I loved the hunts in XII. Did them all. I am half way thru XIII hunts and they are not all that hard. Sometimes you get sent on what amounts to the same hunt. Only difference is that the second time the marks got mates. There is no tryin to get the weather to co-operate thank the gods. I spent 8 hours tryin to get that big dragon/tyrant thingy in the winter area to show. One cool thing is there is a trophy for doing every mark and earning five stars. You don't have to do it the first time. You can rehunt the thing. The primary award for the hunt is not repeated but the secondary one is. There is one hunt that the primary award is a collectors catalog and the secondary is 3 bomb shells. You won't the another collectors catalog but you can get the 3 bomb shells as many times as you like.