"best pokemon game in years" is a big statement. I've played it, beat it, tried to play competitive, but its far less balanced than pokemon sad to say.

great work on the picture though, i wouldn't have drawn it for the crazy detail you put into it.

There is no balance in pokemon unless you play smogon.
And that's an outside game so I don't think it counts.
Story, graphics, fun. Much better than sun,moon and the ultras.

Smogon doesn't know what their talking about tbh, and i've been playing pokemon since blue. their tier lists are garbage and i never listened to em. they started shifting pokemon in and out of tier lists so much i gave up understanding their barbaric strategies that have little to no creativity.. i play with my favorites and make them win with whatever weird strategy i come up with because i can. and it works. i love getting that "i didn't expect that" reaction.

MHS on the other hand has only 4-5 GOOD monsters you can vary to win competitive fights with. My friend has 3000+ pvp wins to back that up. he uses the same team. use any other monstie set and you're at a huge disadvantage. im only talking from what i've seen, heard and fought myself. I chose not to go that route with monstie selection and i lost a ton against my friends. oh and not to mention your hunter is a curse, dying in 1 hit to literally air and you have to cover up their glaring flaw by way of that one skill. after starting to see the games true colors i lost interest.

Visually the game is ok, toony as usual, story is eh, generic big-bad awakening and you gotta stop it. aside from fighting as your rider too, it didn't bring much new.

I'm just talking again out of what I played against. it wasn't fun to copy paste just to have a good time with monsters i didn't care about.

I respect your opinion but, MHS just doesn't offer as much diversity as pokemon in terms of teambuilding. thats all.

Hey to each there own. I find that competitive pokemon can be completely broken at times without hard bans on certain gimmicks.
the advantage of the monstie system is you could make a Fire type water monstie to counter lots of stuff, but I find end game of most monster or unit based games comes down to a small pool that have higher numbers.

Still want to see a sequel though.

This is so awesome<3 You inspire me to flesh out my own MH character xD I love this pic so much great job!

Do it! Theres no good story in monsterhunter Make your own story!

Man I love this so much, MHS was such a great game!
I'd love to commission something like this someday!

I love monsterhunter stuff

To be honest, Monster Hunter needs more bugs.