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New Pokemon Snap
Released On: Apr 30, 2021
79
6.9
All Platforms
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 122 Critic Reviews
79
73% Positive
89 Reviews
89 Reviews
22% Mixed
27 Reviews
27 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 122 Critic Reviews
79
73% Positive
89 Reviews
89 Reviews
22% Mixed
27 Reviews
27 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Playing New Pokémon Snap filled me with a joy and excitement that I haven’t felt from a game in a while. Though it has its minor flaws, it really is an experience worth playing that offers gameplay you won’t find elsewhere.
New Pokémon Snap offers a great chance to explore the Pokémon world, with beautiful animations and designs, thrilling levels, and a sense of calm throughout. You'll struggle to not enjoy your time with it.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 671 User Ratings
6.9
66% Positive
440 Ratings
440 Ratings
11% Mixed
73 Ratings
73 Ratings
24% Negative
158 Ratings
158 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 671 User Ratings
6.9
66% Positive
440 Ratings
440 Ratings
11% Mixed
73 Ratings
73 Ratings
24% Negative
158 Ratings
158 Ratings
this game is so good and so beautiful. i love the little details on every stage
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Nintendo Switch
Genuinely the most incredible experience in the pokémon world thus far. Not a complicated game, but a stunning world
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Nintendo Switch
A remarkably sure-footed followup. [Issue#259, p.110]
New Pokémon Snap brings the spirit of the original game to a brand new generation on the Nintendo Switch. With breath-taking visuals, tight gameplay, and an unmistakable Pokémon charm, this title is a relaxing and laid-back experience worth exploring.
New Pokemon Snap has issues when it comes to tedium between courses, arbitrary solutions, and boring, barely functional extra mechanics, but the courses and Pokemon are legitimately incredible. The Photodex is a marvel, multiplayer creates healthy competition for replayability , and just being able to inhabit Lental is a spectacle in and of itself. I’m not sure I’d recommend it to someone who can’t tell Bagon from Beldum, but if you’re a born and bred Pokemon fan, New Pokemon Snap could be your sleeper hit of the year.
Despite my issues with the game, I really did enjoy New Pokémon Snap. Even after completing the game’s storyline, there’s still a ton more to do after the credits roll. To this old Pokémon fan, this is a must-own title. If you love photographing wild creatures and exploring a vibrant new region, this is the game for you. And if you really want to feel like you’re a budding photographer, play the game using the optional motion controls, swinging the Switch around like a giant camera. Now to spend hours and hours more to fill out my Photodex and unearth all the secrets of the Lental region.
But by stripping the Pokémon of anything that feels organic, Nintendo has effectively made its critters feel like wind-up toys, removing the romanticism and mystique that should always come through witnessing raw, unbridled nature. They took these untamed lands and tamed them before we even got there. Unfortunately, the resultant game is as exciting as you’d imagine.
Great game, huge fan of something different, a true successor of the first Pokemon snap.
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Nintendo Switch
taking photos are so relaxing! if they made it easier and friendly for everyone to play it would be better
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Nintendo Switch
I wanted to take cute pictures of Pokémon, and New Pokémon Snap lets me do that. The gameplay loop is pretty repetitive, and the NPC's are really bland, but looking through my Switch screenshots and seeing pictures I took of some of my favorite mons brought me a lot of joy.
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Nintendo Switch
The good:
A new Pokemon Snap. You can photograph special Pokemons with silhouettes, shadows, plants (as in the original game)
The bad:
A continuation that no one asked for now (it was requested 5,10,15 years ago), came 20 years later.
"New" for being a new game but it is as anachronistic as the original game, if you tell me that it is a Polemon Snap Remake with little monsters from recent generations, I believe you. Even with the improvements that have been in matters of open worlds and exploration, the game is on rails
What Meh:
As a Pokemon fan since GB games, I am bothered by the franchise's excess and overexploitation in ridiculous games like this one. If they give it to you, go ahead, but it is not an essential game in the Pokemon collection
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Nintendo Switch
Does not have puzzle elements and secrets like the original, very lazy directing
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Nintendo Switch
Summary Photograph Pokémon in their natural habitats as you adventure through unknown islands. Seek out and take in-game pictures of Pokémon in their native environments in the New Pokémon Snap game, only for the Nintendo Switch system! You'll even discover behaviors and expressions you've never seen before when you encounter and research lively...
Rated E
for Everyone
Platforms:
- Nintendo Switch
Initial Release Date: Apr 30, 2021
Developer:
- Bandai Namco Games
Publisher: Nintendo
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