User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: More Elder Dragons/@comment-21371438-20140630185745

i was pretty sure of posting something in here... wasn't the discussion i was waiting for?


 * / i guess it was my uberbugged computer... or maybe i only wrote alot and closed the window before clicking the "post comment" X°D... or maybe my opinions are unwelcomen...

JUUUST KIDDING (✿> n 0)/ ~✿

leeet's go!

Number 1: the Fertility God, Jhen Mohran!

It's stronger than me, (and you'll all notice in every monster of this discussion), some monster hit some of my weakest spots of the heart, this one expecially for being a Whale, a desert Whale, you basically hunt it with a Whale-hunting ship, it pokes your unconscious, the Akhab captain inside of you WANTS to kill the Moby Dick in front of you!

and such a "moby dick" is represented by the legendary "unkillable in solo" Hallowed Jhen Mohran, the ghostly Elder dragon that will bless its slayer... such poetry...

Something i truly loved was the "pack ships" that surrounds you... you can't possibly kill it alone, and the game knows it, so, besides as game, the damage is "yours", it gives  more realistic side to the hunt

I also love its armors, "battle shrine maiden" or "warlord" design inspires me in writing fictions... stop me before i start

Number 2: the Shining titan of the Abyss, Ceadeus!

Orcas are my favourite animals (i dare someone in expecting it!) then, obviously, Whales are just below them in my heart, and adding salt to the wound, its face is a Dunkleosteus!!

let's repeat, we have a Whale dragon, whose face is a Dunkleosteus's!

i LOVE it, i LOVE its theme (expecially the first -annoying- part), i LOVE thinking how would a baby Ceadeus feed on milk like every mammal does (d'awwww~)... except that my headcanon of Elder Dragon is that none of them actually feeds (eating ore, drinking lava... and of course no loss of stamina!)

Simply, adorable, i kinda felt sad in killing the first one, i just wanted to break its horn and let him live... aww...

someone's gonna yell at me, but fact is... i didn't really like its armors design... the Egyptian one was cool and stuff, but didn't give me the "i'm wearing Ceadeus material" feeling... it made me feel... "egyptian"... there's no other way to feel, actually, lol...

Ps. No, i don't hate Egypt, Yes, it's good, but... i wanted to "wear Ceadeus" ^^;

Number 3: God's Wrath upon us!, Alatreon!

...i bet someone's gonna garrot me after the post XD, "Y U NO CALL THEM WITH THEIR CANONICAL NAMES??"... because i want to make a creative and "enjoyable-to-read" post?...

What do we have here? cheapy Daora x Fatalis mixed design?... hell, no! this one came up quite SINISTERLY unique when i first hunted him... the aggressivity, the violence, THE OMG WTF HORNS I HOPE THEY DON'T HIT ME!, the cruel elemental advantage! (which elemental def. should i pick...?... good thing i have my Lagia Z armor ^^;; ) and what about the theme? it's not "forcefully epic" or "forcefully dramatic", it's innatural, it gives you the feeling that FIRST you kill the dragon (...AS IF...), THEN run away before the entire place nukes itself (considering the volcanic area, it sliiightly fits)

i deeply deeply HATE how people (generally Genwunners) compares it to Fatalis, and as most genwunners snob it for "not being as epic", "cheap", "easier" (ha!), "weaker", "lame"... luckily (and even more sadly) the advent of Miralis made Alatreon stop being bullied

It's a totally different style!, one [did] ONESHOT you with FAIRLY EASY-TO-DODGE attacks -and could be beat by staying right under its foot!-, the other, is swifter, speeder, more violent and "breath-taking" attacks, not to mention the infamous elemental advantage, it doesn't oneshot you to avoid being a boring fight!, give him credit for this at least!

Weapons design are sooo cool, but its Swordsmaster (female) armor is horrible (unlike the gunner one)

Number 4: The Dire Meteor Dragon, Miralis!

it's really unfair how "who comes first gets all the love", while efforts on improovements to make challenges "funnier, but easier" gets totally laughed at, expecially when people never consider the core of the entire monster...

The unlucky Dire Miralis is the favorite victim of all the Gen-Bullies, Weaker than Fatalis, easier to kill (due to its tricky terrain advantage that makes it both strong and weak... and of course the 2 dragonators!), but why can't those things be considered better?

its designs are unique! and the "magma dragon in water" is just something you don't normally see around...

its design reminds me of the "Black Meteor Dragon" from the Yugioh Franchise, a scary beast from the playstation games that used to destroy the rookies... well, it DID ring a bell in my head when i saw it, and got extremely pleased of it!

little details making things good: where it crawls back, it looks like a fire dancer (hawaiian fire dancers), that pretty fits the "fire and water" concepts

it's a "Meat-In-A-Box" Monster!!! i LOVE the monsters where you break every section of body! it's so funny and "complete" <3

even the music DID its own "free from the script" feeling that only the white one of the fatalis trio had

Armor Designs are cool, primitive, makes you feel like some kind of primeval salamander knight (??)

Number 5: The Sand-cutting Pandemonium: Daren Mohran!

At first it seemed "meh, just a cheap copypaste of Jhen Mohran" by the trailers, but then (yes... yes, Pacific Rim's fault...), when fully revealed i screamed like a japanese schoolgirl in an octopus museum, SO GOOD, SO SCARY, SO MAJESTIC, it looked like a narwhal mixed to a Styracosaurus and a humpback whale (<3) just... too much to handle

what makes it special is the details (i'm in love with details<3) like "you have to break its arms to mount it", "you have to break a shell to get further on" and so on... good! GOOD.

Weapon design is MEEHish, loved to screw around with Jhen Mohran's fang-hammer, this one just doesn't give Jhen Mohran its own justice!

Number 6: From below the Tree of Life to the sky-piercing peak! Dara Amadyura!

Whoever of you know what a Linnorm is?

I'm pretty sure someone in here except me plays Dungeons & Dragons, and saw once one of these creatures i posted in here (sorry, first time i post a pic... don't punish me!), these are Linnorms, creatures from Norse Myths, they're snake-dragons thar crawl on two arms, they're extreemely powerful and vicious...

Jormungand, the snake that is said that will kill Thor on the Ragnarok

Fafnir (the "father" of the "dragons and treasures" stereothypes)

Nidhogg, The Corpse-eating snake under the tree of life (a.k.a. Zygarde for Pokémon trainers)

and so on...

Linnorms are my most favourite kind of dragons, they are SUPERB to me, i LOVE their designs!, Dara Amadyura climbed fastly the peaks... of my heart!

since the trailer, when i first saw it, i prayed to the depth of my heart "please, a giant linnorm, please, a giant linnorm", and there it is: the Linnorm god of the mountain! (so sad you can't capture it...)

i LOVE it, i utterly LIKE it, and despite not really liking its theme at first, i had to listen them a bit, and now i'm addict<3

As Result, Dara Amadyura is probably my own vote on the best Elder Dragon so far, or at least, in my heart it is<3

Number 7: The malefic Light, Shagaru Magara!

Beeing deeply in love with Goa Magara isn't enough, i HAVE to like Shagaru Magara...

First, i love Pandemic horror stories about Zombies, like Resident evil, and mixing the "zombie virus" to Monster hunter, more expecially, to a dragon, is the TOP of the rainbow nosebleeding (??)

Second, Light and darkness are always something fated to fight or join forces, we're all in love with the "black and white", "light and dark", "good and evil" concepts, and this one White/goldish dragon is... superb!

Being based on the goa Magara template, it has those awesome Handed-wings, and IT HAS THE VIRUS... AAAHHH<3<3<3<3

...on the other side, Its armor is fated to be mine...

''Arc Armor... <3''

The only one thing i can't stand is the "adult" concept... do you even know how would the world be screwed up if EVERY single Goa Magara could just "adult form" into it?... there must be something different, like the alpha OR a mutation/exception

Number 8: The Black divine beast of cold death: The ??? Kirin!

i admit it: i NEVER loved the Kirin

As Teostra, i don't like "land mammals"-based dragons (or land mammals in general) and expecially the Kirin, who looks way better in the folklore, where (by error) a Giraffe was considered a dragon, and got called "Qilin", or better known Kirin, the statues represent a DEER-like dragon-faced dragon, instead of my little pony

This one isn't half bad in equipments (yes, we all love the female Kirin armor), but if the previous version of Kirin did at least fit some kind of "sacred beast" (thunder is always seen as a godlike power in japanese folklore), the concept of "frost" totally falls apart, expecially in a tropical unknown forest!... wtf, seriously!

Number 9: Frontier Magnetism duo!

I... am sincere, i don't know what to say... they look like the standard metallic dragon from Dungeons & Dragons (golden dragon, copper etc...), but that's it...

Magnetism is a cool and innovative idea, too bad that such potential on ideas got wasted in some kind of Magicka element mixing to create other elements out of nowhere...

Number 10: the Divine Long of Wrath: Shantien!

as some people might notice, i know nothing on frontier (and i do dare to say i don't really like the series...), except a few videos, like Shantien, ABIORUGU, Dhisfuroa and G-rank fatalises (but that one is just to see how much dragonball could the game turn into)

Shantien is a pretty mixed feelings over such a monster, as i don't see anything special about it, if not the last stand, where it rages over and everything gets blown up...

i know nothing on frontier, i'm very sorry!

Number 11: To Infinite! Dhisfuroa!

as i said, there is almost none interest (and knowledge) over Frontier, except for some exceptions... and well, Dhisfuroa is the empress of all the exceptions!

its design is simply superb! and fits the Breath-stealing scenario of the area you're going to hunt it!

you know what i love the most about this monster?... its death animation!

it's SOO cool to see an ice dragon freezing itself upon death, now it's a statue, forever...

so cool...

Before closing, i want to write out my own... votes?

Which is your favourite? Least favourite?

My Favourite is Dara Amadyura, but the Shagaru is... quite nearby there, least favourite is the Frost Kirin... kinda pointless and unfitting (still cool effects!)

Which do you want to see back in future games?

Uhm... not the return fan, i'd love if they focused a bit more on the creation of new creatures instead of wasting their time in something we will hunt and hunt again and again... still, if i have to choose, i'd say my favs (of course)... but ONLY if there are like 10 new monsters per returning one.

How would you improve your least favourites?

uhm... by... giving AT LEAST its own habitat (Frozen sea)?... still unfitting for Qilins, but at least a bit better than icicles in a tropical forest!