Just played the Beta now (only the tutorial an single player missions as I could not connect in multiplayer for some reason). I was never a massive MH fan, but did play a couple PSP and 3DS versions and the Wii (Tri) version.
- Love the new visuals (finally the game looks better than something released during the PS2 era).
- Controls are roughly the same, with issues and all. The combat still feels a bit slugish for my taste but the camera control is at least far better.
- Helping felines are a huge plus
- Fireflies make tracking pointless... feels a bit like hand holding for me
- The story will be a pointless filler just like in 4
- Massive amount of content was given and this is obvious from the Beta as well
- Levels seem highly dinamic when it comes down to monsters. There are plenty of smaller bugs and weird behaviour, but that was always the case with MH. Never the less environments are a HUGE step up.
- No in-level loadings
All in all IMO it looks like a pretty big leap in the right direction. If there was one thing I did not like, it is the firefly tracking. It makes things way to easy and I am in no way a hardcore MH player.
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