what's going on everyone austin john plays here and today i want to go
over some information for your new playthrough of the new pokemon snap
this video is coming out the day before release so if you plan on picking up the game tomorrow
april 30th 2021 you can go into it knowing some a healthy amount of information about what to
actually expect because between the reviews and the previews and the advertisements they don't
actually tell you how you're gonna experience the game they just show you a whole bunch of stuff and
i think it's important for you to actually know what you're getting into i'm about six hours
into the game so i'm not too far into the game then again i don't think of this as being that
long of a duration of a game more replayability in fact that is what this game is it is pokemon
replayability take pictures of replaying because you're going to be replaying the same thing over
and over and over and over again and that's just the nature of this kind of game there's
not a lot of levels and i'm not going to go into any spoilers here i just want you to kind of get
like a a sense of the feel of what's going on and some tips and some advice for you know your first
time in the lentil region first things first when you start up the game the tutorial is literally
two minutes you can choose to skip any tutorial that you want it's magical pokemon should learn
something from this because i don't think pokemon developed this there's a settings menu
and this settings menu is fantastic you could choose to do motion controls and i turned them
on so if you ever played like uh any of the legend of zelda 3ds games how you basically
use the control stick to look around and then you use the motion controls for that fine
shot that fine detail that's essentially how i'm using my pro controller you may find a different
experience playing in handheld or on the light system but for me i find this to work very nicely
motion control sensitivity self-explanatory navcom so as you're playing through like once you first
start off they're not going to say anything to you but after like your first five levels or your
first five runs they start commenting on things like oh the pokemon was looking right at you
and for younger players it's gonna be nice and it defaults to often you could change
it to sometimes or rarely i feel like sometimes it's going to tell you important information and
rarely is going to be next to nothing i'm i feel sometimes as comfortable and not too oh oh oh oh
like leave me alone i'm taking pictures i'm doing me leave me alone all right controller vibration
self-explanatory there's a camera speed option here and by default it's three same thing with
pointer speed five seems a little much and four seems just right for me and something else to note
is that the right stick lets you move the same way that the left stick does and they combine together
so say for example you know that something is going to be here instead of going like this by
holding just the right stick holding both right sticks you go twice as fast super important stuff
it's gonna make your life a lot easier plus when you're zoomed in on a target you're gonna be able
to scroll twice as fast it's it's a it's a clutch move i'm not exactly too sure what the frame guide
is yet i messed around with it i still don't know but in layout sound another game that lets you
change the background music background music is so relaxing in this game it really is it's nice
undiscovered subject slash routes this is when you're doing online stuff and if you don't want to
know about the pokemon that are on specific areas turn it off but say for example you're near the
end of the game you don't know what pokemon you're missing and you want it to just kind of naturally
pop up for you from someone else posting these things you could turn it to display but my face is
covering it right now i keep it on don't display because you know spoiler free and auto upload
photos once you initiate the internet feature your professor is going to be like hey this is a really
solid photo i'm going to upload it for you and he just kind of does it on his own which is neat
in addition just like the original you have your photo decks where you could go through and look
at all your pokemon your space where you get to customize your thing internet where you get to
customize your online profile and you get to sort it be via um just your language or all languages
so like here's my three photos that i have i have this adorable pichu zoom in i have this
uh a luminous mega name mega name there we go and this adorable badoof and then there's this
one photo here that the professor chose and it's the arbok right oh i got 36 medals already awesome
i don't know how or from whom and i guess that's my code over there so sweet
be sure to be sure to add me with apparently that code that starts with cc over there
cool your photo decks is where you can go through and take a look at all the pokemon
that you've taken photos of already and then all the photos that you've saved yourself something
really neat on these load screens see this two cannon over here in the sylveon down there
those pokemon unlock after you've taken a photo of them so after you've unlocked a pokemon and taken
a picture of it it this silhouette then appears on your load screens i've unlocked yet another
area so when you start off this game you're just gonna be here we've all seen this map already
this is nothing new and this is the nature park essentially the starting area where you're gonna
play through the day course and then you need to keep playing through the day course until you
reach level two once you reach level two of that area then you're gonna unlock the night course
the night course has some variations to it but once you play through the night course
then you're going to unlock the lumina spot which is like this little mini course that you're just
going to go take this picture in mega name right so think of it as like a mini boss if you will
and then you're gonna want to replay these levels until you reach level two on all of them and then
once you do you're gonna unlock your next level which is over here in the jungle uh
also you're gonna find out in the first half hour to hour anyways you unlock todd
is uh the protagonist from the original pokemon snap and he's gonna be like sort of mentoring
your rival it's this weird dynamic and it really doesn't matter much you're here to take pictures
you're also gonna notice that right here you're gonna see sort of a secondary path that's because
that happens from playing through the course and just observing the environment and you're going
to unlock those things i'm going to jump back here to the first level because i don't want to
go over anything too spoilery i really want you to experience this for yourself because the game
is all about experience that's really what it is if you watch a play through a walkthrough of this
you're not going to experience it the same way and this is going to be different than when you first
play through the area because everyone is going to be in a different area this pichu in this groupie
they're going to be like hey there he is instead of running away from you they come in front of you
and then run away you're also going to get a whole bunch of power-ups just like the original game
where you're going to be able to play music you could throw a fruit fruit at things and there's
also illumina orbs said you could throw it on a pokemon and then they glow for a little bit
i've actually never seen it do that so so that's pretty neat too uh yeah all the pokemon just
kind of run around do cool stuff and you take photos of them you interact with the environment
you scan everything going on here apparently that was a worm pool picture despite omoga being most
of the photo and what's neat is i could just take a photo here or i can zoom in in the previous game
you had to zoom in and the scan feature is like hey there's something going on with this scan
it and then it's like hey there's some fruit here i wonder why there's fruit and then you
throw down the fruit and this a moga is going to be like whoa look at this fruit over here
my first time playing through moga landed there and did thunder shock to that fruit
this time it just fell so i guess there is some variance of what's going on you also have these
aluminum orbs which you can hit pokemon with or these little blooms and hitting a bloom causes
different things to happen on different courses everything is unlocked generally early and then
you're just going to go through and unlock the levels one after a time one after another sorry
so because you have the option to zoom in or not you do have a lot of variants
as to what's going on with your photos and how they're going to turn out at the end
and look at that pichu over there you want to dance
is he enjoying the music look he's enjoying the music does he want a fruits
no he looks upset now he's glowing and upset cool oh that's what i'm talking about if i
were to just hold right i don't go very fast if i hold right on both sticks i go much faster
you're going to get hints as to what's going on at the very beginning and i see this hoodoo in the
tree and you'd be like oh it's so weird that it's out during the day and then the person in the lab
is like oh can we play through at night and you're like i could play through at night that's neat
there we go let's let's hit this magikarp so he's full of life energy
and these ducklit are just like in a magikarp going all splishy splashy neat stuff wormhole
they're just chilling over here probably hungry because they're worms and they need to
forget the word for when they enter a cocoon but that's that's a thing something really neat as
opposed to the previous game instead of holding down a button for the turbo after you play a
level you just quit research and then you're going to go right to the very end of the level you're
going to skip the exit animation and you're just going to be at the scoreless area unfortunately
you can only choose one photo per pokemon now on this screen you're going to see some exclamation
marks here that means that there's something new that you haven't submitted to the professor yet
so this blueflint right as you're going to see on the very left hand side i already have a one star
and a two star but if i have my face real quick i now unlocked a three star photo and apparently
that's him bucking when i shot him with the aluminum orb right same thing with the samoga
going on i got a three star photo when it lost its balance so adorably wow and also this pichu
i never submitted a three-star photo and that's a three-star photo of him being super happy and even
though you know admittedly that's a horrible photo it's very small he is facing me so that's good and
he's mostly obstructed by that large blade of grass but still it's better than nothing and
what you want to do is you want to get one of each of the four different starved photos and of course
once you submit those you can go through here and be like all right so for my one star booth
picture that's it on the left do i have anything better absolutely not on the left he's right in
the middle of the frame he's staring right at me that's a solid photo what about this worm pole
picture somehow that's a worm picture uh i got this one it's not gonna be as good because he's
not staring at me but i could submit it anyways to see what i'm looking at same thing with this
dodrio over here for my two-star i'm not zoomed in as much or i'm zoomed in too much for my one star
haroots in a tree i already have the same photo but i zoomed in more and magikarp i think that's
gonna be a solid magikarp photo so let's hit show the professor i'm aware that i haven't submitted
all the photos uh park during the day evaluation let's have a look this is blue flint right
three star i don't have a three star already so i'm not going up against a previous photo size
is pretty good size is on a scale of zero to two thousand and a foot pokemon right in the middle of
the entire frame taking up most of or all of the actual frame is a score of 2 000. direction isn't
so much what direction its body is facing but what direction its head is facing so he could be facing
at you and that's the highest score you could get of 100 it goes zero to 100. placement is also zero
to 100 so if it's completely off to the side like say for example that dodrio is that's not going to
be a very high score but if they're directly in the center of the frame then that's going to be
the highest score which is 100 other pokemon looks at all other pokemon in the photo not
just the same species and background is reserved for the in-game tips see that there are special
backgrounds that will give your photos a bonus that's all it says i've very rarely experienced
that and if i have it wasn't anything notable now you're gonna see here i already have a one star
and a two star this is my three star and you keep all those photos and it's important to have a one
two three and four star photo and that's how you progress through the game you're also going to
notice that the stars themselves have different textures to them the one that i just took a photo
of those are gold stars the one star is a silver star and the two star is a crystal star it goes a
bronze a silver a gold and then crystal or diamond i don't know i haven't seen any text saying one
way or the other uh that's basically saying for that one star silver photo that's not a very good
photo you could do much better for a one star pose it could be facing me it is already in the center
of the frame it could take up more of the frame like it is in the two star things like that that
two star photo is a real premium one it's crystal scory that means it's gonna be hard to beat
making my way onto this worm pole you're also gonna see on the screen that it's a gold one star
my post is 500 size is slightly better direction not as good placement not as good and i slightly
beat it out even though in my opinion that's a much better photo it's unobstructed he's staring
right at the camera but because he's slightly larger over here it's a better photo cool this
a moga it's a brand new three star photo that's a 700 pose because it's adorable and falling great
this pichu i don't have a three star pichu direction is a thousand apparently he's
facing me and that's what the bronze looks like it's sort of bronzy but not very it
just lets you know that you did a bad job a size 200 out of 2000 is a pretty bad job
and this magikarp i had a one star bronze and now this is gonna be so much better
everything that's yellow is already a better score after you're done with the level you're going to
see your reach research exp go up your expedition points that's what they're called and you're going
to see how many points until the next level every level that you get you're going to experience more
pokemon and new pokemon also after a course is done you can choose to save photos to an album
where you can come in here and you can re-snap a photo meaning that i can come in here and we can
zoom in if we want to and this is like we've never seen pokemon in that quality of texture before
it's weird what they do with the lighting on some of the polygons i've noticed that
but generally speaking like the fact that i could come in here and then you know we could blur it
and we could change the focal point or the f-stop too far down and then there's also a manual focus
so say for example the game doesn't get it right you can manually focus and then
you're going to have a whole bunch of filters which are just silhouettes when you start
which are kind of not great but then you're going to unlock other filters as you go
through and film we can snap that as a photo save that photo done the save a photo doesn't
save to your album you're not going to find it in here you can export it to your camera roll
but it saves in the system's memory itself and supposedly that's done as a preventative measure
for people uploading inappropriate content to the whole online digital experience of the game
lastly i want to talk about the course progression because it is a little strange for really any game
essentially you have to replay a level until you hit level two and now i know i said that for the
beginning but you have to do it for every level so in here for date for area one you have to hit park
level two park knight level two aluminum spot level two and then you unlock the next level
and you have to hit jungle day level two jungle night level two and then you can unlock
two additional areas and then once you get to level two you unlock another one and then through
a series of circumstances that i don't want to disclose immediately you unlock more of them so
you're going to be replaying you're going to be replaying every level a lot that's essentially
what this game is about i in a separate photo in a separate video i'm going to be going over
how to get the best quality photos as in the highest score of photos once i really really
iron out a few things and i have some things going on but i'm still in the middle of figuring out the
specifics so be sure to stay tuned for that in addition i think i'm going to be putting out
sort of a video series on how to get the four-star photos and the rarest photos on the highest scored
photos per area and specifically what you have to do once i grind through the game a little bit
more and i i'm more familiar with what's going on also how to find all the legendary mythicals
all the fun you know typical youtuber covering a pokemon game stuff right
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