MH4U session: The Nightmare begins

This was a 2 hour session. so it will be divided into two parts.

Ahhh, where to begin? In gen 1 and 2 of the Monster hunter series, the subspecies usually spammed certain attacks more than the normal variant and usually had some hitzone tweaks to change up the strategy of the fight. Black Gravios spammed the fire beam back then and the shell was made harder, so all melee weapons wound bounce like crazy if you hit anything other than the tail tip and the webs of the wings. MH4U dialed that up to 11. Beams galore, and and then the devs said " Lets give it a walking beam and gas discharge attack. That's sure to spice things up."
If I ever get the meet the brains behind that decision, I'd share some choice words, VERY choice words.
Well, after suffering through one hell born variant, why not another? The black diablos, which was canonized to be a lady diablos in mating season mode, back in Freedom Unite I believe, was also made more difficult as well. For a weapon that can block, there isn't two much to worry about, especially if a hunter has guard +1 in their pocket. Hunters using any other weapons that don't have that very helpful blocking ability will suffer for daring to play the game their way. So to change up the strat from the normal diablos, the devs added the crazy flying tackle after it emerges from the ground, along with the tremors if I'm recalling this correctly to the black diablos. It had an enormous hurtbox all through the animation. In MH4U, the devs changed it up bit more and added another variation to that attack, which is the flying tackle into a charge. Good luck superman diving through that attack. Holy Lord that attack is vile. Well, I'm pretty sure these are key quests, so they must be done, and done they were. Next vid will be part 2 of this session.
Until then, God bless you and give to a you a righteous heart that eschews evil.