I adore it - have sunk about 18 hours into it already. Know what you mean about it being intense, as my eyes hurt after each course! Find it extremely additctive though, just like the original. I can tell the replay value is going to be huge for me. Feels like there are loads of obscure secrets hidden away.
Iām kind of OK with the slightly wonky scoring system now, but Iām not always totally sure what the Pokemons have done differently between the 4 main behaviours you are trying to capture. Often I snap a Pokemon doing something quite specific, but doesnāt seem to register, and other times it just seems like a bog standard pose and the professor goes wild. I guess it could be covered by the additional requests, which I also find a bit hit and miss.
Tip - if you havenāt already then make sure to go to Settings and put the pointer / camera speed up to max, it makes a big difference.
Yeah Iāve got them on max settings too, makes a difference.
I havenāt completed any of the additional quests yet, despite having taken photos that seem to do what they asked. Do you need to do anything extra to complete them?
You need to go into the requests and it should say ārequest completeā, but you have to open the request and it will then trigger a little dialogue and sometimes a reward. But yeah, there are loads which Iām sure I have captured but are not marked complete. Perhaps it only counts if it is one of the pictures submitted to the professor, and I always use the auto select which Iām sure is nobbling me.
Yeah I got that shot too (great moment), but it did mark the request as complete. One of the ones where the shot is really bad, with the quagmires head cut off, but still got decent points. I am going to get a better one though!
Iāve got quite a few 4* but I think only 1 picture above 5k excluding the special pokemons. It was of a Pikipek, I will post it once I get my Switch hooked up to a dummy Twitter account.
Itās definitely the best console to get if youāre returning to gaming after a long time. If you post in the Switch thread youāll get a lot of good recommendations for starter games.
Thereās rumours of a āSwitch proā model with 4k but not a new generation of console i.e. youāll still be able to play all the upcoming games which are released on a machine you buy now.
Yeah I canāt recommend the Switch highly enough, it is the best console Iāve ever owned hands down. I didnāt have a hiatus from gaming as such, but since getting a Switch Iāve really fallen in love with it again.
Back to Pokemon chat, here is my prized Pikipek pic
You have to wait for the sales to come round, but I picked up various indie titles (Steamworld Dig, Hollow Knight, Celeste, Slay the Spire, Dead Cells) all fairly cheap, as well as older games like Dark Souls and BioShock. But yeah, stuff like Skyrim and the Witcher are much cheaper and perform better on other platforms, Iāll give you that much.
Done about 40 hours on Pokemon Snap now, still discovering new stuff on every run. Doing pretty well in the old rankings too!
Really enjoyed watching this get played. Iām not a huge Pokemon fan but thereās just something so charming about it. For being on-rails it feels like thereās a solid amount of creativity in choosing your shots carefully. It could maybe do with a couple more puzzles and being longer (Iām not sure thereās much replay value?) but yeah what a cool thing.
There is loads of replay value! Iāve done each course at least a dozen times, some of them 40 or 50 times, and always discover something new. There are loads of Pokemon to snap, some of which you can only find through very obscure steps, and for each one you need to capture at least 4 different behaviours, plus there are loads of extra ones via the request system. Even after youāve got them all, there is always the feeling that you can get a better picture and boost up your total score, or do a better run. Honestly think this is pretty much a perfect game.
Aye there is loads! Iād like if there was more post game stuff but certainly if youāre into completing stuff thereās a lot to dig into. Donāt see us replaying it any time soon, but I hope they do an expansion/make these more regular than once every 20-odd years.