Sock Sights: In Defense of Wild Hearts

[@thejfj]

No. This video isn't sponsored. I really do like wild hearts.

[@AlbinoMichigander]

Hey, Ive got a quick but strange question. What are your computer specs? A lot of people I know have a 3060/80 and still have horrible FPS lag.

[@naphaphumsangkamanee1540]

Chad sockman

[@Name-wc2lk]

Lumos

[@hdtrash1935]

These sock sights only get better and better and I for one could tell how much heart and care you put into this one. Stay based Sockman o7

[@natsusekai6190]

congrats on the new living space 🎉

[@phoenixlord2454]

I came here expecting another sock sights like the previous monster hunter, a logical analysis. Instead, I learned the story of a broken man, believing in someone else against impossible odds. Thank you J. This video was a treat to watch.

[@PotenttPeaches]

32:18 despite not playing the game and not knowing much of the story, this part made me tear up.

[@azurededalus2868]

It made me want to play the game just to see if I can show up and tell him I’m there.

[@theredarticfox2656]

Absolutely beautiful. A bro means so much. He is your friend, ally, support, and more. Having someone like that in your life is not something you can put a price on. Let us raise a glass for all those bros out there, and gob bless them

[@hayd9305]

This video did very well at looking at the comparisons between the mechanics, weapons and story of Monster Hunter and Wild Hearts. I wholeheartedly agree that both MH and WH are good in their own ways and that WH should not be looked upon as a monster hunter clone but as its own thing. It makes me upset to see this game get so much dislike due to how it's release was. Even though I have not been able to play Wild Hearts yet your video showed me that even with the hate it is getting I should keep strong and look forwards to play it one day. Thanks for Amazing video as always JFJ.

[@luckylucas5909]

11:30 the cat pop up was a great way to bring me back into the point j was making

[@OzzyOsbourneFan999]

I've never played any MH game and i know i can't run WH. But that end in Wild Hearts hit like a ton of bricks. Wow, just wow.

[@MinoMadness]

From everything I saw of the game originally, I didn't want to play it. Now I need to. Thanks JFJ and I love you bro.

[@theobserver3335]

It was a really nice video. You gave a nice analysis of the game, adress it's critics and it's good point. Plus I liked the editing a lot!

[@craftysmithkeith3653]

that Ujishige story got me tearing up, what a guy, what a pal

[@trentw6806]

Boy I love sock sights, such intellect and vocabulary. He works so fucking hard on these videos and is fair and elaborate. Some of the best videos of this kind come from this man and this is one of ‘em. Good video JFJ

[@YouDonWannaKnoMyName]

wild hearts end boss is really just killing god with the power of friendship.

[@JamesW609]

Would it really be a Japanese game if you didn't have to kill God eventually?

[@gamer_town_usa2615]

Time to add another game to my wishlist

[@ashenlongbow1482]

Based sockman does it again. My man can miss, I've seen it, but when he hits... boy does he hit. Truly, the greatsword of video game takes.

[@AyBee9725]

I still play this lol. Over 200 hours on my first playthrough on steam, playing it on Xbox now. What can I say, the aesthetic made me fall in love. I mean come on, Hamauzu from FF13 worked on this… I just wish it was better in the performance front so it could work on the steam deck. MH rise works amazingly on the machine, I wish I could experience this game on the go too. Edit: I’m so salty they never made the celestial being fight repeatable in the same save like the other boss hunts…

[@thejfj]

You can repeat the celestial fight, talk to the woman singing above Minatos town entrance

[@AyBee9725]

@@thejfj but that’s the dragon tho. I don’t want the dragon. I want what comes after the dragon in the story

[@aquaticfiend521]

jfj you sock man alone has always told the truth and for that i appreciate it oh so much

[@RougeMephilesClone]

From an outsider perspective, I think this game's story can be easily summarized. The game is hot, and also on fire. In slightly more detail, what I've heard of the mechanics sound like a good dense and mobile alternative to Monster Hunter, but it is a darn shame that it shipped in the state it did. Considering that EA published it, the chances of it being pushed out the door too early are fairly large.

[@captainblastems3367]

It doesnt help that Koei Tecmo and Omega Force are notorious for making messy ports as seen with their other monster hunter like Toukiden

[@crazebear]

1:33 3. It was also extremely buggy and broken on launch 4.$70 price tag 5. Still suffers massively from bugs, crashes, glitches, and poor performance overall

[@petrusspinelli6661]

This game will always feel like "Nioh Meets Monster Hunter" to me, it doesn't appeal to me at all but i'll admit that it's nice to see someone who likes it as much as i like the games i play, good video

[@JackSmith-qp9nh]

As an avid Monster Hunter fan, I had 8 hours total playtime in MH World back in 2017, I am the most qualified to speak on this.

[@NagaTheOctopus]

I greatly dissagree on your weapon analysis to be frank. Weapons always have different playstyles that are viable contrary to what you assume. CB doesn't "just have the UAED has its only bread and butter" you can perfectly play a discharge less sawblade combo based charge blade and do great if not better based on matchups, UAED is prefered on monsters with big hitboxes or bad hitzones. IG is extremely rewarding to play and offers many playstyles, i don't get your point of "relying too much on the kinsect" considering its quite literally half of the weapon and its very underused. Your main weapon will always be the glaive while the bug is only used sporadically outside of meme builds, though said meme builds still have usage and versatility like the kinsect vortex playstyle (which is objectively the only kinsect centric playstyle) So on so forth.

[@crimeman621]

beautiful, J awesome video

[@weiss4855]

Something i found neat about Wild Hearts, is that some weapons of the same type do other types of damage. If i'm remembering right, there's a hammer somewhere along the line that looks like an axe, it does cutting. It's just a shame they're rare.

[@dababy7400]

i like it when sock man talk to me

[@guppy4231]

Finally got to play wild hearts cause of the trail. I've played monster hunter before I used alot of gunlance and I saw wild hearts a while back and thought it looked interesting but the price seemed so much at the time. But when I finally played the trail for it was only the first 3 kemono sure but it was so much fun I struggled at first with the katakuri but damn once I had it down it became so fun even after the first 3 I was able to explore and learn and that was so much fun and I've decided "Yeah this game is pretty fun I'm gonna buy" I hope your video can convince more people J cause damn this is fun. Also I'm on Ps5 so Idk if I can talk about the performance issuses are not cause I've not experienced them yet

[@0g00n8]

you might have convinced me to try wild hear, JFJ

[@theo5908]

such a good video. thank you j

[@dtweeb128]

I dont get why people dont like monster hunter, I actually loved your monster hunter videos and the journey you told out in them.

[@Onikiri29]

I love wild hearts, even it has flaws it still has good feel to it and hoping in the future that bring more kemono and some sneaky new weapons to try❤

[@fatbadger366]

I had plans to pick this up once I had the funds, but this definitely solidified my desire to play it.

[@darcblaze12]

Fantastic video!

[@yournoblebuddy3640]

Please more videos like this shit hit me in the feels

[@AIB-xx6bn]

I was planning on getting wild hearts anyway but hearing that it has the dauntless enemy system where anything can cut makes it way better

[@Sam-ux7cn]

I agree in overall, but comon the dual blades are fun, they fit the ninja theme in rise.

[@dootr8841]

one of my few complaints about wilds hearts is the kemono orbs once everything is unlocked there is there no need for it besides resetting tsukumo stats.

[@EnragedBarrothGaming]

You made some excellent points regarding weapon movesets in Monster Hunter, it's quite lame for multiple weapon types to be boiled down to pulling off the same combo over and over. I hope Capcom switches it up a little and makes all potential combos viable in terms of overall DPS.

[@KenBladehart]

If anyone played more than one action hunting game (excluding Monster Hunter and this game), youll know how undercooked Wild Hearts is If you played this game, I implore you to play Toukiden Kiwami and/or Toukiden 2. It was made the by same developers, Koei Tecmo / Omega Force

[@Azurebolts]

The only reason I haven't tried wild hearts is simply due to the price tag attached, but after seeing this, I will pick it up at some point. (And then I will watch the spoiler section).

[@captainblastems3367]

try and go for it on consoles unless the pc version gets a hefty patch because its a little rough fps wise

[@Azurebolts]

@@captainblastems3367 Ah, I figured they might have fixed the framerate issues by now, but I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the heads up

[@vincentfrights1690]

Wild hearts is a weird game for me. On one hand I agree with JFJ that Wild Hearts is a really good game and is by no means that it’s a Monster Hunter clone. However I do believe that the game has a lot of room for improvement. For starters the story. As much as I love the bromance, everything else in the story falls flat. Most of the characters are either really bland and one sided with very monotone dialogue to follow with them or the story just isn’t that interesting. I think the biggest crime the game did is kill off the bear in the first half of the game (or at the very least imply it). There was so much potential to use this monster as a continuous threat that you have to pay attention and deal with and every time you fight it either grows stronger or is rocky shell slowly falls apart, showing off an even creepier monstrosity inside. I know I’m basically talking about Shara Ishvalda but come on that would be neat. And out of every monster on the roster the weakest one in my opinion would be the porcupine. With every other monster you hunt each one has a very unique and otherworldly design to them where even if you can identify what creature they’re based off they at least look very alien. Porcupine is basically a porcupine with some crystals on his back. Hell even his enraged form doesn’t change at all. I would go into details about my opinions on the weapons but at this point I’m creating a written report at this point. I’ll probably do a separate comment if anyone is really interested.

[@RageDuck0]

This game is great and if you actually play it it's so different

[@get_hard5867]

Damn mans truly likes this game, respect

[@brianthao102]

I've been spending too much time with Resident Evil 4. I should really play this.

[@parkerwolf7445]

Great video, starting to get into wild hearts/monster hunter

[@gammasnack900]

shalom sock man

[@Kahlimer0]

I have no regret dropping MHRise for WildHearts.

[@InstallMyWizard]

I dont know about everyone else, but seeing that it was similar to MH was a big plus for me. Is it an original thought? No, but that doesnt mean its not going to be good for what it is and what it offers. That being said, did I buy this game? Again, the answer is "no" but it doesnt mean that I never will. I'm sure once I get around to it, itll be a good time.

[@lt.kitkat]

I really do want to play the game, but Seventy bucks!?

[@matthewwatkins512]

I like Nioh, so I like Wild Hearts.

[@101lwx]

Based nioh enjoyer

[@leonepachiov9201]

I follow a simple rule. if I enjoy a game, I could care less about if other people think about it as long as it stays good

[@bonedaddy1729]

Lol the I'll never forgive the Japanese thrown in there was funny

[@eniqmo6144]

Oh God jfj has the smug socksona out

[@ItovBlackheart]

Keep it real sock man. Keep it real

[@Silver-Arrow]

You know what? I'm going to buy 2 copies: one for me and my bro

[@dagbroad]

monster hunter wins because it has lance, fair points tho j. frankly, i feel like the game just has a stigma because monster hunter fans are rather attached to their ip, and when someone tries to make a competitor they try to shut it down. even if rise was... rather disappointing (sunbreak fixed most of it, but the endgame is dogshit), a lot of players simply won't try something new, failing to realize that competition breeds innovation. i will say, though, wild hearts' horrendous optimization for pc is probably the biggest offender why people dislike the game.

[@dagbroad]

if i could run the game i'd give it a try, but as it stands it's literally a waste of money for me

[@tomohawkcloud]

Is the game playable on ps5?

[@morganpriest7726]

I would buy it, IF IT WASNT 70 FUCKING DOLLARS

[@DemonicCaretaker]

There are a lot of good points made here, but the only thing is its performance is completely unexcusable, so I'm still disappointed a game I'm so attracted to is almost unbearable with the constant frame drops. I could be having a blast fighting a monster one moment, and the next when I'm chasing a fleeing monster, I just look at the frame counter in my corner, and I'm mortified.

[@CheeseyHR]

I really hope that performance patch they got cooking fixes it for most people, cause it’s truly unfortunate that more people can’t enjoy this amazing game.

[@Santiago_VSU]

“This is why I like the switch axe a lot, it rewards… TYRION” has me dying lmao 11:28

[@Mariodash23]

Damn, man. I wasn’t expecting the funny sockman to make me cry. He certainly did a better job of selling me on this game than any sponsor could. Just wish I had the cash for it.

[@sonicrivls]

this entire video is one long buyer's remorse cope lol

[@Jaydenbb5]

before even watching this, I wanna say that I got this game after watching a video from you and zerolenny playing it and whether people complain about the bad optimisation or not I feel like I got my money's worth, which is not something I can say often for titles published by EA Edit: I also wanted to mention that I played Monster Hunter world around a year before Rise came out on switch, and I found Wild Hearts was much easier to get into and makes for a better introduction to the genre in my opinion

[@iggypikminunderly782]

I'm happy that both the MH community and the WH community can coexist with different options. I haven't played wildhearts yet, but from what I've seen I loved to play it some day

[@MichaelL.Thomason-z9o]

Cool video, My relationship of 5 years ended a month ago. The love of my life decided to leave me, I really love her so much I can’t stop thinking about her, I’ve tried my very best to get her back in my life, but to no avail, I’m frustrated, I don’t see my life with anyone else. I’ve done my best to get rid of the thoughts of her, but I can’t, I don’t know why I’m saying this here, I really miss her and just can’t stop thinking about her

[@ChristopherM.Aponte]

its difficult to let go of someone you love, i was in a similar situation, my relationship of 12 years ended, but i couldnt just let her go i did all i could to get her back, i had to seek the help of a spiritual counselor who helped me bring her back

[@MichaelL.Thomason-z9o]

@@ChristopherM.Aponte Amazing, how did you get a spiritual counselor, and how do i reach her?

[@ChristopherM.Aponte]

@@MichaelL.Thomason-z9o Her name is Sylvia Regina White, and she is a great spiritual counselor who can bring back your ex.

[@MichaelL.Thomason-z9o]

@@ChristopherM.Aponte Thank you for this valuable information, i just looked her up now online. impressive

[@mindedbirdjk4737]

I knew someone who was like a brother to me, that brother did catfish me for two years. And I really do hate them. They caused me irreparable trust issues and made me feel bad because I didn’t want to leave them. But then again, I do miss those times when we were just friends and he wanted to be something more but I didn’t. So he lied about being a girl and I trusted so heavily. I hope you find some clarity soon and happiness to let go. It’s better to start soon and see it as moving on until you regret not moving past it sooner and having another chance at love, goals, or just life. It’s scary I know, but everyone is here for you man.

[@airagor9356]

as someone with 300+ hours in world and U4 im glad there are more kaiju fighters its quickly becoming a favorite genre of mine

[@Scaevola9449]

I don't care that Wild Hearts is published by EA, or that it looks like MH. It runs like dogshit, that's the problem. It's unplayable. NO. EXCUSES.

[@corywinston3453]

Very well put together video. I agree with some (maybe most) of your points, but the story of both games is pretty mediocre. I love both, but at least I can actually play MH. Wild hearts is legitimately unplayable for me as of the March 27th update, and it wasn't that way previously. I dealt with slowmo stuff and glitchy Karakuri, but I've never had frame rate, or playability issues with a monster hunter game. So for the sheer fact of how buggy Wildhearts is, I'd personally, politely, disagree with your opinion of this game.

[@alexanderrandolph6030]

When making the weapons comparison, what did you compare the insect glaive to? Im a ch blade main in MH, but I found watching the movement of the WH k-katana and that glove weapon, as if the insect glaive had a secret relationship w. A clutch claw. does the ig fit into your comparison? Thanks for this video j, this was the comp I needed to pick up WH and give it a try!

[@captainblastems3367]

There really isnt to much to compare the insect glaive to the staff in WH has a move similar to it but other than that the clutch claw is the closest in terms of gameplay (I say this as an insect glaive main myself)

[@gregory5004]

Great video, I respect it, although I don't share a lot of what was said. I found it weird to see a channel I discovered through MH vids sell the weapons, gameplay and world of MH so short, because even after playing Wild Hearts for almost 120h, and liking most of it I just don't see how some of the points given to WH were even a debate. Great job on the video! And the story part was stellar btw.

[@IIXairII]

As someone who is a vet of MH since the PS2 days and over 500hrs in each individual MH game up until Rise: Wild Hearts good and fun. Koei Tecmo's team is really good at making something different shown from Nioh and Toukiden. Honestly I want to see more innovation that these games bring into the MH series because the mechanics are just really fun

[@Derp516]

i’ve been playing it since day 1 on console through all of its performance issues and i’ve still had a ton of fun with the game, and it’s definitely solidified it’s existence alongside MH for me

[@trashcans1]

there is no one else in the world who could make one truely understand the importance and message of a game and how it differs from others. J i wish you nothing but the best for you.

[@RightClickGamers]

I hope everyone out there has someone they care about. Don't forget to check in on them once in a while. Go hang out, get food together, play some games, try something new, bring a smile to their face that hopefully puts one on yours. Don't waste time not doing stuff together like I did when I was too afraid to go out. Have an adventure! I'm so lucky to have the friends I do, they mean everything to me. I would die for them, but even more, I will live for them.

[@firelie4389]

Ill pick this one up after leaving it in the pot to stew a couple months probably.

[@BaratAnemica]

I put in at least a year, really

[@notdotuna]

I respect your dedication to promoting this game, but no amount of decent story telling is gonna make me and a lot of people give EA the benefit of the doubt. I hold no opinion on Koei Tecmo as a developer, but i can see why the game is so liked by you, that does not change decades of scummy sales tactics and stripped down and unfinished products being shoved in customers faces with full AAA pricing. If the game was self-published by Koei just like Nioh? Maybe then it would be worth considering, but if EA published, funded, and supported the project, what does it say when a game they had their hands on comes out with inexcusible performance issues when Nioh as far as i am aware had none of them? Because to me it means publisher input brought negative results into the game due to meddling.

[@Brauniersc]

I do think wild hearts is a good game but I don't think it's worth 70 bucks. The amount of content is has is worth maybe 30, 40 would be the max. And again while I think it's a good game, I don't see anything original in it either. And of course it's published by EA so there's dlc worth 20 bucks that gives u a few armor sets, really? I can't support EA even if the game is good.

[@plumpkinn]

i love the game, id been looking forward to it since it was announced, and i cant play it, even though i meet the requirements for it. the games not bad, nor is koei tecmo, but it is honestly inexcusable for there NOT to have been a proper balance patch OR anything officially addressing how atrocious the games performance. i hope one day to play the game properly. and thank you JFJ for actually highlighting the game and giving it the needed props, it really is a great game with so much holding it back.

[@jfb173jb]

Why you gotta hate on the ranged gear? I love the Hand Cannon and both my bowguns. I can both break and cut off tails, and I've got a ton of elements to work with. Though HC is mostly a big laser gun.

[@lolmanor]

Wait you didn't like MH:World's story? :( I thought it was ok. Not seeing pretty much any story in Rise is why I didn't like it as much as World.

[@Obelisk-oj4fu]

Just because you hunt giant monsters and use their remains to make your weapons and armor doesn't make it monster hunter, if this argument is what you use then I can say the same for dauntless and many other monster killing games, if anything wild hearts looks more inspired by monster hunter, I may not play wild heart but I know for a fact how unique it is from monster hunter, hell Jfj played monster hunter so if he says a game isn't the same as another game that he has played then that alone should be proof enough.

[@grimms8783]

I'll never really get the whole "it looks like [INSERT THING]" argument. If it isn't a blatant rip-off (which wild hearts clearly isn't, it has its own thing going on clearly). What's the big issue? If you like chocolate ice cream then why would you complain about there being vanilla ice cream? Both are good.

[@alexanderadams4011]

Completely disagree with point 1 everything else I can get behind I haven't played wild hearts but it looks enjoyable

[@Orbzul]

This video convinced me to purchase Wild Hearts. The game's performance convinced me to request a refund.

[@NamelessThun]

the hammer can infact break some things other weapons can't. E.g. barroth's crown can only be broken with blunt damage

[@smurphy55656]

See personally i want to like this game i have no issues of it being like monster hunter because while this is like mon hun it goes out to try be different and unique to it but I've had alot of performance issues that just seem to not of been fixed for me and because of this i can't enjoy this game to its fullest

[@101lwx]

I haven't watched the video yet but I do wanna say that seeing people dog on wild hearts just cause its similar to monster hunter reminds me of people who did the same to nioh when it originally came out ignoring all the things that made in unique and instead just calling it a rip off. Games should be allowed to be similar to others so long as they add enough to make it so they're not a straight rip off which, from what I've seen, wild hearts definitely does. I hope more people give it a chance instead of just talking trash on it Edit: I have now watched the whole video I will be adding this game to my wishlist

[@captainblastems3367]

Yeah now Nioh fans are hating on Wo long because it is not like nioh and its a shame to see this cycle repeat

[@howardmurphy8019]

Now this all sounds well and good, I should definitely try wildhearts soon, I'm more of a "oh boy, two cakes" kind of guy. The only smidge of contentment i could put fourth is story. I won't say WH doesn't sound like a banger, just from your cliffnotes, it's a poignant and dramatic story. I just think MH couldn't even begin to compete in that area, because the undertone of irreverence and thrill is integral to its identity, even when facing ecological collapse because another ancient dragon woke up. I could never imagine them getting as serious. Although I have seen them try.

[@ebolajr6404]

I started this video at work and thought i'd save it for when I got off. And I'm glad I did. Anytime I hear J talk about friendship or being a bro, I know he really means it. And hearing him describe the broken shogun and the small bit he said at then of the video. Really, hit me in the feels. Never stop being you brother.

[@Toothless-xl5sx]

18:36 what armor set is that also as someone who has maxed out characters in every mh except the first and frontier wild hearts genuinely seems like a game I should give a shot

[@kubafraszczyk7517]

I don't care that it's MH clone, what pisses me off it how badly optimized it is.

[@ridleythestrange]

My first exposure to the Monster Hunting genre was Dauntless... yeah. So, Wild Hearts absolutely blew my mind. Once I am done here, I will try out that Monster Hunter everyone loves talking about.

[@Sypitz]

When you get to MH, don’t use the free defender armor they give you: it’s intended for new characters to use to get to the dlc content faster and makes the early game way easier.

[@captainblastems3367]

I actually enjoy dauntless for what it is a nice free to play entry to the MH genre and also like the way everyone can just pop in and hunt together

[@gamer_town_usa2615]

11:30 cat jumpscare

[@plank8989]

After all the monster hunter and monster hunter clones that I have played, nothing will every beat the feelings that I had for God Eater 1's cast and story. Seeing the scene in the video where the character comes face to face with the creature that has killed his teammates triggered so many flashbacks from GE.

[@FemboyJoe]

My man 🤝

[@oligb1469]

Ujishige my dude, that man added so much immersion he made ya feel connected to the world ya know, 10/10 would bro again.

[@AceRevero]

While I do agree that MH experience would be better with having a story built around Bro experience, I think the game already does that by playing with friends/random. Having to help out folks with hunts, going on long hunts to get one part from a specific monster for a friend, the amount of saves and big cheese with 4 hunters, all of it to be founded in gameplay. I believe that Monster Hunter devs know this, hence why they don't do much with their storytelling. But that's my honest perspective. Great vid! Love to see more Sock Sights.

[@bigbymoon5707]

I love how much J puts his soul into these sock sights and to be honest it makes me wanna try out more games (even though i get finger cramps from playing too much XD)

[@JAMeep-xx1vv]

So basically Jay, you're saying: "Hol up, let em cook."

[@DrSaptor]

I've already written off Wild Hearts but man, that video. Its my next game to purchase. Thanks.

[@ConRad117790]

This makes me wanna play wild hearts, but I find the grind of Kaiju hunting games to be very hard to enjoy

[@lastman320]

You ever consider making a side channel to narrate a game that you loved and why people should give it a chance? Cause holy fuck I choked at the end. I’m fully convince to buy the game when I get my paycheck. Love the content man

[@Ossek]

Fantastic video J. I'm convinced and will definitely be getting Wild Hearts once performance is fixed.