Monster Hunter Wilds

Monster Hunter Wilds is Capcom's highly anticipated new hunting game, but falls short of expectations in content richness and design innovation, becoming one of the more disappointing entries in the series. As a cross-generation title, the game shows visual improvements, but core gameplay design backfires. The game pursues convenience while reducing hunting challenges, and weapon balance has obvious issues. Many cross-generation designs fail to truly innovate, instead weakening the core hunting enjoyment. Mount controls feel poor, and the physics engine has problems - the Seikret often fails to trigger wall-climbing and gets stuck. Technical performance is quite poor at launch, with various performance issues affecting the game experience. UI design also has problems - with keyboard and mouse, you can't even click the toggle for hiding head equipment. New player control guidance is terrible, especially the first monster capture tutorial which is very confusing. Content is the game's biggest problem. Many classic hunting monsters and their special mechanics are absent, and both main/side content and open-world exploration are insufficient. The main storyline only provides about ten hours of gameplay - clearly too little content. While subsequent chapters have story content, the incentive is lacking, especially for non-series fans. Update frequency is also slow, continuing to draw player community dissatisfaction. Story maintains the standard Monster Hunter style - essentially one fetch quest after another followed by a hunt, and story was never the series' highlight anyway. Narrative pacing is somewhat too fast, introducing the novel concept of artificial creatures for the series and revealing an ancient nation's secrets, yet lacking deeper exploration, with the ending feeling somewhat weak. The game offers limited free exploration opportunities, with players essentially following the designer's predetermined path, resulting in insufficient immersion. Task variety is lacking, and content depth is wanting. As the latest series entry, the 84.5 rating reflects its obvious shortcomings in content and innovation.