Beast of Reincarnation Game Director Says Game Freak's Primary Focus Is on 'Gameplay Experience' Rather Than Visual Fidelity or Graphics

We conscionable got our archetypal lengthy, due look astatine Beast of Reincarnation, the upcoming crippled from Pokemon developer Game Freak that, astatine slightest based connected what we saw today, seems to beryllium their astir ambitious non-Pokemon crippled yet. But arsenic a Pokemon fan, that does permission maine with a large question: is Game Freak up for this?

Having sat wearily done Pokemon's Nintendo Switch era, I've present seen aggregate releases successful a enactment that suggest to maine Game Freak has immoderate superior struggles with location console optimization. I've written astir it before, but respective Pokemon games successful a enactment person struggled with bugs, crashes, highly distracting framerate issues, oregon conscionable being mostly benignant of ugly. Pokemon Legends: ZA, the astir caller entry, is importantly improved, but inactive a acold outcry from what Beast of Reincarnation seems to beryllium promising.

Because that's conscionable it: Beast of Reincarnation, astatine slightest successful today's trailer, looks truly nice. The environments look lush and detailed, the enactment appears fluid and precise, objects and environments look similar they person texture and extent and detail. Even if you don't usually attraction astir graphics (I definite didn't until Pokemon Scarlet and Violet), there's nary denying that you request a crippled to tally good for enactment combat with counters and accelerated absorption times to function. If Game Freak hadn't had a mates concerningly stuttery Pokemon games successful a row, I wouldn't adjacent beryllium asking this question! But present we are.

So inquire I did. I spoke with Kota Furushima up of today's presentation, and noted the criticisms of the show and look of Game Freak's caller 3D unfastened satellite games. I pointed retired that Beast of Reincarnation seems reasonably ambitious. So what would helium accidental to those disquieted it mightiness struggle?

Here's what Furushima said:

I deliberation erstwhile it comes to Beast of Reincarnation, and I conjecture we would respect it arsenic the standard and the ambition of the title, erstwhile we attack crippled design, we're not looking to make, say, a rubric of a definite level of quality. We're looking to present a precise circumstantial crippled experience, and ocular fidelity and graphics, this is thing that supports that crippled experience, everything that goes into that. That includes things similar bug fixing, optimization. Everything is determination to service the gameplay and the experience. Our absorption is connected that gameplay experience. Part of that, of course, is making definite that it performs truly well, but our attraction is much connected getting the acquisition implicit to you and making definite that our imaginativeness tin get to your hands and your hearts.

I'm not definite that's a afloat satisfying answer, but I besides was warned up beforehand that Furushima wasn't funny successful speaking astir Pokemon adjacent vaguely during this conversation. Which, just enough. And I don't deliberation Furushima is needfully incorrect here. Pokemon is inactive dang amusive to play, arsenic demonstrated by my caller reviews of it arsenic good arsenic the sheer fig of radical inactive buying it twelvemonth aft year. They did prioritize the experience, successful that sense. I'm conscionable inactive a small acrophobic that they aren't acrophobic astir the ways successful which that acquisition tin beryllium marred by method jank.

Regardless, I privation to believe. Beast of Reincarnation looks lovely, and we'll cognize for definite wherever it stands connected some acquisition and ambition this summer. You tin work the remainder of my interrogation with Furushima close here. And you tin drawback up connected everything announced astatine today's Xbox Developer Direct close here.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].