u/Nornukig

This was a long time coming. I genuinely think Fatalis fight is the best 'dragon fight' in videogames, partly because of how MH works as a game, partly because of how much weight and effort is put into Fatalis specifically.

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But by god is it full of bullshit. The damage is SO high - you can go from 80% to 0 in phase 1 while wearing the full fatty gear. Divine blessing my ass, it will help you not eat shit as much but it is RANDOM, and it will FAIL in 20-30 minutes it takes to kill this piece of shit, and when it DOES - you're FUCKING DEAD.

"Oh but you have 3 carts" YEAH THATS A BARE FUCKING MINIMUM, THATS A FUCKING RECOMPENSATION FOR HAVING TO DEAL WITH THIS FUCKING BULLSHIT.

The FUCKING FLAMETHROWER visual graphic DOES NOT REPRESENT its hitbox AT ALL. You can CLEARLY FUCKING SEE A CUBIC MILE OF AIR BETWEEN ME AND THE FLAME when I die. Whether it is the problem of visuals OR hitboxes is for you to decide.

The scorched ground slowly nibbling at your health is added SPECIFICALLY to FUCK YOU OVER when you manage to survive with 1 hp left. Its not big enough damage to worry about for 99.99% of the hunt, so you will naturally just FUCKING FORGET that it's there.

Fatty's attacks come out so fucking fast - you can get murdered after making 1 mistake - because whatever recovery animation you're in will not give you enough time to avoid the next attack.

If you down him to 75% hp while AT THE FAR END OF THE ARENA AWAY FROM THE GATE you ABSOLUTELY HAVE NO FUCKING TIME TO REACH AND CLOSE IT. Couldnt you have added just ONE FUCKIGN SECOND to the ONE SHOT timer so that I dont have to watch my character flick the lever and then DIE FUCKING ANYWAY? "Oh but you should control when you are fighting fatalis" YEAH WELL I HAVE OTHER 3000 FUCKING THINGS to manage at every single breathing moment of this fight and 300 split-second decisions I need to make for 30 minutes straight in order to FUCKING SURVIVE, well FORGIVE FUCKING ME FOR FORGETTING THAT I CANT GO TOO FAR FROM THE FUCKING GATE IN THE FIRST PHASE.

I get it's the last, LAST FINAL challenge of the game, and it's intended for, like, people who were grinding Guiding Lands for months and have all of the perfect, optimized builds... but god damn, I don't think I ever had to STUDY for a fucking boss fight ever in my fucking life with how much obtuse bullshit is put into THIS ONE. Skill issue? More like TRIAL AND ERROR issue. More like META KNOWLEDGE issue. More like WASTING HOURS AND DAYS OF YOUR LIFE issue. Oh you can speedrun him in 8 minutes? Show me how many fucking DAYS of your life did it take to get to that level? How many houses you could have built in that time? Fuck that, how many OTHER FUCKING GOOD VIDEOGAMES you could have finished in the time it took you to MASTER this ONE MOTHERFUCKER WITH SHITTY HITBOXES?

No enemy in no videogame every should demand this much fucking time investment. This is not normal and every single one MH head who thinks this IS normal is just fucking soo deep with their thousands of hours of playtime into the Monster Hunter franchise - they forgot what an actual fucking videogame should feel like. It is FINE to like the hard bullshit challenge, as it is FINE to fucking hate it, but at least be FUCKING HONEST ABOUT IT.

And the honest truth is this: Fatalis is KING BULLSHIT. Whether you like it or not, whetehr it hurts your little feelings, whether your self-esteem wavers if I call your beloved game UNFAIR - he is, always was, and always will be BULLSHIT. Whether its okay to have the final boss of the game with bullshit - is another question. But he is. In all shapes and forms. BULL. FUCKING. SHIT.

Killed him solo 7 times now.

Never actually thought about this while going through World/Iceborne, huh...