Hunting Towers are cheap to build at a Dragon Pit, requiring only 15 water, and will prevent you needing to wander around in the hopes of bumping into the Kemono you're hunting. Image: Omega Force/Koei Tecmo/Electronic Arts via Polygon If you build multiple towers, they spread out as a network and find Kemonos anywhere any of the towers cover. Interacting with one will highlight any Kemono in the area. Hunting Towers are a form of Dragon Karakuri that act like a radar tower. If the Dragon Pit doesn’t have enough of any one stat (resource), you’ll either need to upgrade it until it does (which takes a lot of work and resources), or just look elsewhere for a pit that does. When you hold down L1/LB to pull up your Kurakuri menu and switch to Dragon Kurakuri, you’ll see matching icons next to each Dragon Kurakuri you can build, along with the requirements for each. You’ll see the requirements and available resources when you try to build a Dragon Karakuri. For example, the Dragon Spring in the image above has low wood, water, and earth, but high fire and wind. Image: Omega Force/Koei Tecmo/Electronic Arts via PolygonĮvery Dragon Spring has a set of stats to represent what can be built there, and each Dragon Kurakuri has an associated type that matches those stats. You can interact with some icons right from the map. After that, you can continue to upgrade it - which costs increasingly rare items like Large Mist Crystals and Giant Spring Dust Crystals (we haven’t found any yet) - to build even more Dragon Karakuri nearby. You’ll need to unblock a Dragon Pit when you discover it - which requires a few local resources to do. These underground springs serve as potential camp locations. Not every Dragon Pit is the sameĮach area you visit will have several Dragon Pits. In combat, you’ll use Karakuri do things like build a tower of three crates, which you can jump off to deal extra damage, or conjure a torch that’ll add fire damage to your attacks.Īt a camp - which has to be built near a Dragon Pit (more on these in a second) - you’ll use Dragon Karakuri to build things like a tent for fast travel or a radar tower to help locate monsters. Leaping off a tower of crates for extra damage. These serve two purposes: to build camps and to aid you in combat. With it, you can conjure devices and structures (like crates and springs and radar towers and tents) into existence, kind of like Fortnite. You’re introduced to Karakuri - Wild Hearts’ cool gimmick for a monster hunting game - pretty early on. In Wild Hearts, that’s the core loop you’ll play, but continuing along the main story to hunt new monsters is also how you’ll unlock new Karakuri (magical constructions). Those new armor and weapons help you kill better monsters for better gear. You kill monsters (Kemono) to get monster parts that you turn into new armor and weapons. Wild Hearts is a monster hunting game with the familiar monster hunting loop. Kill monsters for better gear to kill better monsters If you’re not familiar with Monster Hunter (or monster hunting games in general), let’s talk about what you’ll need to know. Think of it like this: the Monster Hunter games define the monster hunting genre - a genre Wild Hearts fits neatly into. Image: Omega Force/Koei Tecmo/Electronic Arts via Polygonĭon't judge Wild Hearts too harshly for this, though. The Karakuri mechanic will be new to you (and a lot of fun), but you’re going to have a solid grasp on everything else. If you’ve played one of the (many) Monster Hunter games before, you know basically everything you need to know about Wild Hearts. Below, our Wild Hearts beginner’s guide has advice on everything from the basics of game to mastering the Karakuri magic to the best way to build your camps. But we’ll help you along with the tips and tricks we’ve picked up from roughly 20 hours with the game. Wild Hearts is a game with a lot of mechanics and lengthy menus. We’ll talk about why that feels so familiar in a second. Your job, as a hunter of monsters, is to chase them down and use parts you carve from their corpses as ingredients in ever-improving gear. Wild Hearts introduces you to the world of Azuma, where giant monsters called Kemono wreak havoc.
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