As the opening reveal of this year's Gamescom Opening Night Live, HoYoverse brought its first official look at Nodusfall—a change of pace for the gacha game behemoth that looks a little bit Elden Ring, a lot bit Monster Hunter, and a whole pile of proper nouns added for good measure.
While I like to think it takes more to catch my attention than forcefully mashing together two things I think are neat, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't tempted by the idea. If there's one thing Monster Hunter monsters have been missing, it's FromSoft-style primordial depression.
From the looks of things, there's more than enough metaphysical malaise to go around in Nodusfall. The laws of divinity have apparently frayed, plunging creation into a state of cosmic disarray. There are 10 suns now. Ideally, there's only supposed to be one of those. Not great!
Luckily for those of us who like to be given an excuse to try to fight a lizard 30 times our size, a...
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