https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/mar/24/monster-hunter-rise-review-capcom

Nintendo Switch; CapcomFlush with flash new tricks, simpler action and a bulging roster of hostile creatures, the latest instalment of the enduring series is an absurd delight

After you’ve felled a hard-scaled, fire-breathing dragon in Monster Hunter Rise, you can pose for a photo with your loyal cat and dog (taken by an owl, no less) as its corpse lies in a contorted rictus of agony in the background. Nothing better sums up the Monster Hunter experience than cutesy poses offset against a once-proud giant lizard, broken and humiliated, waiting to be carved up into tomorrow’s armour. That sense of achievement and joviality after brutal and bloody violence is the loop of tension and release that’s kept this series in the charts for 17 years.