THE FUSE

If you’ve ever had a dog or cat who is attached to your hip, you’ve likely had moments when they, as if by some magical force, appeared by your side just in time to get stepped on, trip you up, or in some cases scare the heck out of you. Beast of Reincarnation, a game about a girl named Emma and her wolf companion Koo, does a surprisingly good job of capturing the sensation of a pet sneaking up on you and making you jump slightly, and it happens so often that you’d think my nervous system would have stopped activating every time Koo suddenly appeared beside me. It didn’t.