Someone Give Guerrilla The Rights To Monster Hunter Already
It’s easy to say one video game is like another. Shared mechanics aren’t unheard of, and you’re always going to see resemblance and inspiration throughout the medium. But come on - Horizon is like Monster Hunter. You go around fighting big things, and those big things look like dinosaurs. Just swap out the metal for scales and you’ve got yourself a Monster Hunter game, right? There’s a little more to the comparison than that here though - and perhaps more importantly, Guerrilla is already halfway there.
If you ever played Zero Dawn and thought about Monster Hunter for even a second, that mental image will come rushing back as soon as you set a forbidden foot in the Forbidden West. Many of the locations and features in Horizon Forbidden West take this idea a whole step further than I was readily expecting. From the settlements to the weapons - and yes, the big machines too - Guerrilla has essentially already made a Monster Hunter game. Aloy may have been added into Monster Hunter: World in 2019, but now it seems the Monster Hunter: World has been added to Aloy.
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As soon as I stepped foot in the Chainscrape tavern, I knew it would work. The dark and confined atmosphere of the wooden architecture; the bustling crowds and tales of adventure shared through laughter; the plentiful plates of food—these are scenes I expect to see in the Monster Hunter universe, and they’re all before we even get down to the hunting of machines.
The similarities don’t end there either. A new weapon added into Forbidden West is the Boltblaster - a large crossbow weapon that Aloy carries on her back with weight, has to use all the strength she has to reload it, and then
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