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[Exclusive] A deep dive into Monster Hunter World: Iceborne – with Tsujimoto Ryozo, Fujioka Kaname and Ichihara Daisuke

 by Muse

 March 12, 2020

in All, Industry, Interview

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Monster Hunter World: Iceborne has finally arrived on PC, surely to the delight of many players. Updates are gradually coming out, with both console and PC to eventually achieve parity. You’re not here for that though, are you? On the deck is Monster Hunter World: Iceborne producer Tsujimoto Ryozo, and directors Fujioka Kaname and Ichihara Daisuke, answering questions via this exclusive email interview. See if some of your most pertinent questions have been answered!

Seen here in Developer Diary #4.

This Gathering Hub features the following people:

• Tsujimoto Ryozo: considered the face of Monster Hunter, and the series producer
• Fujioka Kaname: executive director and artist
• Ichihara Daisuke: director

GB: Ever since the introduction of Safi’jiiva weapons in the game, everyone had been using exclusively on the Safi’jiiva’s weapons. This makes craftable weapons kinda pale in comparison (due to Safi’s weapons by themselves are very powerful). What is your opinion this? Is this healthy for the game in terms of weapons variations?

Safi’jiiva Siege all day every day.

ICHIHARA:

We are happy to know that the reaction about Safi’jiiva’s weapons is great. From the surface data, you can see that we adjusted it as an “equal to or just a bit better than the most powerful weapon” in each weapon type. For those weapon types which just have few superior elemental weapons (such as water-element Great Sword), it will be a very attractive ability. The ability of weapons should be corresponded to the cost spent. Players may only look at the final values, but I think it is also the result corresponding to the cost you have spent to complete a satisfactory weapon. Considering production difficulty, craftable weapons have a number of merits. Like me, I am using Great Sword and the craftable Great Sword is useful enough already for fire element and blast element. And some of them are even superior to Safi’jiiva’s weapons.

Bonus armour skills can be integrated with Safi’jiiva weapons, making it highly sought after. This kind of flexibility is one of the basis of Monster Hunter. Some players may say, “it’s enough just to hunt Safi’jiiva”, but I think it is not correct. If players want to fully exploit the ability of Safi’jiiva’s weapons, simply using generic armor skills won’t be enough. Players still need to hunt various monsters to craft new armor to match their power level.

About the weapon variations, you may feel that everyone is using the Safi’jiiva’s weapons now if you look at the horizontal axis (the same progress as yourself). But if you look at the vertical axis (all users), the variation and significance of each weapon are at good and healthy balance. And it is not the first time that forefront players are using the same weapons. In addition, we have intentionally left out “No Element” for Safi’jiiva’s weapons, and there will be several updates in the future, so we will propose new weapon choices.

GB: The flying wyvern Bazelgeuse only has a turf war with Deviljho in the game, but interestingly enough, Bazelgeuse’s nature is prone to invade other biomes and constantly look for fights. With this, we felt that Bazelgeuse should have more turf wars with other monsters, but right it only has one with Deviljho. Is there a reason why Bazelgeuse only has 1 turf war?

Seething Bazelgeuse.Deviljho.

FUJIOKA:

Territory of Bazelgeuse is very wide and they always keep an eye on their territory in the sky. Under strong sense of territoriality, they want to eliminate other monsters when being invaded and disturbed. That’s why it intrudes into others’ fight. It doesn’t have a fixed turf war with each monster, but an intrusion can be considered a “turf war” for Bazelgeuse. Speaking of intrusion, Deviljho from MH3(tri~) is the representative for sure. And now, there are two intrusive monsters: the icon of intrusive monster—Deviljho and the new one—Bazelgeuse. In creating Bazelgeuse, the idea of a fight for pride between two intrusive monsters was quite appealing to me, so I had them have a typical turf war with each other.

GB: In the previous games, Kushala Daora always appear at snowy regions, and also being more powerful at snowy regions due to its breath will also inflicting the snowman status. But in Iceborne, there are no quests to hunt Kushala Daora in Hoarfrost Reach (although Kushala Daora’s shedded skins do appear). Why can’t we hunt Kushala Daora at Hoarfrost Reach?

Kushala Daora.

FUJIOKA:

Actually, Kushala Daora’s habitat isn’t in cold regions. First of all, Kushala Daora is covered by a steel shell. When its epidermis is oxidized and the rust spreads over the whole body, it will molt somewhere in the depths of a cold region. That’s why the shed skin of Kushala Daora can be found deep in the snowy mountain peaks.

ICHIHARA:

In our game design, each region has its own symbolic Elder Dragon. In cold regions, that is Velkhana. In cold regions, Kushala Daora becomes “Ice” elemental when it raises gales. We think it is not necessary to have another Elder Dragon with the same element in the cold region when Velkhana is already there.

Editor’s note: Velkhana molts in volcanic regions, making Velkhana and Kushala Daora the inverse of each other!

GB: In the previous games, Rajang has an attack that throws a huge boulder towards the player. But currently the move is nowhere to be seen in Iceborne. Is there a reason why the attack was removed?

FUJIOKA:

Originally, Rajang is a monster with powerful and rapid action. This time, we reconsidered this concept and pursued a new hunting tactic with higher speed in Iceborne. Therefore, Rajang didn’t keep the action of throwing boulders compared to previous games.

Furious Rajang is a variant of the popular Rajang.

GB: When the team is designing monster subspecies like on Fulgar Anjanath or Ebony Odogaron, how do you decide on their respective element? Is there a reason why Thunder and Dragon elements were picked?

ICHIHARA:

When we are going to decide the element of subspecies monsters, we need to think about the rank level players may have reached and the range of difficulty when the monsters appear, along with what elements can players choose for their weapons, etc. So, it is more than just to consider about the monster element.

Here are the steps of creating a subspecies monster.

For example, we decided to “create a monster with thunder element”.

First, we will look for an existing monster that may become more interesting with a Thunder element modifier that may change its attack patterns and the strategy required to fight it.

Then, like creating a subspecies of Anjanath with the Thunder element, we get our artists to design the monster with that element in mind, with its ecology to go with it.

GB: Lunastra and Teostra have a supernova combination attack, can we see other monsters also have these combination attack? Silver Rathalos and Gold Rathian are good candidates.

ICHIHARA:

I can’t say it is a combination attack. But between the Tempered Silver Rathalos and Gold Rathian, their breaths will affect each other, so try and find out for yourselves.

GB: This coming May Capcom will introduce more familiar monsters to Iceborne. Did the decisions on releasing these monsters come from the fans or the dev team? Are there any surveys or votes that players can have a say on these monsters?

TSUJIMOTO:

We are of course concerned about the popularity of monsters when adding them in to Iceborne, but whether we can provide a satisfactory gameplay to players is also another criterion.

Aloy’s set is a layered armour set in the game, available through the relevant collaboration.

GB: Full Layered armor is a fantastic feature that we love. Can we also have Full Layered Weapons?

ICHIHARA:

It’s too wasteful to have armors covered with mold, so we strengthened the layered armor function in Iceborne. Our basic stance about weapons is not going to change, but there are issues that we need to solve to make it happen. Until then, we cannot fully answer this question.

Editor’s note: “Covered with mold” in this sense would be assumed to mean, those armors that you leave in storage and never use anymore. 

GB: The Elder Dragon Shara Ishvalda is the final boss for Iceborne expansion. Can you tell us more about this monster like how does it fits into the ecology, or what sort of role does it play? Also please tell us the motive it had in the game.

We are sorry that we cannot answer this question.

Looks like there’s still mysteries Hunters can still try to find out for yourself, regarding that last question! But in any case, that’s all we have for now. We’d like to thank Capcom, Tsujimoto Ryozo, Fujioka Kaname and Ichihara Daisuke for answering as much as they did. We’ll see you out in the wilds!

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요약 번역

( 답변이 좀 요약하기가 엿같은 부분이 있습니다. 동문 서답이 좀 있어서 번역하면서도 답답하네요. )

무페토만 쓰는데 너네는 어떰? 게임 무기 다양성에 영향을 좋게 주는거 같음?

이치하라 : 

무페토 무기에 대한 반응이 좋아서 기쁘다. 종결 무기와 같거나 비슷한 수준인걸 알 수 있다.

속성 무기중 스펙이 좋은게 많지 않은 무기는 무페토 무기가 많이 매력적일 것이다.

이런 무기들의 단점은 장비 맞추기까지의 투자되는 시간이다.

그 시간들을 감안하면 제작 무기도 경쟁력이 있다고 생각한다.

개인적으로 나는 대검 유저인데 불, 폭파 속성 대검 같은 제작무기는 무페토 무기가 없어도 될 정도로 좋고

다른 무기는 제작 무기가 무페토 무기보다 성능이 더 좋은 경우도 있다.

무페토 무기는 다른 몬스터 장비와 시너지를 일으켜 추가 파밍으로 이어진다.

훈타들이 무페토 무기의 스펙을 끌어내고 싶다면 무기를 완성하고도 새로운 장비 커스텀을 만들어야 무기에 맞는 스킬을 맞출 수 있다.

무기 다양성에 대해서는 자신과 비슷한 플레이어를 보면 무페토가 많다 생각할 수 있으나

모든 유저들을 보면 다양성이 썩 좋다는 것을 알 수 있다.

일부 유저가 같은 무기들을 쓰는 것은 새로운 것이 아니다.

무페토 무기에는 무속성이 없는데 이것은 제작진이 의도한 결과이고 앞으로 업데이트로 새로운 무기들을 소개할 것이다.

바젤기우스는 왜 이블죠만 세력 다툼이 있는가?

후지오카 :

바젤기우스의 세력권은 매우 넓고 항상 공중에서 감시하고 있다.

자기 세력에 대한 감정이 짙어 다른 몬스터의 침입은 바로 배제하려든다. 그렇기 때문에 항상 난입하는 것이다.

바젤기우스는 다른 몬스터와 세력 다툼은 없으나 난입하는 행위 자체가 세력 다툼이라 볼 수 있는 것이다.

다른 난입 몬스터로는 이블죠(MH3~)가 대표적이고 이러한 두 난입 몬스터가 자존심 싸움을 하는 것이 재밌을거 같아 둘의 세력 다툼을 게임에 넣었다.

전작의 눈 맵에서는 크샬이 반드시 나왔는데 극한지는 나오지 않는다. 왜?

후지오카 :

극한지는 크샬다오라의 서식지가 아니다. 크샬다오라의 강철 외피가 부식돼 허물을 벗어야 할 때만 잠시 방문하는 것.

그래서 설산 꼭대기에서 허물을 볼 수 있는 것이다.

이치하라 :

게임 디자인 할 때 1고룡 1지역으로 결정했고 극한지의 고룡은 이베르카나이다.

추운 지역에서 크샬은 얼음 속성이 되는데  크샬과 이베르카나가 같은 속성으로 같은 지역에 나오는 것은 아니다, 고 생각했다.

전작의 라잔 돌던지기는 왜 없어졌는가?

후지오카 : 

라잔의 정체성은 파워풀, 빠른 액션이다.

이번 작에서는 컨셉을 생각해서 속도감에 좀 더 무게를 두기로 하여 돌 던지는 공격을 뺐다.

안쟈 아종, 오도 아종의 속성은 어떻게 정했는가? 번개, 용속인 이유가 있나?

이치하라 :

속성을 정할 때 많은 생각을 한다. 훈타의 랭크, 출현 전후 몹 난이도, 출현 시기 훈타 제작 가능한 속성 무기 종류 등.

예를 들어 새로운 아종을 만든다고 하면, 

첫번째로 기존 몹을 보고 새 속성을 넣으면 난이도가 얼마나 달라지고, 기존 공격에 새 속성을 넣음으로서 얼마나 멋지게 변형이 가능한가, 공략법이 얼마나 바뀌는가를 고려한다.

안쟈 아종을 예로 들어 디자이너에게 번개 속성에 맞춰 새로운 디자인을 요청하고 아종만의 새로운 생태계를 설계한다.

나나 테오 합체기처럼 다른 몹에게도 기대할 수 있나? 금은화룡이 딱 좋은거 같은데

이치하라 :

합동 공격이라고 보긴 힘들지만 역전 금은화룡 브레스는 서로에게 영향을 준다. 직접 겪어봐라.

5월에 더 많은 몹이 출현하는데 추가 몹은 팬들이 정하는 것인가, 제작진이 정하는 것인가? 팬들이 정할 수 있는 조사, 투표가 있는가?

쥬지모토 :

당연하게도 추가 몹의 각각의 인기도를 늘 생각하고 있다. 그러나 유저들이 만족할만한 재미를 줄 수 있는지도 매우 중요한 요소이다.

풀 덧입기(호라이즌 한정 덧입기) 갑옷의 인기가 좋다. 무기도 기대 할 수 있나?

이치하라 :

장비들이 곰팡이에 뒤덮이는게 굉장한 낭비라고 생각해서 아이스본에서는 종류를 많이 늘렸다.

무기에 대한 것도 생각하고 있으나 실현하려면 문제들을 해결해야한다. 지금 약속할 수 있는건 없다.

( 안쓰는 장비가 많아서 덧입기라도 쓰라고 많이 추가해 줬다는 뜻인듯 )

안 이슈왈다에 대해 더 알고 싶다. 생태계, 서식지에서의 역할, 존재 이유 등

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