Monster Hunter Wilds is such a mixed bag, what a shame!
Wifey wants to get into the series, so she's exploring getting the Windows version to play with me over on the PS5 Pro-- but apparently the PC port's performance is awful, with microstutters and the like no matter how good your system is. I also think the game's art direction is extremely hit and miss: some scenes and fights look truly cutting edge, with particle effects flying everywhere, while other moments-- such as at a camp, during a storm, and so forth-- are muddy and ugly, with no self-shadowing on the characters and poor lighting overall.
Also, from a co-op standpoint apparently you can't do the story missions together! And for some bizarre reason which eludes me completely, Wilds is extremely story-focused, to the point where you're dragged into lengthy cut-scenes and story elements constantly. I'm not even through it yet at the sixteen hour mark, albeit I am doing all of the optional quests as I go. So in other words, there is a perhaps twenty hour barrier to entry to have a functioning co-op system, before it becomes a "real" Monster Hunter game; you can do optional quests together, but need to constantly re-join each other's parties before each one.
A temptation is to just buy two copies of Rise and its expansion on CD Keys for thirty bucks each, for Windows, and just play that with my wife. Yes you're not getting the triple-A graphics, but Rise has superb art direction, brilliant screenspace reflections on its water-- better than Wilds' ray-traced ones to be honest-- and I'm sure I could run it at 120 Hz at 4K on my RX 9070 XT, being it's a port of a Switch game.
In any event, we had seventy degree weather where I live yesterday, now today we're getting perhaps eight inches of snow. Incomprehensible weather patterns! My daughter's workplace messaged and they are closed today-- so we'll just bunker in and play lots of video games I'm sure, which will be fun in any event! I really want to get back to the Nintendo 64 at some point here, I should select a game to play and review next.