WHY is that Snap? And is that a good thing? If that’s Snap, let’s meet it on its terms. “That’s Snap,” was the answer every time. I took it to my friends and partner who were far more involved in the build up of the franchise and had a personal understanding of Pokémon Snap. But this was more like an extremely cashed-up Super Scope 6 game. In my mind, I guess it was somewhere between Ocarina of Time and an environmentally-conscious Fatal Frame. I really didn’t know about the times before, when interaction was so limited that the original Pokémon Snap was a revelation. My faves could follow me around, I could take selfies with them, and they weren’t just dudes I collected to battle it out against other people’s collections of weird little dudes. This was the world I came to when I first entered Pokémon. Sometimes we’d take him for a trip to Atlantic City or Newark, and he’d read Arrive magazine while picking at an Amtrak café car cheese plate. Psyduck is my homie, but that’s because we used to take walks to the train station together so he could check out the Arrivals and Departures board, get a pretzel, buy a magazine at the newsstand. I felt that.īut I don’t have a nostalgia for Pokémon as a franchise. I got them Let’s Go Eevee for Christmas when it came out, and ended up loving it myself. I picked up Pokémon Go because I walked a lot and my partner needed eggs hatched. And then Pokémon just got complicated as shit as the years piled on. When it landed in the US, I was in high school and I didn’t own a Game Boy anymore, and I was far too interested in spending my disposable income on fake IDs and concerts across state lines with my derelict upperclassmen friends. I never really had a connection to Pokémon. What was this weird relic doing in my house? And it even made the leap to mobile so hard that Hillary Clinton couldn’t hold back from an ill-advised reference to Pokémon Go in a pathetic Boomer moment. We’ve gotten to the point where we’re remastering classic Pokémon away from its constant JRPG element-matching battles with the Let’s Go franchise. This was the era of open world Pokémon in Sword and Shield. I couldn’t believe that anyone would trot out an incredibly slow-moving rail-shooter in 2021 and expect people to pay $60 for it, now matter how much they loved their Pokémon.

I looked at this game like a relic, some ridiculous cash grab, a Bandai Namco nightmare. I hated New Pokémon Snap for a solid two days.

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