This is a rip-off with such an amazing potential it’s a shame it was handled so poorly: all the unnecessary level grinding, endurance system and other generic MMO grind shenanigans clearly express how little this chinese company understands the success of Monster Hunter’s formula.

Unfortunately, Capcom isn’t the wiser and keeps sticking to a business model from the dinosaur era of IP blocks and extreme prejudice towards anything that isn’t japanese, not to mention having made extremely little innovation despite eight years since its first installment, and has instead stuck into recycling everything and adding one or two items or features and selling it full price as a new game.

This was a huge opportunity to bring out an interesting game model not only outside Japan, but to the PC market in particular which has always been shunned by the series. It was missed by not understanding what made Monster Hunter unique and instead playing it safe by churning out another boring grindfest devoid of soul.

And yet I find it extremely funny how an unknown chinese rip-off incapable to understand how to make a game that doesn’t bore people to tears has made the best dynamic camera since the beginning of the series. It baffles me how even in Monster Hunter Frontier Capcom was incapable of understanding that PCs have a mouse, and instead ported its console controls by pretending the keyboard was a joypad. I sometimes wonder if japanese developers have ever seen a PC.