"I bet they didn't crunch this in a year or 2": As Switch 2 gives Pokemon Scarlet and Violet a needed FPS boost, fans blast GameFreak one last time as it unveils its gorgeous new action RPG

A screenshot of the upcoming PS5 game, Beast of Reincarnation.
(Image credit: Game Freak)

There are some developers you just can't believe aren't owned by a parent company. I've been a Pokemon fan all my life and a games journalist for almost five years, and I'd have bet money that Game Freak only worked with Nintendo. But during 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Summer Game Fest, it revealed 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Beast of Reincarnation, ﷽a third-person action game it's making for PC, Xbox Series, and PS5 – not Nintendo Switch 2. No one can believe this is the same company that made Pokemo🎃n Scarlet and Violet.

Beast of Reincarnation looks like a modern triple-A game, because it is. Gone are the saturated hues and sparse environmenta🉐l details of Pokemon, in are dense foliage, colossal bosses, and swift combat. The differenc🐲e is night and day – or Sun and Moon.

. "Same developers. Game Freak cannot be serious," another.

People have been clowning on Game Freak for how bad Pokemon Scarlet and Violet run for ages. It's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a lot better on the Switch 2, but people still can't believe the ෴company is capable of this.

Over on Reddit, one person writes, in all caps which I sha🅷ll spare you from, "Game 𝕴Freak made this?! Bro, this is Game Freak?" I know, we're all just as shocked, honestly.

"I bet they didn't crunch this in a year or two," one person. Since a n🦋ew Pokemon Game is ꦉreleased every couple of years by Game Freak, a lot of people believe the team is overworked.

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However, eve💙n though Beast of Reincarnation is due out in 2026, with Pokemon Legends: Z-A coming later this year, Game Frea༺k introduced back in 2022, so we have no evidence crunch is an issue.

On BlueSky, one person : "Game Freak: We hired a guy who told us what textures are. It has really revoluꦰtionized our whole deal."

It's unbelievable how different this looks to Pokemon. Considering 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to Switch 2, it's not like Game Freak couldn't make a game look like this on the ha🌳rdware, but clearly that's just not the aesthetic direction either it or Nintendo wants to tak🦂e Pokemon in.

While we wait for next year, check out all the other 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming games you have to look forward to.

I'm Issy, a freelancer who you'll now occasionally see over here covering news on GamesRadar. I've always had a passion for playing games, but I learned how to write about them while d𒈔oing my Film and TV degrees at the University of War🌠wick and contributing to the student paper, The Boar. After university I worked at TheGamer before heading up the news section at Dot Esports. Now you'll find me freelancing for Rolling Stone, NME, Inverse, and many more places. I love all things horror, narrative-driven, and indie, and I mainly play on my PS5. I'm currently clearing my backlog and loving Dishonored 2.

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