Monster Hunter Wilds Reviews
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Despite its popularity, Monster Hunter is notoriously hard to get into. Each new release conjures a crowd of eager but intimidated gamers asking, "Is this the one to start with?" Thanks to its refined combat, thrilling cutscenes, and endlessly engaging gameplay loop, Monster Hunter Wilds is an excellent entry point. While the tutorials are still lacking and many mechanics are far from intuitive, Wilds accommodates those interested in a simpler approach without compromising its most exciting e...
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All in all, this is an exceptional game. In 2018, Monster Hunter World stunned the industry by becoming Capcom's fastest-selling game, surpassing sales juggernauts like Resident Evil and Street Fighter.Monster Hunter is mainstream now in all the best ways, and Wilds is the flag planted on the top of the hill.
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Monster Hunter Wilds is the latest in the acclaimed action RPG series that's all about slaying powerful monsters many times your size.
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Since the 2016 release of Monster Hunter: Worlds, the Monster Hunter franchise has become an all-time favourite of mine, being welcomed into a solid community I’ve poured hundreds of hours into. From Worlds itself, to the criminally underappreciated Rise and its expansion Sunbreak. Or the charming spin-offs in Stories and Wings of Ruin. Monster Hunter: Wilds marks the next mainline entry in the long-running series, bringing back the same familiar gameplay loop, whilst making it a touch more...
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I’d love to talk about and gush over all of the cool aspects of Wilds, but for a review, there’s largely no point because the overbearing streamlining, hand-holding, and dumbing down of the game completely ruins those cool aspects for me. Anything positive thing I could say would have a hundred caveats waiting in the wings. For the first time, I have a new entry in one of my favorite video game series, and I have absolutely no desire to play it.
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Monster Hunter Wilds will inevitably go down as the best launch in the franchise's history. It has been an extremely satisfying to play and holds a great story behind its open world.
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Monster Hunter Wilds is the latest entry into the beloved RPG series from Capcom. The game strives to be welcoming to new players while providing veteran Hunters with a challenge, but doesn't always succeed, despite the admirable effort of the developers. It offers a narrative-driven adventure that will have you research, prepare for and carefully hunt monsters, while also building upon and iterating on previous games' systems.
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Overall there’s been a fair bit of negativity in this review. I hope the post-launch support brings the gear grind that series veterans know and love. As things are at launch if you have a group of friends to play with it will be a fun, albeit easy 30 to 40 hours before you run out of content to push. If they can bring back the grind of needing specific items to have any chance against the toughest monsters then you can add a few points to this final launch score.
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Monster Hunter Wilds is the latest entry in Capcom’s long-running multiplayer beast-slaying series, and a return to home consoles after the Switch-focused release of its predecessor, Monster Hunter Rise. Taking more inspiration from 2018’s Monster Hunter World, with its greater focus on narrative and spectacle and the return of many gameplay mechanics left out of Rise, Monster Hunter Wilds feels like a fantastic refinement of the direction that the series has evolved over the past few yea...
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It’d be fair to say that I’ve got a bit of a weird relationship with the Monster Hunter franchise. My first entry into the series, World, was also the first time I’d reviewed one of these games. You may have missed it at the time, but suffice to say the community certainly left an impression on me. (To be blunt, the fact that Hamish received ANY death threats at all, let alone for a 7.5/10 review, is absolutely appalling. Check yourself, and know that any ridiculous bullshit will be loc...
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And speaking of monster design, Monster Hunter WIlds couldn't have done better when it comes to creating a massive menagerie of awe-inspiring creatures. Unfortunately, I can't discuss some of my personal favorite monsters without spoiling the latter half of the story, but suffice it to say that both new and returning monsters are done justice here. Each monster really feels like a part of its ecosystem, whether it's fighitng smaller creatures for dominance or swinging around on webbed ropes. The game doesn't reuse many monsters from Rise or World, so most of them will be new to more recent fans.
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Monster Hunter Wilds is a more approachable, if slightly more mindless Monster Hunter.
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Monster Hunter Wilds starts with big hunts and breathtaking action scenes. By the end of the story and beyond, you’ll be hunting even larger monsters with impossibly larger attacks, harvesting materials from their bodies to make stronger weapons and tougher armor.
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Monster Hunter Wilds doesn't reinvent the wheel, but it brings a refined, polished, approachable, and unforgettable action RPG experience.
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Monster Hunter Wilds is an incredible entry into the franchise that provides a fun and smooth gameplay loop and a beautiful world to explore and hunt in. It’s Monster Hunter at its finest.
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A reduced-fat, flavourful, and fantastic realisation of the Monster Hunter formula, if you can stand to chew through some half-baked narrative choices.
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Monster Hunter Wilds sets the bar for the Monster Hunter series moving forward. It features incredible fights, a surprisingly deep narrative, and a flow to the game that removes much of the monotony.
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Monster Hunter Wilds is a fresh start for the franchise, even as it channels a respectable chunk of Monster Hunter World. The endgame could use a lot more, but it's still a top-tier action RPG with some incredible moments.
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The most exhilarating and refined Monster Hunter yet, even if its attempts to balance the old and new don't always quite coalesce in its ongoing quest to please all audiences.
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Best in class monster combat makes up for a wilderness that's a touch too streamlined.
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Monster Hunter Wilds may very well set the standard for not just how Monster Hunter plays but also how it tells its story.
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Monster Hunter Wilds is easily one of the best games I have ever played with a fantastic gameplay loop that gets better the more you play, though don't expect to play on Steam Deck.
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There’s more I can say about Monster Hunter Wilds, particularly its phenomenal endgame content. But I want you to experience it for yourself since my words can’t do this incredible game justice. Capcom clearly went out of its way to bring us one of the most enjoyable gaming experiences possible.
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This is a fantastic installment in the series that feels filled with opportunities. There’s so much to do here, and a captivating campaign that moves along so well and properly introduces you to the monsters, region, and mechanics only helps enhance it all. Monster Hunter Wilds is a joy to play, a step forward for the series, and perhaps the best entry yet.
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Monster Hunter Wilds is the best Monster Hunter game we’ve ever had. The best storyline, the best visuals, and changes to the combat that revolutionise the way the game plays. That said, striving for the widest audience yet has dulled some of the series difficulty, and you may have to wait for the toughest parts of Wilds to fully reveal themselves.
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Monster Hunter Wilds is confident, bold, and one of the best Monster Hunter games ever, thanks to its ability to stand on the giant shoulders of Worlds and improve it in virtually every way.
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Monster Hunter Wilds continues to smooth off the rougher corners of the series in smart ways, making for some extremely fun fights but also lacking any real challenge.
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While it may be a step down from its predecessor, Monster Hunter Wilds is still a great game with significant quality-of-life improvements, many of which shake up the formula for the better. But Capcom went a little too far in its effort to make the game more accessible to the masses, to the point where it risks alienating its most hardcore fans. Even so, what's here is a meaty experience that scratches that Monster Hunter itch, as long as you don't rely too much on the SOS flare support hunters.
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With the best combat and narrative in a 20-year series of action RPGs, Monster Hunter Wilds is the new peak of Monster Hunter, only further enlivened by a colorful cast of monsters that defies longtime design conventions.
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Monster Hunter Wilds is a fun experience and has all the staples that make the series so enjoyable. Unfortunately, some choices make it hard to enjoy yourself for a significant amount of time while making your way to the portion of the game that you’re trying to experience. The main story aims to provide players with a more immersive experience, but ends up getting in the way of the fighting monsters at a reliable pace, forcing you from point A to B frequently before allowing you to engage with these newly-added monsters. The focus mode for aiming your strikes feels...
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After 100 hours of gameplay and reaching Hunter Rank 110, I can confidently say that Monster Hunter Wilds is a better game than World and Rise. Largely focusing on streamlining and making the overall experience more accessible, without removing the core principles that veteran hunters have come to know and love, Monster Hunter Wilds is a game that should be experienced by everyone. While the main story isn't anything to write home about, it's still an enjoyable one and a great way to get prepared for the real game — High Rank. 2025 is packed with current and upcoming games...
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Monster Hunter Wilds moves the franchise forward from previous games, yet it tends to step into some of the same traps that both World and Rise did. Those issues, however, are dwarfed by an addictive gameplay loop that will keep players engaged for hundreds of hours. When you factor in the game-changing Seikret, and the ease of which players can launch into hunts, Monster Hunter Wilds is a must-play for series fans.
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Monster Hunter Wilds balances spectacle and familiar routine to create the ultimate chill out game.
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Monster Hunter Wilds is the successor that Capcom’s best-selling game deserves. It improves on almost every aspect of World to deliver a tremendous adventure that, if you can make it over the steep initial learning curve, remains the most rewarding action RPG around.
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A hungry gullet of a game, Monster Hunter Wilds will devour your time if it gets its claws in. But an overbearing story might make you impatient to ride straight to the moreish endgame.
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Monster Hunter World: Iceborne introduced the Guiding Lands — a dynamic, borderline sandbox map that had monsters of all shapes and sizes come and go as players investigated its more open environments.
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If Monster Hunter World was the appetizer, then Wilds is the full-blown main course. Now, if you don’t mind, I have a date with Rathalos and a new Great Sword to make.
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Monster Hunter Wilds is the natural evolution of Monster Hunter World, and is an early front-runner for Game of the Year. Fans and newbies alike will find a lot to like in Wilds.
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Monster Hunter Wilds is a good new addition to this long-running series. It takes some bold steps, and although not all of them are moving it in the right direction, the overall experience was still satisfactory. Monster Hunter keeps evolving as a series, and Capcom proves once again that they are the best in this genre they created over 20 years ago.
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Monster Hunter Wilds delivers a ton of incredible new content, buried underneath the usual UI nightmare plus a long, interminable campaign. The new features of the game are fun and exciting once the game opens up, and there are a ton of awesome new monsters to battle. The graphics, as always, are stunning. But wading through the mud of this story for 15-20 hours is downright painful, and the franchise's tradition of not explaining itself is getting extremely old. There is a fabulous Monster Hunter game here, but sooner or later this franchise is going to have to wake up...
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Not only does Monster Hunter Wilds introduce meaningful new mechanics and features that improve the already stellar core gameplay, it presents players with an assortment of new and interesting monsters to do battle against. And thanks to its changeable environments, it feels more dynamic than ever. Without a doubt, this is the best entry in the series yet, and an early contender for 2025's Game of the Year.
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Monster Hunter Wilds is a bold and bustling continuation of its predecessor’s approach to streamlining the once-niche series. By stripping away some of the more frustrating elements of the past, and focusing on getting players into hunts as quickly as possible, Monster Hunter Wilds has the potential to launch the series to new heights. Aside from some head-scratching omissions, Monster Hunter Wilds is a collection of the greatest hits from past games, one that finally delivers on the promise of a truly vibrant and living open world.
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Endlessly ambitious and full of detail, Monster Hunter: Wilds manages to deliver on everything that it sets out to do and then some. I have complete faith in Capcom to keep building off of this launch as one of their strongest foundations yet. Putting the game down genuinely seems like an impossibility with just how much there is to do. The wait has been long and tense, but Capcom haven't missed the mark with their latest and arguably, greatest.
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Although it’s possible that Monster Hunter Wilds could put off some veterans who started early with the series, it’s made a massive jump in progress towards being a more well-rounded game that is inviting to a much broader audience. In terms of visuals, it’s the best the series has to offer and the seamless world makes the environments come to life like never before. Add on the improved combat and mount controls and it’s a game you won’t be able to put down once you start.
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Both the most approachable and most accomplished Monster Hunter yet, Wilds has the systems and the substance to keep you in for the long haul.
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Despite running since 2004, it took the Monster Hunter series multiple installments to reach the level of popularity it enjoys today, and that's largely due to the much-improved accessibility. Much like the first entries in FromSoftware's Souls series, the early Monster Hunter games had some obscure mechanics that weren't properly explained in-game and required some experimentation to properly grasp. Since 2018's Monster Hunter World, however, making the series more accessible has become one of the main focuses, an effort that has paid off immensely, as working on making the franchise more accessible to newcomers also addressed some of the series'...
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I’m complaining a bit in the review, but Monster Hunter: Wilds really is a good game. Many will even consider it to be very good. But I can’t talk about it without thinking about it’s predecessors which make the new game look too safe and by-the-numbers.
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Monster Hunter Wilds feels like a true evolution of the series, maintaining everything that gives it it's identity but tweaking multiple elements to improve and streamline systems.
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It’s a Monster Hunter game for everyone, and if you’re looking for the next game to sink hundreds of hours into, look no further.
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Monster Hunter Wilds is the best Monster Hunter has ever felt. It looks incredible and plays even better with fluid weapon combos, an incredibly addicting gameplay loop, and various monsters to fight. It’s not quite perfect, with the multiplayer features being unintuitive, but once you start playing you just don’t want to put it down.
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Monster Hunter Wilds has arrived, and your hunter is officially authorized to explore the Forbidden Lands. With a wider scope, bigger monsters, and more lush environments, Wilds delivers thrilling combat on top of stunning presentation, but does it hit every mark?
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Monster Hunter Wilds offers the best hunting and combat in the series’ history. Intense fights are at the heart of the experience, and the large, open world and its various ecosystem changes are spectacles to see from afar and up close in the middle of a hunt. It is only bolstered by some fantastic audio, music, and feedback as you slash, carve, and batter monsters. However, the game’s characters don’t have enough air to breathe amongst the wider narrative and the lack of pinnacle fights and endgame challenges are a severe downgrade from other games in the series.
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Monster Hunter Wilds has all the potential to become the best game in the franchise's history, even if it's not quite there yet.
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Monster Hunter Wilds is another step in the evolution of this growing series with all sorts of updates aimed at making it more accessible to its expanding audience. The story and characters may not appeal to every hunter but they help guide the experience, and even with some performance and visual issues on Xbox (particularly on Series S), there’s still an addictive gameplay loop that always has you looking forward to the next hunt.
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Monster Hunter Wilds marks another evolution in Capcom’s beloved action RPG series, bringing significant changes to the franchise’s core mechanics while maintaining its hunting essence. After spending over 40 hours with the game, we’ll review and explore how Wilds balances new features with traditional Monster Hunter elements, examining everything from its enhanced storytelling to its refined combat systems and quality-of-life improvements.
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Monster Hunter Wilds takes everything that worked from World and Rise to deliver the ultimate monster-hunting experience. Combat improvements, an excellent story, and a giant lineup of monsters make this the hunter haven we were all waiting for.
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Monster Hunter Wilds sands off a lot of the edges from the series, and while I was concerned that this could leave the game feeling frictionless and uninspiring, the addition of a really engaging story, some of the coolest monsters I’ve seen in any game, and the new systems all combine to make it just pure fun. It’s good for newcomers because of all the helpful parts, but veterans will be overjoyed with everything that comes after the credits, not to mention the wonders of having two weapons easily accessible. Monster Hunter Wilds is probably going to be my game...
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An excellent follow-up to Monster Hunter World, which expands the formula in a number of useful and exciting ways, without streamlining the heart out of the franchise.
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It has issues, but Monster Hunter Wilds iterates on a winning formula with another captivating collection of monsters to slay
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The year 2025 is shaping up to be a remarkable time for RPGs, with hits like Avowed and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Monster Hunter Wilds will likely seal the deal, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see it take the top spot in Capcom’s collection.
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Monster Hunter Wilds is more of the same classic monster-slaying fun, but with new improvements and a seamless world to explore, the grind has never been better. This decades-old franchise still has plenty of fun left to discover.
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Monster Hunter Wilds pulls off the ambitious foray into the open world genre with near perfection. The quality of life is better than ever before, and it's more of the same with improvements upon all existing systems. If you want to get your friends into the franchise, this is the game.
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Monster Hunter Wilds builds on Worlds’ combat, crafting, and upgrade systems. The new open zones and more complex monster behaviors are impressive and interesting to explore, and as always, hunts can be challenging, rewarding, exhausting, and fun. The lack of new weapons is disappointing, as are the many technical issues and the game’s often unpolished feel. The bigger environments and more open-ended gameplay could have been the foundation for something really new and special. Monster Hunter Wilds feels like a lateral move rather than a significant advance.
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In conclusion, Monster Hunter Wilds stands as Capcom’s crowning achievement in the Monster Hunter series, showcasing years of refinement and passion. The combat is seamless, the environments are breathtaking, and the attention to detail is truly remarkable. There’s so much to appreciate in this game that it’s impossible to cover everything in one go. But instead of rambling on, I’ll just say this: Monster Hunter Wilds is a must-play for Monster Hunter fans. This is not up for debate!
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