Freedom Wars Remastered is the perfect Monster Hunter Wilds warm-up

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This January is the calm before the storm. There aren’t a ton of major new video game releases coming this month, save for Dynasty Warriors: Origins, but February is going to be a stacked month for games. It’ll give us Civilization VII, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Avowed, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii and Monster Hunter Wilds. January, on the other hand, is filled with remasters and PC ports. Some of those games feel like perfect primers for February’s games. Case in point: Freedom Wars Remastered.

The new port brings a PlayStation Vita classic to modern consoles, and that timing is ideal. Freedom Wars is an action RPG that shares some similarities with Monster Hunter, though it’s much smaller in scope than something like Wilds. That makes this solid remaster the perfect warm-up game ahead of one of 2025’s biggest releases.

Fighting for freedom

Freedom Wars takes place in the year 102014 where humanity has almost been completely wiped out. In this postapocalyptic future, different cities called “Panopticons” fight over increasingly dwindling resources. Panopticons function as surveillance states, where every person is automatically branded a criminal because even existing is a crime in itself.

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As such, criminals, called Sinners, are given a 1-million-year prison sentence and can reduce their time by fighting against giant robot monsters called Abductors. Despite the dark premise, Freedom Wars’ tone is surprisingly light. That’s not unlike Monster Hunter, which successfully straddles the line between goofy and serious. The monsters are fierce, but I don’t feel deathly threatened by them. Freedom Wars nails that same tone with its Abductors. It’s more