The greatest thing I can say here is that this boilerplate stuff that should feel right does and allows the rest of the game to experiment to the degree it does. You upgrade these in much the same way you always have and your armor works the same way, though there are eventually armor modification paths that present themself and add an extra set of bonuses on top of the typical boost to defense. A full party of three hunters playing to various strengths will obviously make great use of a mixture of these, and almost none of them feel truly unviable in the long run. On the latter front, though I toyed around with and found the merit in weapons such as the katana and later on the karakuri staff, my heart belongs to the wagasa, a bladed umbrella with an intoxicating parry that occasionally let me float down to the ground like Mary Poppins. To the former, I was able to make an incredibly hideous character thanks to the help of some visiting baby cousins, which went a long way to show the system’s depth before I erased him and settled on a guy who wouldn’t be such an eyesore.

Wild Hearts’ wouldn’t feel complete after all if it didn’t have a robust character creator and familiar weapon types that inspire different ways to play. Wild Hearts begins to diverge pretty significantly hereafter though, transforming into something that, while familiar, does manage to take some confident swings that thankfully connect and make it all the better.īut first, the basics. It could’ve been so easy to write off Wild Hearts as nothing more than a Monster Hunter clone: you are, after all, a hunter who dons unique weapon archetypes and cleaves their way through large monsters (and lackluster stories) in semi-open worlds that yield highly interactive and sometimes destructible environments, ultimately fashioning weaponry and armor based on parts of the monster you get after the hunt.

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