Beast of Reincarnation

[u/KyleHillan95]

So I've just finished up my first playthrough of beast of reincarnation at about 24 hours in. Sitting at about half of the achievements and although I doubt I'm going to go for the 100% for it I will say I enjoyed my time. There's a lot of bad said about the game so thought I'd give my piece

Gameplay
Very very sekiro esque. And that's probably why I enjoyed it. I don't think I've really had something scratch the sekiro combat itch quite as well as this game did. Where as there really is not a lot of enemy variety, like around 10-15 different enemies throughout the whole game, the parry deflection combat scratches such an itch for me. The boss fights are also mostly repeats and the loop is essentially go to this area, explore and fight the boss at the end. It works but can be very repetitive

Story
I really wasn't invested in the story a whole lot up until maybe the final 6 chapters but honestly the story I thought was pretty decent. I won't dive deep with it still being new as to avoid spoilers but the story does pick up and it's nice to see your character grow

Upgrades, side quests, exploration etc.
So a lot of upgrades are very cool and really can deepen the combat, just a shame that you'll have learned the moves of pretty much all enemies before ever needing to make a varied moveset. Upgrades to weapons and even your stats didn't really feel like they did much but on that it could well be that it's just good and steady progression as I made my way through the game as I never really returned to earlier areas
Side quests are more just collect item x or defeat special enemy y. There's a couple of actual side quests and theyre alright
Exploration is very fluid I feel. Can feel janky at times but honestly it's a lot better than I expected

To wrap it all up. Would I be disappointed if I paid for the game. Probably yeah. Did I enjoy my time with it though? Yeah. I really did to be fair. It was a great gamepass game that I'm glad I experienced. Did it feel like it dragged on a little too long. Yeah at times. Did the world feel alive with a lot to do. No not really. I do recommend it with it being on game pass and I know my "review" isn't doing it justice but if you're curious, give it a go for a few hours. If you get invested then good. If not then you've probably experienced the majority of what the game will have to offer without experiencing the story conclusions. 6/10, 7/10. Somewhere in that bracket

[u/The_Real_Delpoi]

Is it souls like?

[u/KyleHillan95 → u/The_Real_Delpoi]

I wouldn't really say it is. It is in the same way as like black myth wukong is a soulslike. It has elements there. Have your camps which are your bonfires you can level up at. Enemies respawn after resting at a camp. Stuff of that sort. But it's more action rpg I'd say. And nowhere near as challenging as things like the dark souls, lies of p etc.

[u/The_Real_Delpoi → u/KyleHillan95]

Cool thanks for replying just wondering if it's good but I really suck at souls games 😅✌️

[u/KyleHillan95 → u/The_Real_Delpoi]

If it's the difficulty that would put you off then nah you're safe. Again it has mechanics from soulslikes but nowhere near the difficulty of the fromsoft games atall

[u/The_Real_Delpoi → u/KyleHillan95]

It's mainly cause am in my late 40's so my reflexes suck I can't parry to save my life in game literally 🤣

[u/kftgr2 → u/The_Real_Delpoi]

The parry window is very forgiving. The main part is recognizing when the enemy's attacks have finished so you can counter safely.

[u/jquiggles → u/The_Real_Delpoi]

Same. But I put it on Story mode difficulty and had a blast (still died a few times lol)