Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
The early hands-on reviews for Beast of Reincarnation are finally in, and honestly? The people who actually played it came away way more impressed than a lot of us expected. This is Game Freak — yeah, the Pokemon studio — swinging completely the other direction with a dark, parry-driven, Sekiro-style action RPG set in a gorgeous, ruined future Japan. So I went through all the early coverage to gather the honest word before launch: what reviewers loved, the few things they're worried about, and whether this thing is actually the real deal.
We break it down feature by feature — the Sekiro-style parry and Bloom Arts combat, the semi-open world and vine traversal, the skill trees, the difficulty, and the one thing every single previewer walked away obsessed with: Koo, your dog. Plus the honest concerns around the story and long-haul pacing. No spoilers, no scored review, just gathering the early word.
It lands August 4, 2026 on PS5, Xbox, and PC, and it's on Xbox Game Pass day one — so a lot of you can try it for basically nothing. Are you jumping in day one or waiting for the full reviews? Let me hear it in the comments.
#beastofreincarnation #gamepass #review
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0:00 THE EARLY WORD IS IN
0:35 GAME FREAK GOES DARK
1:11 THE QUICK FACTS
1:31 A RUINED, BEAUTIFUL JAPAN
2:07 The Combat
2:09 A SEKIRO STYLE PARRY
3:10 WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING
3:26 ONE GIRL AND HER DOG
4:16 WHY KOO STANDS OUT
4:35 VINES AND HIDDEN PATHS
5:22 SKILLS AND BUILDS
5:59 HOW HARD IS IT?
6:37 The Concerns
6:39 THE CONCERNS
7:40 SO SHOULD YOU PLAY IT?
8:30 LET US HEAR IT
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The early hands-on reviews for Beast of Reincarnation are finally in, and honestly? The people who actually played it came away way more impressed than a lot of us expected. This is Game Freak — yeah, the Pokemon studio — swinging completely the other direction with a dark, parry-driven, Sekiro-style action RPG set in a gorgeous, ruined future Japan. So I went through all the early coverage to gather the honest word before launch: what reviewers loved, the few things they're worried about, and whether this thing is actually the real deal.
We break it down feature by feature — the Sekiro-style parry and Bloom Arts combat, the semi-open world and vine traversal, the skill trees, the difficulty, and the one thing every single previewer walked away obsessed with: Koo, your dog. Plus the honest concerns around the story and long-haul pacing. No spoilers, no scored review, just gathering the early word.
It lands August 4, 2026 on PS5, Xbox, and PC, and it's on Xbox Game Pass day one — so a lot of you can try it for basically nothing. Are you jumping in day one or waiting for the full reviews? Let me hear it in the comments.
#beastofreincarnation #gamepass #review
Join this channel to get access to perks:
youtube.com/channel/UC5kbCDveYQUcxoOll5NKocA/join
0:00 THE EARLY WORD IS IN
0:35 GAME FREAK GOES DARK
1:11 THE QUICK FACTS
1:31 A RUINED, BEAUTIFUL JAPAN
2:07 The Combat
2:09 A SEKIRO STYLE PARRY
3:10 WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING
3:26 ONE GIRL AND HER DOG
4:16 WHY KOO STANDS OUT
4:35 VINES AND HIDDEN PATHS
5:22 SKILLS AND BUILDS
5:59 HOW HARD IS IT?
6:37 The Concerns
6:39 THE CONCERNS
7:40 SO SHOULD YOU PLAY IT?
8:30 LET US HEAR IT
➥ Twitter: twitter.com/gflaserbolt
➥ Facebook: facebook.com/gflaserbolt
➥ Discord: discord.gg/laserbolt
➥ Merch: teespring.com/stores/laserbolt
➥TikTok: vm.tiktok.com/TjDxuR
➥ Instagram: instagram.com/gflaserbolt
➥ Donations: ➨ goo.gl/GWBkgY
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