Current Events > It's so awful pokemon snap switch is still on rails

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You'd think nintendo would wise up becasue a god damn photography game would benefit from free roam. But no. Nintendo being old ass dumb ass and make a literal game where you take pictures on rails instead of free roam.

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Free roam pokemon snap honestly sounds kinda boring.

I always enjoyed the safari ride atmosphere of the original.

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The rail system is kind of necessary for the design. The point is to see how many points you can get along the given track. Maybe having a "free" mode where you control the car would have been nice, but for the regular game, it makes sense

bad take

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neverwin posted...

Free roam pokemon snap honestly sounds kinda boring.

I always enjoyed the safari ride atmosphere of the original.

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There's always Beyond Good and Evil for that.

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neverwin posted...

Free roam pokemon snap honestly sounds kinda boring.

I always enjoyed the safari ride atmosphere of the original.

Not open world, but smaller level that you can roam free. That means each players can have different angles, different shots, etc according to their tastes and creavity.

Of course that will take nintendo not being lazy, aka instead of scripted pokemon appearance and activity, they have to program something that actually resemble an ecosytem with mons have their own habitat that makes sense, territory and such.

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what the hell did you expect? it was always going to be an on rails game, because that's what the first one was and people screamed about how much they loved it.

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I could see an open-world (or at least open-level) Snap working but it'd be much less streamlined. Casually walking around and taking shots might be less exciting and limited and to fill it out there'd need to be an equivalent of dungeons or shrines like in Zelda... Curated areas with puzzle-solving so you had more to do than just walk and aim your camera at stuff.

With the Safari aspect they can curate the entire stage and fill it with secrets too.

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monkmith posted...

what the hell did you expect? it was always going to be an on rails game, because that's what the first one was and people screamed about how much they loved it.

I don't expect anything since it's nintendo. Just rant

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apolloooo posted...

You'd think nintendo would wise up becasue a god damn photography game would benefit from free roam. But no. Nintendo being old ass dumb ass and make a literal game where you take pictures on rails instead of free roam.

if you dont like dont buy, no valid complaint here

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So, basically like Endless Ocean? Which was nice, but got boring real fast.

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Garbage take.

On rails Snap >>>>>> a theoretical open world Snap.

would be cool if they had a snap feature in the pokemon legends game. only way i'd think open world snap would be worthwhile.

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The rails are part of the whole system, gives a sense of timing, consistency, and urgency. A free roam Snap would be almost a completely different genre.

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It's harder than you think to do that. On rails shooters have existed forever, and capcom experimented with letting players control their movements more with a few games in the ps1/2 era.

I think you could pull it off but I don't think it's lazy not to. It sounds like they have added plenty of variety in other ways

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