The new monsters are all really cool and fun to fight. The clutch claw is a pretty fun addition as well. The difficulty is ramped up which is a welcome change since there wasn't much in the way of challenge in the base game aside from nergi. I really hate fighting tigrex though. The more annoying parts of the expansion were the master rank versions of previous monsters like legiana and beezlegeuse but thankfully you're only required to fight them once. The story is still completely uninteresting and the fact that it keeps you from doing multiplayer until you see the cutscenes amplifies this problem. That being said, the cutscenes showing the monsters in action were very cool so it kind of balances out.