Monster Hunter Wilds is a monster hit for Capcom, with an unbelievable 1.3 million concurrent gamers on Steam alone. And amid indie builders saying its launch stopped gross sales of their video games and Palworld developer Pocketpair giving workers the time without work to play, it appears Monster Hunter Wilds has brought on an unlikely surge in gross sales of cheese naan.
As reported by Automaton, Monster Hunter Wilds’ launch has brought on followers to hurry out to Nepalese eating places to purchase cheese naan.
However why cheese naan particularly? It’s due to one cutscene within the recreation that revolves across the cooking and consuming of cheese naan. It reveals it in nice element, full with steaming scorching melted cheese, because the participant character and their companions sit down for a meal in Kunafa Village.
As you progress by way of the story within the Windward Plains, your hunter will likely be invited to a meal within the village of Kunafa, the place those that stay within the desert reside. These villagers who know nothing of looking and have not even seen weapons earlier than deal with you to a dish that resembles a freshly baked cheese naan. As you chew into its crispy floor with charred spots, each steam and melted cheese come pouring out. The meal is an unbelievable feast for a hunter from the skin world, making it a scene that reveals simply how a lot you are welcomed by these villagers.
Automaton translated a variety of social media posts from followers who had been so impressed by the Monster Hunter Wilds cutscene that they sought out cheese naan in actual life. A Nepalese restaurant in Tokyo referred to as Salam Namaste additionally obtained in on the enjoyable, tweeting: “Salam Namaste after we get 99 cheese naan orders at midnight.”
深夜にチーズナン99個注文が入った時のサラムナマステ
pic.twitter.com/WA7E2pYlNP— サラムナマステ Salam Namaste Tokyo सलाम नमस्ते
(@salamnamaste01) March 2, 2025
“The cheese naan is simply too fashionable,” the restaurant added. “Though I had a lot of cheese, I began to expire so I needed to go to the grocery store to purchase extra. Thanks, Monster Hunter!”
In an interview with IGN, Kaname Fujioka, Government Director and Artwork Director for Wilds in addition to the Director of the primary Monster Hunter recreation, defined how Capcom crammed this quick but memorable meals scene with consideration to element.
“We spent fairly a lot of time arising with what these villagers eat,” Fujioka stated. “Since they don’t seem to be a looking individuals, what might they usually be consuming? After we thought of how they get animal-based vitamins, we determined that they need to increase livestock and eat dairy-based meals. You are in a position to get a grain just like wheat while you exit to a extra wide-open a part of the map, proper? So possibly they make one thing like naan utilizing that grain. On high of that, we wished it to be one thing constructed from easy substances, and never too sophisticated. We thought that a dish like cheese naan can be easy but potential to depict in a scrumptious method, and so we put a good quantity of effort into that.”
So whereas it might look like a informal eating scene, it appears that evidently a lot of labor went into exhibiting this dish just like one which exists in actual life, cheese naan, in a scrumptious and significant method.
“It is really extremely tough to depict one thing that is crispy on the floor however springy on the within utilizing CG,” added Fujioka. “We might been making makes an attempt on the meals scene in Kunafa from early on in improvement, even on the prototype stage, and we simply could not get it to look the best way we wished. Nonetheless, the Wilds improvement staff is extremely gifted, and I used to be shocked to see them in the end attain the best way it seems to be within the launched model after a lot of trial and error. It actually does look tasty…”
Monster Hunter Wilds Weapons Tier Listing
Monster Hunter Wilds Weapons Tier Listing
To assist get your Monster Hunter Wilds journey began, take a take a look at what Monster Hunter Wilds doesn’t inform you, and a information to all 14 weapon sorts within the recreation. We’ve additionally obtained a detailed Monster Hunter Wilds walkthrough in progress, a Monster Hunter Wilds multiplayer information to clarify the way to play with pals, and for those who’ve performed one of many open betas, right here’s the way to switch your Monster Hunter Wilds Beta character over.
IGN’s Monster Hunter Wilds evaluation returned an 8/10. We stated: “Monster Hunter Wilds continues to clean off the rougher corners of the collection in good methods, making for some extraordinarily enjoyable fights but in addition missing any actual problem.”
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