The Monster Hunter Wilds Showcase for March 2025 aired earlier this morning, detailing information in regards to the upcoming Title Update 1 and teasing a bit of what is in retailer for Title Update 2. In that small sliver of footage, followers noticed indicators that the much-sought-after return of Lagiacrus could possibly be occurring.
Right on the finish of the Monster Hunter Wilds Showcase, over the Title Update 2 textual content, we hear some aquatic sounds, adopted by a telltale clawed foot and scales. The indicators really feel pretty apparent that that is going to be Lagiacrus, a monster that hunters have been desirous to struggle once more for fairly a while.
Introduced in Monster Hunter 3, a.ok.a. Monster Hunter Tri, Lagi was the “flagship monster” for the sport, which meant it appeared on the field artwork. Alongside being the posterboy for Tri, the monster was pretty distinctive for one key purpose: it included underwater preventing. Submerged bouts had been an enormous factor for Monster Hunter Tri, and Lagi was the prime instance of that. Later variations in Monster Hunter Generations moved the struggle again onto land, and the monster has been largely unseen since.
At one level, Capcom confirmed it had prototyped a new Lagiacrus fight for Monster Hunter: World, even displaying some visual confirmation of it throughout a GDC 2018 panel. It was finally pulled, although a few of its tech was included in one other monster, Jyuratodus.
Still, the time spent aside has not dulled gamers’ love for Lagiacrus. For some, Monster Hunter Tri was an enormous entrance into the sequence. And this struggle, with its pretty distinctive look and mechanics, the probabilities for a Lagiacrus struggle are merely thrilling. As one user pointed out a number of years in the past in a thread asking why individuals are so excited for Lagi, “People who want for Lagiacrus to return usually imply for underwater fight to return additionally, it is form of a bundle deal.”
Unique mechanics apart, Lagiacrus has remained widespread in its personal proper. The leviathan got here in third in a popularity poll for Monster Hunter’s 20th anniversary, overwhelmed out solely by No. 2 Nergigante and No. 1 Zinogre. One of its variants, Abyssal Lagiacrus, additionally got here in twelfth, beating out Monter Hunter Wilds’ Title Update 1 addition Mizutsune at 14th.
In 2022, chatting with IGN, Monster Hunter producer defined why Lagiacrus would not see a return within the present sport on the time, Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak. Though the producer acknowledged the “need is certainly there,” the technical implementation is troublesome.
“Unfortunately Lagiacrus is only a very technological…troublesome monster to implement. It’s very snake-like, its components are all form of touching the bottom at completely different moments,” Tsujimoto defined on the time. “So it’s extremely like a writhing form of ground-based monster.”
Yet now, Capcom has elected to deliver the writhing monster again. Whether this can be a solely land affair, a brand new variant, or we see some form of implementation of water mechanics all stays to be seen. Fans, nonetheless, are actually enthused. Refrains of Lagiacrus being “peak” and affected person followers celebrating their apparently successful manifestations litter the feedback sections.
We’ll get extra particulars as we transfer previous Title Update 1 and on in the direction of the summer season window for Title Update 2. But sure, it seems like Lagiacrus goes to steer the summer season festivities in Monster Hunter Wilds, and that is some very thrilling information for hunters new and previous.
Eric is a contract author for IGN.
