It saddens me to give this game a negative review, but I have to.

The game itself was really damn good, the combat was fun, the karakuri system was just top tier and the dragon karakuri put Monster Hunter's navigation to shame. The kemono were a bit bland overall, but the last few were great.

They basically took everything that makes MH obnoxiously tedious and just threw it out the window, which was a great feat imo.

Now for the bad... The state this game released in was atrocious; I don't think I've played a game that launched in as a horrible state as this one and that really ruined my experience. I've never seen a game that ran so poorly to the point it had to run in SLOW MOTION!

A real shame it released as it did because it was great competition for the genre and it would've gotten far. But that's what you get when you choose EA as your publisher I guess.

My system:
i7 12700k
RTX 4090
64GB DDR5 6000
Asus Z790-Plus

First, I will say that this game is fun. I think the game's mechanics are good and it's graphically pleasing. I like the story line and the world itself as well as the characters. BUT, it does have a major flaw, the CRASHES. I don't recommend this game solely on the headache of trying to get it to run. I have the graphics settings on max (just like every game I have). This game constantly crashed on me. The only game of mine that does this. I verified the file integrity and it ran great for about 2 hours and then would either crash or crash my system. I lowered my RAM from 6000 to 4800 and it's been running great for two days so far. Frames are great. Though my RAM is advertised at 6000 (mainly why I bought it) it's "overclocked" to run it at 6000. It's defaulted to 4800 and I have to turn on DOCP to get 6000. But so far, it's been running without issues. My friend has this game too, his system is overclocked and this game crashes all the time. Even people without overclocked rigs have issues with this game constantly crashing. I'm not sure what's up, but the game has issues. In KOEI fashion, of course they run a sale to get people to buy a game with known issues (just look it up, it goes back years) on a game that they don't even support anymore. This is most likely the last KOEI game for me. I grew up playing ROTK on DOS, even LOVED Dynasty Warriors on console, I've been a long term fan, but after the let downs on the releases of ROTK over the last 20 years and then this to top everything off, I probably won't buy another KOEI title.

fortnite monster hunter was a OK idea, but the game is sub par in execution . trying to make complex structures in the middle of fighting a huge monster doesn't doesn't mesh well (not really surprised with it being EA and all tho) ,as you often do not get the time needed to successfully do so and even if you did the snap system used isn't very good and you will wind up putting things in the wrong place causing it to fail anyway . in short go play a good MH clone like Toukiden or God Eater and skip this one unless its ever goes on sale for like 0.50.