Presentation of Monster Hunter Wilds in March 2025. Exchange Quality of this morning, describing in detail the news about the upcoming update of the title 1 and teasing a bit of what awaits the title update 2. In this miniature piece of material, the fans saw the signs that Lagiacrus’s very wanted return may occur.
At the end of the Monster Hunter Wilds presentation, above the title text of the 2nd text, we hear some aquatic sounds, and then a beaten claw foot and scales. The signs seem quite obvious that it will be Lagiacrus, a monster that hunters are eager to fight again.
Introduced in Monster Hunter 3, also known as Monster Hunter Tri, lag was a “flagship monster” to the game, which meant that it appeared in box art. In addition to being posterboy for TRI, the monster was quite unique for one key reason: he turned on underwater fights. Immersed fights were a great thing for Monster Hunter Tri, and lags were the best example. Later versions at Monster Hunter Generations moved the fight back ashore, and since then the monster was largely hidden.
At some point Capcom confirmed that he was prototyping the fresh Lagiacrus fight for Monster Hunter: World, and even show certain visual confirmation of this During the GDC 2018 panel. He was finally pulled, although some of his technology was included in another monster, Jyuratodus.
Despite this, the time spent separating did not take the love of players to Lagiacrus. For some Monster Hunter Tri was a gigantic entrance to the series. And this fight, with a fairly unique appearance and mechanics, the possibilities of Lagiacrus fight are simply electrifying. How One user indicated A few years ago, in the thread asking why people are so excited about lags: “people who want Lagiacrus to return, generally mean an underwater fight to return, it is also a kind of package.”
Apart from the unique mechanics, Lagiacrus remained popular alone. Lewiatan took third place in Popularity survey for the 20th anniversary of Monster Hunterpokonany tylko przez nr 2 Nergigante i nr 1 Zinogre. One of his variants, Abyssal Lagiacrus, also took 12th place, beating the title Hunter Wilds Update 1 Mizutsune in 14th place.
In 2022, in an interview with IGN, the manufacturer Monster Hunter explained why Lagiacrus would not see the return in the current game, Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak. Although the manufacturer confirmed that “desire is definitely there”, technical implementation is challenging.
“Unfortunately, Lagiacrus is simply very technological … difficult to implement the monster. It is very similar to a snake, its parts touch the ground at different times,” explained Tsujimoto at that time. “So it’s very like a spinning ground monster.”
However, now Capcom has decided to restore WIThing Monster. Regardless of whether it is only a land affair, a fresh variant, whether we see any implementation of water mechanics, see you. However, fans are certainly delighted. Lagiacrusa is refrained “peak“And patient fans Celebrating their seemingly successful manifestations Close the comments sections.
We will get more details when we go after updating the title 1 and further towards the summer window to update the title 2. But yes, it seems that Lagiacrus will lead summer celebrations at Monster Hunter Wilds, and this is a very electrifying news for Hunters New and Old.
Eric is an independent IGN writer.
