Following its official reveal last week, seven minutes of new gameplay footage from developer Omega Force’s upcoming monster hunting adventure Wild Hearts has been shared online.
Wild Hearts, a collaboration between EA Originals and Koei Tecmo’s Omega Force (the studio behind the long-running Warriors series), transplants the creature battling formula most closely associated with Capcom’s Monster Hunter games to a fantastical feudal Japan where up to three players can battle mysterious beasts known as Kemono.
Omega Force – which has previous experience in the monster hunting genre, courtesy of its two Toukiden games – has now expanded on Wild Hearts’ initial reveal with seven minutes of new, largely uninterrupted gameplay footage.
The sequence begins with a solo player exploring the land of Azuma’s picturesque coastlines in search of a mighty boar-like creature known as Kingtusk, using a portable zipline to traverse the rocky terrain before launching into battle against their enormous foe. Upon their defeat, the mission begins again with a friend in tow, this time offering a much better look at the diversity of Wild Hearts’ beautiful world.