also its funny how monster hunter stories tries to act like you're a more peaceful, "living in harmony with monsters" type of character compared to the main series, but then you just.
still fight monsters the same way. you use the same oversized weapons and other gear, in the second stories game you can target specific body parts to break them, and you're still ultimately killing monsters and stripping them of scales/leather/fur, talons/teeth, etc., to make new big weapons to kill more stuff with
i guess having the character utilize different tactics would mean having to do all sorts of new designs but it's still funny to me