In the hunter's room, Zack looked at all the weapons in front of him, and was dazed.
As revealed before, Monster Hunter: World didn't have classes. Players could pick any weapon as their main weapon, and switch at any time.
But even though you could switch weapons, like Dark Souls, later weapons needed to be made and upgraded with materials.
Also, he didn't know if this game had a system to break down equipment to get materials back. If not, for a while, he'd have to pick one weapon to use.
Because he wouldn't have enough materials to make every weapon and upgrade it early on.
If he didn't make and upgrade them, he'd only be able to use low-level weapons, and his attacks would barely do any damage.
So he had to pick a good weapon to use.
"Are there descriptions of the weapons, and videos? Let me take a look."
Zack viewed the descriptions of each weapon in the game and chose to watch the demonstrations to help him decide.
But after watching them for a few minutes, Zack found out that each weapon had its own unique characteristics. He wanted to play with them all!
The Great Sword, Switch Axe, and Charge Blade looked super cool. The Dual Blades and Sword and Shield looked especially graceful, and the Long Sword felt really cool.
At the same time, the bow, light bowgun, and heavy bowgun, and the lance all felt great.
The Insect Glaive was like playing *Ace Combat*. When you picked up the heavy bowgun, it was like a machine gun, *ratatatatata*.
Not to mention the Long Sword's foresight slash and helm splitter. They were so cool.
The Dual Blades' demon dance, and the Charge Blade's super burst.
The Lance could be both offensive and defensive, and its leap attack was powerful. Holding up your shield was like a rock.
The bow and arrow offered precise shots, arc shots, power shots, dragon piercer. Each weapon had a hundred different tricks.
It was hard to choose!
Zack was conflicted.
After hesitating for a long time, Zack decided to try out each weapon to see what they were like.
"Let me try..." Zack pulled out the Long Sword, and walked towards the training post. As for why he picked the Long Sword first...
That weapon was just too cool.
On the left was something like a move list. At the same time, after attacking, the upper right corner showed instructions for later combos.
Soon, Zack realized that the battle system and system of Monster Hunter: World was completely different from Dark Souls.
The entire action system was much more complex, and the game had battle and out-of-battle modes.
In battle mode, the player was holding a weapon, and couldn't run. They could only roll to dodge.
In out-of-battle mode, the player would put away their weapon, and then they could run.
The second thing was the combination of attack moves. It was a little like the combos in a fighting game.
Players had to attack to combine different skills, and then they'd be able to hurt the monster.
They also had to meet certain conditions before being able to use some moves.
Taking the Long Sword in his hand as an example, the basic attack methods were just a few.
Normal slashes, pokes. After storing energy with normal attacks such as slashes and pokes, he'd be able to use elegant spirit blade attacks.
Higher-level moves, such as Helm Splitter required maintaining the level of spirit with spirit attacks. In order to do this, players could choose to use foresight slash at the moment they were damaged, also known as parrying, to parry the monster's attack.
If successful, they could rapidly increase the spirit level. Or they could use slashes and pokes to store spirit, and then use spirit three-hit combo to use spirit roundslash to upgrade the spirit level.
After trying the Long Sword, Zack tried out other weapons.
The Charge Blade felt like the most complicated weapon to him.
For normal burst, players needed to store energy in sword mod. After storing enough flasks, they could unload all the stored energy through elemental discharge.
If they wanted to use the much more destructive super burst, they had to turn the regular attack into super burst through shield buffs.
The damage was high, and it looked cool. But Zack felt like he'd probably forget all these steps when he was actually fighting.
Each weapon had its own unique qualities.
After careful consideration, Zack finally chose the Great Sword.
As for the reason?
At first, he was planning to pick the Long Sword. It looked too cool.
But after thinking about it, he gave up.
As an experienced gamer, Zack understood the setting of the game.
When a weapon was extremely cool, it wouldn't be the strongest.
Why?
The Long Sword was already so cool. Just the look, the design, and the moves would attract a lot of players.
If the Long Sword was also very powerful, what would be the point of the other weapons?
Wouldn't Nebula Games' design of so many different weapons be useless?
So the Long Sword might not be the weakest weapon, but it definitely wouldn't be the strongest.
But the Great Sword was different!
It looked simple, but it was powerful.
And, when trying practice, it had super armor.
Everyone knew that if a character in an action game had super armor, they wouldn't be weak.
When he was testing how much damage the great sword did, it got hundred damage in charge.
Only the Long Sword's Helm Splitter and the Charge Blade's Super burst were that violence.
But Zack felt like the Great Sword's charge attack was easier.
He ignored skills like blocking and tackles.
Defense?
Who needed defense!
The best offense was defense!
"All the other weapons are for kids! The Great Sword is the only true weapon! No wonder the hunter in the trailer was using a Great Sword!"
"A Great Sword, a legend!"
Looking at the Great Sword in his hand, Zack was excited. He was already imagining himself using a Great Sword to beat everything, and getting the title of the Azure Star.
But even though he was excited, Zack didn't leave the training area yet. He decided to practice more.
He wanted to understand how to play the Great Sword.
"Easy, I understand, I understand, I know how to play, it's too easy! I got this!"
Looking at the huge damage from the charge attack in the game, Zack nodded slightly.
I don't need to say more. It's great!
This was the Great Sword.
Slam, charge attack!
Upward slash, charge attack!
Horizontal slash, charge attack!
No fancy moves. Just charge!
(End of The Chapter)
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