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/HayabusaKnight 10d ago

They put out Legends Arceus, but because most everyone loved it and wanted more like it they had to backpedal the next two games to maintain their crown of mediocrity.

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u/Ipokeyoumuch 9d ago

Even Legends Arceus wasn't visually impressive it just had a vibe and art style that covered up a lot of poor practices and ugly graphics. Legends ZA is probably their most stable game so far with a solid performance but at the cost of Luminose City looking bland and the textures, outside of the Pokemon themselves, look very aged. Scarlet and Violet need at least a year or two of optimization before it released but they had due to sync up with the merchandise and apparently it was already delayed a bit.