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New Pokémon Snap

SimulatorAdventure

Nintendo eShop
Released

Apr 30, 2021

2,025 days ago
Platforms
  • Switch
Ratings

Release dates

North America dates
  1. Apr 30, 20212,025 days ago
    • Switch

About

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 game Pokémon Snap. Players explore an archipelago in an autopilot hovercraft and photograph Pokémon in order to conduct research about their ecology.

Trailers

Screenshots

How long to beat

HowLongToBeat ↗ · 531 players
Main story
11 h
Main + extras
19 h
Completionist
67 h
OpenCritic79/10076% recommend · Strong127 critic reviews
Critics (IGDB)81/10012 reviews
IGDB players77/10062 ratings

Game info

Released
2021 · see every game from that year
Modes
Single player
Perspective
First person

Studios

Age ratings

  • ESRBENo content descriptors
  • PEGI3No content descriptors
  • CEROANo content descriptors
  • USK0No content descriptors
  • GRACALLNo content descriptors
  • CLASS INDLNo content descriptors
  • ACBGNo content descriptors

Languages

9 languages
Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian and 3 more
LanguageAudioSubtitlesInterface
Chinese (Simplified)简体中文––
Chinese (Traditional)繁體中文––
EnglishEnglish (US)––
FrenchFrançais––
GermanDeutsch––
ItalianItaliano––
Japanese日本語––
Korean한국어––
Spanish (Spain)Español (España)––

Themes & tags

Story & names

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 night, the photographer sets out to capture these elusive creatures on film and help unravel the long-forgotten secret behind the luminous phenomenon.

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Also known as

  • New Pokemon SnapAlternative spelling

Release dates by region

2 releases in 2 regions

worldwide

europe

The Pokémon Snap series

All 2 games
  1. Pokémon Snap1999
  2. This gameNew Pokémon Snap2021

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Where to find it

Data from IGDB and Steam. Critic scores from OpenCritic. Dates shown for North America, in your local time zone.