Just like the original game, you only get to choose one photo of each Pokemon you photograph to show him that gets logged. Particularly when choosing the photo you get to show Professor Mirror. What’s not good, however, is the rating system. Overall this is well and good the mechanics still work quite well today and the variety of Pokemon in each level is basically exactly what I was asking for since I was a kid. These photos can then be shared online, where they can be rated and liked by other players. Once you submit your photos, you’re also given the option to save them to your own personal album, allowing you to edit photos in a variety of ways, including brightness, blur, focus size and focal point, you can apply various filters, frames, and stickers, and add a caption if you really wanted to. There are also Day and Night versions of each level, which is a great addition to the series that lets you experience a better variety of each Pokemon for each level. You can “manipulate” Pokemon in each level with a variety of tools to change their pose, with some new like “Illumina orbs” to temporarily force Pokemon into an Illumina state, and some old like Apples Fluffruit and the Pokeflute “Melody” app on your camera. One of the secondary goals of the game would be to get pictures of Pokemon in one-four star ratings, and boy is that.not great. There are also four star ratings, which are mainly determined based on the pose a Pokemon is doing at any one time. You’re awarded points for a Pokemon’s pose, size in the picture, what direction the Pokemon is facing, its placement in the photo (is it centred etc), and if there are other Pokemon in the photo. Gameplay for New Pokemon Snap is pretty much identical to the previous game. You go through each area in the game in an on-rails fashion, with the goal being to take pictures of Pokemon in their natural habitat to add to your “PhotoDex”. It’s not going to win any awards, but it’s a good enough of a story for something as simple as taking pictures of Pokemon.Īfter some quick tutorials to introduce you to the mechanics, you can finally get on your way to the first area in the “NEO-ONE” hover vehicle, a nice nod to the ZERO-ONE from the original. Avoiding spoilers, the long and short of it is that you’re helping Professor Mirror investigate the “Illumina phenomenon”, where various Pokemon in the Lental region are known to have some sort of special glow at night. Unlike the N64 title where the story was basically “hi I want to take pictures k bye”, New Pokemon Snap kind of has an actual plot. After that, you’re given a nice looking cutscene that introduces you to Professor Mirror and his assistant Rita, as well as the new Lental region you’ll be going through that was designed for this game. It's a little disappointing you still can’t just design your own character, but whatever. Starting up, you get to choose between eight different player characters, four guys and four girls, which are basically all generic-y Pokemon models that you’d expect to see from Nintendo these days. I’ll get into my complaints in a little bit, but first I’ll take you through the general plot of the game. You can preorder New Pokemon Snap at Amazon here.To be brutally honest? It’s not great. What do you think of New Pokemon Snap? Will you dust off your camera to fill out the new Photodex? Let us know in the comments below. Nintendo has released two new trailers this week showing off gameplay. Considering the continued popularity of the original Pokemon Snap, New Pokemon Snap should do fairly well when it is released on April 30. It’s somewhat unique in this console generation, as the on-rails genre has largely faded from popularity. Like the 1999 original, New Pokemon Snap is an interesting and cute Pokemon-themed take on the on-rail shooter genre. Paul takes on the role of your rival and will compete to snap the best pic, while Rita is more of a support character for the player. Professor Mirror has two assistants, Rita and Paul. Professor Mirror, the game’s resident Pokemon expert, will then rate the player’s performance based on the quality of the pictures. Gameplay is essentially a carbon copy of the first Pokemon Snap game players travel along a predetermined path and photograph Pokemon that pop up in the environment. The game, which is a follow-up to the Nintendo 64’s 1999 cult hit Pokemon Snap, puts players on a fantastical island and tasks them with snapping pristine pictures of Pokemon playing, pausing, and perusing particular places in paradise. A new generation of Pokemon photographers can take the perfect Pokemon pic in New Pokemon Snap for the Nintendo Switch on April 30.
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