And now we delve into the mobile game Monster Hunter Explore. It’s original monster roster is a bit sparse but it is teeming with variants, seasonal gag monsters, and crossover subspecies. And that which is brand new is pretty remarkable. Join me on this fourth installment discovering the monsters of Monster Hunter that never saw a worldwide release. Enjoy!
Gameplay footage provided by:
Great Apypos: https://www.youtube.com/@Canaldosieg01
Explore Monster Reports: https://www.youtube.com/@monsterhunterexplorespotlight0
Nef Garmat Switch Axe Gamelay/ shining rock uragaan: https://www.youtube.com/@Ygnaris
Eo Garudia Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/@Darkness-cf9wf
Flame Rathalos/Scorching Heat Rathian/Fierce Water Nargacuga/Frostfang Barioth/Virulent Gigginox/whitewater plesioth/iceblast Brachydios/thunderbubble Mizutsune/immortal zinogre/thunder emperor kirin: https://www.youtube.com/@jzgames3013
Destruction Wyvern Rathalos/Steel Armor Diablos/Sweet Tooth Tigrex/Unit-02 Tigrex/seabream Plesioth/watermelon uragaan/tenth angel gore magala/witch lagombi/christmas volvidon: https://www.youtube.com/@syakan
Gilded Diablos: https://www.youtube.com/@yumemizuryoku
Thanksalot Barroth/landconquest lagiacrus/purgatory agnaktor/enma rajang: https://www.youtube.com/@laylamhxr5450
Abberant Deviljho: https://www.youtube.com/@Hiro-dz1cj
Pumpkin Uragaan/yoga gigginox: https://www.youtube.com/@Yugong_
Explosive Peak Duramboros: https://www.youtube.com/@mhxr1006
Unit-01 Brachydios/ffbe zinogre: https://www.youtube.com/@KitCgame
Witch Gobul: https://www.youtube.com/@fantasticfantasy7259
Black Star Beast Volvidon: https://www.youtube.com/@yumemizuryoku
Demonic Seregios: https://www.youtube.com/@4gamersp
Rathian Explore Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/@pyropete01
Ivory Lagiacrus: https://www.youtube.com/@Akiithehunter
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Timestamps:
Community Event: 0:00:00
Intro: 0:01:05
Great Apypos: 0:06:28
Nef Garmat: 0:14:02
Eo Garudia: 0:23:29
Morudomunto: 0:35:03
Special Species Variants: 0:48:32
Scorching Heat Rathian: 0:49:05
Flame Rathalos: 0:51:31
Frozen Barioth 0:54:11
Immortal Zinogre: 0:55:49
Black Star Beast Volvidon: 0:58:32
Virulent Gigginox: 1:03:55
Iceblast Brachydios: 1:07:12
Fiercewater Nargacuga: 1:10:52
Thunder Emperor Kirin: 1:14:34
Explosive Peak Duramboros: 1:17:28
Thunderbubble Mizutsune: 1:20:28
Shiningrock Uragaan: 1:23:25
Landconquest Lagiacrus: 1:26:07
Whitewater Plesioth: 1:31:25
Purgatory Agnaktor: 1:34:32
Seasonal Event Monsters: 1:39:56
Crossover Monsters: 1:42:17
Outro: 1:50:59
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Brownie points for whoever can tell me what music plays for Scorching Heat Rathian and Flame Rathalos
Love these types of videos. Do you think you'd ever do one on all the different behemoths in Dauntless or the kemono in Wild Hearts? Would be cool to hear you hype those monsters up the way you do the others lmao
Honestly I think Nef Garmat could work super well in Wilds.
Just from what little we have seen of Wilds it looks like a large part of the region will be dry steppes which could be at the edge of a dessert. His ability to drain energy from the ground would work well with the bioenergies that exists in the new world, his crystals even have almost the same colour as the bioenergy.
Great Video as always! Purple Orb my beloved 💜
and now the exotic Monster of series has concluded where will Connor go from here?
The weapons from the outside mainlines?
maybe venture himself into other monster hunter likes and do a video on his monsters like the aragami from god eater or the traumatizing Archfiend from Soul Sacrifice?
the future is unclear and vast.
Im excited for anything youll explore from here
(hahha get it explore…. like monster hunter explore 😛 )
Morudomunto is extreme, the magalas can change the sky but this guy is running on body horrors😱💀💀
That would not make sense in anyway in an ecosystem but by Fatalis The Black Crown Dragon goes extremely hard with the wing jaws dayum
I want him in mainline game because that's a Monster. The way it claws at itself is gave me goosebumps, I don't think any animals self-harm like that.
They can add him as easter egg ??? Event quest maybe, no lore, just pure combat solely for enjoying him in a modern engine.
I have a theory about Nef Garmat and Eo Gurudia, and that's that in actuality they're both the SAME monster. By which I mean that they're the same species but more specifically the male and female examples of their species. Similarly to the relationship Teo and Luna have or the raths. Where they have some physical similarities but at the same time look VERY different from eachother to the point they're given different names.
Nef Garmat I like to think is the male, just based on it's overall color scheme. It's got relitively muted colors overall. But the most important factor that leans me towards it being the male is it's behaviour of actively looking for a specific ore in the sand. Which is likely used in display courtship to signify the strength of the Nef Garmat to the potential mate of Eo Garudia. Either based on how shiny the crystal is or how large. Also it being classified as a death dragon probably makes sense if it's a very aggressive monster. That's in heat/musk like an elephant which can be EXTREMELY dangerous, and I could see how a roided up horny elder dragon could cause issues. Hell NORMAL monsters in monsters have that going for them and they're just as feared for that reason. Big examples being Glavanus, Seregios, and Mizutsune. Every single one canonnically is male for a reason and that reason is that they're in heat.
But on the subject of Eo Garudia them being female makes a lot of sense just based on their lore. She's literally called the "life giver" yet nothing about her abilities really signify that at all. She doesn't like magically make plants grow around her or anything. Hell one of her elements fire, which I guess sure you could argue can help create life because if you burn plants it creates carbon which plants love, and does help them grow. But we fight them in a desert?? So where is the title "life giver" coming from exactly UNLESS they mean she "gives life" to the next generation of the Set Garmat and Eo Garudia species.
Capcom wouldn't put so much emphasis on two elders having such a close connection of they either werent related and keep eachother in check somehow. Which at least for that second option we have no lore given example of the two fighting eachother for dominance or anything. They just say they're connected as "life and death".
Morudomunto gives me huge Wendigo vibes, what with his dark wintery aesthetic and his multiple 'mouths' really hammering home the insatiable predator vibe.
The two fire raths could honestly work as like, Variants in the main series if they wanted to be "revamped", maybe base em off the Phoenix or something, and for Fire Rathalos they could give him Dragon or something to make him more interesting. Also the explore original dragons are all peak 🙏
I never thought that MH Explore's Trio of Elders dragons are fcking wild, both in lore and fights. Now im on board to see them back in some form, but not Morudomunto. I.WANT.HIM.BACK AS IS!!! This sick drgn deserves the spotlight of modernity to it
Purgatory agnaktor has potential to be a cool rare species of the fire leviathan, I hope to see him in the main series 🤗
Great video, MHXR Spotlight has a video on Black Star Beast Volvidon and the other Raid monsters. I don’t trust the MH wiki.
the way you described Mordomond is legit hair-raising. legit gave me chills listening to you talk about that super-attack
I cannot get over how you narrate/describe abilities, I was fully locked in for Morudomunto 😭
Fantastic video!
I’ve been dreaming of a Kirin that can actually teleport since the 4u intro and had no idea it already existed. Neat! Now that Malzeno exists I fully expect a teleporting unicorn of some sort in Wilds.
So, I had heard of and seen images of Thunderbubble Mizu a while before Sunbreak and its title updates came out, so I was familiar with it and thought it was very cool.
Then when the Sunbreak title updates started coming out and I saw a purple Mizutsune in the title update trailer I got a little bit excited, but then got mildly let down by it being a fire element Violet Mizu.
Now I'd like to make it clear that I don't Violet is bad, but I would have taken Thunderbubble over another version of Mizutsune with flaming/explosive bubbles.
Honestly. Would be real cool to see nef garmat in wilds would fit in the places we see in the trailer of wilds
Man, Nef Garmat fight is kinda goofy, I remember I laugh out loud when the blue cystal landed on the hunter, that's some frenzy critical buff design.
Also, Eo Garudia is easy, Morudomunto's wings is funny.
Also although Frozen Barrioth never made in one to one in mainline. Frostfang being labelled Frozen Barrioth in those data files might not have been a mistranslation. From it's reasoning for the variant being the same, (living in a harsher, colder environment,) the increase in it's ice abilities, the darker hue of the tusks and having blue ice on the tusks of Frostfang- It wouldn't surprise me if Frostfang was inspired directly by Frozen Barrioth and perhaps even shared the name early on, before being changed?
This is all speculation of course, but it's fun to think about 🤷♂
I really want Explore Monsters in the main series games, especially Nef-Garmat as it’s so unique for a flagship!
I going to guess that nef doesn’t actually cause deserts
Just like other flagships the flagship looks like the problem but it’s actually other monster that’s actually the problem.
Morudomunto has been on my top3 fave monsters ever since i saw him while reading the wiki when i first became a hunter.. He's like Nergi or Jho but better in every single way for me. In design, gear, music, lore. Just ditch those two boring loosers for this absolute chad daddy wendigo dragon!
Fiercewater could be a population of narga that are trapped on a sodden island, and having SO MUCH water in their system that they have to expel it, and the enhanced water release mechanisms were then modified into offensive tools.
The Lagiacrus subspecies being unironically named "Land Conquest Lagiacrus" made me laugh harder than i should, now imagining the Vikings pulling up with a whale sized death crocodile.
Morudomunto was already one of my favorite elder dragons in the series just based on concepts alone and you’ve sold me even more on it
About the thing on top of Seabream Plesioth's head, it's a Kagami Mochi. A traditional Japanese decoration consisting of two mochi stacked with the smaller one placed atop the larger one, and an orange with an attached leaf on top.
You know since you mentioned Explosive Peak Duramboros being a variant of a subspecies it is possible Landconquest Lagiacrus could work as a variant of Ivory Lagiacrus… maybe, I don't know man there's so many different types of variations in Monster Hunter outside of the main series. Also I feel like Virulent Gigginox's coloration doesn't feel as bad if you accept it as being aposematic coloration like that of a poison dart frog.
How dare you make this wonderful video bringing back the obscure, unused, unloved, uknown, underappreciated and AWESOME monsters that need all the attention they deserve on a channel where they will be introduced for the first time to many hunters that will grow to love and adore these monsters…
BEFORE I CAN INTRODUCE THEM TO THE PLAYERS OF MY MH DND CAMPAIGN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
THEY MIGHT SEE THIS VIDEO MAN
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Andrew if you see this comment I FORBID YOU from watching this video. I FORBID YOU.
I would absolutely LOVE if the four Explore-original monsters could come to mainline Monster Hunter. Nef Garnet especially is so freaking cool and I also need a plushie of him.
Also don’t knock Sweet Tooth Tigrex down! He wanted to show everyone his therapy plushies! Probably my favorite of the silly crossover monsters simply because he is a fellow plushie enjoyer.
So I have a theory on how Eo Garudia revives desert land. Eo Garudia's crystals might actually be crystalized dragon energy, based of its vivid red color. We know that an over abundance of dragon energy can cause a berserk like state, as seen in Crimson Glow Valstrax. Perhaps, it is attracted to areas that its counterpart Nef Garmat has turned into desert, because they serve as the perfect dumping ground for its dragon energy build up. It crystalizes its dragon energy, before using its powerful winds to essentially drop the crystals off, which give the land the energy it needs to revive itself.
Dragon element after all is a little weird, being the power that fuels Elder Dragons and some monsters and even plant life(Dragonfell Berries). It might be possible that the Dragon element and the Bio Energy in Monster Hunter World might be one in the same, perhaps different forms of the same energy, as by our current laws of physics, energy can only be transformed, neither created nor destroyed. Even Nef Garmat's crystals resemble the bright blue glow of Bio Energy.
A bit of a side bit though, Eo Garudia and Nef Garmat might also be based of Horus and Set. The two are counterparts to each other. Horus is the God that brings fertile land, Set is the one who brings the desert. Horus would even become Ra's successor in Egyptian myth as well.
If you put a stronger kirin variant into the game, than also put a rajang variant in that ate that horn
Explosive peak Duramboros is just Glavinus that switched from greate sword to hammer.
Morudemunto is straight up a dark souls boss
next stop: Monster Hunter Stories and Monster Hunter Orage
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Eo garudia reminds me of Hannibal from god eater with the colors and vaguely the shape
I haft to say I'm surprised by how good to original creations are especially the elder dragon although the Egyptian elders wings look a little stiff and like they shouldn't be able to fly and I think they need to be better animated and less rigged
The special species I don't love a some of them are either a bing stupid and unrealistic looking like iceblast brachy or are redundant like frozen Barioth, I do like the black volvidon design wise, black looks good on him and volvidon deserves a deviant to match Azuros and Lagombi, being a giant black cannon ball would be a good base, I'm not sure how I feel about the immortal zinogre, good concept but looks kinda bad and cartoony currently, however thunder emporer Kirin, thunder bubble Mizutsune, white water plesioth, landlord Lagiacrus and purgatory Agnaktor all have a lot of potential and would like them to be built on and tuned for mainline
Weirdly despite being a bit of a ecology purist I like the crossover and special event monsters as it would be a great way to spruce up event quests but never in the main set of quests
That’s new years mochi on his head.