Tyson Chen

I’m not a huge fan of Breath of the Wild as a game . I am, however, a humongous fan of Breath of the Wild as a world that exists on the Nintendo Switch and could be filled with Pokemon. Pokemon Legends: Arceus was supposed to be the delivery of ‘Pokemon but Breath of the Wild’, but it now seems to be more like ‘Pokemon but Monster Hunter: Rise’. That’s disappointing - Breath of the Wild is much closer to my hypothetical perfect Pokemon game than Monster Hunter - but it might just be for the b

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne is not a standalone game, but was an expansion for Monster Hunter World that offered players a brand new adventure in the Hoarfrost Region, with new monsters, features, and more. It released in 2019 for Xbox One and PS4, with the PC release following in 2

Geralt will have access to his silver sword for monsters, as well as his sign abilities like Quen and Igni to protect and attack respectively. Monster Hunter: World is the perfect collaboration for professional monster hunter Geralt of Rivia, whose status as a Witcher allows him heightened senses and a long life of accumulating knowledge on tracking and taking advantage of the weaknesses of monsters. This collaboration was announced alongside the DLC Iceborne which is coming to Monster Hunter Wilds guide|https://monsterwildlands.com/ Hunter: World in Q3 of 2

Cooking Simulator really has two target demographics. Firstly, there's the group of people who will actually try to play the game properly. This means actually ordering the right ingredients, measuring them properly, and following the recipe as closely as possible in as fast a time as possible for the best score from the custo

However, this is not to say that durability systems should just be eliminated entirely. In fact, when done right, they can make gameplay feel more realistic in a way that isn’t infuriating. For starters, apart from survival games, weapons can still have a durability limit without breaking. Or perhaps eventually they will break, but you’re able to keep tabs on how worn out your weapons are, and you can choose to go and repair them before they get close to breaking entirely. This would keep the realism element without making the player feel like they need to entirely avoid using their better weapons. This would also avoid the aggravating part where you must constantly be finding new ones to pick up (though you likely would need to be gathering supplies as you progress through the game, to have the materials to fix weapons lat

Like the two prior entries, the cooking system requires Link to just bring the ingredients he needs to a cooking pot. Unlike the previous entries, however, there is no easy compendium of dishes to reference. Trial and effort are required to figure out the best dishes to provide Link with the best meals and in turn the best bu

Battle Chef Brigade has a very interesting take on how to make food, namely that to do so successfully, you need to be playing a match-3 game. After the players gather their materials, they can add them to their dish, filling up squares in a 4x4 grid with colourful circles, and mixing those ingredients together by rotating the placed circles to get lines of th

The game that began it all — Monster Hunter. It was released for the PS2 in 2004 and allowed players to take on the role of a hunter who completes various quests while they track down a variety of monsters to kill or capture. Players could obtain items from slain monsters to create better armor, enabling them to take down even bigger and better p

That doesn't mean Legends: Arceus will be like that, of course. Just this year, New Pokemon Snap has proved that Pokemon can still experiment with fantastic ways of constructing narratives through clever worldbuilding, but given the relative lack of innovation the Pokemon formula has had over the past 15 years or so, a full open world could have gone very wrong. The Wild Area was one of Gen 8’s biggest attempts at innovation, and it came with mixed results. A Monster Hunter-style game feels like open-world training wheels - but it also seems as if Pokemon can't be trusted to ride on its own just

Monster Hunter Generations originally released for the 3DS in 2016, though an enhanced version titled Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate released for Nintendo Switch in 2018. This game is considered to be a spin-off title in the series, rather than a mainline ti

It's hard to think of Pokemon in the style of Breath of the Wild in practicality. Sure, anyone can edit a screenshot to have Gyarados in a BOTW lake or Rapidash racing across the field, but isn't that just what the Wild Area is? The illusion of an open world, the type that would look good in screenshots, but without meaning or purpose. Without any heart or direction, BOTW would not be the same game. It gives you freedom to go wherever you want, but it also provides contours across the map to steer you towards towns, it makes sure each location is thematically linked, and you often need to hit multiple landmarks to secure the tools and ingredients to reach the next one. Even though I'm not the biggest fan of it, I have to admire the level of design on show here. It's not a level I think Pokemon can match, and that's before you introduce the much more complicated issue of where you put the Pokemon and how you offer freedom while ensuring players don't meet their doom at the feathers of an overpowered Hawlucha 40 minutes into the g