Monster Hunter: World Player Beats The Game With Street Fighter’s Hadoken

Issue Wild Monster Hunters is just around the corner, but one player has taken the time between the sequels to create an even more challenging way to play the earlier game in the series. Monster Hunter: World. Aaron Callaway decided to play through the game without any weapons, relying only on emotes, including the Hadouken fireball popularized by Ryu and Ken from Street Fighter.

Callaway posted a video on YouTube demonstrating how Monster Hunter: World’s emote-only run works. He notes that the other two emotes used were the Shoryuken from Street Fighter and the Devil May Cry weapon. However, Shoryuken drained too much stamina and DmC’s emote wasn’t ideal either. This is why Callaway decided to rely on the Hadouken, although it is also relatively weak and can only deal a maximum of 13 damage.

It’s one thing to say you did something, but another thing to show it. To prove your achievement, Callaway posted a video of his gameplay from his all-emotion game Monster Hunter: World. The first video alone is just under three hours long, but these videos demonstrate that the challenge is possible even though there are no achievements or trophies to complete at the end.

Capcom recently announced that there will be new cross-platform open beta for Monster Hunter Wilds in February over two weekends. The first open beta testing of Wilds attracted almost 500,000 concurrent players on Steam last fall. Capcom noted that it has made improvements to the game based on this beta, but these changes will not be implemented in the second beta. Instead, players will have to wait until Monster Hunter Wilds launches on February 28 to see what’s changed.