Previously cloistered in Japan, the Monster Hunter license is now taking advantage of a great world famous. His new title, Wilds, has never aroused so much waiting, but is it worth the candle?
Monster Hunter Wilds was undoubtedly one of the most anticipated video game titles of the year 2025, shoulder to shoulder with the big GTA VI. The license developed by Capcom, which experienced unprecedented popularity at the time of the release of the opus World In 2018, continues today to arouse the excitement of players.
This Friday, February 28, 2025 indeed signs the return of the franchise Monster Hunterthanks to a whole new adventure, Wilds. On the occasion of this video game event, the specialized press has already been able to test the game and forge its opinion. Monster Hunter Wilds Is it worth buying? Can we talk about the game of the year? Answers below.
A scenario that improves but which poses some problems
The license Monster Hunter never shone by its scriptwriting depth, and Wilds does not seem to be an exception to the rule. If history “is not great art”the fact remains that Gameblog Note a “Real effort”. The game begins on the discovery of a young boy called Nata on the border of prohibited land, uninhabited desert region.
The child is narrowly saved by the guild of hunters, just before it reveals to us that a people would be hidden beyond the desert. However, a great danger would put their existence in danger. In order to fight this threat, the guild loads the player and his fellow hunters to explore prohibited land, with the aim of saving the population in danger.
Monster Hunter Wilds therefore offers a basic scenario, which underlines Gamekult :: “We don’t play at Monster Hunter For its history “. If Gameblog claims that “Regulars will certainly see events arrive at miles”, It is important to emphasize that Capcom has operated on “Very clear narrative changes”.
These developments mainly take place in kinematics very regularly punctuating the history of Monster Hunter Wilds. “It is above all the staging of the cutscenes who succeed in capturing the attention of the player”,, confirms Jeuxvideo.comadding that“We are sometimes entitled to great spectacle”. A feeling nuanced by Gamekult: “Believe us when we tell you that this is the longest scenario of the whole license […]. Monster Hunter Wilds Many, a lot of kinematics. And particularly long in addition! “.
An innovative and very supplied gameplay
As with his predecessors, Monster Hunter Wilds Resumes the idea of hunting monsters through different regions. However, the last title of the Capcom license has sought to innovate its gameplay in depth, by integrating many new features. Let us mention, for example, the presence of a large open world, allowing long trips without transitions or cuts.
A real feeling of immersion emerges from Monster Hunter Wildsthanks in particular to the various regions making up the card. Varied and singular, these are transformed according to the weather and the Dynamic day/night cycle: “An excellent idea” that brings “absolutely dantesque game sequences”according to Gameblog.
Xboxygen The numerous novelties of gameplay underlines during combat sequences. Focus mode for example, great innovation of Monster Hunter Wildspresents itself as a feature that “offers great diversity and just as much flexibility”. This results in a reticle allowing the player to better target the parts of the body of a monster and to access “focus attacks”, devastating blows that can change the turn of a fight.
However, Gameblog deplores the cutting of gameplay from Monster Hunter Wildsstressing that the first ten hours of the game are “relatively linear” and purely scriptwriting. “Offering little butterflies” And rare hunting sequences, the introduction of the game seems far too long. A length rather well digested by Jeuxvideo.com, which writes that the “Narrative part is short enough to be effective since it will only take you 15 to 20 to see the end”.
Monster Hunter Wilds is, as a rule, much appreciated for its generous content: “We are not talking about tens, but hundreds, even thousands of hours of experience for the most fierce”according to The scoutespecially since the gameplay “Badie with the hours”.
Monster Hunter Wilds Reintroduced many iconic monsters from the license, to the delight of the oldest fans. The catalog of monsters, it could not be more important in the eyes of the players, is a real success for Jeuxvideo.com: “If we were able to blame the franchise for presenting a lot of dinosaurs and dragons, Wilds Play the card of originality by offering a bestiary that changes with new eccentric creatures “. Gameblog still notes that the latter, “just as good as it is, remains less provided than World And Rise“” even if “The result is more than enough and convincing”.
Excellent graphics that could have been better
This is a point that aroused the admiration of the whole specialized press: graphics. Qualified as “show” and “Visual beauty” by Games,, Monster Hunter Wilds stands out for the quality of its graphics. The different regions making up the card are remarkable for realism and ingenuity, “With a meticulous meaning of the arrangement in biomes, with this side both logical as a draft which gives this authentic thing that we find in the big games”still according to Gamesactu. “Monster Hunter Wilds offers extremely pleasant environments to survey, filled with small details of which only the series has the secret”Corroborre Gamekult.
Graphics so amazing that Gameblog writes that Monster Hunter Wilds East “A real artistic success is superb”. “Panoramas are even sometimes impressive […]. Level Design is always incredible “can be read further. Enthusiasm is not, however, shared by the scout, which deplores the fact that the graphics “never constitute a memorable slap”. If Monster Hunter Wilds “remains very beautiful […]we surely expected more ambitious title“”
Among all the license opus Monster Hunter, Wilds stands out “The most accessible of all”according to Gameblog. An impression shared by a large part of the specialized press. Despite the “Globable simplification of the gameplay” and the introduction of many new products that denotes with the previous titles, Gamekult concludes its test by writing that Monster Hunter Wilds “remains an incredibly satisfactory experience, by its finesse, its addiction, its elegance but also its fluidity”.
Monster Hunter Wilds East “By far the most successful and successful episode in the series”says Gamesactu, while Jeuxvideo.com assures that it “has never been so pleasant to start Monster Hunter that today “. Elogious criticisms that perhaps announce a great commercial success for Capcom, and perhaps even the title of Game of the Year for the Game Awards 2025.