Monster Hunter Wilds director defends its freakiest new monster from players hoping to hunt it to extinction: "There are people who find Rompopolo cute, I just want to say!"

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I'm still going to hunt the freak to extinction

Monster Hunter Wild's brute wyvern the Rompopolo emerges from oil
(Image credit: Capcom)

Capcom's reveal of Monster Hunter Wilds' Rompopolo beastie was met with remarks from fans that the oily brute wyvern was so disturbing they wanted to hunt it to extinction. To that, director Yuya Tokuda says y'all are being mean and that plenty of folk find the slimy freak "cute," thank you very much.

Given the chance to talk to Tokuda recently, we ask if the reaction means that Capcom has done its job – Monster Hunter being a series about hunting monsters, and that. Given his right of reply, Tokuda says sure, but the reaction is more varied than that.

"The designers have been really happy to see that – I mean they think it's cool and cute. So there's a varying reaction to it. I think that for a monster to be such a unique design compared to past games that it engenders all this discussion on different levels is definitely, you could say that that's a success in terms of our design goals!"

Iain Harris
Iain Harris
News Editor, Games

I joined GamesRadar+ in May 2022 following stints at PCGamesN and PocketGamer.Biz, with some freelance for Kotaku UK, RockPaperShotgun, and VG24/7 thrown in for good measure. When I'm not running the news team on the games side, you'll find me putting News Editor duties to one side to play the hottest JRPG of 20 years ago or pillaging the depths of Final Fantasy 14 for a swanky new cloak – the more colourful, the better.