"An epic adventure set in a fantasy world inspired by feudal Japan."
EA and Koei Tecmo have partnered up to deliver a new Monster Hunter style game and no, it’s not Toukiden. The newly announced Wild Hearts is being developed by Omega Force, the team behind the Dynasty Warriors series and its spinoffs.
EA has called the game “the next great hunting game”, and is publishing it as part of their EA Originals Program. A newly created twitter account for Wild Hearts announced a reveal trailer set to premiere later this week on 29 September.
The video description for the Wild Hearts trailer calls the game “an epic adventure set in a fantasy world inspired by feudal Japan”, which doesn’t give much away.
A series of tweets have been published showing off art for two of the hunting targets in the game and if it’s as similar to the Monster Hunter titles as I hope it is, I cant wait to wear this wolf.
Reminder set! It's about to get wild.
— Xbox (@Xbox) September 26, 2022
36 hours until reveal. 🐗 #PlayWildHearts https://t.co/ebbQ478Qsi pic.twitter.com/WDsCjLOjSF
— WILD HEARTS (@playWildHearts) September 27, 2022
When the partnership between EA and Koei Tecmo was first publicised earlier this month, Koei Tecmo Executive Vice President Yosuke Hayashi expressed major excitement about the upcoming title.
“The EA team fully embraces our creative independence and have become invaluable partners offering both development and publishing support,” Hayashi said. “Adding the global resources of EA with our own will help us introduce a new kind of hunting game to a global audience of players.”
The decision to publish the game through EA Originals is an interesting one given that the program is usually focused on supporting indie developers. There’s been no comment from EA on why it’s made such a change.
As of writing this, the teams behind Wild Hearts have not revealed what platforms the game will release on but Xbox has commented on their tweets. Make of that what you will.
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Wild Hearts17 February 2023PC PS5 Xbox Series S & X
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