Hours spent tracking a beast, learning its tells, walking away with one armor piece.

This is the profile of a proudly niche game. Attachment holds the upper middle, ahead of 57% of titles, which makes sense for a series where you invest hundreds of hours. Everything else comes back down: fun below average, desert island below average, controller pleasure ahead of only 30% of games, though that line rests on a single duel, which is next to nothing. The real blow is elsewhere: art direction sits at the very bottom, ahead of 2% of games. A 2011 3DS look no longer holds up against recent titles.

That is the usual gap between what Monster Hunter asks of you and what these questions measure. Its strength is slow mastery, preparation, the fight you win because you finally understood it. None of that shows up in a snap vote.

So, who is it for? For you if you love learning a system down to the bone and hunting in co-op. Much less if you want a game that seduces you in ten minutes and a visual knockout.