Monster Hunter Wilds’ character creator is being used to make scarily accurate recreations of superheroes, actors and characters from other games 

The Monster Hunter Wilds open beta test is offering players the chance to experience the opening of the story, thrilling hunts against the Chatacabra and Doshaguma, and more. However, some players seem to be spending hours letting their imaginations run wild in the game’s extremely detailed character creator, recreating everyone from real-life celebrities to characters from other mediums with a high degree of accuracy. 

Monster Hunter Wilds lets you fully customize every aspect of your hunter and their Palico companion. Although 2021’s Monster Hunter Rise also had a detailed character creation mode, with numerous sliders that let you adjust various aspects of their appearance, Monster Hunter Wilds greatly improves and expands upon this. Each part of your character can be minutely adjusted in terms of color, length and style – even how your character walks and speaks.  

Preset eye shapes can be blended together, and you can also have separate settings for each eye. To give another example of the level of detail involved, you can even adjust the color of the stains on your character’s teeth. Likewise, the level of customization options for your cat-like Palico have also been greatly expanded, allowing you to customize their fur patterns, ear shape, cheek fullness and whether they speak human language or Felyne.  

This has led to open beta players sharing some unusual recreations on social media. Taking advantage of all the color settings for skin, hair and beards, one user made Ganondorf from The Legend of Zelda. Players who wanted the Like A Dragon Wilds experience made Kazuma Kiryu and Goro Majima. Others have turned their Palico into Pokémon, or spent hours making interesting hunter and Palico pairings including Ronald McDonald and Grimace, and Venom and a Palico Spiderman.

Cranking up the lighting slider on your character’s make-up or face paint can make their face look like a glowing ball of light. One player used this to recreate Mad Fire King from Elden Ring. The extensive facial adjustments have also allowed people to recreate real-life celebrities, such as the user who decided they wanted Japanese actor Hiroshi Abe or model Emi Suzuki to star in their playthrough of Monster Hunter Wilds. 

This time spent in the Character Creator is not wasted, as players will be able to keep their customized characters from the beta and use them in the full game. As a sidenote, Monster Hunter Wilds’ Arachnophobia Assistance mode inadvertently gives players the unusual opportunity to have their created hunter pinned down by a writhing slime, if that’s your kind of thing… 

Monster Hunter Wilds is scheduled to be released on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam) on February 28, 2025. The all-platform open beta is being held from November 1 to November 4.