Monster Hunter Wilds isn’t the only MH game to look out for in the near future, especially if you often find yourself wishing you could smack a Rathalos while stuck in a queue somewhere.
No, it’s not about Monster Hunter Go, the Pokemon GO-adjacent MH game.
No, instead it’s Monster Hunter Outlanders, a game produced by the joint forces of Capcom and TiMI Studio Group (a Tencent subsidiary) that’s said to be a fully-featured representation of Monster Hunter, although packed into a smaller-scale that a mobile phone could support without exploding.
Details are scarce, there’s barely more than the announcement trailer, which, among promising shots of Monster Hunter-like action also shows what appears to be a simian companion, an ally who’s likely going to join to the feline Palico no Monster Hunter game could go without.
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The trailer also shows a few monsters, hopefully not just as a set dressing: a T. Rex-like Anjanath munching on a Great Jagras, a wyvern-like Rathalos, electric Tobi-Kadachi, and a Jyuratodus on a hunt. With the addition of the presented locales, MH Outlanders seems mostly Monster Hunter: World-inspired, but grappling hook traversal suggest some elements of Rise, and the hang glider feels very Breath of the Wild-like.
Of course, only the future will show what the game is really like, and there are plans to conduct some open testing before proper launch.