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7/10/2025, 9:53:25 PM
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And yet the game doesn’t trust itself. And it sucks because you know a lot of work went into these aspects of the game.
Every time that quiet immersion begins to take root, it’s interrupted by a talking cat or a concerned handler explaining something I could have figured out on my own. Mounts whisk you across the map so quickly that you barely see the world you're supposed to be hunting in. Fast travel, auto-pathing, menu labyrinths, and exposition all conspire to strip the experience of weight and consequence. The game keeps yanking you out of the hunt just when it starts getting good.
And that’s the tragedy of Wilds. It has all the ingredients of a masterpiece. The environmental storytelling, the monster AI, the raw atmosphere. Dude, it’s all there. But it’s buried under layers of noise designed to make things “easier,” “friendlier,” more “accessible.”
In trying to accommodate everyone, the game forgets that part of the thrill of hunting is feeling like the prey sometimes. What if your hunter wasn’t a god? Inclemency would be thrilling beyond just the visual spectacle. It would mean your hunt could be interrupted by an Apex.
I want that version of Wilds. The one that trusts its world enough to let players get lost in it. The one that lets the hunt unfold naturally, instead of scheduling it around talking-head cutscenes.
Let the game breathe. Let it be.
Because beneath all the noise and optimization issues, MH Wilds is brilliant.
And yet the game doesn’t trust itself. And it sucks because you know a lot of work went into these aspects of the game.
Every time that quiet immersion begins to take root, it’s interrupted by a talking cat or a concerned handler explaining something I could have figured out on my own. Mounts whisk you across the map so quickly that you barely see the world you're supposed to be hunting in. Fast travel, auto-pathing, menu labyrinths, and exposition all conspire to strip the experience of weight and consequence. The game keeps yanking you out of the hunt just when it starts getting good.
And that’s the tragedy of Wilds. It has all the ingredients of a masterpiece. The environmental storytelling, the monster AI, the raw atmosphere. Dude, it’s all there. But it’s buried under layers of noise designed to make things “easier,” “friendlier,” more “accessible.”
In trying to accommodate everyone, the game forgets that part of the thrill of hunting is feeling like the prey sometimes. What if your hunter wasn’t a god? Inclemency would be thrilling beyond just the visual spectacle. It would mean your hunt could be interrupted by an Apex.
I want that version of Wilds. The one that trusts its world enough to let players get lost in it. The one that lets the hunt unfold naturally, instead of scheduling it around talking-head cutscenes.
Let the game breathe. Let it be.
Because beneath all the noise and optimization issues, MH Wilds is brilliant.
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