It also just looks really cool to use thanks to all its spinning and visual effects.Dauntless's monster designs are often a mix between fantastical creatures and more grounded, real-world animals – like the Embermane, which looks like a rhino and lion merged together, or the Shrike, which looks a whole lot like an Owlbear from Dungeons & Dragons. It’s combos and combat style are the most nuanced and tricky of the weapon options, but it feels great once you get the hang of it. It’s got good range for a melee weapon and can attack either very quickly to build up your special meter or slowly for strong slashing attacks to break off monster parts. Of all the weapon types my favorite was the war pike because it felt the most unique compared to what I’ve tried in other monster hunting games over the years. Hammers are the slowest of the bunch but inflict huge damage and the axe is somewhere between the sword and hammer as a massive bladed weapon that’s fine-tuned for slicing and dicing. The only dual-wielding melee option, the chain blades, are extremely fast and efficient, whereas the repeaters offer a mid-ranged handgun style to mix things up. The sword is nice and balanced as a good entry weapon, but the flashiness of the war pike makes it an exciting one to wield for extended combos.
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Each of Dauntless' six weapon types feel unique and powerful, with slots for items called cells that you can use to upgrade and customize them to your tastes. It’s a system that rewards commitment and, refreshingly, it doesn’t punish you for not spending money on Dauntless' optional (and primarily cosmetic) microtransactions. The higher your mastery level is the better gear you can make, the better upgrades you can unlock, and so on. The more you use a type of weapon or slay a type of beast the higher your Mastery rank increases in that specific field. “Beyond crafting better equipment, there are Mastery levels as a form of progression. Instead of being a source of lore-heavy dialogue, every NPC in Dauntless is either a vendor or questgiver in the hub town, so when you’re not customizing things in menus you’re out in the wild chopping off tails, dodging fireballs, and slaying enormous beasts. Then again, storytelling has never been the selling point in other games in this genre (such as Monster Hunter itself or God Eater) so it’s hard to say I miss it very much. The lack of a real story beyond inconsequential blocks of text at the beginning and end of missions that foster little empathy was a bummer at first, but I quickly forgot about it. That’s it – slaying is basically all you do. While it can lack the depth that arises from that complexity, Dauntless’s streamlined approach offers something else that more than makes up for it.The hook is simple: you’re a slayer, and you slay big, nasty monsters called behemoths.
It takes most of the best parts of Capcom's iconic franchise and redeploys them in a way that's accessible and fun with a whole lot less baggage. If you stripped Monster Hunter down to its core components and redesigned it as a free-to-play (but not pay-to-win), online-only game, you'd get something very close to Dauntless.
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