From here, you’re largely free to decide how you approach your adventure. Arriving at a location you’ll be dropped at basecamp, maybe whip up a crafting station for your armour and weapons, before likely dropping a hunting tower that will scan a portion of the map for your prey. You’ll quickly settle into Wild Hearts’ rhythm, a smooth and satisfying loop of exploration, creation and eventual combat. Wild Hearts rarely surprised me with its narrative but there are flourishes throughout that speak to the game’s good-hearted approach.
You’re often prompted to choose from several dialogue options, largely flavour text but charming enough to warrant a laugh every now and again too.
It’s a fascinating thread that runs through much of the game’s main questline as you form a small found family of political and social refugees, all of whom rely on your hunting as much as your friendship. This is a land ravaged and broken by conflict, both physically and ideologically- an early game conversation muses on the shifting needs of the nation, the balance of nature and, most crucially to Wild Hearts, the role of a hunter in a world on the verge of a rebirth. You are then set loose into a post-war, feudal-Japan inspired fantasy land known as Azuma. You play as a fully customisable hunter, building your character up in a robust creation system that lets you tweak everything from hair curls to pronouns.
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