At the same time, Wild Hearts does lose a little bit of the complexity I enjoy about Monster Hunter along with those clunkier parts – for example, you can’t choose to capture monsters, they don’t get tired or go to sleep, and their “rage mode” simply seems to trigger when they hit a certain damage threshold, which makes fights play out more similarly from hunt to hunt. I didn’t miss things like weapon sharpening or cluttered inventory management, and the simplified nature of stat-boosting food and support items meant I always felt like I was spending more time out in the field and less on pre-hunt prep. And it’s even true of its campaign structure, which continuously escalates and remixes previous encounters alongside a fine but largely ignorable story about a town struggling against local creatures that have unexpectedly started attacking outside of their usual territory.īut because Wild Hearts is not actually a Monster Hunter game, it gets to unburden itself from certain mechanics that have started to feel a little dated as Monster Hunter World and Monster Hunter Rise continue to streamline and modernize that two-decade-old series. It’s true of its crafting-based equipment progression, which has you turning those fearsome beasts into cool pairs of pants with your choice of eight drastically different weapon types. That’s true of its giant monster-slaying missions, which have you whittling down your opponent and breaking their body parts as you pick up materials while chasing them from arena to arena. But in pretty much every way that counts, Wild Hearts is so fundamentally Monster Hunter that you could very easily mistake it for the newest game in Capcom’s series if it weren’t for the name. That’s not to put it down as a “clone” or anything, as developer Koei Tecmo provides plenty of interesting additions and fun little twists to the formula. Let me be perfectly blunt: it’s nearly impossible to talk about Wild Hearts without bringing up Monster Hunter.
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