
In so doing, combat can be even more aggressive and fluid while offering more options regardless of playstyle. The most important change made to combat is the Switch Skill Swap, providing two loadouts of Switch Skills that you can swap between in the heat of battle.

Not one to rest on its laurels, Capcom went beyond updating monsters and reworked how you fight.

Thankfully, by that point, you should have the gear and experience to take on whatever challenges come your way. The challenge doesn’t ramp up severely until midway through the campaign, at which point it spikes and doesn’t come down. The first real challenge, or possible wall you face, will probably occur after about six or seven quests into Master Rank, depending on how much early-game grinding you do. Early monsters don’t deal a ton of damage, but they are still threatening.
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You’ll start fighting Izuchi, Wroggi, Lagombi, and the like, and as you progress through the story and upgrade your gear, you’ll face the same sequence of monsters from the base game. Monster progression remains relatively unchanged, despite the across-the-board updates.
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Experienced hunters and veterans of the series will still need little time to learn and master these updated monsters, but some of the strategies from vanilla Rise no longer apply. From the lowly Great Baggi to the legendarily punishing Teostra, every vanilla beast has new attacks, changes to its AI, and of course, a massive increase to its health pool and damage output. Malzeno, the flagship monster for the expansion, is a major highlight, but other monsters easily reach his level of quality.Īll of the base game monsters received significant updates, as well. Sunbreak introduces more than a dozen new monsters and monster variants, almost all of which are straight-up improvements on base game offerings. Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak Review: A Shining Star

It doesn’t fix some of my frustrations with the game, though those are mostly minor. Add in a slew of new moves for the player and plenty of quality of life improvements, and this expansion almost has it all. Sunbreak even goes so far as to bring back classic monsters and zones and give them a proper glow-up.
