made me like this franchise in the slightest.
Heck, you even see when a Monster is capturable, something you had to look out for yourself back in the days.

- Refill items and change Equipment while on Quest
That one grinds my gears since World because that as well makes the game easier.
Way easier. Easy is not bad, but that is also something I liked in the past and can't enjoy now.
I know, a lot like it cause QOL, I understand, okay.
But the ability to refill or even change whole sets makes any preparation obsolete.
And preparation was always a key figure for my experience in Monster Hunter games or am I mistaken? You have what you bring. Forgot antidots? Your bad. Run out of heals? Collect some or get out.
Now every monkey just can outheal any "difficult" Monster going back and forth. Sorry, what?
When you saw a dude with Alatreon armor you know that guy had to have some skill.
This show off what you achieved and how far you got (I don't mean bragging) just became nonexistent.
Don't get me started with layered armor.
Now you know even less ♥♥♥♥ about your fellow hunters.
Just give me an option like: Show Layered armor YES / NO.
Thank you.

- Item droprate
You're bombarded with items.
So much and so many that you can almost make a whole set from one kill.
That gets better with Master Rank or even High Rank I must say but even then.
How many times I got a jewel or higher from my palico from a side Monster is disgusting.
Isn't the dealbreaker, just another point.


I don't want to rant, I like Rise / Sunbreak for what it is.
I still enjoy it even with my complains.
As long as I don't take it as a Monster Hunter.
Because it's not.
At least not what made me love this franchise.
It's still there and I have high hopes for Gen6.
I accept Gen5 now as it is but I hate the direction this is going.
And maybe I'm not the only one with that on the mind.
I care a lot about this franchise.