That being said, it does a great job in recreating the experience of playing a Monster Hunter game while expanding on its world in subtle but significant ways. But if you aren't intimately familiar with NPCs from an 8-year-old game or simply want more from a character than a known name, Legends of the Guild is lacking. Sure, some fans might not be bothered by the lack of characterization, as the film seems to try and justify that by making the characters known hunters from the games, like Julius and Nadia. Likewise, the storylines jump around so quickly, you might get whiplash by the time credits roll. At 58 minutes, it's barely longer than an episode of prestige TV, meaning it doesn't get much time to develop its characters beyond those archetypes: the stoic leader, the smart one, the one with a dark past. Simply put, this movie doesn't have the time nor the script to give the story any more meat than the bare-bones archetype of a group of strangers coming together to save a town from a formidable force. Legends of the Guild is essentially “Seven Samurai with a giant dragon,” and while that might sound pretty fun, it sadly doesn’t always work. When he learns that his village is on the migration path of an Elder Dragon, he'll have to gather some veteran Ace Hunters to help him defeat the monster before his home gets torched.
He knows about Velocipreys and Deviljhos, and just like in the games, he always has a corny monster-related pun at the ready, but he’s still not the Ace Cadet or the Excitable A-Lister we know and love. Serving as a sort of prequel to Monster Hunter 4 while also connecting with Monster Hunter World, Legends of the Guild follows a young man named Aiden (Rufio and Zuko himself, Dante Basco), who may call himself a hunter, but is no match for the true monsters outside the confines of his isolated village.
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