Do you know the friends you completely communicate with through gifs and TikTok links? Well, last week my best friend sent me the following:
I’ve only played one Monster Hunter game before, and that was Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate on 3DS. I mostly enjoyed it – I played with some friends who were much more experienced than me, and they helped me take off some of the harder monsters. I also had sweet Poogie there with me to fix everything with his TINY LITTLE BEE COSTUME. Honestly, how come there is no game about Poogie? I just kill monsters to keep my boy in new outfits.
There were outfits for me again – the amazing ensembles I would make from the different monster pieces, I cut off my prey. Despite the fact that they were gender locked – my friends sometimes got the cool armor, and I got a terrible bikini, or sometimes I would get something, and they would get a teddy bear outfit – the outfits were my second favorite part of the games. To Poogie, of course.
And then I stood in front of the Gore Magala, a troublesome purple widow thing that I’m in hell now. I faced the Gore Magala about five times before giving up, and selling the game. I’m sorry, Poogie. I let you down.
So I’m not too interested in Monster Hunter Rise, as I’ve gradually ignored the last few HR games. I prefer my wrists and fingers intact, thank you, and Monster Hunter is not exactly familiar to let players take the easy way out.
But Capcom keeps putting out these cute artworks that remind me of the reasons why I do like the Monster Hunter games. There is a lot of humor, sweetness and lightness between all the dragon and egg crushes. And yes, my wrists will not thank me, especially not if I choose a weapon like the Insect Glaive again, but I will only take a break to wander around the city with Poogie.
Wait, Poogie is definitely in this one, right?