New Pokémon Snap and all other announcements
New Pokémon Snap Before sinking into the depths of Pokémon Smile, it will be best to start from the main course of Pokémon Presents: New Pokémon Snap. For those unfamiliar with Pokémon Snap, this is a spin-off released in 1999 on Nintendo 64 - although initially it should have been released for the Nintendo 64DD peripheral - which at the time was quite successful, given that it was one of the first titles to represent the monsters of Game Freak completely in 3D. The concept was simple but ingenious: our task, in fact, was not to catch them all, but ... photograph them: the player, in fact, followed a predetermined path, as if he were on the tracks, and could look around to admire the ecosystem where the pokémon lived in the wild. It was not easy to capture them and in some cases special tools had to be used to attract the monsters' attention or make them appear on the screen.
New Pokémon Snap would seem to follow almost perfectly the gameplay of that little gem came out twenty years ago. The short trailer we have seen has an enormous quantity and variety of pokémon to roam around and interact with each other with a naturalness delicious. Probably we will be able to visit different islands for our photo tours, and the animation of the shot suggests the possibility of sharing the most beautiful photos on social networks, just like we normally do when we capture the screen on the Nintendo Switch . Unfortunately, Nintendo has not disclosed other information: we do not know anything about the number of pokémon in the game, on the system of control on the dynamics that govern the gameplay and content that, we hope, will extend an experience that is in danger of becoming repetitive in a hurry as was the case in the original. For the moment, in short, we can only wait for a new batch of news.
Pokémon Cafe Mix another title that has caught our attention during the Pokémon Presents is Pokémon Café Mix , a puzzle game coming out next week that could become a very colorful poké-drugs if the microtransactions should not be too intrusive. Pokémon Café Mix revisits the gameplay is consolidated in Pokémon Link: Battle! and Pokémon Shuffle, like match-3 released on the Nintendo 3DS a few years ago: in those games you had to merge the icons that represented the same pokémon to clear and to chain together a series of combos a bit like they did in Tetris or Puyo Puyo. The item the Pokémon seeped into the gameplay in a smart way, allowing players to capture pokémon in the challenged and tried to annex them to the team for the use of their specific powers in a number of stages. The idea worked well, albeit with a few bumps, and the gameplay could be addictive even for those players more casual than they could safely ignore the dynamics for a fee.
Behold, the Pokémon Café Mixes will be free to download for both the Nintendo Switch, both for iOS, and Nintendo has already anticipated the presence of fee-based services. We do not yet know what it is and how much impact the experience, so fingers crossed and hope that they are negligible as in Pokémon Shuffle , since the new game seems to be really delicious. The character design is cartoony and pastel colors, we fall into the shoes of a manager of a bar. The atmosphere is very parisian, as well as the clothing of the pokémon that we must serve. Pokémon Café Mix is not a true match-3, in the sense that we will have to mix and match the icons on the screen to delete a large number at a time, by respecting the rules that seems to change the stage in the stage. It seems that we will have to get the mixtures right for satisfying customers: making them convinceremo to enter in our staff and we will be able to use their own special powers specific in future games. Recruiting of new pokémon we also will release the possibility to zoom in on the bar and accommodate more customers, a system of progression really cute.
All the rest Unfortunately, sooner or later we would have had to arrive, so we remove this pebble from the shoe: the Pokémon Smile . In short, when the Pokémon Presents is started, we feared that this app would have represented the entire transmission, but fortunately has cropped up only a few seconds. Beyond any possible consideration on its nature, you have to admit that is ingenious: it serves to encourage children to brush their teeth, through a mini-game in augmented reality that confirms, for the umpteenth time, the versatility of the concept at the base of the Pokémon. The children stare at the screen of the smart device, and, brushing the teeth, defeat the bacteria, save the pokémon, and earn nice rewards. It is free, and then we can stay. Closed parenthesis, we move on to another.
The president of The Pokémon Company, Tsunekazu Ishihara , who led the Pokémon Presents, we then went on P0kémon GO and, in particular, the Pokémon GO Fest this year, predictably, will be completely digital. No gatherings in 2020, but the various events that should make happy the players of the smartphone app, for example, the ability to capture the legendary pokémon Victini. By the end of the year will also be the Mega Evolutions, even if the developers are still working on a way to integrate them in an organic and intelligent in the gameplay of the Pokémon GO . Also, starting today, to celebrate the launch of The lonely island of the armature, the first part of the Pass of expansion of the Pokémon Sword and Shield, it will be possible to capture Farfetch'd of Barge and unlock a costume theme for the avatar.
we Conclude with Pokémon Sword and Shield, on which, in reality, there is not much to say. Is now available the first part of the Pass expansion , and Game Freak has decided to celebrate the happy event by launching a challenge to the players all over the world: starting today, in the Wild you will see a Raid Dynamax in which we can fight Zeraora pokémon, mysterious type of Electro that is the focus of the feature film Pokémon: In each of us. It will be a fight extremely challenging, and although it is not possible to capture this Zeraora dynamaxizzato, mr. Ishihara promised that Game Freak will distribute one Zeraora color to all the players in the world if and only at least 1 million of them will be able to triumph in the Raid Dynamax. Otherwise flab. Remember that to receive this juicy reward, you have to be connected to the Internet and to exchange at least a monster by Pokémon HOME, because Zeraora if any, will be distributed via that service.
Pokémon Snap, and Pokémon Café Mix are not bombs, in which we hoped, but we have to admit that we can't wait to get your hands on these two small titles, in the hope that the first is even more valid as the original and that the second is a fun puzzle game to play time by time, and bocconi university. It seems that The Pokémon Company still has an ace up his sleeve, but we'll have to wait a few days to find out in which direction will the series flagship: there really is a remake of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl on the horizon... or something completely new? Stay tuned.
CERTAINTIES New Pokémon Snap could be a title resounding Pokémon Café Mix brings happiness at first glance, DOUBTS we do Not know anything about the gameplay of a Snap As adding the micro-transactions in Café Mix?
