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.

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