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'Wild Hearts' Review: Monster hunting under construction

Wild Hearts' is a roaring success, especially for newcomers to the beast-slaying subgenre.
Use ridiculously huge weapons to hunt even more fantastically scaled monsters in <em>Wild Hearts</em>.

If you've yearned to explore a rugged wilderness and battle beasts many times your size with a ridiculously big sword, the series was pretty much the only game in town. Rivals have struggled to put their own spin on the genre's bombastic combat and obsessively-customizable gear. This, succeeds with a leaner formula ripe for newcomers that's almost — but not quite — as satisfying for veteran hunters.

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