Beast Of Reincarnation is a good game that suffers from a really long midgame lull. I really love the game's environment and monster design, using the plant overgrowth theme to great effect. The movement and combat are also just really fun to mess around with, the former allowing you to extend a vine horizontally to cross gaps and giving you essentially what is a hover to climb vertically in addition to a grappling hook with pre-determined anchor points in the environment, giving you exceptional range to explore, while the later is very Sekiro-lite with lots of emphasis on parrys (which also fuels Koo's spell-like abilities), dodges and combo-finishers but without making enemies overbrearingly strong.
Unfortunately despite having all of these pieces to it, the enemy and environment variety is probably the game's biggest weakpoint. There's basically only around 5 different enemy types for both humanoids and animals each. Despite having a very detailed combat system most of these enemies also won't really push you to actually use all those pieces. In addition to that, until the endgame, most environments, despite having some destinct locations and landmarks, fall under the same broad visual design of concrete and rust with greenery sprinkled ontop of it. To top it off, the plot also really slows down during the mid-game and you'll even start going into boss rematches that barely change up the fight, making the missing variety really stand out. As a side-note, I'd also say the first area, being a big open field with a lot of hidden paths and side-activities, almost sets some false expectations, since most of the other areas of the game tend to be more linear affairs (with still some side-branches for exploration & collectibles - you still get plenty of use out of the movement abilities I mentioned earlier)
It's definitely one of those games you put on to zone out, go auto-mode and just take in the environments - I have taken so many screenshots just of the vistas presented in some of the areas. I also think the plot is pretty interesting once it actually starts wrapping up its mysteries, but I can absolutely understand people being annoyed at the dialogue early on, Emma, the player character, is not very talkative and does as she's told without much questioning, so most of her interactions with other characters are very flat. It is part of her character development, but again, it just takes a while to get there.
Overall, I'll still say Beast Of Reincarnation is worth playing! If you can find it for a decent price or you just want something to zone out to, this gets my recommendation.
