Monster Mash

The design, hunt and ecology of the Valphalk.

The design, hunt and ecology of the Lao Shan Lung.

The lads are raring to get hunting in Monster Hunter World, but we've kindly decided to take some time to chat about our early impressions of the game. We've roped in Muss (who you may have heard drunkenly chatting about monsters back on our previous project Guesstus Flask) to give a new player's perspective.

This one's edited by Jay as Luke is otherwise indisposed travelling to a new world himself (read: Japan) so if it doesn't sound up to scratch, please tweet any complaints to @buskalilly. Enjoy!

The design, hunt and ecology of Monoblos and Diablos.

The design, hunt and ecology of the Nerscylla and Shrouded Nerscylla.

We know there's been some long ones lately, about some big serious wyverns, but here's a nice sensible length episode about a monster who isn't very sensible at all. Expert farts, burbs and silliness as we discuss a big stupid monkey.

Its the first Monster Mash of 2018 and its a bit of a long one as we cover two monsters: little baby Basarios and big bad Gravios. Some of us completed Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, so we may be a little tired of these monsters . . .

Merry Christmas! Because you've been good this year, we're releasing our Giadrome episode a week early. He's a snow monster, it counts as a Christmas special. Also, it features a spectacularly drunk Andrew Rice who has just returned from a Christmas party. If you like sensible monster chat, but dislike "the bantz", maybe give this one a miss.

See you next year for better episodes about better monsters.

Bloody hell, its only a proper episode of Monster Mash! We talk about the brute wyvern Barroth in our continuing mission to cover all the monsters in Monster Hunter XX, and spend an inordinately long time arguing about the weird Barroth none of us have even encountered yet in Monster Hunter Stories.

A slightly different episode this week, as the three PS4-owning members of the crew chat some sugar about the almighty Monster Hunter World and their experience of that game's beta. Don't worry, Luke will be back next week to discuss imaginary dinosaurs and dragons in excruciating detail.