User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-1668522-20131006114312/@comment-5020152-20131007120848

@RevolverDragon: First of all, you're right - Yian Garuga's freaking awesome, a much better fight than Yian Kut-Ku, Gypceros, and all those overgrown poultry.

Second of all, I'm a fan of the monster with the most unfair hitboxes known to man, but at least I respect other people's opinions when they say things like "Plesioth sucks" or "that Hip Check is terrible".

Dire Miralis is nothing like Crimson Fatalis. C.Fatalis might be a really cool-looking classic Western dragon, but it's slow as hell and can kill you with a flex of his pinkie. The fight basically looks like this from what I've seen: "slash-dodge-slash-dodge-slash-mess up-get hit by toe-die instantly-rinse and repeat". Its a fight that takes too long and that keeps you on your toes for the sole reason that one mess-up will decrease your quest reward by a third.

Miralis, however, doesn't hit as hard and is a bit faster. He keeps you on your toes for an entirely different reason. There are fireballs flying everywhere and he's constantly changing terrain, forcing you to continuously change your fighting and movement style. Now that's a hunt.

And if MH4 was more like MHFO, the monsters would all be ridiculously powerful and have seriously unfair movesets.

Change is inevitable. Just because you don't like the new monsters being introduced to Monster Hunter doesn't mean everyone else doesn't as well. Express your opinion by all means, but don't go around claiming they're all rip-offs of older monsters. They're not.