What Is That MYSTERIOUS CREATURE in Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance? — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hey everyone, Masamune here. How's it
2. 0:02going fellow hunters? Welcome back to
3. 0:04Masamune's Guild. Today, you'll only be
4. 0:07hearing my beautiful voice because I've
5. 0:10been having some editing issues and I
6. 0:12don't want to mess up again and upload a
7. 0:14video with nothing showing in the
8. 0:15background.
9. 0:17So today, I'll have the two Monster
10. 0:19Hunter Wilds Ascendants trailers playing
11. 0:21in the background while I walk you
12. 0:22through my theory about that strange
13. 0:24creature emerging from the Guardian
14. 0:26Dosha Guma. That's right fellow hunters,
15. 0:29Monster Hunter has plenty of examples of
16. 0:31parasites and symbiotic relationships.
17. 0:34And in this video, I want to explain
18. 0:36what I think that creature coming out of
19. 0:38the Guardian Dosha Guma could be.
20. 0:41Obviously, this is just a hypothesis.
21. 0:43Nothing is confirmed. It's simply my
22. 0:45take on what we might be looking at. As
23. 0:48I mentioned, there's one scene that
24. 0:50probably caught everyone's attention. It
25. 0:52wasn't Lao Shan Lung, Kushala Daora, or
26. 0:55even the new monsters. It was a Guardian
27. 0:58Dosha Guma collapsing and a strange
28. 1:00creature emerging from its body, black
29. 1:03and covered in some kind of slime. And
30. 1:05here's the problem. Capcom hasn't
31. 1:07explained what the hell that thing
32. 1:09actually is. In Japan and elsewhere
33. 1:12online, people are already calling it
34. 1:14the mysterious parasite monster.
35. 1:17Unfortunately, Capcom hasn't said
36. 1:19anything or even officially confirmed
37. 1:21that it's a parasite. But after looking
38. 1:24into what we know about Monster Hunter,
39. 1:26something like this wouldn't be new to
40. 1:27the series. In fact, Monster Hunter
41. 1:30already has several parasitic creatures
42. 1:33and some do things that are disturbingly
43. 1:35similar to what we just saw in the
44. 1:37trailer. So, let's start with some
45. 1:39examples of actual parasites in Monster
46. 1:41Hunter.
47. 1:42First up is one of the oldest and
48. 1:45probably one of the lesser-known
49. 1:46examples, Khezu. Yes, our wonderful
50. 1:50flying Wyvern. Khezu reproduction is
51. 1:53considerably more disturbing than
52. 1:55anything we normally see during a hunt.
53. 1:57According to accounts compiled from
54. 1:59Japanese reference material, Kezu can
55. 2:01lay their eggs inside animals that are
56. 2:03still alive, such as Popo.
57. 2:06Those eggs then hatch into baby Kezu,
58. 2:09known as Kezu Welps. And what do these
59. 2:12little guys do? Well, they feed on their
60. 2:15host's blood as they develop. In other
61. 2:17words, a monster places its offspring
62. 2:20inside another living creature, and
63. 2:22those offspring use the host's body to
64. 2:25grow.
65. 2:26That's parasitism, and it's our first
66. 2:28important precedent. Capcom has been
67. 2:31using parasitic [music] creatures since
68. 2:32Monster Hunter's earliest generations,
69. 2:35but there's another example that's even
70. 2:37closer to the scene in [music] the
71. 2:38trailer, Zamites. Remember those little
72. 2:41guys?
73. 2:42They're the juvenile form of Zamtrios.
74. 2:45If you've read their official
75. 2:46description, or their entry in the
76. 2:48Monster Encyclopedia, you probably know
77. 2:50where I'm going with this. When Zamites
78. 2:52find prey, they latch on and start
79. 2:55feeding, but they don't always stay on
80. 2:57the outside. Their description
81. 2:59specifically explains that they use
82. 3:01their teeth to pierce their victim's
83. 3:03skin, and can burrow inside their bodies
84. 3:06to eat them from within.
85. 3:08After feeding, they grow rapidly.
86. 3:11Monster Hunter already has its own
87. 3:13alien. That's right, fellow hunters, and
88. 3:15that's before Ascendants even arrives.
89. 3:18This precedent is especially interesting
90. 3:21because the creature in the new trailer
91. 3:22looks relatively small. That opens up an
92. 3:25important possibility. [music]
93. 3:27What if we're not looking at the adult
94. 3:29monster at all? We could be seeing a
95. 3:31juvenile stage, a larva, or a creature
96. 3:34that needs to develop inside another
97. 3:36monster acting as its host.
98. 3:39Something similar to the relationship
99. 3:41between Zamite and Zamtrios, or Giggi
100. 3:44and Gigginox.
101. 3:45Maybe, after emerging from the Guardian
102. 3:47Doshasguma, this creature becomes
103. 3:49something else. Maybe it transforms.
104. 3:52That idea could fit perfectly well with
105. 3:55biological concepts Monster Hunter has
106. 3:57explored before.
107. 3:59Another example is the Qurio from
108. 4:01Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak. These
109. 4:03small leech-like creatures function as
110. 4:05genuine parasites. They attach
111. 4:08themselves to other organisms, drain
112. 4:10their blood and life energy, and can use
113. 4:12different monsters as hosts. After
114. 4:14losing their main hosts, the Qurio start
115. 4:17infesting monsters throughout the
116. 4:19ecosystem.
117. 4:20That's where the Afflicted Monsters come
118. 4:22in, the foundation of Sunbreak's
119. 4:24endgame. Their hosts become extremely
120. 4:27aggressive and more powerful, but their
121. 4:29bodies can't properly withstand the
122. 4:31infestation, and they eventually die.
123. 4:34Monsters powerful enough to overcome
124. 4:36this relationship can even harness the
125. 4:39Qurio's energy. That's how we get Risen
126. 4:41Elder Dragons.
127. 4:43The Guild's research describes a
128. 4:45transition from one-sided parasitism
129. 4:47toward a kind of symbiosis. And that's
130. 4:50important because it means Monster
131. 4:52Hunter already has a precedent for a
132. 4:54parasite, a host, changes to the host's
133. 4:57physiology, and a powered-up monster.
134. 5:00So, these creatures could potentially
135. 5:01infect monsters already in the game and
136. 5:04make them much stronger. Now, why is
137. 5:07this creature inside a Guardian rather
138. 5:09than some other animal?
139. 5:10That's one of the fundamental questions.
140. 5:13This detail might be the biggest clue in
141. 5:15the entire trailer. Guardians aren't
142. 5:18ordinary animals. They're artificial
143. 5:20organisms created by the ancient
144. 5:22civilization of Wyveria.
145. 5:25And Guardian Doshaguma [music] has some
146. 5:26extremely unusual anatomy. It doesn't
147. 5:29need to eat, it can't reproduce, its
148. 5:32digestive system is severely
149. 5:34underdeveloped, and it lacks
150. 5:36reproductive organs. Its energy source
151. 5:38is Wyvern milk, which it can absorb
152. 5:40directly through its body. But, think
153. 5:43about what that means.
154. 5:45If this creature were parasitizing a
155. 5:47regular Dosha Guma, we could say, "Sure,
156. 5:49it's eating its flesh or drinking its
157. 5:51blood." But, what does it gain from
158. 5:54living inside a guardian? We're dealing
159. 5:56with an organism specifically designed
160. 5:59not to need food, whose body runs on a
161. 6:01completely different source of energy.
162. 6:04Fellow hunters, Wyvern milk could be the
163. 6:06key.
164. 6:07That's why I think we might be
165. 6:09misreading this scene. Maybe the
166. 6:11parasite isn't feeding on the Dosha Guma
167. 6:13itself. Maybe it's feeding on what flows
168. 6:16through the Dosha Guma. Its real food
169. 6:19source could be Wyvern milk. This energy
170. 6:22flows through guardian monsters, keeps
171. 6:24them functioning for enormous lengths of
172. 6:26time, and also gives them extraordinary
173. 6:29regenerative abilities. So, imagine the
174. 6:32guardian as a living battery. Now, put
175. 6:34another organism inside it, one capable
176. 6:37of stealing that energy. Biologically,
177. 6:40it would be comparable to the Qurio,
178. 6:42except instead of sucking blood, it
179. 6:44would be siphoning off Wyvern milk.
180. 6:47And that could explain something else
181. 6:49Capcom has officially revealed about
182. 6:51Ascendants. One of its big mysteries
183. 6:53involves guardians suddenly expanding
184. 6:55their range. They're starting to appear
185. 6:58in places where they normally shouldn't
186. 6:59be. That's important, fellow hunters,
187. 7:02because until now, their dependence on
188. 7:04Wyvern milk was a major reason they
189. 7:06remained in the Wyveria region. So, we
190. 7:09have to ask ourselves, what's changed?
191. 7:12Maybe new energy sources have appeared
192. 7:14in the main maps. Maybe the events
193. 7:16triggered by Lao Shan Lung have changed
194. 7:18how Wyvern milk is distributed. But,
195. 7:20there's another possibility. Something
196. 7:22could be changing the guardians
197. 7:24themselves.
198. 7:25And this creature might be capable of
199. 7:28that, which brings us to Zoshia. Why
200. 7:31Zoshia? Zoshia is one of the strangest
201. 7:34creatures in the game. That white outer
202. 7:37covering isn't its actual underlying
203. 7:39body. It's a coating of crystallized
204. 7:41Wyvern milk. Underneath is something
205. 7:44much darker and more grotesque. The
206. 7:47in-game notes specifically describe its
207. 7:49body as being covered in crystallized
208. 7:51Wyvern milk and explain that it uses
209. 7:54this energy to regenerate. But there's
210. 7:56something even more important. The
211. 7:59information we have in the game
212. 8:00indicates that Zoshea was created from
213. 8:03an exceptionally unusual monster. We
214. 8:05don't officially know which one. And for
215. 8:08now, any connection to Fatalis remains a
216. 8:11fan theory, not a confirmed identity.
217. 8:14Observations of Zoshea's regeneration
218. 8:17also describe its original form as black
219. 8:20and connect its recovery to cocoon-like
220. 8:22structures, dark material, and
221. 8:24eventually the absorption of Wyvern
222. 8:26milk. At this point, fellow hunters,
223. 8:29there are a lot of interesting
224. 8:30parallels. We have a black organism,
225. 8:32guardians, cocoons, regeneration, and
226. 8:35Wyvern milk. And now, a black creature
227. 8:38emerging from inside a guardian. Does
228. 8:41that prove this creature is connected to
229. 8:43Zoshea? No, it doesn't. But it does make
230. 8:46Zoshea a more logical connection to
231. 8:48investigate than the Qurio or another
232. 8:51infection like the Frenzy Virus when we
233. 8:53consider the biology of Monster Hunter
234. 8:55Wilds. So, here's my theory. This
235. 8:58creature could be some kind of error or
236. 9:00a flaw in the technology Wyveria used to
237. 9:03create the guardians. What if this isn't
238. 9:06a naturally occurring species? What if
239. 9:08it's another product of Wyveria or even
240. 9:11something accidentally created by the
241. 9:13same technology that produced the
242. 9:15guardians? Remember how guardians come
243. 9:17into being? They appear inside enormous
244. 9:20cocoons.
245. 9:21We don't see eggs, babies, or
246. 9:24reproduction. We simply find artificial
247. 9:27adult organisms inside these structures.
248. 9:30That opens up another pretty disturbing
249. 9:32possibility. Maybe the Guardian Dosha
250. 9:34Great Izuchi was never infected from the
251. 9:36outside.
252. 9:37Maybe this organism was already inside
253. 9:40it when it formed. It could be a defect,
254. 9:43a form of contamination, an organism
255. 9:45produced during the Guardian creation
256. 9:47process, or perhaps a part of that
257. 9:49process that was supposed to remain
258. 9:51under control until now.
259. 9:54So, fellow hunters, that's the basic
260. 9:56idea behind my theory. Let's come back
261. 9:58[music] to that black creature.
262. 10:00Is it really a parasite? Possibly, but
263. 10:03it still hasn't been officially
264. 10:05confirmed. And if it is, Monster Hunter
265. 10:08already has plenty of precedents that
266. 10:10could justify its existence. We have
267. 10:12Kezu Welps, Zamites, Jiggy, and the
268. 10:15Qurio.
269. 10:16But to me, the detail that really
270. 10:18matters isn't simply whether it's a
271. 10:20parasite. It's that it's inside a
272. 10:22Guardian, an artificial organism that
273. 10:25doesn't need to eat, can't reproduce,
274. 10:28and gets all its energy from Wyvern
275. 10:30Milk. That's why my theory is that this
276. 10:32creature isn't looking for flesh. It's
277. 10:34looking for energy. And if it can use
278. 10:37Guardians to obtain that energy, maybe
279. 10:39it can also use them to spread. That
280. 10:42could explain why the Guardians are
281. 10:44leaving Wyveria. It could explain some
282. 10:46of the ecosystem's disruptions, and it
283. 10:49could connect Ascendancy's central
284. 10:51mystery directly to what we left behind
285. 10:53in the original Wild story, Zoshea,
286. 10:56Wyvern Milk, and the ancient
287. 10:58civilization's experiments. So, fellow
288. 11:01hunters, what did you think of today's
289. 11:03theory?
290. 11:04What do you think that black slimy
291. 11:06creature emerging from a Guardian
292. 11:08Dosushaguma actually is? Do you agree
293. 11:10with my idea, or do you have a theory of
294. 11:12your own? I'd love to read your thoughts
295. 11:15down in the comments. Take care, fellow
296. 11:17hunters, and I'll see you soon, right
297. 11:19here on Masae Munee's Guild. Bye-bye.