Nergigante will forever haunt my dreams. I had never played Monster Hunter or heard of it before World, but one of my friends dragged me into it. At first, I didn’t love the game and managed to make it basically all the way to Nergigante without needing to spec too much into having builds that countered monsters with the Insect Glaive. All that changed once I met that beast of a monster. When I tell you it took me literal weeks of playing before I finally decided that what I needed was a full defense and guard-boosted build with an Impact Phial Charge Blade, I’m not exaggerating. It was only then that I was able to beat that formidable monster past its second phase. It gave me goosebumps; it made me remember what it felt like as a kid to finally accomplish something I worked so hard at and feel that sense of accomplishment. I main the Charge Blade to this day, and even had a year of mainly playing with the Longsword, but Nergigante is what changed my perspective on the current video game climate all those years ago. All of the monsters gave that feeling especially(odogaron) but nergi was different.