The game's big differentiator is karikuri, gadgets and structures assembled on-the-fly during hunts.
The latest EA Originals title, it must be said, is stretching the latter term, and not even for the most obvious reason. Wild Hearts, in development from Koei Tecmo's Omega Force , is fairly obviously a direct competitor to, and highly inspired by, Capcom's Monster Hunter series. But it's also Omega Force's second bite at this particular cherry, following the demon-slaying Toukiden series.
You craft karakuri through gathering materials. Other types include springboards that yeet your character into the air while providing a glider for some falling with style, zip lines, and human catapults. They're not all movement-focused, though a lot are purely because the game is composed of four huge open world areas , which are intended to be places where players spend a lot of time wandering . Oh that's another karakuri you can build: a camp.
The game's mechanics lean into this, and particularly neat to see is the ability to clamber on the Kemono to reach those especially stab-worthy areas. While a lot of this game is going to sound like Monster Hunter, it doesn't really feel like Monster Hunter in action. Wild Hearts can be played singleplayer or co-op: though with multiplayer, it goes for a maximum party size of three. During development the team apparently started with the default of four but, over time spent playing, realised that parties of three players were the sweet spot and simply, in an EA rep's words,"more fun".
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