User blog comment:.Rakle./Monster Hunter Online Information Blog Post/@comment-6050823-20130418215339/@comment-4563270-20130418224838

personally i have only a 20% interest in this game because of visuals... but then again knowing its powered by a 3rd party engine it dropped to like 5%.. a couple of things.

A.it looks very good but lacks the mh feel.. the characters look attempted as a more realistic face and features and well mh is and should stay to a sort of jrpg 3d animation style.. basically if they wanted to make this game look good they should have made the characters look more like the cg.. i mean when i imagined a next gen mh title i imagined it looking more and more like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1XE3TYsHnI

but in game.

B. The look of the monsters themselves seem a bit... generic, same with all other aspects of the game. this is why i much prefer a tsujimoto, capcom born game not spin off mh game made by X developer using X engine not capcom related. if i wanted to play "hd" "next gen" monster hunter i'd just get skyrim.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyR99A9IGYM

monster hunter requires a bit of freshness only tsujimoto and his team can make on their own. this is also why i take it that this developer just took gen 2 monsters.. slapped on hd textures, bumped up some polys and called it a day. the fx sequences seem more interesting than the monsters themselves and that's just not monster hunter =(