With Monster Hunter Wilds review day behind us, an anxious portion of the monster hunting community is spending the days until the game's launch this Friday worrying that the latest entry in the series will be disappointingly easy.
Amidst high scores overall, several critics reckoned that Wilds may have lost some of what defines Monster Hunter, including a real sense of danger that pushes you to continually improve your gear or dig in your heels during a fight. Our friends at PC Gamer agreed that combat has never felt better, but noted that hunting has been heavily streamlined. In IGN's excellent review, Tom Marks, who discussed the game's difficulty elsewhere in comments that have become the centerpoint of other conversations, said he didn't feel much need to upgrade his gear as he cleared most of the content without dying (that is, carting) at all.
