r/MonsterHunter • u/AffectionateGrowth54 • Mar 05 '25
Meme Are you enjoying the new Handler?
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u/Slaned Mar 05 '25 edited 29d ago
My only issue with Alma is more of a game design standpoint than the character itself, which is that when I hunt a monster, she's just there in the same zone chillin. So it makes me think, "Why isn't she getting attacked? Why does the monster just not care about her?" She also loves to stand almost directly infront of me when I'm fishing.
Edit: I like the head canon of intimidator jewels, I forgot about them. I also guess she heard my complaints because she's been hanging out across the zone now.
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u/EndorDerDragonKing Mar 05 '25
She has the brand new, experimental "Monster-B-gone! Now guaranteed to make sure monsters only acknowledge your existence if the plot demands it!"
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u/HeliosHeliodes Mar 05 '25
Tbf if you’re throwing hands with a credible threat you’re not going to leave yourself open just to attack the casual observer.
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u/DanielTeague power bugs > speed bugs Mar 05 '25
She slips a Diversion jewel into each of our Rations before allowing us to take them from the supply pouch.
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u/Marudred Mar 05 '25
I mean she's not the one blasting the monster with a cannon strapped to a halberd
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u/Aesma_ Mar 05 '25
She's alright, but she still doesn't come close to the best girl in the entire series.
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u/ARightDastard Rare Mar 05 '25
You'll never compare to Raging Brachy, doodle.
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u/Aesma_ Mar 05 '25
Why do you have to remind me that my crush has her own crush and that it's not me? Why do you have to hurt me like this?
I'm sorry I don't have an exploding dildo on my forehead... I guess I'm not good enough for Guildmarm afterall...
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u/PriscentSnow jack of all weapons Mar 05 '25
We may be “that guy” in Wilds, but we’re not “Him” to guildmarm 😔
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u/ARightDastard Rare Mar 05 '25
Why do you have to remind me that my crush has her own crush and that it's not me?
Hurt people hurt people.
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u/santas_delibird Mar 05 '25
Hey, that’s only a part of it. He just has an explosive personality, those arms of his too!
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u/DrMobius0 Mar 05 '25
If the quest in world is to be believed, doodle cucked brachy
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u/Waxburg Mar 05 '25
Wait which quest?
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u/DrMobius0 Mar 05 '25
Brachydios special arena.
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u/CrabTribalEnthusiast EXPLOSIONS?! Mar 05 '25
Brachy special arena description:
"A new challenger: Brachydios, the Guru of Goo, The Purple Pounder! Says he's not looking for some chump called "Doodle." Two fighters enter the Special Arena, but only one leaves!"
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u/SpiderCVIII Mar 05 '25
Huh, what's she doing in my Moga Sweetheart locket?
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u/MutatedRodents Mar 05 '25
Best troop you hang out with is 4u. Every character is goaded in that one.
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u/GotsomeTuna Mar 05 '25
Alma is carried by the Hunter now being a character and a more active support cast. The Handler had to represent the whole party since she was with a mute and a meowing cat.
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u/Justanotherragequit BUG STICK Mar 05 '25
The fact the supporting cast is more involved is also very helpful I think. Gemma and the ace squad I mean
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u/Icandothemove Mar 05 '25
Nah I like Alma and Gemma and Olivia but they could all be mute and I'd be rolling with my meowing cat no issue.
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u/MShineD Mar 05 '25
Handler: Oh look! A potato in totally not a vicious wild animal's lair! ....OH NO HELP ME HUNTER, A VICIOUS WILD ANIMAL IS HERE
Alma: Look over there, you gotta go kill that. Ill take the irritating child away.
There IS a difference
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u/thefat94 Mar 05 '25
Alma even help you with gathering, providing supplies mid hunt, remind you to carve that tail you chopped off, HECK, she even pick fallen part for you if you forget
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u/Violet_Ignition Mar 05 '25
"Don't forget to pick up anything the monster dropped"
Oh shit u right..
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u/MorganTheSavior Mar 05 '25
She waves at you next to any severed monster part, it's soooooooo cute.
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u/Charming_Volume_8613 Mar 05 '25
She also waves at you if you two come across some small monsters who got offed by something bigger. She's great, helpful and never into your face.
I also love how quirky she CAN be without that part of her being her entire personality.
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u/Abedeus Mar 05 '25
Be polite.
Be efficient.
Have a plan to help during every hunt.
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u/Taliesin_ Mar 05 '25
"Well the difference being one is a job and the other's-"
glances at Handler
"-mental sickness!"
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u/mvanvrancken Mar 05 '25
That's a QOL update I was not expecting and very happy about. I can't tell you how many times I've missed a tail carve just because I forgot about it.
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u/ClamSlamwhich Mar 05 '25
Sometimes the bloodlust takes us over. Jumping on our seikret to quickly chase the running monster before we get the tail carve.
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u/ImurderREALITY Mar 05 '25
And then the race to the tail icon on the map after you finish carving, trying to get there and snatch the tail before the countdown expires
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u/MrDecros Mar 05 '25
But you know you're fucked because you captured the monster and there's no way you make it in 10 seconds.
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u/Kurinikuri Mar 05 '25
God fr, I'm starting to use lance in iceborne and the amount of time i guard dash to chase a monster in guiding land totally forgetting all the shiny drop mats i needed. I hate it so much lmao.
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u/mauribanger Mar 05 '25
What? You don't enjoy the thrill of making your palamute go as fast as it can to get to the tail you forgot to carve in under 60 seconds?
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u/mvanvrancken Mar 05 '25
All too often the story of my hunt is carve monster, go oh shit there’s a tail back there, oh shit I have 30 seconds, hold mount, book it, flip coin on whether or not I make it lol
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u/EmuSupreme Mar 05 '25
I like how after you kill a monster, she runs up to it to study it while you're carving its carcass. She'll also give you call outs in battle like when another monster is approaching. In all aspects, Alma actually feels like a real Handler.
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u/Xeroshifter Mar 05 '25
The dynamic of the hunter being who they are helps too. In world it's not really clear that the hunter is basically a monster that has a handler in part to keep them on a leash (you know, not destroying the entire ecosystem because they're bored), because instead your character feels like the mature one, just trying to keep the handler alive. Meanwhile in Wilds, that dynamic is made more clear with lines about authorization, and Alma not being a liability, but an asset.
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u/Thagyr Dootwagon Mar 06 '25
I love how in this game there is absolutely no question that the Hunter can and will kill anything that is deemed a target. Nobody even remotely questions their ability to do so. Even right up to the end boss of the story.
As soon as they are off the leash everyone just gets out of the way and yanks away anyone too slow to do so.
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u/dragonbornrito Mar 05 '25
That and the Palico’s “hey, your food buff ran out and the monster just ran off; how about you stop chasing it like a spaz and throw down your portable canteen for 15 seconds before calling your Seikret taxi?”
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u/DrMobius0 Mar 05 '25
Oh, the monster ran off. Let me PICK UP THIS TRAP before we go.
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u/dragonbornrito Mar 05 '25
Me to my Palico:
“You dropped this, king 👑”
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u/TwinAuras The heavier LS main Mar 05 '25
Palico: Wrong! Unused Shock Trap!
Back to work, Hunter!!52
u/Charrikayu Mar 05 '25
Slept a Rathalos and put down two barrel bombs and my palico goes "Wait, I have one too!" and pulls out a barrel bomb three times his size and plunks it down with mine
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u/wickling-fan Mar 05 '25
Almost made me shed a tear of happiness. Finally the kitties upgrades from flinging bombs to terrorism.
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u/DeathByPickles Mar 05 '25
And you don't even have to wait the whole 15 seconds. Just hit the skip cutscene button and it's a total of like 2 or 3 seconds lol
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u/Broks_Enmu Mar 05 '25
For real ! First time I played a game and the npc are so fkg useful , I won’t even talk about the palicl that mfk is god sent
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u/Dingaligaling Mar 05 '25
When a fight happen with villagers around, she tells and shows them them to the edge of the zone to get to safety.
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u/thefat94 Mar 05 '25
Wait, really? That's so cool! I've never seen that before, need to keep my eyes out for that
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u/Dingaligaling Mar 05 '25
Experienced it at the Oilwell Basin, the villagers were out gathering or some stuff. I engaged the monster not too far from them, they just stopped with their jaws dropped and watched the hunt. She rode up to them after the authorization, then urges them gently to get away before they get hurt. The villagers started to run to the nearest edge of that particular zone, she was following them on her seikret.
I already loved her but that cemented it even more.
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u/Azhalus Mar 05 '25
This is why I like the new 'flagship' line of Monster Hunter over the mobile entries (including Rise).
Shit just feels more alive
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u/Charming_Volume_8613 Mar 05 '25
The villages have wholeass daily cycles that even change with the weather and if you come across them Alma, your Palico or even your Hunter will often briefly interact with them (I could've sworn I heard my Hunter greet npcs in Oilwell at some point, at the very least)
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u/PriscentSnow jack of all weapons Mar 05 '25
Your hunter does passively greet (meaning you don’t have to do anything, it’s automatic) anyone that greets you
Most of the time it’s a simple nod that can be missed if you don’t pay close attention but sometimes it’s a short wave (I’ve only seen this twice over my 40 hours so far)
In fact, currently there’s a “bug” (I use that term loosely) with Gemma and this greeting mechanic. Go to her and go into any of the menu options like forging/upgrading weapons then back out. She will greet you everytime you go back into the blacksmith main menu and you will respond accordingly
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u/Akanni649 Mar 05 '25
Also, the fact that your villager friends can just invite you to dinner because you're not just a baddass, you are also good company
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u/bloodraven42 Mar 05 '25
I found out last night under certain conditions the WubWub will have a festival and dance around a bonfire, during which they'll give you a bunch of free items. Only way I found out is fast traveling to their hideout and noticing all the exclamation marks.
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u/Genprey Mar 05 '25
Alma helped me catch a rare creature by noting that something funny was carrying a coin and is amused by our shenanigans. Truly the best partner a hunter could have!
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u/MrTatum899 Mar 05 '25
Yeah, there’s no debate here. Alma all the way. I’ve enjoyed the calm, discerning demeanor of her while being helpful on hunts and not just worrying about stuffing her face. She genuinely helpful through hunts and plays a big part in the story.
I honestly like how much they’ve stepped up the characters in this game. They all have a good mix of personalities and add a lot to the game.
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u/sugar_pilot Mar 05 '25
She has so many great moments, like lifting her glasses to wipe tears out of her eyes when Nata is reunited with Tasheen. I really enjoyed her and most of the characters.
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u/SnowbloodWolf2 Slayer of Dodogama Mar 05 '25
Yeah, especially the hunter. I was caught so off guard when the hunter just dropped that life changing advice on Nata out of nowhere
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u/DrMobius0 Mar 05 '25
I like to imagine they give handlers proper field training because of world's handler. She walked so that they could run. Or something.
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u/kaian-a-coel Mar 05 '25
I go with the headcanon that she's the daughter of Someone Important. She's not our handler, we are hers.
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u/CabajHed A slab a day keeps the monsters away Mar 05 '25
It's kind of implied that she is... as far as we know and have been told through the first few hours of the game, outside of the current sailors and life-threatening black dragons returning to Schrade; nobody in any of the fleets are expected to return to the old world for any reason. Yet she has mentioned that her grandfather went back and even smuggled some shiny stuff with him (not for research or anything productive apparently). The implication here being that he must've had some kind of status to be able to do that and also the fact that she can openly state this and no one bats an eye means everybody already knows she comes from status.
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u/mookie_pookie Mar 05 '25
At first I thought it'd get annoying hearing the reminders.
Then it got late, I was really high and in the zone, and her telling me when I chopped off tails has been a godsend lmao
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u/DrZeroH I'll sharpen to draw aggro Mar 05 '25
This is a big part of it. I remember someone describe it as the elizabeth effect (from bioshock infinite). If you think about it most of the game is effectively a giant escort mission but no one cared about that because she was genuinely helpful (never got in the way, threw ammo at you, and only participated in story elements).
Alma reminds me of this. She stays out of the way during hunts, only gives you useful reminders when the monster is already leaving, reminds you at start about supplies, and gathers items for you. She is both useful and unobtrusive.
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u/NonagoonInfinity Mar 05 '25
It would be nice if she reminded me BEFORE I've left the room...
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u/DarkStar0915 Mar 05 '25
I always got reminded when the monster started to flee so plenty time to carve still.
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u/code-panda Mar 05 '25
Alma is competent. Yeah she doesn't hunt, but she does the paperwork, is a capable tracker on her own and feels way more like a colleague instead of a child you have to babysit.
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u/Aiyon Mar 05 '25
Nothing has ever nailed "This is a hyper-competent hunting team" like the moment where she's figuring out what the sentry is, and rattles off a bunch of info, before the hunter clocks not just that it's an Odo before it even shows up, but also specifically that it's a subspecies??
Poor dog had no idea what it was getting itself into
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u/dandadone_with_life Mar 05 '25
literally. she helped me figure it out before it was even revealed, and my Hunter chiming in that it was a subspecies was insane. it genuinely felt like all 3 of us were figuring it out in real time. it was so cool.
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u/noc7urnalNeme5i5 Mar 05 '25
Easily my favorite moment so far, I avoided spoilers and love odogaron, so the more her description sounded like it the more excited I got.
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u/Banksy_Collective Mar 05 '25
I've never felt more like a true hunter than when i was able to correctly guess that it was an ebony odo from the description on my own.
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u/Avedas Mar 05 '25
Odogaron is one of my favorites from World. As she was describing it I was just thinking this better be Odogaron and hell yes it was.
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u/BudgieGryphon odogaron stan Mar 05 '25
Odogaron is my favorite monster, I heard Alma describe the traits and went “guardian Great Seikret? Seikretdrome?” then they blindsided me with my beloved dogweasel
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u/CaptainSchmid Mar 05 '25
Better than me, I thought she was speaking a Deviljho into existence
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u/Aiyon Mar 05 '25
Nah, jhojho wouldn't be able to sneak around enough to be a sentry. Dude v much makes an entrance
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u/zan2007 Mar 05 '25
New deviljho varient released, nightshade deviljho. Who can now be able to become completely invisible
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u/wandering-monster Mar 05 '25
Huh who would have guessed that it's more fun to pretend you're the badass among a bunch of competent people, than be the only competent person in a herd of useless idiots?
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u/DrMobius0 Mar 05 '25
Part of the problem with the handler is that while she apparently is very competent at her actual duties, it's just not something the player ever sees. Mostly
It's kind of a 'show, don't tell' problem.
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u/holyerthanthou Mar 05 '25
I have never in my life met a person who while being “competent at their job” not be competent around other people doing their job.
Alma is not a hunter. She’s a handler. She cannot fight the monsters. But what she Can Do is,
1: Stay out of the way
2: help organize onlookers
3: take observational notes
Etc
Which she does. She never drags the two of you into bullshit, she never gets fucking lost.
So she does her job very clearly competently
So now I can assume the fucking paperwork is also taken care of.
Worlds Handler probably didn’t file a god damn thing.
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u/Nexine Mar 05 '25
1: Stay out of the way
The amount of times I see her awkwardly zooming around very close by on her seikret while I'm fighting a monster would beg to differ. Like at least Handler knew to stay out of the Splash zone if she wasn't being ambushed.
The only real difference is that Alma doesn't get repeatedly used as a damsel in distress by the narrative. Instead Erik, some tribesmen, a pack of palicoes and maybe Nata(I forgor if he actually gets in trouble or not) get that treatment this time around. It all just comes down to Handler being the only noncombatant in most World/iceborne cutscenes.
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u/thatHecklerOverThere Mar 05 '25
To be fair, the handler does all that too - canonically more efficiently than nearly anyone else in world. She just happens to be a reckless goofball while doing it.
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u/LickMyThralls Mar 05 '25
She's a desk jockey that tries to go out in the field lol. Her behavior was annoying like the random pards but that's about it.
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u/Matemeo Mar 05 '25
Plus she knows how dope you are and gasses you up all the time. Her, "just watch" line at end of low rank was goosebumps for me.
She's the perfect assistant, I love her and her dorky glasses.
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u/tadyt Mar 05 '25
if world handler were there she wouldve just been like, "watch how awesome my pard and i are" and then just gone back to the little camp to sit and eat for the hunt duration
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u/JayHat21 Mar 05 '25
Handler: WE did it, pard!
Hunter: WE? I didn’t know you spoke MonHun French.
Alma: We did it, team!
Hunter: Yeah WE did! I saw you, big gatherer! Picked the shit out of those mushrooms.
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u/Acceptable_Answer570 Mar 05 '25
Sometimes she picks up extremely valuable stuff tho!
A few times I saw her pop-up and was like “Daayum I needed that thing exactly!”
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u/DarkKimzark Mar 05 '25
Best part, no need to save Alma from anything when she tries to pick up something, unlike SOMEONE
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u/Kira_Aotsuki Mar 05 '25
Yea because like an actual EXPERT, which is what handlers are supposed to be, she actually knows how dangerous all these creatures are and to keep us in arms length
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u/Drzewo_Silentswift Mar 05 '25
God fucking thank you. It feels like Alma know what the fucking job is. The handler felt like a massive liability.
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u/SibrenTF Mar 05 '25
I like Alma more, mainly because she’s not a bumbling fool 99% of the time, and the one time she was it was because she nearly lost her favorite trinket to the wudwuds which is a reasonable crashout.
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u/The_Angry_Bro Mar 05 '25
"Hunter, we have to do whatever they say" Never question an anthropologist's love of trinkets
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u/JCrafterz Mar 05 '25
I love the fact that she also has a hobby, especially that its not eating
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u/Mythriaz Mar 06 '25
Funny enough, Monster Hunter made the food scenes so well that there’s a shortage of cheese in stores in Japan rn.
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u/Dreaming_F00l Mar 05 '25
I loved that moment too. It was such a “shit hit the fan” moment when you realise Alma was dead serious that we had to follow the wudwuds.
I think importantly, the quirky moments are spread out nicely, so that the characters still get to shine.
Seeing Alma explaining things to Nata, yet getting absolutely terrified when the wudwuds nabbed her trinket
Or when Erik goes sniffing flowers into a Lala Barina’s nest, yet he still remains incredibly knowledgeable and genuinely helpful (he’s cute too)
I love the characters in Wilds.
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u/LevnikMoore Mar 05 '25
I think importantly, the quirky moments are spread out nicely, so that the characters still get to shine.
This is what really helps imo. The quirks of the characters are just that, quirks. Alma is a professional handler, who also has a trinket she's willing to die for. Erik is also a knowledgeable handler, but he goes a little too hard in the paint for plants sometimes.
When the quirk becomes their entire personality (oh no the white wraith), they better be charming (Faced with death, I am truly, finally, alive) or it just becomes annoying (Pard!)
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u/Artanis12 Mar 05 '25
That's a lot of anime-adjacent stuff in a nutshell IMO; characters tend to be an embodiment of whatever trope fulfills their needed role in the plot.
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u/Banksy_Collective Mar 05 '25
Erik also has another line when you fight a different lala. Something like "we can't keep meeting like this". Despite almost being eaten by one its still clearly his favorite and hes mildly obsessed with it.
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u/ByIeth Mar 05 '25
I like it because it is just a moment and it was hilarious to see. It isn’t her whole character
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u/Juantsu2552 Mar 05 '25
“Alma or handler?”
Me: “The serious handler”
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u/Pandemic_Trauma Doot-er Extraordinaire Mar 05 '25
"Moga Sweetheart from Tri"
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u/ComradeBrosefStylin Mar 05 '25
Hinoa tried her best but she can't beat Aisha.
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u/A_Guy_in_Orange Mar 05 '25
If we're chosing secret third options Cavel would be based enough to say the real answer, Guildarm
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u/Sterlorx Mar 05 '25
Why have one handler when Minoa and Minoto exist
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u/King_Kezza Mar 05 '25
I'll throw an overlooked name into the ring: MHGU questender in the soaratorium pub
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u/Lavatis Mar 05 '25
bro can't even say 'GUILDMARM' correctly and thinks it's the real answer
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u/UgleeHero Mar 05 '25
I like both, but I like Alma a lot more.
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u/_The-Alchemist__ Mar 05 '25
I like almas personality more. I like the handlers clothes. It feels more monster huntery fantasy than Monster Hunter Portland lol
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u/KeyboardBerserker Mar 05 '25
I can't really talk, considering my hunter looks like a gundam right now
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u/_The-Alchemist__ Mar 05 '25
I didn't really take helmets into consideration when making mine and now gay porn cop moustache is all you can see all the time
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u/ardotschgi Mar 05 '25
Just in case you don't know: You can toggle helmet visibility on/off. Both as a general game setting and also in the armour pigment menu.
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u/_The-Alchemist__ Mar 05 '25
Yeah I had to toggle it off for the cut scenes lol idk if that helped though 😂
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u/KurnolSanders Mar 05 '25
I'm glad it's not just me - the Worlds one was totally lovable and entertaining. I thought it fit perfectly with the felyne shenanigans.
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u/Icandothemove Mar 05 '25
I think the way people acted about the handler was ridiculous and often gave unwashed basement dweller, but she was kind of a doof.
Alma, Olivia, and Gemma absolutely clear her. Erik is... honestly pretty similarly a doof, but I don't mind a small dose of doof.
Werner can eat a dick tho.
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u/fathertime979 Mar 05 '25
I think the reason Erik is acceptable is because it's pretty clear he's extremely locked the fuck in biologist. And he did exactly one "well that's fucking stupid" thing and then. Never again.
But yes Werner can in fact eat a dick
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u/Scarsworn Mar 05 '25
Werner at least owns up to needing people to tell him when he’s causing problems with the way he sees things/functions at the end of the Azuz chapter.
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u/TFN928 Mar 05 '25
My only complaint is the constantly repeating dialogue. Yes, Alma, I know I can get materials from small monsters. Yes, Alma, you comment on the size of that structure every time we’re in the same zipcode as it. Yes, Alma, I know I can fire large dung pods to disperse the horde.
She’s likable and has a good character but I wish I could either decrease her dialogue or leave her at home.
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u/Novelist97 Mar 05 '25
The amount of times I've heard about the size of the scar on a tempered monster...
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u/rcbiggin Mar 05 '25
It might have been a coincidence, but she mentioned the size of a tempered monster and guess what, it was a gold crown in size
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u/Gear07 Mar 05 '25
Low-key I actually like that. I'm not very perceptive and her pointing this out actually really helps me. I nearly forgot multiple times to carve the tails, or to pick up tempered ammo, or to notice some endemic life carrying a wyvern coin that Alma also points out.
I agree that there should be a toggle option but I've come to fully rely on her callouts, even if it's the same voicelines again and again
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u/amanisnotaface Mar 05 '25
Endemic life carrying a Wyvern coin? Wait that’s what she’s chatting about!?
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u/kyane Mar 05 '25
Yeah some sort of crab or bug, I've found one in the forest inside the waterfall cave campsite, and also another on top of the mining zone right next to the Rey Dau arena so far.
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u/P529 Ain't Nobody Got Time For That Mar 05 '25
The most annoying thing for me was that she is allowed to roam in the camp but then I saw I can accept and depart to quests in my tent so it's less bad now lmao
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u/OmegaSamus Mar 05 '25
They're both really cute but Alma has deeper characterization and the fact our hunter is a good character in their own right does wonders for her.
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u/jzillacon SnS, the ultimate all-in-one tool. Mar 05 '25
Yeah, that's a good point. I don't mind World's handler but she really isn't a strong enough character to carry the plot on her own, and our own hunters in World barely interact with the other characters to help carry that burden.
Really the character that does the best in getting players to really care about them in World is not the Handler but rather Aiden, but a lot of that is due to the fact he's already gotten a full game's worth of character growth beforehand. Also his role in the story as someone going through the same things as you makes him easy to project onto, arguably even more so than the player's own hunter since he actually has a personality to latch onto.
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u/Prankman1990 Mar 05 '25
I never considered that, but you’re right. You start base World with him just being an excited kid in the boat, and you cap off Iceborne with him throwing hands with Fatalis alongside you. There’s a clear progression there, even if it’s in the background for most of the game.
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u/Boshea241 Mar 05 '25
Our hunter in Worlds just stands around and has plot points told to them. Its honestly worse in Sunbreak where we're kind of just there for what is Fiorayne's story. In Wilds we part of the story instead of just watching the story happen, and removing whatever obstacle is preventing the narrative from moving forward.
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u/Berzerk5k Mar 05 '25
Agree with a lot of the things you’ve said. Another problem I have is that she doesn’t have a name, she’s just “The Handler”. We don’t even get to know her on a more personal level other than she likes to eat.
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u/Lizard-Gaming Mar 05 '25
She is way better, but... it annoys me a bit that she need to be always with me. Like I farm material and she can't stop talking and saying what I should do
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u/lurkynumber5 Mar 05 '25
Gotta keep that murderous hunter on a lease!;p
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u/Mable-the-Table Mar 05 '25
I know it's a typo, but this makes it seem like she legally owns the hunter, which is funny af xD
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u/YukYukas Mar 05 '25
She technically does. Handlers are pretty much the voice of the guild, just look at her authorizing shit out of nowhere lmao
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u/Lukthar123 I studied the blade Mar 05 '25
"The guild authorizes you to cook dinner." ahh relationship
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u/YukYukas Mar 05 '25
Thinking that Alma writes down your every move is just funny
"Hunter, you can't do that. You have no authorization."
"Alma, I just want to take a shit."
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u/Genprey Mar 05 '25
"Hunter, you do realize that you've tripled your caloric intake since yesterday, don't you?"
[Me with a very hearty egg-on-steak in my mouth] "Jeez, Alma, now I do!"
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u/Alcain_X Mar 05 '25
Never forget that if we fall out of line, Alma's is the one with the authority to call in the guilds hitmen.
We kill because she allows it, we live because she permits it.
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u/Privatizitaet Mar 05 '25
Except that one time, but we earned that moment
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u/bombader Mar 05 '25
Alma just files the report as authorized after-the-fact, I don't think she wanted to force the Hunter to fight a superweapon under order of the guild.
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u/OmegianLord Mar 05 '25
And our Hunter using the wording they did gives Alma plausible deniability if things go south. If we failed, we’d have “just been a rogue hunter,” and Alma wouldn’t have any legal repercussions for the consequences of our failure.
Even in our treason, we were protecting as many people as possible.
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u/JohnLandisHasGotToGo Mar 05 '25
Alma: They won't have time to drive large monsters to extinction if I keep reminding them that they can carve the small monsters that got caught in the crossfire.
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u/Dreadwoe Mar 05 '25
Its annoying, but I think it's because you are the guild equivelant of a tactical nuke, and they have to keep an eye on you
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u/Infinite_Growth_7791 Mar 05 '25
i immagine the few hits it takes to start a hunt while roaming about is just her searching desperately for any reason for you to hunt that monster
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u/Alxariam Mar 05 '25
All reasons are filed under "natural disaster" once her reports reach the guild.
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u/red_dawn12 ​ ​ ​ Mar 05 '25
It gets lonely out in the Wilds too, so a nice mobile guild marm is a welcome addition to the journey!
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u/Survival_R Mar 05 '25
Seeing as we killed the equivalent of a god i think there's a reason the guild doesn't leave us alone
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u/Hi-DoesThisNameWork Mar 05 '25
I'm a big fan of both. I will say every time I'm authorised to hunt a monster though, it's already throwing hands. Feel like I'm being given permission to defend myself most times it's said 😭
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u/Dreadwoe Mar 05 '25
I instead think of it as she is makong what you do legal as the most corrupt handler of all time because the guild can't afford to lose you.
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u/HumanlyHumanMan Mar 05 '25
No that’s exactly what it is 😭 The species could be endangered that you are killing, which would be poaching, but since Alma is there she makes it legal lol
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u/Justanotherragequit BUG STICK Mar 05 '25
I feel like she has the ability to order a retreat but that just doesn't happen cause that would be really annoying gameplay wise..
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u/Icandothemove Mar 05 '25
She does. And that is clearly the reason.
It's funny to meme about, but you just know some people are gonna take this seriously and five years down the road be absolutely adamant it was canon.
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u/Tucker_a32 Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25
Alma is basically everything the handler should have been. She's not perfect but I don't find blood pressure rising every time she speaks. She doesn't act like a moron to throw herself into dangerous situations that I then have to save her from and then try to take equal credit in my saving her.
I think her being with you on hunts also makes her feel like more of an active participant in your partnership, I know the handler does a lot of more administrative work but in World it never really felt like it because all we ever actually saw her do was act like a dipshit.
I do wish she either repeated tips and reminders less frequently, or maybe adjusted depending on how actively you were engaging those systems. And maybe had a greater variety of voice lines for them. But that's such a mild complaint compared to the novel I could write on how much I hated World's handler
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u/Matemeo Mar 05 '25
Yeah, she knows to get the fuck out of the way and make up some quick excuse for authorization and drags the rest of your hapless guildies away so you can do what you do best.
Feels... I dunno, realistic or something.
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u/Shikabane_Sumi-me Mar 05 '25
Remember that time she pissed off Deviljho? Remember when she nearly got attacked by Odogoron but ended up getting someone else in trouble? Yeah. I really never liked the Worlds Handler. That brief moment in Iceborne when we got the Serious Handler, god I wanted them to stay with us forever.
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u/WitnessedTheBatboy Mar 05 '25
My only issue with the handler is that I cringe deep into my soul every time she calls me "pard." If she called you hunter I would probably enjoy her more.
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u/12x12x12 Mar 05 '25
I keep the language settings to not english, not japanese.... monster hunter language. Its not so cringe when I cant understand shit.
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u/AManyFacedFool Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25
Was talking the other day about how the NPCs feel like professionals.
I was really impressed with Olivia when you hunt with her. It would be so easy for her to be the stereotypical aloof "I'm better than you" type, but she's all business and treats you like a competent coworker.
And these are exactly the kinds of people you'd expect the Guild to send on an expedition like this. Uncharted territory is not the place for egos or bullshit.
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u/Gnosticide Mar 05 '25
This is huge for me, personally. I love the feeling of being part of an organization of competent professionals. Even the palicos are competent while still maintaining their cartoonish slapstick charm. The people in Wilds feel like people, not archetypes or parodies: they have quirks and occasionally make bad calls, but when it gets down to the wire, everyone does their job and does it well, because those are the types that qualify for this perilous work. Really feels like you're one of the cogs in a machine that has an established and effective procedure for doing something as inherently chaotic and difficult as exploring a new land, making first contact with different nations, and hunting goddamn building sized magic apex predators.
Feels less like you're carrying the entire expeditionary force by virtue of being the Narrative Protagonist, and more like you're an exceptionally skilled professional that is only as effective at the mission as you are because you're backed by talented support personnel and the might of a guild full of people like you and your unit.
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u/Confident-Goal4685 Mar 05 '25
Alma lectures me about hunting monsters without approval.
Handler just wants to eat the world.
I get Handler.
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u/YamiPhoenix11 Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25
With Alma I feel like an attack dog.
With The Handler who still has no name btw I feel more like a rescuer.
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u/mediocrethanmono Mar 05 '25
Considering how people talk about your Hunter in Wilds you kinda are a top tier attack dog for the guild. Like Bloodborne Capital H Hunter. Which now that I say it puts the ease of Low Rank into a new place for me because you are what I assume is normally a MR rank hunter canon wise being sent into LR spaces with monsters who have NO experience at all fighting generation long battles with hunters.
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u/_The-Alchemist__ Mar 05 '25
I think you meant PARD