Wild Hearts | A Critical Review
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- This game has a lot of wild heart
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Timestamps:
Intro - 0:00
Technical Difficulties - 3:20
Storyline - 5:33
Minato - 8:08
Maps - 11:06
Camps & Food Prep - 13:47
Karakuri - 16:28
Equipment & Balance - 19:01
Kemono - 24:55
Tsukumo - 27:10
Multiplayer - 28:29
Quality of Life - 30:14
Conclusion - 30:45 
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Great review, once i get a ps5 i will buy this game.
Question, have you consider doing a review of the god eater or toukiden series?
@@nahuelgp6002at some point yeah
funny feature about the Bath House. your armour can actually get dirty after going through an X amount of hunts. when you go to the bath house it will make your armour all shiny again
Yeah I noticed that! Very cool
Wow, I was wondering how to get that dirt off of my hunter!
THANK YOU
Holy shit, I did not know this. Thanks for the info. My character has been dirty for a long time
I just changed armor and re-equip it again to clean it up.
Honestly the karakuri system is my favorite gimmick in any game I’ve played. I personally main the maul and I use the spring attack at least 10 times a hunt to close gaps, and the stake attack is incredible for slamming flying kemono back into the ground. Don’t even get me started on how fun the fusion karakuri are. Is an enemy charging up a big attack? Hit it with a massive fucking hammer. Is there an attack coming you don’t think you can dodge? Put up a shield wall. It just feels so right and I adore it
I agree. I use the nodachi and the spring is necessary for both us heavy weapon users but the triangle attack coming off the spring charges my entire special bar. Love it
Even with the cannon, which by itself just seems like you wanna get in into laser mode, but in practice some of the harder monsters, either getting your heat up with the fires or the spring and then doing a jump shot off of a 3 box stack is a great way to do dmg. Then using the glider or a jumping shot (which works kinda like the lance’s back hops in MH) and keeping your dodge only for well, actually dodging.
I mean… the laser is still great, but not always practical in solo play if you’re constantly dodging cuz some wolf or monkey won’t. Stop. Jumping. Around…
@@mkv2718 the monkey can get fucked. It is easily the most annoying monster. More specifically the cobalt version. I use the staff and could never get a full gauge because hed just spazz out.
Dude, honest to God, I would wait another year or perhaps even more if it meant a video game had a stable release.
I bought the game, I'm playing it despite all the performance problems, and that's the only complaint I have, besides a minor (major to some) performance issue the game is just straight up, unfiltered FUN.
Explain this viewpoint to me, please. Why get them to wait for a year or more when you can play it right now or choose to wait a year, yourself? I've never understood and recently got curious.
@jcc4543 Monster Hunter fixed the issues along the way, though. In general, games tend to fix games for the most part, before releasing DLC, so that they can draw attention to the DLC without a tainted game reputation.
Playing anything on release is a mistake nearly always, a year or two later and the game is always patched into a better state and usually cost half the price or less in a sale. Also, a year later when the hype surround a game has died down, you can find much better reviews on whether the game is actually worth your time or not.
I don't think any sacrifice is needed to have what should be a standard, if not normal release. I think people are getting into Stockholm Syndrome point and consider it extraordinary now.
@@SurrealEuphoria just for developments sake really. its to allow companies to really take their time on smaller features, issues with clients, game-breaking bugs etc. but with companies feeling pressured to release new games yearly a lot of quality is being lost.
Not worth the price for me right now. It’s more expensive than other games for no good reason.
Almost every game is 70 rn
Other than currently most next gen exclusive games are 70 dollars...
Will be at least 40% off in less than two months..
@@EDTheOneable i hope so
its a ps5 only game
I’ve been playing on the Series S and it’s a bit choppy at times and the environment textures are a bit blocky but the combat is awesome and the karakuri system is really fun. Once it gets the bugs patched I think more people will gravitate. I’m hoping we get to see more of the title wether through a sequel or expansions I’ve been having a lot of fun with it.
Excelent review! Well structured, easily comprehended and full of fact info. Thank you!
Great review. Thoroughly impressed with your parry skills at the beginning!!
29:40
They fixed it in the latest patch. You can now destroy all types of karakuri from the map screen. The dev team really are listening to feedback and it seems like they're still not done with new monster updates. The game today really feels like the one they wanted to release, and the fact they keep adding to it is awesome. Hope they do a full on expansion.
I share the common opinion that it looks super fun and I'd deffo get it and give it a try, however $70 is absolutely nuts so I will ABSOLUTELY only buy this game on sale.
I love the "would gladly pay 60 for a game... BUT 70 IS INSANE, UNTHINKABLE" mentality.
As if one would invest those 10 dollars and turn it into a million in 2 months.
@@Ocean5ix I love the "tell people how to spend their money" mentality
@@Ocean5ix good point, but i rarely even buy $60 games. I normally wait for the price to be around $45 - $50 MAX since money isn't really something I can just throw around lol.
@@Ocean5ix it released unfinished for most people with normal hardware. Either you have a beefy PC, or you struggle in the second half of the game. Fix obvious issues on representative hardware first, then release and charge for it. But shipping unfinished stuff simply doesn't deserve full price, no matter if 60 or 100 bucks.
I will definitely buy this game, but I also wait for a really good sale for two reasons:
I get the game for less than half the price, and i get it properly tested.
Pro consumer mentality. Nothing more, nothing less.
The price point is frustrating because of the state it was launched in, for sure.
Wow I actually had no idea the bathhouse gave you a health increase, that explains alot
Personally I find the game really challenging, which is something I haven't heard before in video's/reviews. Kemono are super agressive, and they are much harder to dodge and counter than in Monster Hunter (world/rise). I will run through an average of 30 heals in 1 hunt if not more, just because I can't be as agressive or will get punished hard for trying to dps (with all weapons).
Or alternatvely I am just bad...
Use Bow for easy mode. But yeah I agree, it's quite tough.
@@togil1151 my only beef with the range weapons is that the target cam (which they call the snap cam) doesn’t work with your weapon out. Got so used to auto targeting with my gun in MH that it really annoys me to have to turn the camera all the way around when a monster runs past me.
Hope they fix that.
I would say the same thing I say to Dark Souls players playing Sekiro for the first time: sprint more. Sprint everywhere. Your stamina only stops from filling when you sprint, it doesn’t actually take stamina. And the slide dodge goes really far
Also, in lieu of the of the MH Superman dive get used to placing a spring down instead of panic rolling and using that spring to dodge away, it has crazy s, and gets more as you upgrade it.
@@EcopiuM Skill issue
@@EcopiuM 100% skill issue
This is definitely a toukiden successor since the main box monster always show up in toukiden games on the tutorial part of the game!
I'm on series s had no issues at all yet, it's ran perfectly for me since trial and launch been playing from midnight on the 17th, it's amazing I really love it. Definitely alot of potential to do something great here, but we'll see in time.
Thanks for the review--definitely a great, succinct overview.
I love the game, but I definitely agree with your point on other people's kataguri. I hope they implement an option in the settings that still allows others to place kataguri, but after the hunt all kataguri placed by other hunters will be deleted. That way you can set up the map the way you like it and other people can place structures for one time uses. Other than that I really love this game and have been addicted.
Wait what? In multiplayer only the host can build during hunts? that is a bit odd tho I can imagine it could impact the games performance quite heavily if 4 players were springing up contraptions simultaneusly during the hunt.. but still..
@elite reptilian no everyone can build during hunts. The problem with that is the dragon kataturi which are the more permanent ones like forges and camps have a cost system so you can't have too many on the map. Which is a problem because say I hunt with you and place something to help me get to where I need to go for that hunt. It'll stay and drain resource. So I suggest other people can still build dragon kataguri, but they will be deleted after they leave your instance.
Wonderful and an balanced review, I really appreciated it. I’m not able to get into this game as of now, but will for sure jump into it next year with my friends. Would you concider to do in update down the line about the end game and eventual changes to the game once it arrives?
Yee maybe when they do an expansion
I’m a first fleet veteran, I held back on picking this up but wish I hadn’t. It’s got small faults you soon forget once you get into it. The art style doesn’t come across very well from trailers and from RUclips but it’s breathtaking. Nice thorough review!
I think the story of wild hearts is worth paying attention to. The characters and the social dynamic in Minato is very interesting if you take the time to listen to all the dialog in the side quests and the optional dialog (plain gold arrows). It doesn't push the story on you after the beginning so you can skip on through to get to the hunts, which is nice design for those that don't care, but if you like stories like I do you have to go find it, and I think it is worth your time.
Thank you for the well crafted review and for not hammering the performance issues that most people already know about. It really cleared out some questions and doubts i had about the game
I do also hope they add a feature to have "layered" weapons, I do like most of the weapon designs, but an example as why is I find myself upgrading a weapon and a better upgrade to ky weapon might change the way the weapon looks and i dont like the look of it
I think the issue people have with the designs of the kemonos is that they're not that memorable, if you look at them, they're not significantly different from a rather generic "big animal with stuff around it"
Even if they're meant to be "just animals with magical stuff" and they don't necessarily look bad, they could have a more unique and memorable design as I would not run out to buy merchandise from these monsters the way I do with the MH ones
The monsters being more in tune with real world animals makes a lot of them more memorable in my opinion. One of the things the genre was lacking before this was damn near all the monsters are just pure fantasy shit. The fact that you're fighting an actual giant porkypine, chicken, an ice wolf, a poisonous crow, and giant badger that uses sniff attacks to pull you in is great. Wild Heart's designs are more grounded than monster hunters and that alone makes it unique. I can't tell you how many times in MHW where I thought the dev team just picked up a random fantasy novel and picked out some hard to pronounce monster and put it in the game.
That first bit when you criticized EA, I don't disagree but it's funny to me. EA used to be like the standard for good games back in the day. Then again that was back before the online era of gaming.
Thanks! Now I can do the Hunter Arm job!
The nice thing about the skills in the weapons is that you never end up with skill for a weapon you’re not using, and thus “wasting” space.
Also, if you think the hand cannon is cheesy, try the bow. Glider shot > unload charge volley > repeat.
Fun way to play the cannon against monsters like the monkey or deathstalker if you (like I did) have a hard time finding time to charge the laser is just fire 2 shots off of a spring jump, then expel the heat off of a 3 box-stack jump attack. Not as much burst dmg as the laser, but higher consistent dmg than just shooting and never getting a laser cuz some wolf won’t stop jumping around 😤… oh, and one more thing I noticed, the jump shot fires you back a ton and uses no heat, so it’s a really useful back step similar to the lance’s back hops. Way more mobile than its rolls, that for certain.
Speaking of destroying karakuri from the map, you can already upgrade dragon pits from the map once you find them, so it wouldn’t be hard to do.
Update: They are never fixing the performance issues. EA abandoned it
Definitely agree on the balance. This game goes back and forth from real easy to incredibly hard the further you get in the game. Definitely had some really unfair late game. Still loving this game even with the issues it presents. Iron sharpens iron and MH needed a competitor.
I didnt really find late game to be unfair aside from the emberplume. That thing did not need homing explosives.
The hunters arm was explained in the tutorial? I don't even remember get taught about it
Right?
I must say the combat is a lot more engaging in Wild hearts. The kurikuri system really is super engaging and everyone has personalization. Yeah we don't get that many weapons compared to rise but they are all so different
Wait, people think it looks ONLY a BIT better than Rise???
The game looks pretty freaking amazing.
I play Rise on the PS5 with max settings, and it's not half as good looking (and no, I'm not hating on Rise, it's one of my favorite games).
I feel like the artstyle carries both games, but you can't really compare a switch game to a next-gen console and PC game.
Oh yeah, uhhhh price, performance, did I mention everything?
Awesome review!
Thanks!
I'm personally loving the game so far, I've had a couple technical issues and a crash or two but I'm having more fun than I've had in a long time.
Its super fun!
Very good review.
I would have bought it already if performance issues where not there. I'll buy it between 0 and 30 dollars now, even when performance gets fixed before a sale. I don't support unfinished stuff with 70 bucks ...
This game is pretty good imo. The Bow really impressed me. And so did the claw weapon. My biggest issue is the inability to have all the karakuri tools at once. Having to choose which ones I need sucks
Been able to play the game just fine on console since launch, barely any issues
I’ve not played a monster Hunter style game since 4 ultimate, and I absolutely loved it. I haven’t had the chance to play the more recent entires due to not having a powerful enough pc, or the new 3ds, or a switch etc. So I’ve been missing a good monster Hunter style experience for a long time.
I had no idea this game was a thing until it came out. I got it, and I honestly really enjoy it. It’s very bug free, which people don’t seem to mention but is a step above most AAA titles these days. I could easily see myself playing it as it reignites that spark that got me into Mh in the first place.
Although I did end up refunding it for the performance issues, I don’t mind waiting a bit but as it stands it’s clear it needs a little clean up.
This post doesn’t even make sense to me - if you currently have a good enough PC or console to play Wild Hearts on release, and you’ve been craving a monster Hunter game, and you haven’t played one since 4u, why not just buy a modern monster Hunter game?
@@seano6859 cause I only got this pc last year, I’d simply not gotten around to getting world or rise yet. However now that wild hearts has reminded me how much I enjoy the genre I’m most definitely going to go back and play some of world and rise now I have the opportunity to.
Sounds like you have a weak ps5
Works perfectly on my ps5
I highly recommend Monster Hunter Rise. It is far superior to Wild Hearts.
On point review. Game is fun. Loving it.
Won't be able to play it anytime soon as I'm still stuck with a ps4 and no pc. But I do plan on trying it at some point. Looks like a good time overall.
Clutch claw or hunters arm. It seems it's hard to program the player climbing on a monster skeleton without spasing out or weird things happening. It's worse here because I don't even get a weaken body part but i can spam more katakuri i guess.
As aMH: World veteran, this game looked so interesting to me that it made me start MH:Rise on game pass xD I'll come back to it in like 6 months when it will be fixed, patched, updated amd maybe even included in said pass!
Been a while since I’ve seen a superrad vid. Dis one seems good
the umbrella deals super good damage though when i compared it to other melee weapons
its just that the hand cannon is the outlier like every freaking monster hunter ranged weapons are the outliers is that some sort of hidden rule?
I've definitely felt the performance hits on PS5, especially during multiplayer where things basically turn into a nightmare of slow motion and animation snapping. Aside from the issues though I really am enjoying this game. The weapons feel unique and insanely satisfying to use, Claw Blade in particular is my favorite but everything else doesn't trail too far behind apart from the Umbrella maybe, and the game really hammers home how focused it is on the actual combat portion and I'm loving it for that. Hoping to find some form of transmog system waiting for me later down the road though since a lot of armors do look a bit goofy.
You unlock transmog when you beat chapter 4. You do have to grind to get the mats for it though.
@KingKami The slowdown is definitely case by case. It usually happens when either their is lag or if it is a very particle effect intensive fight.
been waiting for this
I just noticed the talisman icon are the same icons from nioh's talisman spells
I had so much fun playing with my friends, some of the kemono are tough and that scratched the "mh became a tad too broken" for me, but yeah i do agree with some ppl about the kemono design, while not bad at all i feel like they are a bit blend in some cases and im not fan of them using color swap THAT early. But to be frank it's still an amazing game and like maybe the start of something that could be an equal to MH if given proper care.
When Wild Hearts first came out, I brushed it off as a Great Value Monster Hunter. And since EA was attached to it, I didn't have any interest. So I never looked into it. But now, actually watching a video on the game, it looks interesting and this video convinced me to think about getting Wild Hearts.
I am interested in it but I'll probably wait for a sale after performance has been stabilized and reviews improve. There are other games to play Octopath Traveler 2 just came out and I've been waiting for that for some time. Tears of the Kingdom releases in May, Baldur's Gate 3 in August, and we're finally getting a (non-mobile) sequel to Fantasy Life sometime this year, an all-time favorite game for me.
gotta say it is a fuckin masterpiece, i literally stopped going to work so i could play more. between the massive weapon trees, the little cog bots, amazing armors, and cranking 90s on massive monsters there is nothing ide rather play
Ngl, when I subscribed, I really didn't check upload history, I didn't realize this was a monster hunter channel with the vids I'd watch from him xD
I mostly focus on the retros now lol
Wait till this man figures out the actual combo of the bow, he will never return to hand canon lol.
I have the PS5 version and am in chapter 3.
I have had no noticeable performance issues on PS5. I have seen 1 bug: I think I broke a fumebeak's AI with a big burst attack from the bow as it spent the rest of the mission just repeatedly flinching and no longer attacking.
Otherwise it's been great. Easily exceeded my expectations. Not sure about longevity as I don't think there will be multiple builds for each weapon that changes gameplay style.
Seems like a good start to a franchise.
On ps5 I haven't had much in the way of technical issues, I've really only had one situation where it popped up and it's possible that it was connected to my internet connection more than anything because I was in a friend's world
Overall I've had a blast with the game and hope that the rest of the hunting community embraces it so we get more quality games in the genre.
I think this game is a blast. It is also fine that there is a lot to explore and find out , people skipping dialog and tutorials will miss out and this is very much O.K. Chiil out and read what they have spend time into making , like the food system and auto gathering shrines. Placing a windvent next to a tent and scanning tower in the center of a map will let you fly almost everywhere with the chopper karakuri.
The dialogue is boring.
@@NotCharAznable Did you skip it?
Yeup same here game runs great on my series X. only problem i experienced was Npc dialog would sometimes spill out all at once during cutscnes.
Homie gunna change his tune about the hurtboxes and tracking when he finally hits the Golden Tempest.
Finally a non-sponsored Video to safe the day!
I haven't tried it after the patch yet, but I love love loved the hunting I was able to do prior. It's clearly not the best game of all time, but I can see myself sinking dozens of hours into this. The karakuri system is absolutely ingenious and adds such an interesting layer of depth to combat.
Ngl I was hooked from the moment I heard karakuri solely because I have nostalgia for the deck in yugioh lmaooo
Maybe someone can shed the light to me on this: I still don't understand the quest system. Sometimes when I decided to go hunt something (eg. Ragetail) and use the cell tower thing, there's no Ragetail to hunt? Sometimes I even make sure that there's a Ragetail on the map before and then its gone once I start the quest. Please help me understand.
If you choose to hunt it on the map using the quest system there will be one. Make sure you have enough towers covering the entire map as they all go off at the same time.
I'm very happy this game is good! It'll force the MH team to really work on making Mon Hun better, not that they have been lazy but you get what I mean
Its definitely better than MH to me. It's a faster paced game that actually allows you to dodge monsters attacks if you learn the timing simply by dodging and you can move faster than a snail with your weapon drawn.
@@demonintellect9834 i can see the older games but what about stuff like rise which is faster paced combat?
@@pauliedee1951 it still is slow compared to WH. That and MH has much more simplified combat and some weapons only have 1 viable combo.
I want some of the stuff your smoking.
@@demonintellect9834 Bruhhhh... WH combat is so easy and combo spammable that they had to overtune the tracking of the monsters to an absurd degree to offset it. MH on the other hand, getting to know how to optimally use weapons itself is a boss...
I'm ready to jump on, just need it to be better optimised first
I was totally skeptical about the Karakuri, I can't stand gimmicky universal mechanics like that, but they NAILED IT. I feel like they are an extension of the weapon I play, and make me relate to the hunt in totally new, interesting and fluid ways.
Side note: this game is gorgeous. The map design is incredible. I can't believe I am saying it, but they look and feel better than most of the maps in world.
Thx for this review
No problem!
I only run into technical issues if I'm using the bow. I haven't played every weapon yet but the bow seems to bring the game to a slowdown for some reason.
best deep dive ive watched. im a big fan of toukiden, so i do want to get this game, but will be waiting for it to be patched and go on sale
this would be the best game for me without those bugs and performance issues. hope they fix it soon. and i hate that blank loading screen while waiting.
I play on PS five and I love the game, but the input lag is crazy for me. I could move my character to the right, and it takes two or three seconds for them to actually move.
The performance issues really rear their heads during online play. For me on my PS5, it’s generally fine until I coop.
Then I’m literally playing on the moon.
I find using the Wagasa to be faster then Hand Cannon but only when you make sure to abuse the right moves like red spindance umbrella toss, my record with Goldshard is 2-3 mins with the first Dreadclaw Wagasa (if I can get it not to run away ffs)
Improving the town rewards you with increased bag size to hold consumables.
Considering that I’m playing this game off of game pass and it’s been out for almost a year this games a blast
Do review codes give them the full game or a limited version, and is their a time limit on them? Does he have to but wild hearts if he wants to play it after the review?
Full game and I played some high rank after the review but then took a break for some other games.
@@SuperRADLemon oh that's great then. I didn't really understand what it meant so glad to know you get the full game 👌👌
Monster hunter not just popularize the gamestyle but they also perfecting and defining it
On PS5 performance is pretty solid most drops are during multiplayer when everyone is spamming high intensity attacks
Dunno if it's worth the price until I get more info on endgame
Are you going to talk about the game again once youve grinded the endgame for a bit? just wondering since in mh getting to the endgame can feel pretty different from progression like 4u gq trading and grinding
Potentially
I love the game I think my main issue is not being able to leave immediately after completing a hunt. Also, the hunt modifiers are not clear on what they do. Like I have to figure it out on my own.
I won't be playing this game for quite a while, maybe a year or more because my gaming backlog is large at the moment.
One thing I hope is that this game is successful enough to stay and push monster hunter for the better. Imagine if this genre had two juggernauts for once. That would be so god damn amazing.
Maybe it's a regional thing, but can anyone tell me about marketing of this game?
I heard about it only from few monster hunter twitter profiles and reddit posts
Asking because i'm interested in whether monster hunter would have growing competition (since i'm in love with this kind of games), and it would be sad if this kind of competition wouldn't happen because of lack of a marketing making a game into a lesser than expected success.
Oh right. Hunter's Arm. Thanks for reminding me LOL
Definitely sounds like something I’d enjoy on sale after a little waiting. Would also be nice to have a hunting game other than MH to play as well. Especially since the little that I’ve tried of PSO2 never really hooked me.
This game is better than MH. I'm not an old school MH player but I did beat rise and world and this game is just superior. MH has 1 correct way to play any weapon, this game has multiple ways due to the freedom the building tools provide.
@@demonintellect9834 I wouldn't say Wild Hearts is better than Sunbreak, Wild Hearts somehow managed to have a worse end game imo while the mechanics of the weapons are great, there's not really any fights I'd consider to be more enjoyable than Sunbreak, but maybe it's too unfair of a comparison since Sunbreak has had some of the best made fights in the MH series
@@ortah2616 Sunbreak had no real endgame. Then again I dont really consider any of the hunt big monster games to have an endgame. It basically is just hunt stuff to make it easier to hunt stuff. Also we haven't seen the roadmap or any of the content WH is getting added.
@@demonintellect9834 70 dollars go crazy though
alot of new games prices are going up-just wait for sale
As soon as you put this game on 4k it becomes a slide show while at the same time running at 60fps. When in 4k render latency goes over 20ms and becomes a mess.
Amazing video
Thanks!
@@SuperRADLemon can't wait to play this game
I think the biggest complaint about really does come down to the memorability or core design of them as none of them are really all that striking or memorable. Sure they fit the theme but they lack the same kind of personality or intrigue, and it's not cause they're not fantastical beast like a zinogre or something. But moreso they're too busy or underdeveloped in my opinion. Where as something like sif in dark souls is far more memorable and interesting and it's just a giant wolf. At least that's how I see it
That being said, I agree with almost every other one of your points. This game is a really fun side dish while I wait for the next mh
If MH got canceled and WH took its spot I'd be happy. MH has too much of an elitist fanbase that wants the game to stay clunky to make it "hard". Proof of this is by how much bitching there was about rise being too streamlined.
@@demonintellect9834 what the fuck are you even on about? Sure there some bad egg in the monster hunter community but that just every fan base. Plus this has nothing to do with the community is about the creature design.
I hope MH and WH can coexist and MH goes back to a slower, more methodical combat, while WH stays this super fast.
My biggest issue with this game is the camera angle sucks and the monsters moves arent telegraphed well enough for you to know where something hits or starts
I disagree about telegraphs and you will notice them much better if you use the wagasa. Camera sucks tho
@@SuperRADLemon maybe its cause im using the odachi. But I can also say that I haven't had 300 hours in it fighting them over and over so this comment might be too early for me to say
How were you able to play the game at 144 fps. I have an rtx 4080 and an Intel i7-12700kf and play at 1440p. I get about 80-100 fps.
Its expensive but dlc will be free, so on long term i think is good. Counter to a monster/ boss feels so good.
Yep. I'm gonna play the 10 hour trial. If I like the game, I'll wait for some patches and a sale.
Claw blade is the absolute funnest weapon. It is so hard to play anything else
One point here I absolutely disagree with: You need to use karakuri. It isn't optional past low rank.
Against the low rank monsters (chapters 1-2) sure you can play relatively well without them (even there I'd argue that's a horrible idea), but the higher you go the faster, more ferocious, and just generally untenable the monsters get and not in the same way Monster Hunter does things. Some of these creatures just outright do not stop attacking, _ever,_ and will chain attack after attack after attack. The only way to deal with them is forcing openings with karakuri either by using mobility to weave around them and attack them from positions they can't deal with or outright immobilizing them with the various traps.
If you don't use the karakuri, you not just playing suboptimally, you're essentially shooting yourself in the foot. It'd be like trying not to use the Wire Bugs in Rise. The game is balanced from the ground up assuming you're going to use them and if you don't you _will_ be punished for it.
It's crazy and somehow unexpected how Karakuri turns this game into a mix of 2 of my favorite games of all time, Monster Hunter and Death Strading. There are only two games that I remember that you can build stuff like a zip line network to optimize traversal. DS and WH.
As for weapon movesets.. I mean people either forget or haven't played MH before World but it took a bit more than 10 years of expertise for MH to add depth to their weapons. Until 4 Ultimate the weapons had actually less depth than Wild Hearts. Which to me is not a problem, since the more moves they add the more MH turns into Devil May Cry.
I'm seeing a lot of "standard neutral takes" like "yea it's a good foundation/base for a new franchise", but honestly? It's already a very good hunting game. They learned from MH and executed very well (except for performance) to the point of leap frogging every other hunting game not called MH in the market... and I played A LOT of them. God Eater, Freedom Wars, Soul Sacrifice, Dauntless, Toukiden (same devs as WH), Phantasy Star Portable 1 and 2 and probably a few more I'm forgetting. Soul Sacrifice is the best of the bunch but it distanciates itself from MH too much to overtake WH.
Personally I think the movesets are actually still more advanced than MH. I'm still actually just discovering new combos with the katana in WH and that is after 50+ hints with it.
I will be waiting for Wild Hearts 2.
Hope they release a performance patch
The game start to finish is alright.
Gameplay is mighty fun. All weapons are unique and give you that anime power feels while still grounding the weapon. Karakuri changes your gameplay quite a bit offering you different ways to approach monsters with each person running different karakuri set ups for different combos. Monsters do get a bit easy with multiplayer hunts cause everyone just spams karakiri that locks kemonos in place so basically damage sponges.
Story is a bit bare bones with it feeling a bit rushed near the end, a bit anticlimactic if you will. Dont trust me too much on story cause me and my friends just skimmed through the dialogue while somewhat getting the gist of what happens.
Grinding is same old grinding, I say its even more rough than monster hunter cause you need parts from every single creature to make armor and weapons so you truly do feel like a monster hunter using parts from all kinds of animals to make your armory. I kinda like that aspect.
Main real issue is optimization, the state the game released in and how much this game cost. $70 is way too much for a game to be released in this sorry state. My pc set up is pretty much whats reccomended, but even my friends with higher end pc's were having issues. Constant stuttering, crashes, save issues when in multiplayer, etc. $70 game shouldn't be running like complete doodoo. Its also asking a lot for players to wait 1 week for a patch that didn't fix everything. And EA launcher isn't helping this situation as well.
I think console side is pretty alright. My lil bro with the ps5 didnt have much issues, but this just him.
All in all, I had a fun and annoying experience with this game. The game is a fun alternative to monster hunter and is good filler if your waiting for a mainline monster hunter game. It does suck that EA is in charge of this game,, but i have faith that the devs can turn things around. I'd recommend if people want to play this game to wait for a discount, wait for the issues to be fixed, or if you really don't give a damn and just wanna hunt monster then go ahead and buy it cause its really fun when it's working properly. But do try to wait for a discount
Are all monsters just animalrock or animalplant? Like, no dragons or giants or anything else?
I know I sounds dumb, but I love this game as a off season Monster Hunter game. I’m just salivating thinking how I’m going to ping pong between these two series
I’ve enjoyed this game. I’ve been an mh fan since 3rd grade. Rise kinda took the spirit of enjoying the series out of me then this game dropped. I’ve never enjoyed a game so much since world
It's such a shame they stopped support for this game, it is really rough in places but the core of the game is very solid and fun. After I'm done with the return to World I might give this another playthrough.
Yeah, I absolutely agree the game is well worth it. I've gone out of my way to play every monsters hunter "clones" to the point of being a Dauntless alpha backer, and not a single one of them come close to being as great as wild hearts is. And when it comes to maps, I don't think any monster hunter games come close to as great as those in wild hearts. Of course, there's many factors to consider each games doing some things better than others at times but wild hearts shouldn't be dismissed.
(Also this game's Katana scratches an itch 5th gen long sword left me with)
Looks cool, but my bud just got into Rise, so I had to restart on Xbox for multiplayer. Guess I'm waiting for a sale.
This game looks really sick, and id love to play it.. But after Anthem, I refuse to buy another EA game. The fact people are having performance issues and this game already has a mixed review only confirms my own suspicions about it.. Hopefully they don't give up and drop the title, and actually fix it.