Monster Hunter Wilds players keep making Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P in the beta character creator, and he's not totally happy about it

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Yoshi-P thinks he looks a little too tired in all of your custom characters

Monster Hunter Wilds screenshot showing someone's custom character modelled afdter Final Fantasy 14 producer Yoshi-P
(Image credit: Capcom / shiro_hnkt)

People are making all sorts of fun faces in Monster Hunter Wilds beta's character creator, from real life celebrities to cursed creatures, but some have even been battling the big beasties with a character that looks awfully like a very tired version of Final Fantasy 14's beloved director Naoki 'Yoshi-P' Yoshida - and he's seen them all. 

The Monster Hunter Wilds beta is well underway and everyone plus their parents seems to be playing it, judging by the half a million concurrent users it managed to pull in on Steam alone. Mentions of Capcom's early teaser even invaded an official Final Fantasy 14 broadcast, too.

"I haven't checked social media, but apparently they made me into a character, and I look tired?" Yoshi-P asked, according to translations from twitterer AitaikiMochi. "I have to apologize to the Monster Hunter team for my unseemly presence then."

I think Yoshi-P has nothing to apologize for, based off some of the badass action poses he (or his in-game doppelgangers) pulls off above. Plus, the man seemingly hasn't taken a big break ever since the MMO's revival and massive comeback more than a decade ago - if anyone has the right to be tired, it's probably him.

Want Yoshi-P in your game, too? Check out how to change your appearance in the Monster Hunter Wilds beta.

Kaan Serin
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Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that's vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he'll soon forget.