New Pokémon Snap
New Pokémon Snap is an on-rails first-person photography game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and published by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company for the Nintendo Switch. It is a sequel to the 1999 Nintendo 64…
New Pokémon Snap is an adventure developed by Bandai Namco Studios, released 29 April 2021 on Nintendo Switch. The main story takes about 15 hrs to finish.
What New Pokémon Snap is
New Pokémon Snap is an adventure game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and released in 2021. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A budding Pokémon photographer travels to the lush and varied Lental region, invited by the esteemed Professor Mirror and his assistant Rita to join their ecological research. Working from the Laboratory of Ecological and Natural Sciences, the player is sent out across the region's islands to observe and photograph Pokémon thriving in their natural habitats, from jungles and deserts to reefs and caves. But the survey has a deeper purpose. The professor is investigating the mysterious Illumina phenomenon, a strange, glowing radiance that certain Pokémon and rare flowers exhibit, a wonder last documented in an explorer's travelogue a full century ago. Venturing through each island by day and…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Pokémon series
New Pokémon Snap is the 265th of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was Pokémon Unite in 2021. Its critic score of 81 is 7 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.
How it was received
New Pokémon Snap holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 62 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 15 hrs.
What it launched against
New Pokémon Snap launched on 29 April 2021, within three weeks of Resident Evil Village, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, Returnal and Mass Effect Legendary Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil Village, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, Returnal, Mass Effect Legendary Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for New Pokémon Snap yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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