User blog comment:Plexioth- xD/Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate/@comment-195450-20120915153044/@comment-1758220-20120916202502

I don't think it's a feature the game pushes on you too hard. I think it's there if you want to do it but the game won't make you. That's hardly a deal breaker if you ask me.

And as alien as the game looks to us now, I feel like it may be the revolutionary step forward the series needs to prevent becoming stale. I remember people took one look at the underwater combat in the very first trailer for Tri and hated it (myself included) now it's an engrained demension of gameplay for the series and nobody thinks twice about it.

I'm not sold on MH4 either, but I'm going to hold off on saying it "ruined the franchise" until I've seen everything there is to see.