Everything I’ve heard about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Monster Hunter Wilds so far makes me want to play it. Obviously first and foremost, the fact it’s 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:reviewing so well means a lot of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:people think it’s a good game. But that’s a pretty basic reason. There’s also the fact it has retained or even expanded upon my favourite part of the game - the cinematic scope - and while opinions vary on whet🌌her streamlining the complexities is an overall po🔯sitive, it certainly appeals to me, a filthy ca🎐sual.
But there is one part of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Monster Hunter Wilds buzz that is putting me off. ‘Once you’ve rolled credits, that’s where the real ✤game starts!’. I’ll 🉐level with you, sport. I just don’t care enough. Once I roll credits I’ll be putting the game down and moving on with my life. It’s nothing personal, it’s just how most video games work.
I Won't Stick Around After The Story
The main draw in a video game for me is the story. The underlying gameplay needs to be cool, and conversely I have played a lot of games with bad, light, or nonexistent stories because I’ve enjoyed the mechanics - but once I’ve taken those characters to the convoluted end of their arc, I’m done. I even 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:maꦏke up stories for myself ♎in sports games to feel that narrative drive.
You might now be saying ‘but Monster Hunter doesn’t really have a story!’. You might also be saying ‘that’s fair, Monster Hunter always has great stories!’. I wouldn’t know. I’m a filthy casual and thus, while I have tried, I have never actually finished one. I am hoping Wilds will be one to go the distance, but you have to understand that for me, the distance is the credits. Regardless of what 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Marvel movies have 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:trained us to think, the list of all the people who worked on a thi♎ng signals theꦓ end of that thing, and it will be my cue to exit.
It’s nothing against Monster Hunter. In fact, the nature of the reviews have seen it oust 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Li🐟ke a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii from the top spot of my ‘play next’ list having already dispatched Avowed before making my way through 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Citizen Sleeper 2. In part that’s because I think I’ll have more to write about it - which means you get to read m♎ore articles from Stacey Not A True Fan Henley! - but also because everything everyone is saying about it (except this one thing) is making the game seem perfect for me.
Sometimes, Post-Credits Are Worth Sticking Around For
Obviously, there are exceptions to this ‘credit’ rule. Some games play with the meta of it all. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nier: Automata, for example, is a decent enough action-adventure game up until the first time you roll credits. It’s not until you play it again t♈hat the themes of per🙈spective, religion, identity, and existentialism come into focus. I one hundred percent agree that you don’t see the real Nier: Automata until after the first set of credits, ಞbut in this case credits are part of the a⭕ctual story, not (as they seem to be in Monster Hunter) the signifier of the end of the narrative and the beginning of the more challenging hunts where the only draw is bloodlust.
Capcom has 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:played with True Ending stuff before with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon’s Dogma 2, and if Monster Hunter✤ Wi𒊎lds is the same, I may well push on.
Other games are in this company too. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Animal Well is two (maybe even three) games in one that you unlock one after the other by 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:reaching t🅰he end and gathering collectibles. That, too, uses the credits playfully as part of the narrative. Both Animal Well and Nier: Automata offer a version of a full game before the credits, but🐲 ꩲnot the full experience.
I haven’t played Monster Hunter Wilds myself, so it may be that this is the game Capcom gets high art with it and makes the credits a metatextual experience to show cycles of violence against 💖beasts whose only crime is to follow their nature next to settlements we have unnaturally built in their domain. But from what I’m reading, that’s just when the game gets harder and gives you more freedom, and thus goes from good to great.
Well, I’m good with good. If I end up truly loving Wilds, I might stick around and sweep up absolutely everything. But 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:in a busy year, I can’t make any promises. If the credits aren’t a narrative device but are a barrier to separate ‘this is the part of the story you need to play for a complete experience’ and ‘but this is the really good stuff once you’ve got that out of the way’, I think I’m fine with a complete experience. If you’re making a g🐬ame that appeals to casuals, you have to be prepared for some of them to come in with a casual’s att♒itude.
Your comment has not been saved