{"id":14581,"date":"2026-08-04T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=14581"},"modified":"2026-08-04T12:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:00:31","slug":"the-studio-behind-pokemon-struggles-to-find-its-voice-in-beast-of-reincarnation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=14581","title":{"rendered":"The studio behind Pok\u00e9mon struggles to find its voice in Beast of Reincarnation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong>Andrew Webster<\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nAugust 4, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A screenshot of the video game Beast of Reincarnation.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Fictions\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/BoR-Screenshot-66.png?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">You have to imagine that the team at Game Freak is bursting with ideas. The studio puts out new mainline <em>Pok&eacute;mon<\/em> adventures with a machinelike precision. But every so often it launches a curious experiment, whether it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/7\/21\/9008871\/tembo-the-badass-elephant-review-xbox-ps4-pc\">an action title about a militarized elephant<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/6\/30\/12071766\/nintendo-3ds-best-new-games-kirby-megamix-boxboxboy\">turning horse races into a card game<\/a>, showing that it&#8217;s capable of more than the latest generation of pocket monsters. That&#8217;s part of what makes the idea of <em>Beast of Reincarnation<\/em> so enticing. Here is an established studio breaking free of the franchise it has become known for to make its take on a blockbuster action game. Unfortunately new ideas are in short supply in <em>Beast<\/em>, an \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/974505\/beast-of-reincarnation-review-ps5-xbox\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/974505\/beast-of-reincarnation-review-ps5-xbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Webster &bull; August 4, 2026 You have to imagine that the team at Game Freak is bursting with ideas. The studio puts out new mainline Pok&eacute;mon adventures with a machinelike precision. But every so often it launches a curious experiment, whether it&#8217;s an action title about a militarized elephant or turning horse races into<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=14581\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}