The game itself is much more concerned with crafting hidden corners for the player to uncover, and creating a series of tantalising but clearly signaled roadblocks in front of the pathways that Wake and Kirby aren’t allowed to explore just yet.
The story and lore in The Wild at Heart are incidental, seasoning rather than substantial. If that sounds a bit haphazard, don’t worry about it too much. He’ll find his friend Kirby (the one who is probably magic, or at least everyone keeps saying so), and he’ll meet up with Grey Coat’s colleagues, the Greenshields, who help protect the woods from the Never, even though the woods are also kind of a prison actually. Eventually, Wake will discover five different kinds of spriteling, each with its own talents and weaknesses. Grey Coat introduces Wake to creatures called spritelings who live in this particular magical wood, and can be enlisted to help Wake fight monsters, gather magical items, and open paths to explore new areas. Just outside his back garden, Wake stumbles into a world overseen by a bearded man who doesn’t remember his own name and calls himself Grey Coat (even though his coat isn’t grey. Wake is looking for a way to get away from a father who spends all his time in front of the television after the death of Wake’s mother. If you choose to dive in-and don’t get me wrong, you can expect one or two dozen hours of perfectly satisfying environmental puzzle solving if you do-you’ll initially play the role of Wake, a boy probably around the age of Zipper from Gravity Falls who looks a bit like he has cat eyes but doesn’t actually. It’s charming and occasionally clever, but as a whole it all just feels kind of familiar. The female lead is spunky and probably has superpowers. The male lead is a boy who has lost his mother. The art design feels like Disney’s Gravity Falls mixed with Infinite Fall’s Night in the Woods, set in a slightly less ominous version of Over the Garden Wall’s teapot-punk fairy tale woods. Broadly, The Wild at Heart is a take on Nintendo’s Pikmin games, with a semi-open-world environment that progressively unlocks for the player in a manner similar to Traveller’s Tales’ LEGO video games. It is difficult to talk about The Wild at Heart without referring to a long list of other media.
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