I also second this. After you master your weapon and go into ‘advanced’ play of MH, it’s harder than any soul game, without penalty tho.
By advance play, I mean normally for each weapon, you can go in and keep attacking, you will win eventually. But your hunt might take a long time. After you get better and better, you will learn that the weapon of your choice has meta-play; you will want to try that and get better, you will keep practicing, and you will learn monster move set, timing, and their weak points, min-max your gears, etc… that’s when the real game of Monster Hunter started ;)
I played for thousands of hours and used to play every day just to get better and better. It’s a very relaxing and rewarding play.
I do agree with this.