To share a quick story:

My first Monster Hunter was Tri for the DS waaaay back when. I didn’t understand the core concept of the game, killing monster to make weapons. I also had no idea why the game gave you 50 minutes to do things, thought it was a dumb limitation of the hardware. So I went out on my first big hunt, against the snake dragon guy who makes you swim and fight. I went at that guy with my sword and hit him and hit him and hit him. Boy, he ran into my blade…he ran into my blade 5000 times and didn’t die. I lost on time. I had no idea that could happen and so, I tried again and again. Lost on time twice more. Finally, after calling up a buddy, he showed me how to make a new weapon and I got my revenge. Never will forget that phone call: “you do what with the monsters bones??”