The last weapons trailer for Monster Hunter Wilds displays wild new moves for Dual Blades

Dash across the battlefield with lightning-fast speed, and slice and dice anything that gets in your way with the power of the Dual Blades

What you need to know

• Capcom's next upcoming mainline entry in the Monster Hunter franchise, Monster Hunter Wilds, has just received its final weapon overview gameplay trailer.
• The trailer gives a glimpse of the Dual Blades, a fast weapon type that allows the player to charge at monsters and use a pair of short swords to chop up monsters with speedy combo attacks.
• Monster Hunter Wilds will be released in 2025 and the platforms it will launch on include Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC via Steam.

It's been a long journey but we've finally reached the end of Monster Hunter Wilds' weapon overview series as Capcom has just released its final gameplay trailer. The last of this upcoming Xbox title/upcoming PC title's fourteen weapon types to be showcased, along with the new moves and gameplay changes it will receive, is the Dual Blades.

The Dual Blades equips the player with a pair of short swords which they can use to let loose a never-ending series of slash attacks that can combo into each other. 

Dual Blades have a special, unique gameplay mechanic Demon Mode. When Demon Mode is activated, the user's speed and attack power will increase and they gain access to new attacks and special evasive maneuvers. However, their Stamina gauge will slowly drain while in Demon Mode so players will need to be mindful of it while in this state.

Every attack you land while in Demon Mode, builds up a special gauge meter that when filled activates Archdemon Mode. Archdemon Mode grants the user a portion of Demon Mode's special attacks and stat boosts while they're not in Demon Mode. Archdemon Mode is mainly for helping maintain the Dual Blade user's attack power while they're recovering the Stamina gauge so they can get back into Demon Mode and continue their assault on an enemy monster.

In the latest Monster Hunter Wilds gameplay trailer, there don't seem to be many changes to Dual Blades' toolkit compared to how it functioned in previous Monster Hunter games like Monster Hunter World: Iceborne or Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak.

The following changes and new moves for Dual Blades seen thus far are:

• A new Archdemon Mode-exclusive evasive move that lets you hop backward during combos to avoid attacks or reposition yourself.
• The new Focus Strike attack for Dual Blades has you plunge both Dual Blades into a monster's weak spot or wound, leap backward off them into the air, and use the Slinger's grappling hook to latch back onto a monster to unleash a spinning attack where you fly across a monster's entire body to tear their back to shreds.
• A special dodge move in Demon Mode where if you perform a dodge roll at the last second before a monster hits you, you can completely negate the damage and attack a monster as you're dodging them.

Could the Dual Blade user's armor set hint at the return of an old-school monster in Monster Hunter Wilds?