Similarly, any of the resources you need for crafting items, buying materials, or hatching Spritelings repopulate with a rather generous frequency and no time limit to worry about, beyond the advice to not venture out at night. The Spritelings don’t go down as easily as their diminutive stature and general interchangeability might suggest, and unlike Pikmin, they’re less prone to accidental drowning and able to shake off a good number of attacks. You aren’t building and maintaining an unstoppable force so much as getting to whatever small number of Spritelings can comfortably solve environmental puzzles of the stand-on-this-switch and carry-this-boulder variety or deal with hazards like fire toads and noxious mushrooms.Ĭombined with some laidback, ethereal music, The Wild at Heart is a conspicuously more relaxed experience compared to the Pikmin games. Though your Spriteling corps grow over the course of the game, you begin with only a handful and, for a while, cap out around 20. ![]() The top-down perspective is quite zoomed in, amplifying the gorgeous details of the game’s storybook art style while necessitating a smaller-than- Pikmin play area where there are fewer creatures on screen at any given time. Various interface details like the small green circles to denote a foe’s health and the ghostly indicator of a felled Spriteling push the resemblance into territory that an uncharitable person might call “potentially litigious.”ĭeveloper Moonlight Kids does, though, manage to squeeze something different out of what is a familiar blueprint, opting for an intimately scaled, story-driven experience. ![]() ![]() And these Spritelings, like Pikmin, are color-coded to note their resistances to things like ice and fire, all of them making similarly chirpy noises while they work. After all, the game is set in a mysterious, magical forest and it finds young Wake and Kirby directing a gradually expanding horde of bipedal critters known as Spritelings, using strength in numbers to fend off hostile wildlife and transport heavy objects back to camp. Despite centering on a pair of preteen runaways, The Wild at Heart will have a hard time shaking comparisons to the Pikmin series.
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