Performance wise I am not bothered by this game at all. Im running on an 3080 with an I7 12700F and get the very odd stutter. I deleted one drive from my computer before installing, turned off depth of field and turned down shadows and reflections one notch. I also under graphics settings set the game to high performance. Aside from the very odd stutter I have had no problems no crashes.

As for the game play, this game has a lot of charm and I can tell the people who made it had a sadly unrealised grand idea for what they wanted this game to ultimately be. That being said, what is here is very fun and I would recommend Wild Hearts to anybody who enjoys monster hunter/toukiden style games. This has a faint souls like feel but is most definitely not souls. It does have a difficulty curve in the slight movement jank and learning weapon move sets as well as dealing with animation lock. But once you uncover the mechanics and learn how to deal, then the game is a ton of fun. Really enjoy the foraging and exploration as well as the fast travel system and the hub/quest layout. Looking forward to what the rest of this game is about as the story is only half bad. I hear that it gets a lot more difficult in late game so I am anxious to tackle that challenge. All in all MH wilds/rise/world are all better and deeper games than this but if you have finished all that's available from that series on steam then I highly suggest you to dip your toes into this game.

Oh yeah and you can build boxes and traps and crap which I do not care about but will likely be forced to use at some point.

**** EA for abandoning a fantastic game
**** EA Play
8/10 easy buy on sale for 15 bucks!

Game good enough. But the biggest problem of the game is unfriendly moving of WASD. I mean switch directions from AS to WD is everytime unpredictable. It's totally unplayable when your character doesn't listen to your moves. It's a big problem. My character should be responsive to my actions, But now I feel that I'm playing for a unpredictable square log

If you fix the movement of character - i will suggest this game to friends and will change to positive this review !!!

and about perfomance:
- please unlock cinematics and videocuts from 30fps to 60 or more (or make settings for this)
- fix the karakuri katana fps drops when hitting (right now to fix i do 1600x900 and borderless)

get on EA Play or <10€ discount.

while this game has potential to be better than even monster hunter series, it is unfortunately abandoned.
performance is straight up atrocious - most likely because its bad console port.

gameplay is really fun
crafting and building systems are pretty flashed out and enjoyable
story is decently mid
recommend going in with friends, as multiplayer is pretty much dead