This is a world you’ll want to capture from every single angle. Every complaint about how the Pokémon series presents itself feels met in New Pokémon Snap you’ll be getting far closer to Pokémon models than they were probably ever intended to be seen but they still manage to look incredible. Even human characters feel more alive than ever and in brief cutscenes they’re given full voice acting making them feel like more than cut-outs that push the story forward. We’ve never seen the Pokémon series with this much detail, and this goes beyond just how it presents the Pocket Monsters. Unlike the original, where they would bob along a solid blue ocean, environments are stunning with individual leaves and blades of grass rendered on screen and even the lighting can be incredible - especially during a gorgeous underwater section. You can now see through the ocean and watch Lapras swim with every detail exposed. Very few games get to showcase a jump going as far back as the Nintendo 64 and so even the smallest things had us smiling. There are occasional winks to the original, like the beach level which opens with a Pikachu scuttling along the coast, but New Pokémon Snap doesn't waste its time chasing nostalgia - it knows it's a sequel coming many years later and has grown with the gap in time. With such a weight on its shoulders can it possibly live up to such a legacy? Remarkably, yeah, it can. But no, 22 years have passed and we finally have its sequel. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked)Īnd now we've played through New Pokémon Snap and it still feels like we're living a dream. There was simply no other game quite like it and it's gone down in history as possibly the greatest Pokémon spinoff, if we discount Pokémon Puzzle League. We learned each level inside and out, mastering where every creature would spawn and when they would strike a special pose. That's what made the original game so special, we had never seen Pokémon divorced from humans in such a natural way, there were so many iconic moments that were exhilarating to catch with the perfect frame on camera. To put it simply, Snap presents Pokémon in their purest form it lets Pokémon be Pokémon without any strings of battling attached - something no other entry even attempts. On paper, Pokémon Snap sounds basic and it seems there's an entire generation who don't get the appeal. Why is that? It wasn't a long game, it didn't have that many levels, only had a small pool of Pokémon and the base gameplay was simply about taking pictures. It's been 22 years since the original Pokémon Snap and with each passing console generation fans had never given up hope for a possible sequel.
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