I've played other Monster Hunter games but this is the first one I got "Serious" with. It was very enjoyable and honestly I felt the game does a good job showing you how to play. There's definitely still a learning curve but honestly nothing insane if your willing to go through it. It was also awesome to see the series go multi-plat or at least go on xbox. I think there was some Monster Hunter Game on 360 but it was either japan exclusive or some weird MMO or both.

Monster Hunter is a series that as name implies where you hunt monsters, you hunt either the same monsters or others to get parts to upgrade your weapons and armor. For worlds their big changes include a grappling hook for basic movement enhancements (Where rise would eventually take it to another level) and big ass kaiju size monsters, that you walk around on (and do multiple tasks to get them taken down). I'm not sure the big ass monsters may have been in earlier ones but I remember these being a big deal.

The game absolutely shines in multi-player, it's easier to fight monsters and it makes it so more goofy shit can happen. People and monsters can get flung around, it's a great time. Also the good thing about the MP mode is that everyone progresses both in terms of story content and getting there own materials.

I can't wait for the next game, and thank god it's releasing multi-plat on launch

The cultural impact of this game is insane. But I guess something during the covid pandemic was going to have to do it, and it was this one.

In all seriousness it's nice to see social deduction game get popular. Although it hasn't really resulted in more social deduction games or at least not deeper ones. Most games did add a social deduction game mode but that was it (and most of the time they had just as much depth as Among Us, if not sometimes less.), never really fleshed out into something more. Which sucks, I would love to see a game take a serious attempt to enhance or expand the genre.