User blog comment:Aandrew07/Discussion of the Week: Monster Variants/@comment-1011548-20121201212338

'Give Loss a break'. Hah. I'm not some bumbling old fool yet!

Monster variants is a good idea for a DotW though. And it's a good idea by Capcom as well; it's only a little thing, and they didn't have to go to the effort, but it's always nice to have more variety amongst monsters.

Of course one can't forget Frontier's HC variants, but I'll probably cover those myself in a couple of weeks.

Regarding the questions: - Golden Rajang is my favourite, it's just fun to see an already OTT monster go completely insane. Fun fight as well. One-Eared Garuga is a complete cosmetic thing, so that's probably my least favourite.

- Rusted Kushala is probably the most interesting just because of the whole skin-shedding thing, and how they acknowledged that that actually happens.

- I would have a variant of Silver Rathalos with some snapped off tail spikes and tattered wings. Just 'cause I think it'd look really cool.

- Yeah, variants would be good in later games, for the same reasons they're good now.