{"id":1387,"date":"2025-07-24T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2025-07-25T14:52:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:52:52","slug":"review-wild-hearts-s-switch-2-monster-hunting-thats-satisfying-if-unspectacular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/review-wild-hearts-s-switch-2-monster-hunting-thats-satisfying-if-unspectacular\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Wild Hearts S (Switch 2) &#8211; Monster Hunting That&#039;s Satisfying, If Unspectacular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Take a ride on the wild side.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Capcom effectively created a new genre with its famed <strong>Monster Hunter<\/strong> series back in the sixth generation of game consoles, and though many challengers over the years (such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/dauntless\">Dauntless<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/god_eater_3\">God Eater<\/a>) have since tried to get a piece of its pie, nobody has quite managed to recreate its distinct magic. Koei Tecmo&#8217;s Omega Force (of <strong>Dynasty Warriors<\/strong> fame) then decided to try its hand in 2023 with the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/wild_hearts\">Wild Hearts<\/a>, but the game never really got too far off the ground despite positive reception from both fans and critics.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the Switch 2 has come out, KT has decided to try giving its latest monster hunting foray another shot at success with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/wild-hearts-s\">Wild Hearts S<\/a>, a modest revisit that\u2019s taking advantage of the distinct Monster Hunter-shaped hole in the Switch 2\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/every-switch-2-launch-game-ranked\">launch window library<\/a>. Though it isn\u2019t the roaring revival that some may have hoped it to be, Wild Hearts S still proves to be an enjoyable and engaging monster-hunting action game and one that I\u2019d suggest newcomers look into.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch-2\/wild-hearts-s\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a ride on the wild side. Capcom effectively created a new genre with its famed Monster Hunter series back in the sixth generation of game consoles, and though many challengers over the years (such as Dauntless and God Eater) have since tried to get a piece of its pie, nobody has quite managed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}