Alastor

Grunts night out is hilarious too

If you feel that way but still love the whole Monsters and world and stuff, Stories is a pretty game so far, maybe you'll like the Stories 3 demo?

Monster Hunter Portable 3rd - The quest for a good commute/break game continues, this seems perfect but also, still a commitment in the long, we'll see if I get annoyed with only playing it like an hour a day with how addictive the game is. As far as 'is this a good MH game?', yes, yes it is. If you'vep layed MH4 it's that without the verticality, it's MH3 without the swimming (well literally, I think it's Gen 3 with no swimming mechanics), it's MH Rise without the Wirebug and fucking huge maps…you get the point

Monster Hunter Stories 3 (demo)
I haven't finished either previous MHS game but I think after this I'm going to start the first one and see where I can get in the run up to this because I've like what I've played of the first game, heard the second was a big improvement and this demo feels like an improvement from that. It's such a cool way to get into the world of Monster Hunter without having to play the actual hunting game if you don't like it, I really like the visual style it's going for and the RPG mechanics seem pretty fun from what I can tell, they've manage to translate not only a ton of the Monster roster but also weapons and mechanics from the main series too

Monster Hunter Wilds (With the crew )
I have played this for '''''only''''' 80 hours, but for a MH game this is pretty low for most people, it's not that this game is bad I just didn't have a whole lot to do at the time, the engame when I stopped playing was hunting the same two monsters forever for RNG drops. But MHP3 and MHS3 got me in the mood to go back to this and honestly I had a blast, we tried Gogmazios for the first time, who if you don't know is the giant Wyvern from MH4 that is covered in oil and has weapons stuck to it that it uses to fire at you. In this game it's an event quest with 4 hunters and 4 AI hunters and the goal is to hunt it and charge up a railgun by manually plugging wires into it to blast it. We didnt get the kill tonight because after a long break we're kinda' unprepared for the fight but the fight itself gets a thumbs up from me!

My time away from this game made the menus feel clunky as SHIT though, and the hubs assaulted me with al ot of new tutorials for stuff they added since I left and people with an '!' over their head, it was a bit overwhelming but on the other hand, I guess there's finally a lot of content in this game for me now

RIP to my Monster Hunter Tri playthrough on the Odin 2 which died when happened to the Odin 2 itself

Fire Red and Leaf Green reportedly up on the eshop for £20, I think considering how much I paid for my Leaf Green cartridge this is a bargain but people seem to be mixed on it, either way, pretty huge imo, these are amazing games

Xenoblade X is great, but it really is about exploring the open world. I don't think anyone rates the story or main quests at all, the more I did the side quests the more I started to hate it until I just flew around on my mech again and realised I liked it. (you won't get to fly for a while) So don't expect anything on that front, though some quests unlock important stuff.

The open world is pretty breathtaking though, and you can explore pretty much all of it if you can survive the wildlife, the game has no fall damage and also weird mountain goat physics on slopes which make it pretty barrier free, it's designed by the people who did the map in BOTW and it shows. When you get a mech and unlock flight it's a pretty unmatched feeling.