Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak Review - A Monster Hunting Masterpiece

Thanks to Capcom for a copy of Sunbreak!

The world of Monster Hunter Rise gets bigger and deeper with this massive expansion featuring new monsters, new locales and more!

A new adventure in a distant land
Renowned as the "Fierce Flame of Kamura” since the events of Monster Hunter Rise, you must set sail to uncover the cause of a terrible threat facing a kingdom across the sea!

New enemies arrive, old foes return
Arriving in Elgado Outpost, you discover that the abnormal events threatening this kingdom are caused by Malzeno, Lunagaron and Garangolm – terrifying monsters known locally as the Three Lords. In addition to these new enemies, You must also face old foes as series monsters not featured in Monster Hunter Rise make their return!

Deeper gameplay
Your trusty Wirebug returns and is more useful than ever, with the addition of new abilities for all 14 weapon types that bring a new level of flexibility and depth to the hunting action.

A colourful cast of characters
Your new base of operations features a variety of locals to interact with, each with their own charming personality. Sometimes they will need your hunter’s help, and sometimes they will be the ones who help you out!

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[arcadeperfectreviews]

This is SUCH A BETTER review then the IGN one. I just watched that one before this and they got into 0 details about new gameplay mechanics and talked about how it's boring to fight the same monster to many times "7/10"

[FelisImpurrator]

Everything I've seen and heard of Sunbreak balance seems to indicate that the dominant design philosophy is "Fun>Meta". As in - they nerfed and buffed things in ways designed to encourage players to make interesting choices rather than spam one optimal combo until victory using one set that's viable, and added new skills that encourage build diversity.

And I couldn't be happier. I mean, come on! Fast, aggressive Greatsword? Longsword that isn't just helmbreaker spam, and can actually mix things up with something like a Sakura status build? SnS and Lance getting across the board buffs to their combos? Insect Glaive getting a mountain of true iframes baked in, and a silkbind combo that seems built specifically to encourage aggressively using the buffs as a resource (and switch constantly between air and ground) instead of just making extracts an irritant to worry about every 1.5 minutes? The playstyles you can lean into from patchnotes alone are already things that would have been mocked in base Rise, but in Sunbreak it seems as if you really do get pushed to at least try using the entire weapon moveset and all the skills you can get your hands on.

Even the Palico QoL seems designed specifically to encourage players to play the game the way they want, not the way they feel forced to by onerous RNG and narrow meta. Now that's good shit.

[chrono_s]

The endgame is full of Furious Rajang level difficult monsters? Yes please! 🤤

[Kintaro]

The changes to endgame is what I'm really excited about. The Rampage endgame of Rise was fun for the first 5 or so times, then I had to grind a particular one repeatedly for Valstrax. The only reason I got to HR100 was because I also unlocked Apex Hunts (with Apex Zinogre being my favorite). From what I've heard, they have removed Rampage all together from Sunbreak, and replaced them with Anomaly Hunts

[brentjones]

To all the people asking if its ok to start with rise, the monster hunter games are not related so go ahead. This and world are both fantastic games to begin your MH adventures

[ironmaidenmetalgod]

You are the only Youtuber that is THIS positive. Nice to hear you are having fun. I am too.

[richiemohanty]

Having finally beaten the main story boss, in hearing about the anomaly monsters remind me about the apex monster mechanism in 4U.i love Sunbreak so far and can't wait to waste another 600 hours on it just like i did in 4U

[GamingRobioto]

Great review, great depth and explanation of changes, I avoid all the mainstream "experts", as they quite frankly haven't got a clue what they are talking about.

[saint_mockturne]

I personally love the follower quest becuase it allows you to actually somewhat care about the characters
Especially the ones important to the story
And I just love simping for hinoa and minoto

[DMP]

Thanks for the review, FCB. Always appreciate your thoughts.

[etownsend]

Yay I cant wait to dig countless hours into this one!

[LaplaceBacklogs]

I haven’t played the game yet, but the moment you compared whatever these “Anomaly Monsters” are to the “harder Deviants from GU”, my PTSD just rose up. I’m genuinely excited and scared at the same time to experience this new content. 🗿

[genki]

Yes!!! I've pre-ordered it last night. Im finishing my last college assignment in about 3 hours give or take and I am ready! As Detective Pikachu once said in that movie: "I can feel it in my jellies"

[MatthewMedina-bl]

Man hearing the Bazel theme gets me fired up. The Rise/Sunbreak version with the vocals is perfect.

[introvertedwall]

NPC Helpers!???

Casuals: "Allow us to introduce ourselves."

[skulltula]

By far my fav thing is the improved options like hit effects and being able to sheath your weapon and ride or just wreck the monster instead

[leahdamron]

I really like the way you explain and how far in depth you go with the gameplay and mechanics of the games your reviewing. Thank you Man for another great video 💯😎

[ggeethird]

Your review sold me. Good work! Thanks, bud!

[babayaga]

I don't know if I could ever put Rise/Sunbreak over World/Iceborne, I love Rise, and maybe it's nostalgia on my part kicking in because World was my first MH, but everything from the monster introductions to the maps to the hunts themselves just seemed a little more of a spectacle and grandiose in World. I will say the actual combat system is far better, though, plus my mains, Insect Glaive and Gunlance really got some love in this game.

[shayed_]

This was the most positive review I've seen so far