Wild Hearts, the Monster Hunter challenger from EA and Koei Tecmo, will be revealed this week at 3PM UK time on Wednesday 28th September.
The placeholder YouTube page is already live, with a concise spoiler free blurb telling us all to “Prepare for an epic adventure set in a fantasy world inspired by feudal Japan.”
The game is in development at Omega Force, the Koei Tecmo studio that’s best known for the Warriors series and musou genre in general. This new deal was announced earlier this month, teasing that the aim of the then untitled Wild Hearts was to create “a new kind of hunting game,” or a Monster Hunter challenger, to put it another way.
It’s a strange partnership, considering that Koei Tecmo is a game publisher that has a global reach, and that they’re working with EA under the EA Originals brand which has been most commonly used to fund and publish independent games like It Takes Two and Knockout City. On the other hand, Koei Tecmo’s reach is not on the scale of Capcom or Bandai Namco. The Warriors series and Nioh games are their best known in recent years, but they exist alongside notable collaborations like Fire Emblem Warriors, Hyrule Warriors, Persona 5 Strikers and Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin. EA should be able to signal boost whatever it is that this game is, bringing much greater awareness to mainstream gamers.
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