Topic: New Pokemon Snap

I mean, you can go on different paths.

That's good. Free roaming would be even better for me. I suspect I will wait for reviews before I personally decide whether to dive in.

The review embargo is lifted today so we should be seeing them around noon today.

And it's now lifted, it's currently on 82 at Metacritic with 19 reviews and it seems to be a longer game than the orginal.

Now that New Pokemon Snap has shipped I wonder what's next for the dev team that made this game?

Pokken Tournament 2 perhaps?

@Magician Did Pokken and Snap have the same dev team or just from the same company?

I'd like a Pokken 2 but if there was a new Pokken I'd imagine it will hit the arcades first. I can see Bandai Namco being brought in to develop the remakes since they are outsourcing those now.

@jump

Haruki Suzaki directed NPS. Same design director as Pokken Tournament and Soul Calibur V. Although the NPS dev team staff probably wasn't 1-for-1 with those game, I assume much of the development resources were the same.

Edit: Correction, design director, not project director.

@Magician I didn't know that, I just assumed they went to Bandai because they liked their work with Pokken rather than it was they wanted the same guys.

I hope that doesn't mean there wont be a new Soul Calibur anytime soon. I was hoping for one to be announced at E3.

I want to see Sawk as playable character on Pokken 2.

Been playing it all morning after grabbing it first thing, day off work too. Loving what I've experienced so far.

...I thought this released tomorrow...at midnight...like, in an hour or something...

EDIT: My first few thoughts on New Pokemon Snap.

1. Audio seems lower than usual.
2. Visuals seem a lot better than usual.
3. Dodrio keeps stalking me.
4. STAHP BLINKING!!!

It's been data mined, full list of pokes are below and there's hints of DLC since there's spaces in the numbers.

I thought it might get DLC in future since it's made by Namco and they have Smash Ultimate loads of DLC. Hopefully some new levels will come too.

@jump Wow, that is a lot of Pokémon... I was not expecting even half of that

Edit: did the original had the 120/121 gen one?

@Balta666 Gen 1 was 151 pokes but Snap had maybe half of them (not sure on the exact number) so it is a big bump up which is a good thing as the first one did feel short.

@jump right 151 lol, I was distracted earlier.

I've done the first level and will have to wait now til after work before I can play some more but it's very nice. The gyro controls are lovely, the visuals are better than the screenshots and it feels like the levels (or the first one at least) are lot more replayable than the orginal.

This game is so chill. Very much needed right now. 🤗

I played the original 20+ years ago, one of my favorite games on the N64. The new one has very much improved the formula.

I don't know half of the Pokémons though... Was a hardcore Pokémon fan up until gen 3, after that I kinda dropped off, even though I played some of the later games, but not as much as the first three generations. Those were the best!

This game is fantastic - really captures the feel of the original game and then some. It's also making me really appreciate some Pokemon designs that I didn't really care for before.

Nintendo take note: it really doesn't hurt to revive dormant serids sometimes!

I'm about 3 hours in now and I'd say it's a solid four thumbs up. There's a few niggles like they should have a list of requests displayed when you pause so you can keep track of what you need and leveling up/requests slows the pacing down but it's still a very chill game.

Some of these challenges have me stumped, though...like in the third level you unlock (Meganium). Not sure how to get one of those...

When you think about it, this game is basically a puzzle game but with taking pictures. lol