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You never forget your first Monster Hunter.

In fact, I actively hated it.

Monster Hunter Wilds screenshot of a hunter holding a steel great sword

To my horror, I became a great sword boomer.

Look how they massacred my boy, etc.

To my utter delight,Monster Hunter Wildshas flipped the script entirely.

Monster Hunter Wilds beta and trailer screenshots

It was worth becoming a set-in-my-ways great sword snob because now I get to bask in sweet vindication.

Great sword, as I know and love it, is so back.

Meanwhile, crit draw would guarantee a critical hit on every opening attack.

Monster Hunter Wilds greatsword swing at leviathan

This play style technically never disappeared.

The armor skills that enabled it didn’t go anywhere.You control the buttons you press, and so on.

Inevitably, I gravitate toward weapons with a well-rounded move set that feels dynamic and reactive in a hunt.

A Monster Hunter Wilds character holding binoculars.

Technically you had a charge and a strong charge, but they were almost the same thing.

See, it’s not about repetition for me.

It’s about and let me put my snob hat back on for this elegance.

Cooking in Monster Hunter Wilds

Hey, I said I’m a boomer.

Why have the other moves at all?

There we were, happily taking a humble two-horse carriage to work, andCapcomreleased a Ford F150.

Shifting the charge blade into axe mode in Monster Hunter Wilds

The TCS is still powerful, but the motion values between all three great sword charges have been normalized.

This makes the standard draw attack competitive, andthatmeans crit draw and punishing draw are on the menu.

The ol' spatula strategy is back, baby.

The player in Monster Hunter Wilds standing in the training area wielding the Great Sword.

The TCS is a cool attack!

And now it’s not over-tuned.

Music to my boomer ears.

A hunter runs towards a lunging Gravios in Monster Hunter Wilds, greatsword held aloft

These are thebest Monster Hunter Wilds weapons.

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Exploring the Scarlet Forest in Monster Hunter Wilds

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Monster Hunter Wilds beta and trailer screenshots

A man with long grey hair looking to the left in front of sand in Monster Hunter Wilds

Monster Hunter Wilds Mizutsune

Monster Hunter Wilds Amstrigian α head armor

Screenshot of a hunter holding a hammer in Monster Hunter Wilds� hammer weapon overview video.

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