![]() Some of that is simply because it doesn’t have twenty years of legacy features to include, starting afresh with the basic core of Capcom’s esteemed series and then riffing on it in a variety of new ways. That might be hyperbolic – it’s almost certainly inflammatory – but Wild Hearts is the freshest-feeling hunting game we’ve had in a while. On the strength of Wild Hearts, Capcom might be wishing it had trademarked some of their Monster Hunter mechanics, because Omega Force may have just beaten them at their own game. ![]() What would the world have been like if Nintendo had trademarked jumping on enemies’ heads? Or if Namco got paid every time a character ate in games thanks to Pac-man’s prodigious appetite? Namco’s loading screen games were actually patented – you can find them in Ridge Racer – and that stopped everyone else from doing it for a couple of decades. ![]() I assume that most game mechanics are hard to copyright. ![]()
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