User blog comment:Aandrew07/Discussion of the Week: Flagship Monsters/@comment-5033245-20120726084717

Rathalos is still awesome - and playing from the beginning like many of us have - holds a special place.

Kushala Daora Is sleek and menacing and I'm glad that the most 'dragony' cover monster wasn't a Fatalis. I've always thought Fatalis just looks too obvious.

Tigrex is king. The design matches the fight perfectly - it's aggressive and powerful no nonsense stuff. I can't think of another monster that acts as exactly as it looks. Brilliant design and the perfect monster to take the series up a notch.

Nargacuga is gorgeous and moody but for what's my favourite game in the series it's my least favourite cover art - I don't think they catch it particularly well as the psp box is the wrong shape for the monster. Maybe a towering Shen-Gaoren would have been better?

Lagiacrus did it's job brilliantly - as soon as I saw it I wanted to hunt it and get the armour and the weapons. This design sold the game,a fantastic monster.

I still haven't played the newer imports so I don't want to make too many judgements on the last two but Jinouga looks interesting and, well, Bracchidios looks awful IMO.

Favourite overall? Lagiacrus for getting the job done, but somehow Rathalos is just special.