Almost 10 years later, Monster Hunter Wilds will finally expand one of the coolest and rarest monster types in the whole series

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A beta was inevitable, but a new octopus boss is a welcome surprise.

While technically unnamed and unclassified, the Black Flame is clearly a fire-spewing, oil-coated cephalopod.

We’ve seen plenty of tendrils and tentacles in Monster Hunter, but true cephalopods are in short supply.

As a reminder, one of the Elder Dragons is a horse.

In other words, this could be an all-new classification of monster, assuming Capcom finally codifies cephalopods.

That, or it could get lumped in with leviathans.