The studio behind Pokémon struggles to find its voice in Beast of Reincarnation.

But every so often it launches a curious experiment, whether it’s an action title about a militarized elephant or turning horse races into a card game, showing that it’s capable of more than the latest generation of pocket monsters. Here is an established studio breaking free of the franchise it has become known for to make its take on a blockbuster action game. The studio puts out new mainline Pokémon adventures with a machinelike precision. You have to imagine that the team at Game Freak is bursting with ideas. Unfortunately new ideas are in short supply in Beast, an …
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