Monster Hunter Outlanders preview - “Different from the console version in the greatest way”

I am going to admit something I possibly shouldn’t right now: I had my doubts about Monster Hunter Outlanders. I simply could not see how you could put the authentic experience of those long epic battles on a touchscreen. And to be fair, TiMi Studios did not go for a 1-to-1 retelling, and Outlanders is phenomenally better as a result. Let’s set the scene. You take control of a Captain of the Adventurer’s Guild, travelling into Aesoland to investigate the mysterious Aurora. And we quickly learn two things: you are both stupidly reckless and incredibly brave. This is shown in an epic opening movie where you free-fall from hundreds of meters to deck a classic Rathian that is terrorising a village, and then plummet to the ground, before duking it out with your team against this powered-up beast. What an opener.  ... [MORE]