I remember commenting on a Reddit post asking which Frontier monster would be cool to see in the mainline games. I suggested Mi Ru, and everyone shot it down, saying it was just another Tigrex. I laughed because, while it shares some moves and a similar skeleton, that's really where the comparison ends.
@ The only Nargacuga moves it has are the swipes and the tail slam though…that’s two out of the entirety of its many forms and unique moves. Even if I’m forgetting a few, that’s still nothing ya know?
Mi Ru is always one of my favorite examples of something being badass enough to justify its existence alone. I see what they were attempting to achieve, a flying wyvern with the ability to metamorphose at will and obtain different fighting patterns while doing so, being a complete enigma of a monster much like Unknown. Was it successful with said execution? That’s up to you to decide, but I think it’s a superb idea and has an awesome fight to compensate. If I have any complaints, I just wish I knew more about them as a whole. But I know I’m biased, because I get people take issue with either his aesthetics or just being a blend of a lot of other monsters like the psudeo-trio of Narga, Tigrex, and Barioth. Just my two cents. And my god what a fantastic theme. Frontier has my favorite OST in all of Monster Hunter, and themes like Mi Ru’s is part of why I feel that way.
@@Random_Furry_On_The_Internet As far as I know the only Extreme monster who has never been beat by Hammer is Elzelion, everyone else I have seen. Thank you, although to be fair Mi Ru is by far the easiest of them
Mi Ru is one of the monsters from Frontier that I was obsessed with reading about because there's so much of it that sounded so cool and interesting, and also equal amounts of it that I kinda made up in my head over time just by being over-imaginative listening to its theme song. I think it's one of the times that Frontier actually hit on something really good, because it was I think only the first or second time that game really pushed the narrative of 'this guy is a weird mystery to the guild we know and understand almost nothing about whatsoever due to its violence and rarity' and it really worked with its design and its name and especially its music. Visually it's this weird middleground between Nargacuga and like five other monsters at the same time, and aesthetically its name being two simple syllables feels just right-- like, comparing it to 'Unknown Black Flying Wyvern', which I think is... okay from the perspective of describing it almost like more of a phenomenon, like the guild's equivalent of calling it an Unidentified Flying Object, but I don't think 'Really Mad Black Rathian' did anything for me in execution by comparison. But my god the *music* on this motherfucker. Again I think Unknown went too hard on trying to sound like the end of the world, meanwhile Mi Ru hits this beautiful sweet spot where it sounds... lower to the ground, more *personal*, like it's not that the world is on fire or anything melodramatic like that, it sounds like your hunter is the closest to death they've ever been because they're the one Being Hunted now. You have no advantage of knowledge or preparation, you are in this thing's territory, and it is the one stalking you through these crumbling halls. That mental image is so much stronger and cooler and made more of an impression in my young mind than just watching Unknown do another big arena-wide insta-kill tornado attack or whatever. And then of course, all of it threatens to get less special when, as Frontier goes on, Mi Ru becomes one of like literally a dozen monsters who are approximately this threat level and pulling the 'Guys this guy is so powerful and reclusive the guild knows *nothing* about it you better watch out!!!' schtick. Like I gotta be honest I don't fucking care about Duremudira or Zerureusu just because they mysteriously only exist in this one habitat and are so totally super deadly that we can't get any info on them-- who cares. None of them actually pull together the whole package of feeling like a self-perpetuating myth like Mi Ru did, in my head at least. Definitely for me, if we're potentially getting Frontier pulls now in the mainline games after Espinas, Mi Ru tops my wishlist and it's not close, if for no reason other than how badly I want to see what 5th+ generation technology does to the experience of hunting it. My dream is them going as hard as possible on making it feel like *you're* the one being chased, *you're* the one trespassing in unfamiliar ground, *you're* the one out of your depth, *you're* the one in danger-- like, give him a unique map that's like a semi-procedurally-generated tileset like the Everwood from 4U or something that you progress through bit by bit in a given hunt, give him moves that use that terrain against you, make it all stuck indoors in some kind of ancient ruin or cave system, give him an alternate quest clear condition where it's like Repelling an elder dragon and if you survive all phases and Escape then you get partial rewards but you can potentially slay it at any earlier point in the hunt if you're good enough. I dunno, I know I'm making up a lot of shit for this guy, but that's like... the thing Frontier was good at sometimes. It was good at being evocative of what the hunts would look like in a game that wasn't stuck on gen 2 engine. And, you know, what the hunts would look like if the monsters did anything other than 'slap the ground causing a big AoE that's too large to preposition out of so you just gotta time a dodge roll'. But that's neither here nor there.
Out of all the form Mi Ru has, Bulky one is terrifying with the grab for me, the frame when it gonna grab is so damn slow in my eyes. Great run right there Lynn, you deserve it ❤
@@voiceofreason2669 Renewal. It has Armor Spheres for armor upgrading in low and high rank which, this alone, makes the game significantly closer to mainline in terms of gear progression. However in G rank, you'll still need monster materials to upgrade armor.
@@voiceofreason2669 Yes it obviously takes a long time. First it'll be a decent mix set made of G rank monsters, and then you'll need a to farm Zenith monsters which will ask the same, and then eventually once you have your good Zenith set you can attempt to get to floor 100 of the Road which unlucks the best armors in the game which are very simple to craft. This is still a Monster Hunter game... So don't go in expecting to not grind anything, cause you will. Including before G rank.
yeah im accustomed to grinding, quite like it in fact, however I found Frontier grind to be excessive and confusing, this pushed me away from the game in the long run but I'm getting that itch from time to time and I wanted to find a server which at least makes the grind reasonable
@@voiceofreason2669 I never wanted to give the game a try before and once I did it's pretty much one of my favorite games in the series now, even if it's not mainline. I hope that'll give you a little boost to want to try it out because it's really an amazing game
I remember commenting on a Reddit post asking which Frontier monster would be cool to see in the mainline games. I suggested Mi Ru, and everyone shot it down, saying it was just another Tigrex. I laughed because, while it shares some moves and a similar skeleton, that's really where the comparison ends.
Almost same moves as nargacuga
@ The only Nargacuga moves it has are the swipes and the tail slam though…that’s two out of the entirety of its many forms and unique moves.
Even if I’m forgetting a few, that’s still nothing ya know?
Mi Ru is always one of my favorite examples of something being badass enough to justify its existence alone. I see what they were attempting to achieve, a flying wyvern with the ability to metamorphose at will and obtain different fighting patterns while doing so, being a complete enigma of a monster much like Unknown. Was it successful with said execution? That’s up to you to decide, but I think it’s a superb idea and has an awesome fight to compensate. If I have any complaints, I just wish I knew more about them as a whole. But I know I’m biased, because I get people take issue with either his aesthetics or just being a blend of a lot of other monsters like the psudeo-trio of Narga, Tigrex, and Barioth. Just my two cents. And my god what a fantastic theme. Frontier has my favorite OST in all of Monster Hunter, and themes like Mi Ru’s is part of why I feel that way.
I remember people going “Hammer, hunting horn, and HBG can’t solo ANY Muso monsters” meanwhile you:
@@Random_Furry_On_The_Internet As far as I know the only Extreme monster who has never been beat by Hammer is Elzelion, everyone else I have seen. Thank you, although to be fair Mi Ru is by far the easiest of them
Mi Ru is one of the monsters from Frontier that I was obsessed with reading about because there's so much of it that sounded so cool and interesting, and also equal amounts of it that I kinda made up in my head over time just by being over-imaginative listening to its theme song. I think it's one of the times that Frontier actually hit on something really good, because it was I think only the first or second time that game really pushed the narrative of 'this guy is a weird mystery to the guild we know and understand almost nothing about whatsoever due to its violence and rarity' and it really worked with its design and its name and especially its music.
Visually it's this weird middleground between Nargacuga and like five other monsters at the same time, and aesthetically its name being two simple syllables feels just right-- like, comparing it to 'Unknown Black Flying Wyvern', which I think is... okay from the perspective of describing it almost like more of a phenomenon, like the guild's equivalent of calling it an Unidentified Flying Object, but I don't think 'Really Mad Black Rathian' did anything for me in execution by comparison. But my god the *music* on this motherfucker. Again I think Unknown went too hard on trying to sound like the end of the world, meanwhile Mi Ru hits this beautiful sweet spot where it sounds... lower to the ground, more *personal*, like it's not that the world is on fire or anything melodramatic like that, it sounds like your hunter is the closest to death they've ever been because they're the one Being Hunted now. You have no advantage of knowledge or preparation, you are in this thing's territory, and it is the one stalking you through these crumbling halls. That mental image is so much stronger and cooler and made more of an impression in my young mind than just watching Unknown do another big arena-wide insta-kill tornado attack or whatever.
And then of course, all of it threatens to get less special when, as Frontier goes on, Mi Ru becomes one of like literally a dozen monsters who are approximately this threat level and pulling the 'Guys this guy is so powerful and reclusive the guild knows *nothing* about it you better watch out!!!' schtick. Like I gotta be honest I don't fucking care about Duremudira or Zerureusu just because they mysteriously only exist in this one habitat and are so totally super deadly that we can't get any info on them-- who cares. None of them actually pull together the whole package of feeling like a self-perpetuating myth like Mi Ru did, in my head at least.
Definitely for me, if we're potentially getting Frontier pulls now in the mainline games after Espinas, Mi Ru tops my wishlist and it's not close, if for no reason other than how badly I want to see what 5th+ generation technology does to the experience of hunting it. My dream is them going as hard as possible on making it feel like *you're* the one being chased, *you're* the one trespassing in unfamiliar ground, *you're* the one out of your depth, *you're* the one in danger-- like, give him a unique map that's like a semi-procedurally-generated tileset like the Everwood from 4U or something that you progress through bit by bit in a given hunt, give him moves that use that terrain against you, make it all stuck indoors in some kind of ancient ruin or cave system, give him an alternate quest clear condition where it's like Repelling an elder dragon and if you survive all phases and Escape then you get partial rewards but you can potentially slay it at any earlier point in the hunt if you're good enough. I dunno, I know I'm making up a lot of shit for this guy, but that's like... the thing Frontier was good at sometimes. It was good at being evocative of what the hunts would look like in a game that wasn't stuck on gen 2 engine. And, you know, what the hunts would look like if the monsters did anything other than 'slap the ground causing a big AoE that's too large to preposition out of so you just gotta time a dodge roll'. But that's neither here nor there.
Such awesome hammer techniques and monsters in Frontier ZZ! Great hunt Lynn! 😄
Holy moveset. congrats on your perfect run!!!
Lucent Nargariothrex?
Out of all the form Mi Ru has, Bulky one is terrifying with the grab for me, the frame when it gonna grab is so damn slow in my eyes.
Great run right there Lynn, you deserve it ❤
Is this Tigrex's badass older brother? What a sick monster dude like wtf this makes me wanna play this game 😂
Ayo? Lynn Musou slaying? Now that's what i like to see
@@RaidenSTX To be fair Mi Ru is the easiest of them by far but thank you. I believe he serves as an introduction to the Extreme individuals
Which emulator is this?
on which server do you play? im looking for one that has grind times close to mainline games
@@voiceofreason2669 Renewal. It has Armor Spheres for armor upgrading in low and high rank which, this alone, makes the game significantly closer to mainline in terms of gear progression. However in G rank, you'll still need monster materials to upgrade armor.
@dynamo_lynn what's your opinion on this upgrading system (g rank)? did it cost you much time to get an optimized set?
@@voiceofreason2669 Yes it obviously takes a long time. First it'll be a decent mix set made of G rank monsters, and then you'll need a to farm Zenith monsters which will ask the same, and then eventually once you have your good Zenith set you can attempt to get to floor 100 of the Road which unlucks the best armors in the game which are very simple to craft. This is still a Monster Hunter game... So don't go in expecting to not grind anything, cause you will. Including before G rank.
yeah im accustomed to grinding, quite like it in fact, however I found Frontier grind to be excessive and confusing, this pushed me away from the game in the long run but I'm getting that itch from time to time and I wanted to find a server which at least makes the grind reasonable
@@voiceofreason2669 I never wanted to give the game a try before and once I did it's pretty much one of my favorite games in the series now, even if it's not mainline. I hope that'll give you a little boost to want to try it out because it's really an amazing game
Frontier is on crack lol