I do believe the developers need to make the game more newbie-friendly, since after 10 levels, all I know is how to accept and complete quests, open my inventory and storage, go out hunting and that's about it. Opening the Hunter Ranks tab and all the confusion begins again. Maybe they will explain the ranking stars to me as I progress in levels, but now I don't even know whether I'm 1 star yet though I believe I've been past a quest related to that.
So now we fight. As a mainstream MMORPG player who plays games revolving around dazzling skills and staggeringly complicated skill mechanics and interactions, it's unbelievable that a game only allows me to hack... and slash. Well, LB lets you perform hack/slash combos at the enemy (space) right in front of you, while RB makes you jump a few spaces forward and perform a slash attack, along with a substantial recovery time. And that's pretty much the tools you have to slay a monster at this level. I've heard you will eventually be able to perform combos though, and I hope that brings a lot more color into the combat system. Also, the different classes of weapons should also add some depth to the combat. MH fans would not find this an issue though :)
And of course with every RPG game, there's crafting! And to craft you need to first get those materials. That's where harvesting comes in, and also where I find the icons of items rather frustrating to look at. When the backpack eventually gets filled with all those gathered materials, and the icons offer not much of a clue what they actually are, you would simply have to hover over each and every icon to find the one you want to select, which is a pain D:
To eventually become a hero, we have to level; and to level, we need quests. Main quests up to level 10 were all pretty straightforward and easy, and they were basically ones that teach you some of the features of the game, like where the storage is, equipping weapon and going out on a hunt etc.