From upgrades to your characters to a shop and even a museum of sorts you need to find exhibits for, there is much more to The Wild at Heart than first meets the eye and all looks so damn gorgeous. More Than Meets The EyeĪs well as all these combat, exploration and puzzle shenanigans, you have a hub to visit and various NPS’s to deal with. This combined with the types of Spriteling you have creates a plethora of puzzle opportunities and exploration methods that I really relished. Kirby and Wake, who can be interchanged at a button press also have differing abilities. Using them in tandem makes some of the puzzles very interesting and entertaining.Ī little while into your journey you find your friend, Kirby and this adds another dimension to the games exploration and puzzle work.

They all have things they can do, environmental advantages and traits that help in certain situations. You have various types, fire, ice and the bog-standard ones you start with. The combat is light but entertaining, the puzzles are not too devious and the exploration worthwhile.Ĭombat is mostly a job of chucking your Spritelings at enemies, which are your little, commandable creatures. The game follows a standard, go here, do stuff loop that may be familiar, however, it’s the quirky gameplay systems and lovely art style that keep you interested. It really works though, new elements are introduced at a nice rate and everything fits the theme beautifully.įirstly you bring together the fragmented members of the Greenshields, then you must find the relics that hold back the darkness. What I mean by that is you have a small army of creatures to command, a vacuum used for various things and have small puzzles to solve. The Wild at Heart, if I had to put a genre to it would be Luigi’s Mansion mixed with Pikmin slightly glazed with some Zelda sauce. This game is full of uncanny characters and they are all mysterious and wonderful. From Bird Hat Weirdo and Cat Lady Weirdo to the One-Eyed Weirdo and the Weirdo Twins. What really made me laugh about these characters is they were always introduced as “insert character trait here” weirdo and it really tickled me. Plus they are all a little kooky, which I loved. The Greenshields are a group of rag-tag characters, unseen by the world they protect and they have a list of quirks as long as your arm. What you stumble upon is an adventure to save the world, battle back the forces of darkness and reunite the Greenshields. You play, initially, as Wake, a young scallywag searching for excitement.

Armond White's review of Wild at Heart