Yes, you can pet the monsters in Wild Hearts - Polygon

Wild Hearts does let you pet the kemono instead of hunting them, but if you miss the prompt in the tutorial, you might become a monster yourself.

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Wild Hearts: giant Kemono monster locations, strategies, weaknesses - Polygon

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Wild Hearts. Like MH, but better, in my opinion. Good so far : r/XboxSeriesX