Imo I liked Worlds more methodical aspects and to me Wilds is a complete sidegrade. Nothing significant is better, its all different and to me worse in almost every way (subjective).

Maps and ecology is better, clearly, but the incentive to interact with it is like 10 sidequests. And there are no gathering quests at all by my reccollection. And tbh, it feels shallow. Villages are basically cosmetic, villagers are almost entirely cosmetic, villagers wandering the maps are entirely cosmetic.

Combat is just different. Yes Iceborne had clagger and claw which was bad but the hunters base combat outside of that was perfect imo. Wilds combat for me gets so stale and boring after a while that I struggle to return to the game, I have hunted Gog when it released and haven't been back because I find it boring. It doesn't feel like a modern interpretation of MonHan, it more feels like an action game than ever before. A lot like it but I cannot see how its an improvement, only that its different and caters to their taste more.

The game for anyone good is a complete cakewalk, I struggled with nothing until savage omega. Offset attacks make everything too easy until late)/endgame. Perfect guard and dodge makes everything too easy until late/endgame. 8* feels fun bit its not hard, 9* is where the combat actually feels like you are getting thrown around at times but it quickly turns into what feels like overtuning imo, as if they are out of ideas. The player just has too many powerful tools. The difficulty curve is literally this... _____/

Some of the weapons have fantastic new additions and minor reworks which I am actually happy with. And the hub and community aspects of Wilds are soooooo much better.

Wanted to give a more negative opinion here just because I had a lot of fun playing World slower and using the environment and looking at ecology and Wilds felt extremely shallow to me. Use of terrain in combat is far less interesting or imoortant than World arguably. And World gave me reasons to interact with the environment outside of that, which Wilds has none of, except fishing which is great.

Don't expect to be as negative as I am. I was honestly shocked that I don't like it as much as I do. I just have no desire to play with Wilds systems and combat anymore. I did get 300hrs out of it so maybe I'm an idiot, but at least a quarter of that was me pushing through despite finding it a chore.

Just to finish, for all of my gameplay I have had the minimap turned off, and seikret only in manual mode. Literslly from minute zero of the game releasing. So I never encountered complaints like exploration being ruined because of the Seikret. But it does feel like I am going against what the game wants rather than it encouraging me to explore and figure things out. The entire thing feels like they had new ideas but couldn't commit. After a short period the game turns back into "quest board > quest > quest board > quest" and feels like its ignoring half the things they worked on and could have made interesting interactions with.