Monster Hunter Wilds Ascendance - New Elder Dragon Somult VS Gundoraja - Devs Confirm! (Theory/Fun) — Transcript

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1. 0:00The truth of Gounda Raja has been
2. 0:03revealed.
3. 0:06It was a Matsu ALL ALONG.
4. 0:10>> OKAY, BUT FOR REAL, the Matsu is raw
5. 0:11kind of works there, right?
6. 0:13>> Hello, my fellow hunters. I am very
7. 0:19excited to talk today's talk because
8. 0:23well, Gounda Raja is real. And you might
9. 0:28be thinking, what the hell are you
10. 0:30talking about? Of course, it's real.
11. 0:31It's a monster in a sentence. It's been
12. 0:32revealed. It is a thing. Unless you're
13. 0:35you're implying it's about to burst
14. 0:36through my window and eat me. And I am.
15. 0:39GOOD LUCK.
16. 0:42OKAY, HOW MANY OF you How many of you
17. 0:44looked at your window? Come on, admit
18. 0:45it. At least one of you did. No, what I
19. 0:47mean is we've had a rare, delightful
20. 0:50case of a monster hunter theory being
21. 0:54proven true, confirmed true before the
22. 0:58game even comes out. Hell, before even
23. 1:00the next trailer has come out. Recently
24. 1:04then, there was Gamescom Asia hosted in
25. 1:08Bangkok, Thailand. And Ryozosan himself
26. 1:13was there to give a little bit of a talk
27. 1:16on Ascendants. Now, no new gameplay, no
28. 1:18footage, no trailers, nothing like the
29. 1:21Stronghold walk-through, right? Nothing
30. 1:23actually like new was visually shown.
31. 1:26But new information was imparted. One of
32. 1:31the sections he spoke about Gounda Raja
33. 1:34specifically.
34. 1:36And in this, he went over various
35. 1:38aspects of it, its design, and some of
36. 1:42the details behind it. And while none of
37. 1:44it is like specifically it's going to
38. 1:46use this attack in this way and will
39. 1:48fight you like this, you know, literal
40. 1:50moment-to-moment gameplay, what it is is
41. 1:53some heavy story law and by extension
42. 1:57other monsters that will get to see
43. 2:00implications.
44. 2:01So, first and foremost then,
45. 2:04they straight-up confirmed that yeah,
46. 2:06Gore Magala
47. 2:08is based on is inspired by the design
48. 2:12takes a lot from well, the Nagas, the
49. 2:17mythical snake-like deities that have a
50. 2:20lot of different stories, a lot of
51. 2:22different interpretations. Now, if you
52. 2:24want to know the whole deal with the
53. 2:27Nagas, I did an entire talk on it, well,
54. 2:29the theory that this is confirming, and
55. 2:32I will link that down below so you can
56. 2:34kind of catch up. The TLDR though is
57. 2:37traditionally the Naga has a rivalry
58. 2:41with Garuda. They are half siblings, and
59. 2:45Garuda has to go on a quest for Amrita,
60. 2:48which is the sacred elixir of life,
61. 2:50which again draws many parallels to the
62. 2:52Wyvern and how that's used in ancient
63. 2:54Wyveria, and the Nagas don't want that
64. 2:58slash they want to get to the Amrita for
65. 3:01themselves, and to do that they kidnap
66. 3:03slash threaten
67. 3:05the Garuda's mother and will only
68. 3:08release her in exchange for the Amrita,
69. 3:10and it all wraps up happily and the
70. 3:11Nagas don't get it. But look, there is
71. 3:13many different interpretations, and in a
72. 3:15lot of them the Nagas aren't just
73. 3:17explicitly evil beings. There are a lot
74. 3:20of shades of gray in them, and it is
75. 3:21very individualistic, right? It's not
76. 3:23inherently, oh, Naga evil, Garuda good.
77. 3:28But that is the kind of common story. In
78. 3:31any case though, the obvious first thing
79. 3:34of Gore Magala being confirmed to take
80. 3:36Naga inspiration is that's a massive
81. 3:39supporting pillar for Garuda also being
82. 3:42represented in monster form. You know,
83. 3:44it's like getting Malzeno as the
84. 3:46confirmed vampire and making a very
85. 3:48reasonable conclusion in a game where
86. 3:50they're trying to do monsters that
87. 3:51represent mythologies, oh, the werewolf
88. 3:54is probably going to happen, and then it
89. 3:56did in Lunagaron. And the reason that
90. 3:59this was conveyed slash confirmed in
91. 4:02Thailand is that the Naga is a big deal
92. 4:04culturally there. I mean, you can hear
93. 4:06the cheers when he does confirm the Naga
94. 4:09inspiration.
95. 4:25>> [laughter]
96. 4:28>> And I think that's really, really cool.
97. 4:31And as you're seeing again, I mean,
98. 4:33visually it was always very, very clear.
99. 4:36But one thing I have learned since then,
100. 4:38and you see this in the green color used
101. 4:40a lot on uh these statues and such, is
102. 4:45there are four lineages of Naga in Thai
103. 4:49law. The golden, green, rainbow, and
104. 4:51black. The green is known as Airavata,
105. 4:55and of course, Gondraja looks, you know,
106. 4:57closest to green. And they are guardians
107. 5:01closely tied to rivers and human
108. 5:03settlements. And that part's interesting
109. 5:05because obviously we have the ruins of
110. 5:07Wyveria up there in the Skybound Eyrie,
111. 5:10and Gondraja is up there. So, it's quite
112. 5:13literally near a human settlement.
113. 5:16Obviously, with everything there is
114. 5:19multiple interpretations, and the
115. 5:21Airavata version of the Naga can
116. 5:23represent wisdom, nobility, the
117. 5:25connection of living beings. And while I
118. 5:28doubt that this much is going to get
119. 5:30poured into what is just probably a
120. 5:32cool-looking Elder Dragon with some
121. 5:34mythology inspiration to give it a
122. 5:36striking design, it is definitely
123. 5:38fascinating to see. But of course, the
124. 5:41main thing here is that getting this
125. 5:43confirmation that we have the Naga
126. 5:46monster is really now just the shortest
127. 5:50step further to getting the Garuda
128. 5:52monster to fit that ancient rivalry,
129. 5:56that connection, that intertwinedness
130. 5:58that exist across every single one of
131. 6:00Naga's mythological interpretations
132. 6:02across the many cultures and countries
133. 6:04that it is a part of. It would almost be
134. 6:07weird to not have the Garuda-ness going
135. 6:10on. And of course, the Garuda being, you
136. 6:12know, a giant bird, fire-based, and in a
137. 6:16lot of cases half man, half bird, would
138. 6:18mean that as I said before, the most
139. 6:20likely way to represent it to be a rival
140. 6:23to a new Elder Dragon is to make it also
141. 6:25an Elder Dragon, but use the bird wyvern
142. 6:27skeleton. Make it properly bird birdie
143. 6:30like Malfestio. God, I want Malfestio.
144. 6:33And then that would give the bird
145. 6:35wyverns a properly powerful member. Yes,
146. 6:38it would technically be an Elder Dragon,
147. 6:40but obviously just as Garan Goram is a
148. 6:42snake wyvern who's an Elder Dragon, your
149. 6:44Garuda would be a bird wyvern who
150. 6:46happens to be an Elder Dragon. And
151. 6:47obviously if it just stopped there, that
152. 6:49would be okay. Yeah, I can see that. But
153. 6:51then we have the obvious in the
154. 6:54Forbidden Lands is obsessed, well,
155. 6:56obsessed
156. 6:59is obviously a strong word, but hey,
157. 7:01they know uh this tale of Sumult, his uh
158. 7:06status as this guardian entity of the
159. 7:09Forbidden Lands across many of the
160. 7:11cultures. I mean, it just makes sense uh
161. 7:14that he would be represented eventually
162. 7:17in the game. Many times in Monster
163. 7:20Hunter history there's been references
164. 7:22to something that have then materialized
165. 7:24finally, much like the classic
166. 7:26Safi'jiiva in base world turning into,
167. 7:29you know, Safi'jiiva. And that then
168. 7:32combine with now what we know about
169. 7:34Garan Goram
170. 7:35is such like a nice parcel of Come on, a
171. 7:39Elder Dragon level red properly bird
172. 7:42bird wyvern that maybe uses fire that's
173. 7:45taken inspiration from the Garuda and
174. 7:48has a sick turf war with Garan Goram,
175. 7:50please.
176. 7:52Obviously, none of that is guaranteed,
177. 7:55right? It could just be as simple as
178. 7:58they wanted to do a new [music] snake
179. 7:59wyvern Elder Dragon flying from the sky.
180. 8:02They looked around the place for
181. 8:03inspiration and decided they like the
182. 8:05look of the Naga and thought that people
183. 8:07who know the Naga, those cultures would
184. 8:09find that endearing, just as I imagine
185. 8:11Japanese players found the Yokai
186. 8:12inspired monsters in Rise endearing. But
187. 8:15it's that double connection of Sumolt.
188. 8:18If it was just "Oh, Gundraja is based on
189. 8:20a Naga, so you know, getting a monster
190. 8:22based on the Naga's classic rival in
191. 8:24Garuda would be cool." If it was just
192. 8:26that, it would be like
193. 8:28"Nah." But that on top of this Sumolt
194. 8:30foundation that's been laid, I just
195. 8:32can't stop thinking about it, you know?
196. 8:34So I really wanted to let you guys know
197. 8:36about that as I imagine not many of you
198. 8:38watched it and those of you that did
199. 8:40probably maybe don't speak either Thai
200. 8:42or Japanese. In any case, we also found
201. 8:44out a couple other things about
202. 8:46Gundraja, the actual skin of it, the
203. 8:50scales, the wood-like aesthetic is
204. 8:52literally inspired by a Shinboku, a
205. 8:55sacred tree at Japanese shrines, and the
206. 8:59Shinmenawa, the sacred ropes that wrap
207. 9:01around them, which is definitely
208. 9:03something that you can see. It has those
209. 9:05flowing rope-like appendages coming out
210. 9:07of it and it very much looks like wood.
211. 9:10And getting a wooden dragon like that is
212. 9:12very, very cool in general and
213. 9:13obviously, you know, has the classic
214. 9:15Asian noodley dragon vibe going on to
215. 9:18kind of tie it all together. So I think
216. 9:21that is just super, super exciting and I
217. 9:24can't wait to get some actual proper
218. 9:26gameplay of Gundraja and see what it
219. 9:29does. But yeah, a big, nice, official
220. 9:33step in the direction of Sumolt as a
221. 9:36Garuda inspired bird wife and elder
222. 9:39dragon level creature has been taken. So
223. 9:42watch this space. Still might not
224. 9:44happen, obviously, but I think it's
225. 9:46very, very exciting and talking about
226. 9:49exciting potential monster and other
227. 9:50things is, you know, awesome, which I
228. 9:52think we can all agree. Except that one
229. 9:54guy in the comments each time who can't
230. 9:57imagine imagining things and could only
231. 9:59accept hard facts and theories make them
232. 10:02very angry. Keep on keeping on, my guy.
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