If You Bounced Off Beast of Reincarnation at Launch, This Patch Might Change Your Mind

Game Freak has released Beast of Reincarnation’s first major patch since launch, addressing camera problems, parrying, and story pacing complaints. The action RPG launched to a Mixed Steam rating and middling critic scores.

The studio promised rapid fixes within a day of release, and Patch 1.0.7 is the first concrete delivery on that promise.

How Rough the Launch Actually Was

Beast of Reincarnation launched August 4 to a 75 Metacritic average on OpenCritic and a genuinely divided Steam userbase. GamesRadar+ reported that Steam reviewers were calling the game “bad and laughable,” pointing specifically to its camera, combat, and story.

As of this patch, the game sits at 61 percent positive on Steam.

Notably, Game Freak responded almost immediately. Just one day after launch, the studio posted on social media promising a series of continuous updates, saying directly that it takes player feedback to heart.

That’s an unusually fast public commitment for a studio best known for Pokemon, a franchise with a very different post-launch support model.

What Patch 1.0.7 Actually Fixes

The update ships with a genuinely substantial list of changes, covering camera behavior, text readability, controls, and combat balance.

Camera: Adjustments to player camera behavior both in and out of combat, with more changes planned
Story pacing: Affinity-building conversations with companion character Kagura, which could previously repeat several times in a row, are now limited to once per day
Cutscenes: The default cutscene setting switches from Cinematic to Performance mode, ending the previous default of 24fps cutscenes
Kämpfen: Adjusted parry timing when protagonist Emma takes damage, plus balance changes to bosses and enemy encounters across difficulty levels

The patch also fixes a specific bug tied to remapped controls. Previously, mapping the interact button to a face button could accidentally trigger a “rest until morning” prompt instead of a key story conversation.

Alkimia also fixed upscaling and V-Sync bugs that reset player settings unexpectedly.

What’s Still Missing

Combat itself remains largely untouched beyond the parry timing fix, despite fighting mechanics being one of the most contested parts of the launch reception.

Game Freak has confirmed more updates are already planned, including support for NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 and AMD FSR 4.0 upscaling, along with further story pacing and cutscene improvements the studio says it will detail later.

That approach echoes another recent recovery story. TheGamer previously covered how Pearl Abyss transformed Crimson Desert’s reception through aggressive post-launch patching within weeks of its own rocky start.

Game Freak appears to be following a similar playbook here.

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Patch 1.0.7 doesn’t fix everything players are upset about, particularly around combat feel, but it’s a genuinely substantial first response less than a week after launch.

The pacing fix for repeated conversations and the cutscene framerate change address two of the more specific, frequently cited annoyances.

Whether Game Freak can pull off a full Crimson Desert-style turnaround remains to be seen, but the speed and scope of this first patch suggest it’s serious about trying.