Doing research for the parave document has made me come around to frontier a bit, and made me realize that I was a bit harsh to judge it and that most of the game is pretty much ordinary second gen monster hunter…
But then I come across information like this that is absolutely crazy and makes no sense and I’m like “hmm, no maybe some of my judgments are right”.
For instance.
Bogabadorumu has two ways it protects itself from its explosions. One is a multilayered skin that can disperse forces applied to it (okay off to a good start, plenty of animals have a similar thing). The other trick is that their skin makes an explosion that cancels out their gas explosions. But… that’s not how physics works. You can’t cancel an explosion with another explosion, you just have two explosions. Another strange “what?” piece of information about this monster is that upon being exposed to air its blood becomes a flammable gas. Ignoring how on earth water, cells, and nutrients transmogs into what is basically methane, does that mean that Bogabadorumu can theoretically be blown up if its oxygenated blood is an explosive??
For Keoaruboru, the arms and tail have charcoal-like skin and it just builds up heat to the point of exploding, and that’s its attack. But if the extreme heat is causing those body parts to throb and explode… then wouldn’t that mean that the evaporating gases are separating tissue and it eventually just blows its own limbs off??? Also it’s like the 5th frontier monster to psychically attack the local professional singer.
Now both of those were very late additions to the game, some of the last in fact. My point still stands that frontier is largely just second gen monster hunter with some features that eventually appear in mainline, it’s just that frontier was also a live service game that was online for almost a decade. By the time the Zenith expansion came along the power creep and escalation of combat basically forced things to get stupid and very “un-monster hunter”.
