idk if you tried it but monster hunter stories you get to collect eggs and ride the monsters and battle w them more like pokémon :3 it's very different gameplay wise but i love them
Riding monsters was also Rise's gimmick, instead of regular mounting you'd control them like a marionette with your lil spiderman bugs and beat up other monsters lol
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but it has the differently colored monster system... I miss her
it is available in the second game if you mess with stats iirc, but it's unintended
https://www.nexusmods.com/monsterhunterstories2wingsofruin/mods/31
There's another one by Meatcircus that makes some really cool similar changes to the body markings, too, I recommend giving that one a look.