The Monster Hunter series certainly has more overall depth to it, but almost every system present in Wild Hearts runs parallel to its counterpart found in Monster Hunter.
Instead of taking on five sub-quests at a time, you take on up to five jobs. Instead of Palicos, you have robotic orbs called tsukumo to assist you. Instead of hunting monsters, you hunt kemono. It got to the point where I was expecting each “borrowed” system just like I would for a Monster Hunter game. In much the same way that Mcdowell’s has the Golden Arcs compared to McDonald’s Golden Arches in the movie Coming to America, there were enough Monster Hunter systems heisted by Wild Hearts that it could very well be mistaken as the next entry in Capcom’s best-selling series. Entries such as Dauntless, God Eater, and Toukiden came close to the original recipe, but none of them have outright stolen the formula and slapped another title on the box. Though Monster Hunter games are not technically labeled a genre yet, there have been other titles that tried to recreate the formula. In fact, discovering the weapon that works best for you is one of the joys of the series, and each can make the game feel like an entirely new experience. Quite simply, Monster Hunter is a game series in which you hunt huge monsters with an arsenal of melee and ranged weapons which all handle completely different from the last. When I realized I was spending more time writing entries on the list than actually playing Wild Hearts, I opted to simply share some of the more pertinent ones.įirst, let’s describe what a Monster Hunter game actually is for those that may not know.
There are so many ways that Wild Hearts blatantly borrows from (rips off) Monster Hunter that I started a list, adding new entries as I encountered them.
If only…īut wait, what is a Monster Hunter type? Is Wild Hearts a new Monster Hunter game? Boy does it want to be. Though I am not quite sure why these Monster Hunter types insist on bringing out the elevator music band to start each symphony, the heart of the show tends to have much more to it than can be seen, even after several hours. So did I finally see the light? Could one of the worst first impressions in gaming history somehow be redeemed? To my surprise at the time, it sunk its jaws in deep and refused to let go.
The graphics seemed wonky, I didn’t understand why I was moving around or who I even was, and several minutes of explanation from a mysterious stranger shrouded in mystery speaking of mysterious mysteries didn’t bring any sort of enlightenment. As is the trend with games in this genre, the opening does not deliver the greatest first impression. It took some time for Wild Hearts to finally sink its fangs into my gaming heart.
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