Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak’s Free Title Updates are Overusing the Fire Element

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Tokyo Game Show 2022 kicked off today following a week of industry events including Ubisoft Forward, a Nintendo Direct, and a PlayStation State of Play. One of the first major studios to showcase its projects was Capcom, which discussed theResident Evil 4 remake, Exoprimal, Mega Man Battle Network: Legacy Collection, and Street Fighter 6. However, Capcom started with the second Free Title Update for Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak, which launches September 29. Three new monsters are being introduced, but two of them continue a pattern of Fire element saturation that Capcom should consider adjusting.

Flaming Espinas was previously revealed for Title Update 2, a unique variant of a monster originally exclusive to the MMO Monster Hunter Frontier before Rise's expansion let Espinas cross into a mainline entry. Two more were unveiled at Tokyo Game Show: Violet Mizutsune and Risen Chameleos. While the Chameleos variant is arguably the most interesting; introducing an Elder Dragon that boasts a «symbiosis with the Qurio,» Sunbreak's main gameplay gimmick; it will take many hunters time to reach Master Rank (MR) 110 so that they can fight it. The others will appear after the end of Sunbreak's story at MR10, but the game should try to focus on more diverse offerings going forward.

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Fans already have a decent idea what Flaming Espinas is capable of given the subspecies was first introduced in Monster Hunter Frontier Season 2.5. Typical Espinas are passive monsters, often found sleeping at the beginning of a hunt, but when provoked they hit hard and fast while using a special fireball that inflicts Poison as well as Paralysis (the latter when it's in an enraged