More Than A Side Project

While Game Freak is best known for its work on the Pokémon games (the series is so large that it’s hard to see how it wouldn’t be), it does develop other projects from time to time. That said, Beast of Reincarnation, the studio’s upcoming post-apocalyptic action RPG, is an outlier among its outliers. After seeing the game in action during recent Xbox and PlayStation showcases, we have a much clearer vision of what to expect when it launches this August.

Set in Japan in the year 4026, Game Freak describes the game as a “one-person, one-dog action RPG.” The person and dog in question are named Emma and Koo, respectively, and they live in a time where the human population has been decimated by a parasitic plant called “blight.” Somehow, Emma is able to seal that blight within her body, so she’s known as a Sealer. Unfortunately, people fear this ability, leaving her isolated from the remnants of society.