I've had this on the wall of my garage in VoTV for ages now

To be fair, at least in Rise, after you progressed enough in Village or Hub you would get a quest that would instantly jump you forward in the other one specifically to prevent you from having to start over with earlier monsters. iirc I did this when playing again with a friend.

Oh no absolutely, I actually started with Rise, got to HR100, then played World and World was what REALLY hooked me. Beat Fatalis and everything, and I've been playing Wilds since it came out.

Spiribirds were REALLY lame, yeah. The idea was to move some of your pre-quest prep to in-quest, but it harshly conflicted with the way Rise tried to get you to the monster ASAP. When I picked Rise back up on PC I just used a mod to give me a rainbow bird at the start of each hunt.

For reference, that weird splitting of SP and MP was the standard for MH up until World, and MP quests didn't scale difficulty so MP would be a difficulty spike solo. World merged them and added scaling (for everything but 3-Players, at least.)

Yeah, from what I've heard Rise was actually being developed for 3DS before Covid hit, so it has a lot of old gen relics, the splitting of Village (Singleplayer Low-rank) and Hub (Multiplayer Rest of the Game) being a big one.

does the X mean Xehanort can track your location

If you do and enjoy it, play HOME. Really well-done fan sequel where you play as a party of cats.

Luna doesn't talk in VC very often but when she does it's usually pretty great

Yeah, personally I kinda just use mine as a way to save posts I like and also share them to the like. 5 people I don't know who follow me on it ig

it's funny because I literally never post on my NSFW alt. I literally just retweet and like stuff. my main is for posting.

Stuff like the inability to die, the doubled EXP/Gold, I'm sure they could make a ton of interesting Easy options. I just wish I had a way to make the game difficult in a way that's interesting and challenging, instead of just tedious.

You could have settings to disable the ability to use equipment, force you to do a solo run, or even stuff like having Shypox, lying NPCs, make Zoom indoors not work, ect. Hell, add Dracky options, too, to allow you to add modifierd to make it easier.

If I had a say, I feel like it could've been way more interesting to expand on the Draconian Quest from 11, where instead of just being "Hard Mode", it's instead a list of togglable options to make the game harder, including some unique or challenge run options.

Draconian Quest is purely a numbers difficulty. Enemies hit harder, have more health, and drop half EXP and Gold. It doesn't particularly seem "harder", just "way more tedious in an unfun way".