User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter Frontier Season Forward 4/@comment-1758220-20120419000351/@comment-1758220-20120420210634

Yeah, I'd be fine with it being ugly if it weren't so derivitive. In fact, the ugliness is not even close to being the reason why I have a problem with this monster. As an artist (I really hate saying that) I'm able to distinguish a good design from a bad one. A creature can have an ugly, off-putting design without actually being poorly designed, and it can work very well. When I say it's "ugly" I don't mean it's not beautiful and shiny, I mean it's not a good design.

I guess it could have the same basic movements as a Tri leviathan, but what's with the whole effort to merge 3rd gen into Frontier? I always found most of Frontier and its monsters to have a unique feel to it/them that was inherently different from the rest of the series. Now if we're just throwing in concepts, animations, etc from Tri for the new monsters, it makes them feel like a leviathan from Tri, which although it creates a sense of unity in the series, it sort of stops the uniqueness that you see with a lot of Frontier's monsters.

For example, take Tigrex and Dyuragua. Sure they're both Pseudowyverns with the same basic structure, but look at how Dyuragua attacks, look how it moves, look at the way it charges, etc. Now look at Abiorugu and Deviljho. They too are the same basic structure, but Abio nicks a lot more off the Jho design than Dyura did from Rex. The same can be said for Espinas and Guren, who both sport enough movements and attacks to make them different from the rest of the wyverns. When I fight Espinas or Dyuragua, I feel like I'm fighting a Frontier monster, I don't feel like I'm playing MHFU. When I watch the videos of Abio, I feel like I'm watching them fight a Brute from Tri.

I'm not sure how much sense I made just now, but hopefully you can see where I'm coming from. And granted, we haven't seen anything about this monster in terms of gameplay, so there is always the chance they tried to separate him more this time from his source material.