New Pokemon Snaps Tutorial Drops The Ball

New Pokemon Snap’s Tutorial Drops The Ball

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Many consider New Pokemon Snap a relaxing and enjoyable adventure, but the tutorial keeps it from making a perfect first impression.

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New Pokemon Snaps Tutorial Drops The Ball

Over a decade later, 1999’s Pokemon Snap finally got a new game. New Pokemon Snap gives Pokemon fans the opportunity to observe Pokemon in their natural habitats and interacting with their friends. For fans who were never into the idea of catching adorable creatures and pitting them against each other in battle, New Pokemon Snap is the alternative.

While New Pokemon Snap has gotten good reviews overall, it’s not perfect. Some fans are upset that the reboot didn’t include the evolution feature the original game had, and others feel limited by the small number of levels. New Pokemon Snap is not a mainline game, and as a result, it doesn’t have the same scope or selection of Pokemon. That said, the tutorial can feel out of place.

New Pokemon Snap’s Tutorial is a Slow Start to the Game

New Pokemon Snaps Tutorial Drops The Ball

When players start New Pokemon Snap, they’re greeted by Professor Mirror and his research assistant, Rita. It’s exciting to meet these new characters, but they aren’t the main attraction. When players jump into the game, all they want is to get started on their first adventure. New Pokemon Snap is essentially a safari game that focuses on appreciating and uncovering secrets held by Pokemon and the environments they live in, but the game doesn’t start out that way.

After introducing themselves, Rita explains how to use the camera to take pictures of Pokemon, using Pikachu and Vivillon as examples. It wouldn’t be so bad, but Rita takes her time explaining how to use the camera and players can’t even move the camera until Rita instructs them to do so. The initial controls only consist of moving the joysticks and pressing A, which shouldn’t take that long to explain.

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Professor Mirror joins in after players have had the chance to take three pictures that are mediocre at best due to the limitations, and explains how to rate the photos. It’s exciting to see which photos score really well and a challenge to take the perfect, four-star diamond photo, but nobody cares about the tutorial photos and everyone has the exact same ones. Professor Mirror doesn’t need to take another five minutes to explain the star rating system and score the sample photos, at least not before the player has gone on their first expedition.

The result is players clicking through the dialogue, impatient to embark on their first safari adventure. And it comes eventually, but the tutorial experience makes opening up the game much less exciting than it should be and hinders a lot of the magic. When players finally do get to go to Florio Nature Park, it’s a lot of fun, but they may start the level feeling annoyed rather than excited.

New Pokemon Snap’s Tutorial Doesn’t End With the First Course

New Pokemon Snaps Tutorial Drops The Ball

Each track and research level brings new Pokemon into the game and adds variety to their activities, but the tutorial continues to slow it down several more times. Once players know how to move the camera and snap pictures, they learn how to run a scan in an entirely new tutorial that’s separated from the rest of the game.

Running a scan only requires pressing X, so why does it need a whole tutorial? From there, players practice throwing Fluffruit to Rita’s Pikachu and learn how to use the lab to edit and share their photos online. Tutorials are necessary for any game and the features need to be explained, but they need to do so without taking the player out of the moment too much.

What New Pokemon Snap’s Tutorial Should Be

Tutorials are a necessary and helpful part of the video game experience, but they should help enhance a player’s experience with the game rather than detract from it. When players open up New Pokemon Snap for the first time, they just can’t wait to get out into the wild and start taking pictures of Pokemon. Instead of spending fifteen minutes explaining how to use the camera’s most basic features, New Pokemon Snap should drop players in and let them discover it for themselves. Or, at most, have a short explanation.

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The thing about New Pokemon Snap is that it’s not a particularly difficult game to master when it comes to the controls. That’s a big compliment because the controls are intuitive and for the most part the game is relaxing. Even though it’s a little bit difficult to aim Fluffruit and Illumina Orbs sometimes (especially when it comes to the “boss” Illumina Pokemon), the action itself doesn’t require a lot of thought. New Pokemon Snap’s tutorial doesn’t need to take time away from the main game to explain the mechanics, and the fact that it does just to teach the player how to press X feels extremely tedious.

Instead, New Pokemon Snap should have integrated the tutorial into the main experience. The characters already talk to the player while they’re on a course, so it would have been easy to have Rita explain the camera controls while fans get to interact with the game. Then once players have taken photos that they actually had to work for, Professor Mirror can score them and it will mean something much more.

New Pokemon Snap is an amazing game that really captures the heart of the original, but like any game, it does have its flaws. Thankfully, once players have unlocked all the major features in the game they won’t be interrupted with tutorials anymore and can focus on enjoying the ride through Snap’s beautifully designed levels.

New Pokemon Snap is available now for Nintendo Switch.

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