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But the care for CapcomвЂ™s license canвЂ™t be taught. The filmвЂ™s issues could dissolve in a sequel with a bigger budget, a less awkward midlength runtime (either longer or shorter would be more suitable), and a more experienced director, whether itвЂ™s YamamotoвЂ™s second time at the wheel, or a new director altogether. But Legends of the Guild is his directorial debut, and there are bound to be some growing pains there. Legends of the Guild is clearly made by people who understand how the games work, and want to see that translated to a different medium.Дirector Steve Yamamoto has worked on visual effects - mostly as a previsualization supervisor - for some visual feasts like Justice League, Deadpool 2, and the Transformers movies.

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And the movie tries to pack too much character backstory into a very short runtime.Д«ut as a fan of the games, I didnвЂ™t feel like my time spent watching AidenвЂ™s hunt was completely wasted. The CG-animated art style looks decent on the poster, but the faces are flat and boring in motion. The editing can lead to confusing cuts and odd camera shifts. While Legends of the Guild does well with the license - the hardest part of making something like this - it does fail on some pretty basic levels. ItвЂ™s a relatable journey, and one that Monster Hunter fans know well. He goes from fumbling through a hunt, to false confidence, to failing at the first sign of real trouble, to finally being that hero Hunter every player ends up as if they stick with the series. ItвЂ™s a bit trite, but Legends of the Guild does a nice job of progressing Aiden down the HunterвЂ™s path. Throughout AidenвЂ™s story, he builds new confidence and folds the moment things get difficult. ItвЂ™s the same enthusiasm that propels all players through their early Monster Hunter journey, no matter how badly theyвЂ™ve fumbled. But when the hunt is over and Aiden is beaten, bruised, and covered in viscera, heвЂ™s thrilled at his teamвЂ™s minor accomplishment. In true Monster Hunter fashion, AidenвЂ™s blunders make his teamвЂ™s hunt far harder than it needs to be. While Julius and other Hunters try to take on creatures, Aiden fulfills the role of the player avatar, getting strung up in webs, dragged around arenas, and hit by most of the monsterвЂ™s attacks. Not only does he ask excitedly about the bigger, scarier monsters heвЂ™s eager to hunt, but he fails spectacularly against each monster he and Julius encounter. And here, we see Aiden go from a wannabe Hunter with a cast iron skillet strapped to his chest to a true slayer of beasts.ДЄidenвЂ™s вЂњtrainingвЂќ is what Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild gets right. The rest of Monster Hunter: Legends of the GuildвЂ™s runtime features Aiden and Julius - the Geralt lookalike Guild Hunter who saved Aiden - trying to stop a rampaging Teostra before it wipes out a valleyвЂ™s worth of villages. Before the Velocidrome can finish Aiden off, a more seasoned Hunter swoops in and takes it out with ease - a feeling that any new Hunter who has played with seasoned friends is well aware of. But unlike in a Monster Hunter gameвЂ™s early missions, AidenвЂ™s Velociprey hunt gets interrupted by a Velocidrome, a much bigger version of the raptorlike monster. Every HunterвЂ™s journeyДЄidenвЂ™s journey starts just like many playersвЂ™ stories, with him hunting a small, relatively harmless monster. And while the 58-minute film is messy, it nails that early Monster Hunter feeling of being new to the hunt and eager to take down some big critters. Elder dragons are serious threats, and Aiden has a story from his past to tell his new Hunter friends, to illustrate why they should be afraid.ДЄiden is a side character from several of the Monster Hunter games, but Legends of the Guild follows a much younger Aiden, a kid from a small village who wants to be a Guild-sanctioned Monster Hunter - just like players are in the game franchise. Aiden doesnвЂ™t run his fingernails down a chalkboard to shut them up, or wax poetically about dollвЂ™s eyes, and heвЂ™s a 20-something redhead, not a surly old fisherman. On a ship sailing to a new world, excited Hunters chat about how theyвЂ™ll take down the elder dragon Zorah Magdaros. In a frame story bookending NetflixвЂ™s short animated movie Monster Hunter : Legends of the Guild, one Hunter, Aiden, takes a page from the veteran sailor Quint in Steven SpielbergвЂ™s Jaws.

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