monster hunter: legends of the guild review

Of all the characters Ravi is probably the most wasted- his character is introduced as showing that not all hunters are happy with the way the Guild does things, either. Again, whether by design or accident, Legends of the Guild is an amazing piece for actually showing what day to day hunters are like- considering your hunter in games like 4U, Gen and World always seem to be caught in extraordinary circumstances, it’s great to see that the average hunter sometimes just follows giant spiders around with a notebook. In a sense they’re also really great for the movie’s sense of worldbuilding, since Mae is the total opposite of Julius and Nadia – she’s a scientist first, and you meet her while she’s collecting data on some Nerscylla. There’s also new characters as well, in the quirky scientist Mae, as well as the disgruntled smithy Ravi. Meanwhile The Ace Gunner, Nadia, is a lot more carefree, and seems more like the average Monster Hunter player- she’s here to fire the big gun, just let her keep doing that. He’s annoying, self-righteous and such a boy scout that of course he’d see a kid fighting a Velocidrome and ask him where his paperwork was. Julius is a great character to show as a by-the-book hunter. Overall, I actually really like the cast of characters in Legends of the Guild. Moments like the obligatory “Julius stops trusting Aidan” beat feel almost fickle, since Julius was literally chumming it up with him in the last scene, and it just makes him come off like an ass instead of the supposedly “too experienced for his own good” tragic hero they’re clearly setting him up as. A lot of really important arcs aren’t given the gravity they deserve, especially during the final showdown with Lunastra. All through Monster Hunter Legends of the Guild I can’t help but feel like this was promised to be a series, and then got cut down to movie status for time. Every reference to the game is relevant to the plot, which should make for a well-paced story. Follow us on Twitter Follow and Tweet us Tweet to being said, I’m glad they didn’t go too hard on the fanservice- for the most part the story is allowed to flow naturally, without needing to constantly take breaks for “see don’t you recognize this thing though”.

Monster hunter: legends of the guild review