Monster Hunter Wilds Ascendance: Lao-Shan Lung and Kushala Daora Return

Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 536)

• Just getting to see Lao-Shan Lung in modern HD is already more than enough to make me happy.

  今の高画質ラオシャンロン見れるだけでもう嬉しすぎる

  — @シャぐら160 likes

• I love Kushala Daora's design so much, and its Dual Blades look incredibly cool — absolute favorite. Bring Glavenus, Astalos and Gammoth back too while you're at it!

  クシャルダオラ、ビジュごめちゃくちゃ好き、ほんで双剣のデザインがめっちゃカッコイイから大好き最高！ ディノバルド、ライゼクス、ガムートも来て欲しい！

  — @daedae0p9 likes

• Lao really gives you that 'defending the village' feeling — I hunted him over and over. I love him that much, so honestly I'm thrilled 😊

  ラオはまじで村守ってる感あって何回もやってな、それくらい大好きだから嬉しい😊

  — @upoopo242 likes

• I'm convinced 100% of Lao's fun was way back when friends crammed into one room and we just goofed off — panic-dodging his tail, knocking each other into weird spots, being idiots together.

  ラオの楽しさは大昔友達と家に集まって尻尾緊急回避や変なとこ突き落としたり皆でバカやってたのが10割だと思ってる

  — @エミコッコ9 likes

• He was 4th in the urgent-quest lineup. I'll never forget sticking it out for three runs in a row and having everyone else bail on me.

  緊急Z順で4番目、3回付き合ったのに皆に抜けられた時は忘れられない。

  — @ちゃんきよ-s7t50 likes

• So nostalgic. On pure tankiness alone he was the gatekeeper of Generations Ultimate, and the second you finally beat him everyone ran Lao weapons.

  懐かしすぎる タフさだけでダブルクロスの門番やってたし勝ったあとはみんなラオ武器握ってたなぁ

  — @CB-baseball-like12 likes

• For now I'm just praying Lao doesn't turn into a slog once they bolt him onto all of Wilds' new gimmicks.

  ラオはとりあえずワイルズのギミック系と組み合わせてグダることにならないことを祈る。

  — @黒黒-e5u17 likes

• A Lao-Shan Lung that moves at lightning speed is just Godzilla at that point.

  爆速で動くラオシャンロンはもうゴジラなんよ

  — @user-Pinsir6 likes

• That said, I really don't want them suddenly cranking Lao's entire moveset into hyperspeed out of nowhere either 😅

  かと言ってラオはアイボーのボレアスみたいに急に全体の動きがスピードアップとかされても困るんよ😅

  — @まっさん-q6t98 likes

• It'd honestly be hilarious if you could pull a Levi-style spin-slash off the top of Lao's head and just go flying off into the distance forever.

  ラオの頭からリヴァイ斬りしたら どこまでも飛んでくとかくれたらオモロいかもしれん

  — @FOREVER238n48 likes

• It'll be fun, sure, but the DPS is going to be miserably low and I can already picture it becoming a chore by the third hunt.

  楽しいだろうけどDPSは滅茶苦茶低くて三回目からめんどくなるイメージ

  — @tosaayu16 likes

• So he's only fun the first time, huh… that's ominous.

  1回目しか楽しくないのか… 雲行きあやし

  — @magemages5 likes

• But that grind IS the fun part. I would like to state this for the record.

  あの作業が楽しいんだろうが。と、主張したい

  — @中村葵-j4x6 likes

• Grindy quests are fun though, c'mon.

  作業感のあるクエスト楽しいやんけ

  — @aki_06134 likes

• Lao's whole appeal is the chaotic teamwork of that grind. Some people find it fun, some don't — but honestly that's true of every single monster.

  ラオはその作業感でわちゃわちゃするのが楽しいんだよ 楽しいと思える人も居れば楽しくない人も居るってのはどのモンスにでも言える

  — @メロンパン_game用1 likes

• Ideal Lao: a siege kill in the final area the first time, and after that you can just take him down out on the map, the way Hard Lao worked.

  ラオは初回最終エリアで討伐で以降は 剛ラオみたいに道中で討伐できるようになってりゃいい

  — @dishwasher_417627 likes

• Regular Lao could actually be taken down out on the map in Frontier too, as long as you met the conditions.

  通常のラオもフロンティアは条件満たせば道中で討伐できましたよ

  — @くまくま-c2l4 likes

• If Kushala came back in its Rise spec I'd be happy, but knowing the dev team, there's zero chance.

  クシャがライズ仕様で出てくれるなら良いけど開発的に絶対ないだろうしな

  — @すずよし-v9h59 likes

• Is Kushala going to be Rise-based or World-based? Only Capcom knows.

  果たしてクシャはライズベースなのかワールドベースにするのか すべてはカプコンにしかわからない

  — @K1三代目16 likes

• Honestly, I'm a little burned out on hunting Kushala… I'd much rather get a revived Frontier monster!

  正直クシャは狩り飽きている感じ有るよね… フロンティア産の復活モンスとか欲しいよね！

  — @ゴッドラエモン11 likes

• I can totally see them rolling out Kushala and Teostra, benching Chameleos yet again, and dropping a brand-new Elder Dragon into that slot.

  クシャとテオだけ出してナズチだけまた欠席で 別の新古龍がそのポジってのはありそう

  — @誠之助-f5d35 likes

• Chameleos is just off hiding somewhere, like always.

  ナズチはどうせ隠れてる

  — @yooosei2 likes

• Honestly, more than whether each monster is fun to hunt, I just want a TON of monsters so my builds and layered-armor options open way up.

  正直狩るモンスターが楽しいかどうかより 狩るモンスターがたくさんいて装備構成とか重ね着の幅が広がるほうが嬉しいかな。

  — @canipilaf3 likes

• Guess we'll never see the likes of Jhen Mohran or the giant-mantis types come back, much as I love them.

  ジエンモーランとかカマキリみたいなのは出ることないんだろうな好きだけど

  — @tarako7775 likes

• And once they speed him up → fortress getting smashed to pieces → if you don't interrupt him, I can already see the fastest siege-fail loss in history coming, clear as day.

  加速した結果砦バコバコ→妨害しないと最速特殊敗北が見える見える

  — @俺の名前はエビフライよろしくな9 likes

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