New Pokémon Snap Reviews
New Pokemon Snap is easy to recommend it to a wide audience. It’s a fun game for Pokemon fans, a worthy sequel for those who enjoyed the original, and a unique experience for those who are looking for something new to pick up and play in short bursts.
New Pokémon Snap is pretty magical as well. It takes the unique formula of the 1999 original and expands on it just enough to feel like a completely new adventure, without diluting the simple joy of riding and snapping photos of impossible creatures.
A very nice evolution over the original Pokémon Snap, this new chapter is excellent for young players and nice for experienced users too.
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New Pokemon Snap captures the magic of the original game without ever losing focus, expanding on that game with a vastly increased collection of Pokemon, colourful zones to explore, and a few other interesting developments behind the lens. It's a delightful adventure that imagines the world of Pokemon as a lively and cathartic safari.
New Pokémon Snap feels like seeing Pokémon for the first time and takes trainers on a beautiful and exciting journey through the Lental region.
New Pokémon Snap is a photography game with occasionally clunky progression, but which is eager to show off its delightful subjects and let them surprise you.
With all its flaws and repetition, New Pokémon Snap is a great new approach to the that concept that made so special the Nintendo 64 classic from 1999.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
New Pokemon Snap on the Nintendo Switch is a worthy follow-up to the N64's beloved photo game. It blends the classic gameplay with cool, contemporary touches.
The gameplay of New Pokémon Snap is the same as in N64, but with more Pokémon, dozens of challenges and a social component of "photo mode" that multiplies its potential. Because of the kind of game it is, it inevitably ends up becoming repetitive, but there's a lot to discover before that happens, and it's a beautiful, relaxing retreat if you're looking for escapism.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
New Pokémon Snap is a surprisingly complex photo simulator that's not just fun for die-hard Pokémon fans.
Review in German | Read full review
Exploring a world full of Pokémon, great landscapes and an impressive amount of interaction possibilities with and between them is something any fan of the saga should dream of. New Pokémon Snap can present a simple gameplay, but in which you can deepen to immortalize a myriad of unique moments and snapshots worthy of belonging to any nature photographer.
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It gives the player just enough story and intrigue to press on through a grindy midgame focused on revisiting maps.
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.
New Pokémon Snap remains a video game that wears out very quickly, that burns its many elements of ingenuity certainly quickly, and that is bound to the tracks of its anachronistic DNA. New Pokémon Snap, however, is a carefully packaged product, which the fans of the series will surely be able to fully appreciate.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Pokémon Snap did not come to quench the thirst for fans of the main games. What it offers, however, is something equally important to many people out there. It is able to fill a gap in the franchise through a different perspective: it is a journey of relaxation.
Review in Greek | Read full review
New Pokemon Snap could very well be the next "chill" hit for Nintendo in the vein of last year's Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The game itself has very low stakes, but there's still lots to explore and find, and it should be a great distraction for players over the rest of the spring and summer. New Pokemon Snap is an impressive re-debut for the Pokemon Snap franchise and should hopefully give Nintendo and The Pokemon Company motivation to make additional Pokemon Snap games. Less than a quarter of all Pokemon species is represented in New Pokemon Snap, so there is certainly room for more exploration, more discovery, and more photos in the future.
Overall, New Pokémon Snap is a relaxing but still a quite involved game There’s a lot to do in the Lental Region and the game definitely turned out better than I ever expected it to. While it can get a bit repetitive, there are enough surprises to keep you engaged.
Overall, New Pokemnon Snap is a decent game, and a mostly worthy successor to the N64 classic. If you were a fan of the original, you'll be a fan of this one for sure. It's a little rough around the edges in some places, and the grind can be unreal sometimes, but it's still modern Pokemon Snap which is good enough for me.
New Pokémon Snap is not perfect, but it is far and away the sequel to the 1999 classic we have all been waiting for. While I wish some pacing issues and nitpicks with what is no longer in the game have influenced my enjoyment, overall, I cannot wait to spend countless more hours perfecting my photography skills and engrossing myself in this absolutely stunning world.