{"id":554001,"date":"2026-08-01T02:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/554001\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T02:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:18:09","slug":"beast-of-reincarnation-shows-game-freak-has-more-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/554001\/","title":{"rendered":"Beast of Reincarnation shows Game Freak has more to learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game Freak\u2019s Beast of Reincarnation arrives with high expectations. The action role-playing game, due Aug. 4, was widely seen by fans as a chance for the Pokemon developer to show what it could do beyond the long-running series.<\/p>\n<p>Early previews indicated a massive departure from the creature-capturing and battling mechanics Game Freak has become known for. Even skeptical fans had hope for a new action RPG franchise and a potentially renewed creative spark for future Pokemon titles.<\/p>\n<p>On July 23, I was among about 20 reviewers invited to a closed-door demo of Beast of Reincarnation limited to the game\u2019s prologue and first chapter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game Freak\u2019s Beast of Reincarnation arrives with high expectations. The action role-playing game, due Aug. 4, was widely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[272087,92993,111,139,69,73117,9509,145,2673],"class_list":["post-554001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-beast-of-reincarnation","tag-game-freak","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-palworld","tag-pokemon","tag-technology","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}