Finally, some good news: New Pokémon Snap will be released for Nintendo Switch on April 30, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company announced Thursday. The sequel to the original Pokémon Snap, released in 1999 for the Nintendo 64, will send players to the Lental region, where they will take pictures of Pokémon in the jungle.
Players will work with Professor Mirror and his assistant Rita “on ecological research to photograph Pokémon Lental thriving in the wild,” according to a press release. Players will travel the Lental Islands in a track vehicle known as the Neo-One on several routes. Lental Pokémon will be attracted to “Fluffruit”, an edible item that will certainly make it much easier to photograph creatures in the wild.
As with the original Pokémon Snap, Pokémon photos of players will be judged by their pose, how large creatures appear in the photos, whether they are facing the camera lens and where they fall in the frame. The Pokémon’s behavior that changes over time New Pokémon Snap, and players “can see Pokémon behaving in entirely new ways”. A press release also causes a new phenomenon native to the Lental region: Illumina, a mysterious glow that emits from some Pokémon.
A new trailer for New Pokémon Snap shows what is reserved for players who wish to fill their Photodex.