User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Monster Hunter Frontier G/@comment-5020152-20140331002307

1) My favorite update was probably the first - MHFG1, that is. It introduced a whole slew of new monsters, a wicked new area in the Polar Sea (far too similar to the Frozen Sea, but it is by far my favorite of the two), and some really cool new moves that could be pulled of with seemingly familiar weapons.

2) Favorite monster? Baruragaru. It's so cool that it shoved Nargacuga out of her position as my second-favorite monster of all time (while Plesioth still reigns as No. 1). Let me just say it - it's a Leviathan that the Frontier managed to fit into the role usually filled by the likes of Khezu and Gigginox... and made it about a hundred times creepier than both of them combined. While I'm normally sort of squeamish, and I hate any kind of horror or gory media, Baruragaru's rather unique (and freakishly morbid) niche is precisely why I love it so much. The spine-tingling gurgle it emits, the deadly and almost nightmarishly creepy tongue, and the fact that it can absorb other monsters' abilities and use them itself, all combine to make a monster that, out of every monster in the Frontier series, deserves to make an appearance in one of the main games.

That said... Anorupatisu is my second-favorite of the FG beasts. A sawfish wyvern? Tell me that isn't awesome.

I believe Zerueusu deserves a mention as well. While I'm definitely not a fan of some of the "sort-of-Subspecies-but-technically-not" monsters the Frontier team has come out with recently (*cough* Diorekkusu *cough*), I still like Zerueusu. He's elegant, powerful, and uses radiation to attack - who doesn't love that?

3) Dhisufiroa. Good. F*cking. God.

I'll spare you all the rant that is fighting to make its way out of my vocal chords.

4) The soundtracks... dear lord, the SOUNDTRACKS! This update probably introduced some of the best music in the entire MH series. I'm going to come right out and say it - the new G-Rank Jungle and Swamp themes are my favorites. The Jungle theme is so lively and has a wonderful composition, while the Swamp theme is so appropriately ominous that it sends a delightful chill up my spine every. Single. Time.

Which is part of the reason why Baruragaru is so darn creepy. Music makes all the difference.