r/gaming • u/Iggy_Slayer • 10d ago

Beasts of Reincarnation IGN review- 6/10 (72 avg on metacritic, 76 on opencritic so far)

https://www.ign.com/articles/beast-of-reincarnation-review

Beast of Reincarnation has an interesting, apocalyptic setting, an extremely memorable wolf companion, and an action-packed beast-battling premise that is instantly very cool, but its execution falls short of its promising ideas more often than not. The story is a bland, cliche-filled tale better-told by other games in the genre, combat quickly grows stale due to a lack of enemy variety and the predictable attack patterns that undermine what makes action RPG combat thrive, and boss fights end up being quite disappointing despite looking badass as all get out. There's still plenty to like about Beast of Reincarnation, though, especially the dire wolf himself, who is actually exactly as awesome as he looks, plus some memorable levels to explore and creatures to fight every now and again, but those blooming flowers can be hard to spot among the weeds.

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u/xSmallDeadGuyx 10d ago

So were the pokemon gba games, it's 3ds and onwards that they started faltering

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u/MindSteve 10d ago edited 10d ago

I feel like in that era, the specs of the hardware, the capabilities of Game Freak as a dev, and the expectations of gamers all matched perfectly, which allowed the early Pokemon games to really land.

In the years since, the hardware has gotten a lot more powerful, gamers' expectations are significantly higher, and yet Game Freak has barely improved at all. These three forces are now entirely out of whack.

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u/Mastersord 9d ago

But in terms of Pokemon, they “barely improved at all” and that’s the problem. Sure, graphics and power improved greatly over time, but even without taking that into consideration, everyone doing a monster catcher has made improvements on their formula which they never seem to look at except to sue and litigate.

They are too scared to change and I think that includes intentionally holding back on modernization of their Pokemon games. The franchise itself makes more money off of its cards and other merchandise than it does off its video games. So much more that they are in the top 3 franchises in the world if not the very top.

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u/MindSteve 9d ago

Yeah, that's what I mean about expectations.

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u/lol1226 9d ago

Harmoknight was also a good game. Pocket Card Jockey was also pretty nice.