The Monster Hunter Wilds open beta didn't exactly go off without a hitch. In fact, there was a lot of hitching. While I delighted in having new monsters to fight and new mechanics to fight with, the Wilds beta had serious performance issues on PC and console alike.

Tokuda also confirms that Wilds will feature two graphics modes at launch: a 30 frames-per-second fidelity mode, and a 60fps performance mode. That's fairly standard practice, of course, but here's hoping that Capcom continues to improve things, because the beta was rough on PS5.

Monster Hunter Wilds director Yuya Tokuda is actually quite glad that people missed the hitstop from older games in the series like World.

After six hours of hands-on time, Monster Hunter Wilds is shaping up to be the most ambitious and streamlined Monster Hunter experience to date.

We played the first five hours of Monster Hunter Wilds at Capcom's headquarters in Japan and came away impressed with its formula improvements.

I've never needed much story from Monster Hunter. Each game's plot follows a predictable pattern: Something is upsetting the ecology, and you need to battle a few dozen frenzied lizards until you and the Hunter's Guild uncover what never-before-seen creature is responsible for the turmoil.

Monster Hunter Wilds is quickly becoming my most-played early access game of 2024. Following an open beta which ate 15 hours of my life last month, I recently visited Capcom headquarters in Osaka, Japan to spend five hours with a newer but still-unfinished build of this monster-hunting action-RPG.