Thread 11975265

Pokemon Snap - A good game, or just a gimmick?

Quite possibly the greatest game ever made.

>>11975265 (OP)
those things aren't mutually exclusive

It's very short, but it has personality. If you like 90s Pokemon and N64 graphics, it's just a soulful game, simple as.

the idea is better than the execution but it's still a fun game

If it had all 151 Pokemon and like 3-4 more courses, it could've been a 10/10. It's still a fun game to play through in an hour or so.

>>11975265 (OP)
Possibly the best Pokemon game.

Fully enjoyed it, 100% it all. Even used the small sticker photo machine outside the rental store at least once. I'm sure I've got that SOMEwhere...

>>11975265 (OP)
>good game
>gimmick
both of these can be true

>>11975528
How is it not a rail shooter?
I think it's a good game, an odd rail shooter, but very good. I would like it regardless if it's pokemon or not (in fact ir would be cool if the same idea was used for an original setting, think a horror game for example).
BTW, if you never beat the default hi-scores in each area, you didn't beat the game.

>>11975265 (OP)
A good game to play at your friend's house for few hours. Instead of spending their time and resources on Stadium games and this shit, they should've just made a proper 3D Pokemon game for N64.

>>11975341
>>11975375
Is it really that short? I remember playing the game for a while going for the best pictures/scores possible. You don't just speed through it

>>11975719
Because you are taking pictures and there's no bullets. Shooting a picture isn't the same thing as shooting a weapon. It definitely plays really similar but there's no combat so I can see differentiating it. It's like non combat rail shooter mixed with a collectathon.

Good game but Professor Oak's judging is dogshit

>>11975265 (OP)
For the 64? It's a good and unique game.
The only major problem is it's too short and has too many pokemon missing from the original 151.
I'm not sure if that was due to console limitations or dev cycle constraints but whatever, its a fun few hours.

>>11975956
>Hotshot the Pokemon franchise onto consoles and kill the mobile games plus your mobile console sales and increase development costs and be sucked into the arms race of console graphics and costs 3 gens early

>>11975964
First time it will last you around 10 hours at most to 100 percent.
To 100 after mastering the game it is about 90 minutes.

>>11975965
You are on rails and shooting shit. It just had the bare minimum of innovation so you were taking pictures instead of going pew pew. By that same logic Sin and Punishment and Star Fox should be a different subgenre because you can move and do flips instead of being, but it's just being pedantic.
>>11976109
>Hotshot 151 Pokemon and overstay your welcome with the game while leaving little room for followups.
No Gengar did tick me off though.

>>11975265 (OP)
Soulful&Comfy

>>11976109
It should of been 64 (get it??) but they fucked up and it ended up being just 63 which yeah is kinda disappointing.

>>11975265 (OP)
A good game but very slow
If you don't mind new games I recommend the one on switch, it has shitload of content

>>11975528
That's like saying that time crisis is not the same type of game as house of the dead because it's slower

It’s a good, unique game that could have used some more time in the oven. It’s not really my thing because it’s never going to be Panzer Dragoon or S&P or Starfox 64, but when I play it I have an ok time. A few more stages and pokemon would have made it better, so I guess since I was left wanting more it has to be good. I would love to see a romhack, I wonder how hard it would be.

fantastic game, lots of replayability and fun to be had. Painfully short though

>>11977169
>so I guess since I was left wanting more it has to be good.
I really like that appraisal.

>>11975965
You shoot apples.

>>11975965
>Shooting a picture isn't the same thing as shooting a weapon

Say that to my face and not online see what happens

It's okay, but way too short. I remember getting as soon as it came out back in the day and I beat it in one 4 hour session.

>>11975964
been a while since i played it but it only had 5 or 6 areas/courses to visit and it didnt have all 151 pokemon either, its like luigis mansion, a dedicated player can finish it in a day, a kid might take a few more days or a week depending on how long they are allowed to game for

>>11975265 (OP)
Both, it was the ultimate rental game. To the point some blockbusters had photo printing booths.

>>11976134
>hmm let’s not make a slam dunk RPG from the most popular RPG franchise on our console that severely lacks any notable RPGs

Nintendo moment

Star Fox 64 is my favorite photography game

The only Pokemon game I played. I remember enjoying it for a bit, but the gimmick got boring.

>>11980309
Yea it would’ve been there best selling game probably. All they had to do was a simple 3d transfer of rby and nothing else and it would’ve printed money.

>>11975965
>It's like non combat rail shooter
This is how I've always explained it. It's a rail shooter without any combat or violence. Not a bad idea for a kids game really.

>>11975965
yeah instead you shoot tear gas grenades, like surge is the professor instead and kanto is still a warzone or something.

If it didn’t have the Pokémon branding I don’t think it would be fondly remembered beyond the unique mechanic of being a rail shooter where you take pictures.

>>11975965
>Shooting a gun is different than shooting a camera
>Capturing Pikachu is different than Capturing Pikachu on film
Dude is literally Team Rocket hiring Tracy to capture Pikachu

>>11981830
This. The game is mediocre. Its just soillenials glazing it cuz they never got a substantial N64 Poke release.

It's an exercise in voyeurism