For the remainder of the year we are expected to see the launch of a good number of very notable video games, although some companies are already doing their homework to everything that will arrive throughout 2025. One of them is Capcom, since it has several very promising titles in its hands, one of them being the long-awaited and spectacular Monster Hunter Wilds.
The next installment of the acclaimed and successful saga has been shown so far with some trailer and gameplay that has not stopped giving us a long time and increasing the expectation even more, even in someone like me who has not played much of the game either. the franchise throughout all this time. However, I am clear that with this next chapter I will make an exception.
The reason is because these days, during the celebration of the Play Days of the Summer Game Fest 2024 that was held in Los Angeles, I have been able attend a closed-door presentation who has dedicated himself to showing in detail a tremendously amazing mission. Several Capcom representatives were showing the qualities of the game, what its gameplay will be like, the new features, the monster hunt and all the other excuses that have more than served to put this one in the spotlight. Monster Hunter.
This is the exploration of the wildest, most vivid and colossal world in the saga
At the plot level I can’t say anything at the moment, given that the 30 minutes of presentation were exclusive to a mission in which The objective was to hunt a Doshaguma, a kind of mix between a bear and a lion due to its corpulence, its immense size and its characteristic mane around its neck. Of course, until you reached it you had to move through an open world that was simply colossal due to the dimensions it had.
And the team guaranteed us that the scenario through which we will travel from one place to another will be twice as big as anything seen in the entire Monster Hunter saga, so it is undeniable that it will take hours to get from one end to the other. Especially due to the fact that there are hundreds and hundreds of points of interest scattered everywhere. What’s more, when they showed the map on which this detail could be seen, it was really overwhelming, although they guaranteed that everything will be more intuitive and easier to understand than it seems.
Before leaving on a trip, your thing is to equip yourself from top to bottom with any necessary materials and the appropriate weapons to carry out the mission. In the town that serves as a base camp there are many inhabitants, including children feeding smaller monsters, so there are also some harmless ones that do not harm anyone, such as the one where our character can climb. to move quickly from one place to another, because otherwise it would be crazy to go anywhere due to the distances that separate one area from another.
Aware that it can be excessively tedious to have to get off the creature in question to collect materials, the character has a hook that allows you to extract anything located at a long distance while he does not stop running through this wild world that gives the sensation of being very alive as it is so populated with monsters of all kinds. Luckily, you can follow the path that the game shows you so that the destination does not have any loss.
At any time you can make a stop to regain strength by setting up a tent, something that takes just a couple of seconds. In addition, you can place a chair and prepare a campfire with its respective tools to prepare a delicious plate of food. In fact, even this is reflected with a cinematic that will make anyone drool because of how appetizing the food looks, as happens in Dragon’s Dogma 2.
On the other hand, since there are so many monsters that can be fought against or that will rebel just by being in their range of vision, it is possible to dress our character with a camouflage cloak made up of leaves which allows him to go completely unnoticed and thus not alert any group, which could mean suicide by having to face so many creatures at the same time.
The many ways to beat up monsters
After a great sample of some of the possibilities that exploring this world allows you, the moment of truth arrived. The fight began against a group made up of four Doshagumas, about which it is inevitable to highlight how ferocious they are as they are extremely violent. And be very careful when fleeing from the group, because if you pass near other monsters that are roaming freely there is the possibility that they will join the massacre, excessively increasing the difficulty of the objective to be achieved.
Not being able to face everyone at once, there was no other option but to run away, so during the escape the Capcom team ended up entering into a desert area that looked entirely like the apocalypse due to the sand and electrical storm that hit the surroundings. Lightning kept striking here and the fluttering sand didn’t help much. Even so, something that caught my attention is that the scenario itself can be of too valuable help.
And in the end it turned out that the character was not just running away, but was trying to lead the group of monsters to a trap in the form of a sand pit. When we got there, the ground collapsed and an immense hole was formed that tried to drag in anyone who came into contact with it. In this way, two of the small herd could not do anything to save themselves, another escaped and the remaining fourth was left alive, although they were seen having a really difficult time climbing and not suffering a somewhat unpleasant and agonizing death.
Of course, from then on he became more lethal as he became angry about what happened. Likewise, the player in charge was clear that a one-on-one confrontation was not going to be a piece of cake, so he led him to a location where there were three other snake-shaped beings who did not even think twice about attacking. to Doshaguma. I seemed a beastly moment because of how these reptiles interacted with his body
Of course, it is undeniable that making the monsters fight against them is something to take into account, because this same play was repeated a few seconds later when a giant dragon appeared on the scene, so both monsters They engaged in an epic battle which became even more impressive thanks to the soundtrack and the impressive graphic quality that the game boasts, to which is also added the effects of the environments. In short, a spectacle that leaves you speechless.
And since there are not two without three, the Capcom representative attracted the Doshaguma towards another group of wild monsters, which in this case were smaller and a type of velociraptors that latched onto its back, neck and legs to give it a few bites and bites. cuts of those that make pupita. In short, he really amazed me at the extent to which each monster has its own animations when attacking and latching onto other creatures in this way, making everything very realistic.
Returning to the way of interacting with the environment, I was also able to observe that The hook is an essential tool for a multitude of situations, such as to cling to higher areas and thus jump on top of monsters, although it can also be used to hook it to stones and pull them so that a landslide occurs that crushes the monster. Despite everything, and no matter how much beating the Doshaguma had received so far, it did not give up.
This is when a flare can alert other players that their help is required so that they come to the notice and join the slaughter, but not before placing a good mountain of barrels around the monster while it was resting and regaining strength so that it would fly into a thousand pieces. In short, between the sand pit, the attack of other monsters, the rocks, the impacts, the explosions and the beating between the quartet of hunters, in the end this very resistant beast could not last any longer and ended up dying, simply putting an end to a demonstration. epic.
If all this happened with a simple beast, I’m already looking forward to discovering what other ways it is possible to confront the enemies and what more surprises await in this immense world so wild that it gives the sensation of being the most complete and alive in the saga. The only bad thing is how long there is until the release of Monster Hunter Wildsbut if everything ends with a quality like this demo, the wait will be worth it.
Monster Hunter Wilds Release Date
To join the hunters Monster Hunter Wilds We’ll have to wait until next year. The only thing that Capcom has mentioned in this regard is that it will arrive in 2025, without going into more details, but we do know that it will go on sale for PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC.
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