A really shallow clon of Monster Hunter. People that give this game 10/10 must have played for first 5 hours. I spent 20 hours playing on PS5 and I am not going to write about abysmal performance. The problem is with the game itself. Really simple weapons (staff is the only complicated weapon) that mostly depend on usage of Karakuri. Absolutely stupid hitboxes of monster and pathethic boss fights (the bird fight in the city is one of the worst gaming moments of 2023 for me (so far). Monsters move like they are on drugs and if you play in co-op the game is ultra-easy mode where monsters die in 4-5 minutes. There is no fun in that. When you play solo you have to wait 1 minute for an opening in monster moveset OR spam karakuri that stunlock the thing you fight. There is no depth in the fight system and the game is getting boring fast. As soon as you get to chapter 3 you have to fight RECOLOR of monsters you already met (they get 1 new attack) to farm materials for new armors and weapons. Seriously, how is this compeling for anyone? I played all monster hunters game from 3ds onwards and always were looking forward to new monsters. Here in Wild Hearts you fight the same bird but water element instead of poison, the same toxic rat, stronger monkey that is lava based and so on and so on. Boring! I sold my copy and will wait for continuation to MH World, which was the peak of monster hunting games.
Fantastic story and pretty good gameplay. I like shooting mechanics and driving around the city. Sadly it looks really average. The NPC feel so dumb and souless. The city looks amazing only at night. If you go exploring in daylight, you can easily see how low are textures. And, OH MY GOD, the amount of glitches and crashes. I played for 12h and got ONE CRASH EVERY HOUR. It happened mostly when driving around. The NPC also glitch a lot. Items are flying around, some info is stuck on my screen endlessly, some doors get stuck FOREVER. Patch 1.04 just launched, but it won't wash away this sad feeling from my lips. I waited so long and got this ....average game.
