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Monster Hunter Wilds (2025)

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I haven't played MH in 9 months. Still remember how to play, though. I tried this because it was free. I wasn't planning on playing this at all, because I really hate the ugly brown screen filter and starting desert, and the weapon intro videos had lots of missing sound effects, so I thought they destroyed the sound design. But I ended up liking this more than I expected. The feel of the combat is much better than World/Rise. I won't be buying this on launch, though. Too expensive, too many other things I want to play first, and I need to wait for a mod to remove the ugly brown filter.

I cut the character creation because it took an hour and I ate lunch while doing it. I find it really funny that my character stands out so much just because I'm the only blue on the screen almost all the time.

Negatives (everything else seems good):
World's colors and environments look infinitely more beautiful. Very ugly brown filter and boring starting desert. Opening sequence sucks, but better than World's. My character's face looks creepy when smiling. It feels harder to make nice faces. The blend slider is confusing, and eye/nose/mouth height slider is too limited. Proportion customization is non existent, which is extremely lazy. Can't hide equipment like in Rise. Greatsword new sounds feel weaker. Charge Blade can't combo straight into the nuke anymore. Mantles are back, and I hate those. No dogs, and mobility is worse than Rise. I don't like bad open world, and if it's open world it needs to have mobility at least as good as Rise. And I'm not looking forward to all the gathering and upgrading. I just want to fight the monsters.

In case it wasn't obvious, frame rate drops bigtime in congested areas like the hub, because everything's shoved onscreen at once. Like Blue Protocol. Also I still think Wilds is a really bad name, because all the abbreviations are already taken by World, even in Japanese. MHW/Monwa. They should have called it "Monster Hunter Brown".

0:00:00 Start
0:04:30 Character creation end
0:05:55 Intro
0:16:44 Trying weapons
0:48:37 Gunlance vs Chatacabra
0:59:16 Story
1:07:05 Checking equipment
1:17:41 Fish meal
1:25:17 Avatar off, adjusting settings
1:28:28 Frame gen crash restart
1:37:20 Charge Blade/Greatsword vs Doshaguma
2:00:51 Charge Blade/Switch Axe vs Rey Dau
2:19:47 Charge Blade/Gunlance/Greatsword vs Balahara
2:39:31 Meat meal
2:44:43 Veggies meal