NOCLIP Pocket E70 - Murdering Doom Bringer - New Pokémon Snap

You were close! Welcome back to NOCLIP Pocket! Today, we’re finally doing the game we said we were going to do back in September before we got blindsided by the entire month of October. Sneaks up on you sometimes, I know. And that game is New Pokémon Snap! Concluding our now trilogy of episodes on Snap-alikes, New Pokémon Snap is the sequel to Pokémon Snap on the N64, and a game that was pretty heavily speculated on and vocally desired by fans of the original. Nintendo had released numerous consoles that seemed to be begging for a Snap sequel, from the Wii with its pointer controls to the Wii U and 3DS with gyroscope enabled screen devices, but we didn’t get a new entry in the series until the Switch, and that game ends up being very much like the original. Not that the game doesn’t have new content, with hundreds of new Pokémon being created since the original title, there is a huge number of new subjects to take photos of, and the system for grading those photos is improved a lot. In addition, you can store many more shots both in your photodex as well as to an album, which is compatible with the Switch’s system storage, preventing the need for trips to Blockbuster to save your favorite photos. The game also looks very good, which is important for the type of game this is, but also isn’t exactly what the series has been known for recently. However, there is an intangible element of the original game that is noticeably missing from this one that is hard to articulate concisely that we spend a good amount of time talking about in the episode. This is a passionate one, so strap in. We’re going to be talking about level design both on a mechanical and thematic level, how Pokémon lost its edge over time, and we bring justice for the Pester Balls who have had their free speech silenced. Thank you for joining us again this week! We’ve been trying to get to this game for a while and are happy we finally did. Despite our complaining, this is still a pretty good game that we’d recommend to fans of the original, and if you’re capable of being a bit more objective than us, you may even prefer it. Did you notice the shift in design between the original and this title? Do you know of any other Snap type games you’d like to recommend to us? Let us know in the comments or over on our Discord, where we take suggestions for games to play and talk about the episodes! Next time, we’re going to be talking about WarioWare: Get it Together, so we hope you’ll join us then.