Recent reviews by Score Magala

Edit: Enigma DRM has been added to a game that's been out two years, which has broken support for Steam Deck. DRMs are notorious for tanking performance and get cracked day one, without fail. There is no reason for them to exist. Ignore everything else about this review, because until Capcom stops their hate boner for mods and removes these DRMs... Stay the ♥♥♥♥ away.

This is my first game where I really wish Steam had a mixed review option. Cause for every positive, there sure is a negative.

Pros

+Armor and weapons look great. The weapons actually look different and unique this time, whereas in World, they were just tufts of fur on iron/bone.

+Followers added in Sunbreak make it much better for solo players. Especially when you factor in that the servers for RiseBreak will one day crash and burn. Just wish it was available for every quest.

+Transmog, baby! Layered armor and weapons are always fun to see, even if the outfit tokens are a chore to snag

+The new monsters look fantastic. They're varied, too, instead of just being "oops all scales!" like with World. Spiders, birds, sumo platypus, sirens, yetis, oh my!

+Monster list is colorful across the board. Both new and old monsters aplently, with updated move sets for monsters that DESPERATELY needed it. Lookin at you, Basarios. Strange choice to add young versions of monsters and not their older ones, like Zamtrios, though.

+YOU CAN RIDE DOGS INTO BATTLE GAH I LOVE IT

+My boys, the Magalas, are back. Instant plus.

+The world is pretty and the characters are charming. Fiorayne, my beloved.

+Bring more Frontier monsters to the main franchise, Capcom. Espinas and Flaming Espinas are fantastic, they fit right in with the rest of the cast, I love them.

+Skill swaps make weapons much more customizable and combat way more varied. They're the Styles of Gen but reworked and I never not want them in future MH games. You hit gold with these. Keep em comin.

Cons

-Spirit birds can burn in hell. I don't want to spend five minutes to run around the map and gather the remaining pieces of what eating meals should be. Without them, they make the fights much longer, a problem that should be alleviated by, again, eating. There's a reason why the most used mod is to place the rainbow bird right at the starting point.

-Palamutes are great, but they sideline palicos hard. If you don't use a palamute in multiplayer, you'll get left behind quite a bit. Plus, they kinda fill the role palicos already do. Damage, support, etc. I'd love for em to come back, but reworked in some way. As it stands, no real negative for using them over cats, and that sucks.

-They made skills stuck to specific deco levels. Why. Who does that benefit? Handicraft, a skill I've grown to adore, can only be crafted with lvl 3 and lvl 4 jewels. So, if you want even a tiny bit more sharpness, you gotta burn a lvl 4 slot for it, which leads to my next point.

-Weapons feel much more brittle than their previous incarnations. I can't put my finger on it, but the sharpness meter feels like it degrades much faster. Hence why handicraft, a skill meant to raise sharpness, and grinder, a skill meant to reduce sharpening time, are kinda a necessity now.

-The sense of scale and weight that WorldBorne really delivered on is gone. Weapons don't feel like they have weight to them anymore, monsters feel shrink wrapped and squished down, and the world just does not feel alive. Hell, monsters will show up just for wyvern riding, then aren't seen again. World made you really feel like a hunter. This just makes you feel like a psychic warrior. Not a fan.

-WorldBorne's mixing pot, where you can make rare monster parts in exchange for tickets, is gone. Hope you like hunting Rathalos for that one ruby 47 times again.

-Rampage is fun, in theory, but is just a slog without other people.

-The content updates really sucked. They drip fed monsters in, one at a time, and then just started giving us risen monsters. They weren't even updates, but Capcom REALLY wanted to make a big deal out of adding one recolored monster. Don't ever do it like this again.

-Wirebugs. This game's core gimmick. I liked it, at first, but now, it really helps take away the weight of weapons. You zip around like Spider-Man and makes you feel faster, but it makes the game feel more like a boss rush than an actual hunt. The great sword, the heaviest weapon one can wield, now is like a butter knife with the wirebugs. I hope they never bring this back.

-The save deletion bug that Capcom STILL HASN'T FIXED. It is very easy to sink hundreds of hours into a Monster Hunter game. This one is no different. So, how would you feel if a thousand hour save just poofed one day, for no reason. That's a quit moment. This bug has been around since Sunbreak's launch and Capcom just refuses to fix it. This alone makes RiseBreak an instant pass in my book.

I could go on, but it ultimately boils down to RiseBreak being just okay. It's such a mixed bag that I find myself loving and hating parts of it, instead of saying I love or hate the game. The most meh Monster Hunter game I have ever played. That save deletion bug, though, until it gets fixed, give Sunbreak a hard pass.

AI for enemies has two modes. Non-existent and unfair. No in-between.

AI for allies is just always non-existent.

It makes PvE damn near insufferable at higher ranks.

So generous of Activision Blizzard to burn four years and kill their original, much better, game on three paid missions that can be completed in an hour with no replay-ability. /s

I have been here since the launch day of Overwatch back in 2016, with 800+ hours, for every step to get to this point. To say it has fallen from grace is the biggest understatement of our lifetimes. The original was forcibly ripped away from all who paid for it and was replaced with... Whatever the hell this is.

It's clear Activision Blizzard want nothing more than to milk as much money from players as possible. And with how hard the OW community is coping over the negative reviews, AB has their cows.

The community refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of any of these reviews, calling it harsh, undeserved, and troll behavior. They are stuck in the mindset of 2016, of when things looked bright and hopeful. They're delusional, unable to accept reality. I will say this, though...

Don't blame the devs, blame the higher ups, like Bobby Suckscocks. They are the ones who killed the original Overwatch, turned the game into a predatory hell, ruined their employees lives, gave empty and broken promises, and don't care what it takes to get an extra penny.

This is not an indie company and they sure don't care about you, only your wallet. So don't die defending a product of the Cosby Suite Company, when they will treat you like they do their own employees.

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A mandatory paid fix for a problem Bethesda created.

There is a bug in this, that's been around since launch, that will randomly delete characters.

So, if you've sunken hundreds of hours into one character, which if you've played a MH game before you will, and it just ♥♥♥♥♥♥ poofs... That's a quit moment. That's a "I'm not playing through your ♥♥♥♥ games anymore, Capcom" moment. And Capcom either doesn't know(highly unlikely since almost every review on Steam is talking about it) or doesn't care cause they already have your money(very likely)

However, it's a good expansion, but that little bug is a major killer that can't be overlooked. I don't know if they'll ever actually fix it and since the final content update already occurred... It's lookin less likely every day.

My aching fingers

One of the greatest games I have ever played and will go down in history as one of the best

Yes, I'm a virgin, how can you tell?

It makes my OCD violent