Another feature it has over Monster Hunter Rise is that you don’t have to go to a specific area or fight monsters to test out new weapons, although the latter is still an option. Instead, wooden Kemono statues spread throughout the world meant for testing weap
In order to start crafting the Drachen Alpha Armor , Monster Hunter World requires you to hunt down Behemoths . Once that’s done, however, you’re well underway to having probably the best armor in the g
A Monster Hunter structure means there will be a central hub for you to return to, and various Wild Area-esque zones for you to explore in turn – but unlike the Wild Area itself, you will be exploring them with purpose. It probably won’t be to hunt down and slay a Garchomp, but the game looks set to offer a sense of direction in every open area it offers you. This is a halfway house between the rigid routes of the main game and the Pokemon Hyrule of everyone’s dreams, but it’s probably for the b
I’m not a huge fan of Breath of the Wild as a game . I am, however, a humongous fan of Breath of the Wild as a world that exists on the Nintendo Switch and could be filled with Pokemon. Pokemon Legends: Arceus was supposed to be the delivery of ‘Pokemon but Breath of the Wild’, but it now seems to be more like ‘Pokemon but Monster Hunter Wilds DLC|https://Monsterwildlands.com/ Hunter: Rise’. That’s disappointing – Breath of the Wild is much closer to my hypothetical perfect Pokemon game than Monster Hunter – but it might just be for the b
This gear is actually an interesting armor from a lore perspective, since the culture that made this armor doesn’t usually have any men around. To have male armor implies male society members, whether from another race or otherwise. In Breath of the Wild, men aren’t being allowed into the city where this is purchased, but maybe they were o
It’s hard to think of Pokemon in the style of Breath of the Wild in practicality. Sure, anyone can edit a screenshot to have Gyarados in a BOTW lake or Rapidash racing across the field, but isn’t that just what the Wild Area is? The illusion of an open world, the type that would look good in screenshots, but without meaning or purpose. Without any heart or direction, BOTW would not be the same game. It gives you freedom to go wherever you want, but it also provides contours across the map to steer you towards towns, it makes sure each location is thematically linked, and you often need to hit multiple landmarks to secure the tools and ingredients to reach the next one. Even though I’m not the biggest fan of it, I have to admire the level of design on show here. It’s not a level I think Pokemon can match, and that’s before you introduce the much more complicated issue of where you put the Pokemon and how you offer freedom while ensuring players don’t meet their doom at the feathers of an overpowered Hawlucha 40 minutes into the g
In these Dragon Quest games, you can find models of the monsters and, like other entries on our list, information about the lore of the game. Interestingly, this isn’t specific to the Monster spinoffs. Even in main Dragon Quest games, you can find a bestiary
The glowing blue lights aren’t just to make it look pretty, it actually serves as one of the main factors why this armor is so powerful. They generate a force field that protects Aloy from an oncoming barrage of attacks , thus maximizing her defensive and offensive capabilit
In Hollow Knight , the bestiary is referred to as your Hunter’s Journal. Rather than having it at the start of the game, you will need to acquire it; fortunately, this can happen pretty early on in the g
Related: Pokemon Legends: Arceus Could Have The Series’ Best Villain Origin Story Pokemon has dabbled in more expansive territory before. Sword & Shield introduced the Wild Area, which masqueraded as an open-world adventure within the world of Pokemon. I say ‘masqueraded’ because it was a completely isolated area plonked in the middle of the map with little to no storytelling, environmental or otherwise. You were introduced to it far too early, then spent a lot of the time wandering around encountering Pokemon much too strong for you to catch. You might pick up some new ‘mons, but chances are you’ll just get frustrated and duck out, back to the main adventure – an adventure that continues, as always, along a fairly linear eight-gym progression p
I’ve wanted an open-world Pokemon game for as long as I can remember – longer than I can even put into words. I remember playing the very first Assassin’s Creed and thinking ‘I hope they put Pokemon on the PlayStation one of these days’. What a fool I was. What an absolute buffoon of a 14-year-old. But that was what appealed to me more than any gameplay conventions – can I get it on my TV. With the Switch and the likes of Let’s Go and Sword & Shield, that’s now a reality, but the open-world hankering remains. Legends: Arceus , which is now going back on its open world promise , might be the perfect middle gro
