DO NOT BUY Monster Hunter Rise on PC - Terrible Game

Hello, welcome back

to a new video game review. Today I'll be

reviewing the new Monster Hunter Rise on

the PC. So I've been playing this game for

a few hours now and it's just not really

good, to be honest. So in this video

review, I'll be firstly giving my first

impressions and then my thoughts and

opinions on the game, and then finally my

score of the game and whether I can give

it my stamp of approval or not. Okay, so

first of all, I'll be mainly comparing

this game to New World because it shares a

lot of things with New World and there's

lots of similarities that we can compare.

Upon beginning the game, you will first be

greeted by a character select menu where

you can choose from a selection of

different classes. They all have different

things. Nothing really surprising here.

You know, the bog standard classes. You

got the melee weapons, you got the ranged

weapons, the bow and arrow. The shielded

ones, the more tanky ones, the more agile

and fast fighting ones. And as you can

see, the armor styles in the game look

kind of stupid. All of the armor just

looks ridiculous, like you're some kind of

Gundam or Transformer. It looks really

impractical. It looks really bulky and

heavy. And I just really don't like the

art design for the armor in this game.

Now, the graphics are not very good

either. Coming from playing New World for

over 200 hours, My eyes were just really

shocked and insulted by the poor graphic

fidelity of this game. Now, I don't know

about you, but when I checked the release

date for this game, I'm pretty sure it

said October of 2021.

That's the release date for the demo

version. The release date for the actual

game is in 2022, January. And if you're

telling me these are the graphics for a

game that's supposed to be released in

2022 You have got to be kidding me. Look

at the graphics. It looks like it was

released on the Dreamcast. It looks like

graphics back from 2005. The graphics are

so bad in this game. I cannot believe it's

a new modern age game. Everything about

the graphics is just lacking in luster.

There's really bad shadow effects.

There's really bad lighting. The dynamic

lighting is almost nonexistent compared to

New World where you've got beautiful

shadows and actual reflective lighting

coming off of sources of lighting like the

sun and the moon and campfires. This game

just cannot hold a candle to the lighting

effects in New World. It looks so flat and

dull. The textures are just really poor as

well. If you look at the objects close up,

you can see they're very poorly low

quality rendered. And yeah, there's just

not really much positive things to say

about the graphics. Next, the user

interface also looks really bad and old.

Look at the health bars and all the bars

and the minimap and all this clutter and

junk all over the screen. The minimap and

the health bar is just way too big.

There's way too many colors. There's way

too many bars. And you could argue that

this is just Japanese design style,

because if you look at everything that's

Japanese made, you can see a very

recurring theme when it comes to design.

You can see it on their websites. You can

see it on their television programs. The

design is just very, very colorful. If

you've watched any kind of Japanese

programming before on TV, you also see

that they love to just bombard you with as

much information as possible. Subtitles

everywhere, little flashing things popping

up here and there everywhere. And instead

of picking a color theme, they just decide

to use every single color in the rainbow.

And you'll notice a massive difference

between Western games and Japanese games

when it comes to color, style, design,

the temperature of the game. Usually

Western games go for a a kind of lighting

style. They pick 2 primary colors and a

few secondary colors to complement each

other. Japanese games and Japanese media

are just the complete opposite of that,

and as a Westerner, this is just very

garish on the eyes. It's like someone just

vomited out every single color of the

rainbow. So yeah, needless to say, I

wasn't really impressed with the user

interface either. Just way too much going

on, very cluttered, just kind of gets in

the way. And the minimap just looks

terrible. Half the time I couldn't even

tell where I was on the minimap because

there's so much little things moving about

on it. It wasn't really helpful, and

there's way too many scrolling menus and

items you have to select from. Now onto

the gameplay. Is the gameplay any good?

Well, frankly, no. I wasn't very impressed

by the gameplay either. Lots of

similarities can be drawn between Monster

Hunter Rise's gameplay and New World's

gameplay. After playing New World for

hundreds of hours, I can easily say that

the gameplay and the combat system in

Monster Hunter Rise is like a poor man's

version of New World. It does a lot of

similar things. For example, there's

dodging and rolling, there's blocking,

there's winding up heavy attacks. All of

the gameplay in the game just felt really

clunky, unresponsive, and slow. I did not

feel like I was having a fun time playing

the game fighting the monsters. And in a

game where it's all about fighting the

monsters, you'd think that— you'd think

that this would be the best bit of the

game, but unfortunately I cannot say that

either. I had more fun just running about

and jumping up and down because the

gameplay in this game is really

frustrating. So most of the time you'll be

hunting these really big monsters, these

big dragons, and these are the quest

objectives. You've got to hunt down these

big monsters, find them, fight them, and

hopefully take them down. The problem is

they're so big, the camera just kind of

spazzes out all the time. It's hard to

focus on them properly. Their movements

are so sporadic and unpredictable. Half

the time you'll be trying to hopelessly

flail your weapon at it, trying to get a

hit, and then half the time you're just

missing. The other annoying thing about

fighting these monsters is when they hit

you really hard, you get thrown really

far, and half the time you just spend on

your back getting pushed around, thrown

around, flung around, trying to get back

up onto your feet so you can try and get

some hits in on the monster, and then it

just winds up another sweeping attack and

then you get knocked over again. Half the

time I was just trying to stand on my feet

and not get knocked over. It's just really

annoying. It's also really difficult to

tell how close you are to actually taking

the monster down because from what I could

see, I could not see any kind of enemy

health bar that indicates how much damage

I've done to the monster, how much health

he has left, and how long until he finally

dies. And after just whacking it over and

over and over again, it keeps running

away, which is really annoying. So there's

different stages in the fight, and once

you've taken enough of its HP down, it

will start running, and then you've got to

chase it down, follow it to the next area.

And this just happens over and over again.

I don't know how many times it's going to

run away. Maybe a couple of times until it

finally gives up and you can take it down

for good. But I never got to that point,

so I don't know. If I had to give some

suggestions on how the game could be

improved, I would say it would be nice if

the monster just stayed in one place most

of the time. It'd be nice if it didn't

keep jumping up and down and flying off

and rolling about. It's just really

frustrating keeping your character locked

onto the enemy and trying to get hits on

it. And there's other things you would

expect from a game like this. There's also

collecting, so you can collect mushrooms

and plants and herbs. You can also skin

the monsters and then use the materials to

craft things just like any other game in

this category. Unfortunately, the crafting

system just doesn't quite meet up to my

standards, especially after playing New

World, which has a really in-depth,

interesting crafting system. The crafting

system in this game is just not very

interesting. And the crazy thing is this

game is actually more expensive than New

World. I think this game is about £50 or

£60. Whereas New World is only £35.

So for half the price, you could get New

World, which is better in almost every

way. It has way better graphics, way

better combat system, plus it's an MMO

where you can play with thousands or

hundreds of other people and group up and

team up for dungeons. Plus the developer

team is going to keep releasing new

content and expansions and endgame stuff

for New World. So I don't really see why

you'd buy this Monster Hunter Rise it's

just like a poor man's version of New

World in my opinion. So that's what I

thought. I would give it a score of 1.8

out of 10. I wouldn't give it a 0 because

there are some nice things about it. I

think the monsters do look kind of cool,

and I like the world. The music's nice. I

like the Japanese theme. As someone who

lived in Japan for quite a few years and

is very interested and into Japanese

culture, I quite admire this, you know,

Japanese aspects of it. Kind of think of

it as a weeb version of New World.