what's going on everyone austin john place here the new pokemon snap comes out in less than a week
and here's five things that you should know about the game before it comes out
all in all we haven't seen too much footage for pokemon snap but between going through all the
announcement videos the trailers the limited amount of gameplay and the promotional material
i was able to come up with some actually pretty interesting information and i just completed a
pokemon snap 64 playthrough if you want to watch that i'm sure you could find it on my channel
but there's a lot of things that you should know going into the new pokemon snap if you're
a returning snap veteran or if you're going to be playing pokemon snap for the first time here
on the nintendo switch april 30th first courses and research leveling in the original game there
are only six courses but now well honestly so far confirmed there's only six courses
there's the nature park which is the plains biome and there's courses with biomes that
include a beach an ocean a desert a forest and a jungle i don't know the specific titles of those
biomes all i know is that they are unique courses but the biggest difference between the original
game and this is that each of these courses are going to have actually several variations
to all of them and the courses are going to be changing depending on your research level
after you play a course your research level is going to increase after it does you're going to
be able to see new pokemon and additional pokemon in new locations as well as some other fun stuff
for example this clip is going to be from player skill as level 1 and then level 2.
in level 1 we could see all the blue flint just hanging out in the background and then
once the player skill goes to level 2 we could see additional blueflint closer to the player
also the dodrio is in a different location it goes from walking around in front of the player to
sitting in the shade under a tree from the footage that i've seen it's not clear if the dodrio's
location is specific to the research level or if that's just where it happened to be maybe it's a
random chance thing maybe it's pre-programmed we do not know yet point number two let's talk
about power-ups in the original game you had poke fruit pester balls a flute and you got to go fast
now pokey food is going to be returning from the original snap game but it's newly dubbed
fluff fruit it's an unlimited item that you're most likely going to be able to unlock earlier
in the game you're going to be able to toss it out of your hover car and interact with the pokemon
around you you can use this fluff fruit to grab their attention you can see them eat it and you
may even see a unique pose from a pokemon like this torchic roasting its fruit before it eats it
why a fire pokemon needs to eat burnt food before it consumes it i don't know i just assume that
it's tummy is literally fire and it's going to roast it when it's down there anyways maybe it
just tastes different i don't know pokemon aren't real and if they were i would have a charmander
and i would ask him in addition you're going to be able to find and unlock different pokemon
using these power-ups i like this pikachu that you see chilling on this beach right here and this
fluff fruit totally catches his attention and then he's gonna walk over to this little this little
shovel handle here on the beach right uh the difference is that's a white handle with a red tip
and that is the shovel that's located on the top of a sandy gas and i'm gonna bet even money on
you that's a sanding ghast and that pikachu is gonna try to pull that shovel and that sandy gas
can be like whoa what are you doing that's my head he's gonna be cut quite upset about it in addition
there's a melody that you're going to be able to play to interact with some pokemon like this who
dude is all like super happy that you're hearing a song you're also going to be able to play the song
to get this blossom out of this bush and there's a power up called an alumina orb which is supposedly
an orb full of life energy and you can throw it at pokemon and uh one specific type of flower
on the island called a crystal bloom and i don't know if there's other things you could throw it
out but specifically pokemon and crystal blooms it's going to affect them and fill them with life
energy that's going to get different poses and they're going to glow different colors and it's
going to be totally neat at this point in time i've only seen aluminum orbs hit pokemon at night
time however i have seen the crystal blooms hit during the daytime and nighttime so it's unclear
at this point in time because of all the footage out there if aluminum orbs can be used on pokemon
during the daytime to any effect and the last power up slash tool that's been revealed so far is
an analysis tool that's gonna do actually several things you're gonna be able to detect pokemon that
you're not able to see like in this super foggy environment it's gonna identify pokemon far away
you're going to be able to analyze weird stuff going on in this environment like this floating
rock and then the last part of that is additional routes that you can take which brings me into
point number three which is additional routes and alterations of courses specifically i'm talking
about split paths and nighttime modifiers so each level has a level up system that we've covered
that right well we've seen so far to date at least one additional course that you can play through
at night time the first level the park which is the plane's biome you're gonna be able
to go through there and at night time there's different pokemon and pokemon in different places
we have this beautiful swanna and ducklings hanging out right here right at this little bridge
which during the day time it's totally not there some pokemon are obviously nocturnal and therefore
only come out at night like owls and spiders and pokemon that are typically nocturnal uh
you can even see all these blue flints sleeping in the distance and that's adorable at nighttime
you're going to be able to throw these alumina orbs and make pokemon glow which is going to
change their pose star amount which i'm going to cover pose star amounts later and the analyze
tool is also going to give you a notification at the bottom and make a sound when there's a split
path that you can take like in this clip right here sorry that there's a voiceover
we just introduced the scan function and this underwater course when the player chooses the
main route it's still this right underneath the ocean surface and a little bit of a coral
area going on but if they choose the split route they enter this underwater cave system that has a
lantern and a chinchou and some other cool stuff like that hey it's me right in the middle of the
video and i just kind of wanted to break up the mood of everything going on and just say if you're
enjoying the video if you hit the thumbs up button that's like super duper appreciated that lets me
know that you're enjoying the video if you're not enjoying the video you can either hit the thumbs
down button or turn it off i don't know go watch a hot ones episode or something all right back to
the video it has been stated already that your research level on a specific course is going to
affect your ability to analyze these split routes so possibly there are going to be split routes
soon as you go to a course but most likely you're gonna have to play through it more than once
in order to start finding these alternate routes which honestly that's how a course should be right
point number four which this is the doozy we're gonna talk about the scoring system in new pokemon
snap as well as the pose star amount new pokemon snap scoring system is based off of several
factors and you get to keep four high score photos of each species of pokemon sorted by pose poses
are scored in a one through four star basis if a pokemon is just standing there doing literally
nothing that's most likely a one star pose if they're moving or walking or doing something
basic uh that might be a two star pose three and four star poses seem to be action shots them
using their actual moves interacting with their environment or other pokemon fun various things
like that once the game determines a star level you're going to be comparing your score of photo
on that star amount versus your previous photo of that same star amount meaning you're gonna be
comparing a one star photo to a one star photo you're gonna be comparing your three star photo
to a three star photo all of the same pokemon you're not going to be comparing a three star
to a one star because obviously a three star is going to be better which this is really fantastic
because in the original game pikachu was in like so many different levels you're gonna have pikachu
uh surfing on the beach level and then at the very end of the beach level he could be on a stump and
he could be using thunderbolt on a stump and then he could be riding an electrode and then he could
be hanging out with diglett and then he could be hanging out with doug trio and he did many things
and there's flying pikachu what really sucked is you didn't need the flying pikachu because
pikachu on a stump was always going to be a better score especially if you had the poker flute and he
was doing the thunderbolt so there was no purpose in me going back to the cave course for the ninth
time trying to hit the zubat out of the air to get the flying pikachu because i knew pikachu on a
stump using thunderbolt was great in-game example of new pokemon snap this apom is just running
around on the branch and that's a one star it's not even facing the camera it's really bad photo
two star is balancing a fluff fruit on its head kind of adorable three star is it swinging in the
air love it and four stars it's using its tail to cut grass that's an action shot and that's a four
star pose if i've ever seen one in addition to pose pokemon are also going to be scored on their
size in the frame which is dramatically improved over the original system because you used to be
like oh most of this charizard is in the lava so you're not gonna get a perfect score the direction
that they're facing if they're facing toward you that scores better than them facing away from you
placement meaning if the pokemon is in the center of the frame it's yet to be seen if you have two
pokemon that are split frame if that's going to be an okay score if you have to have one
center focus know what i mean in addition there's bonuses for other pokemon in the same photo this
is a change system from the original pokemon snap because it used to be same pokemon in the photo
but now it's any other pokemon in the photo it's not clear if the same species is going to give you
a better score or what specifically lastly there's also the background score and i don't know exactly
what this is yet but here's a picture of a floor just in a flower patch and we can see a lot of
kofi around and that's giving us the score bonus of both other pokemon and background you have
this picture of this really small magikarp really far away and he's jumping up in the air that's a
two-star pose right but you're also getting bonus for the swanna being in the photo and apparently
there's a background score maybe because you're seeing its natural environment i'm not too sure
the game isn't out yet when you complete a course the photos you taken are sorted by pokemon so it's
less likely that you're gonna miss one fantastic improvement to the original system on the photo
selection screen there's a photos taken star level on the right what i perceive this to be so far is
out of all these dodrio photos that you took in this one specific outing all of these are going
to be one star poses so if you see at the top you have this filter system up there that means that
you can sort by specific photos and specific star amounts and then go through it that way
it's not clear if you're going to be able to submit from one run a one star photo of a pokemon
and a two star photo of a pokemon that's yet to be seen so i'm interested like say for example
in this run you could have a one star dojo photo and a two star am i gonna be able to submit both
of those at the end of the course i would hope so and lastly that brings us to album saving
and online scoring when you play you're going to have an option to save a photo to an album
and keep it for personal use or upload it online for ranked scoring and since the nintendo switch
can send screenshots to your phone you can get any printer that's able to print from your phone
uh like this instax one that is you know all about pokemon snap and the the case that comes out after
pokemon snap comes out don't get me started on that again uh but this thing is available for 99
or you could transfer the photos to your phone probably go to walmart print them out at better
quality photos for cheaper also i learned that if you do buy this when the picture is developing do
not let it expose to direct light like these wonderful lights i have on either side of me
they make me bright and beautiful it should be kept in a dark environment while it's exposing
uh thank you for letting me know that in addition never shake it like a polaroid picture
but the really neat part is when you go to save a photo to your album like for example
this picture is a picture of a pikachu and you're able to zoom completely out change the exposure
change the rotation and then you're able to zoom in to the dignity hanging down on the back of the
hover cart so essentially now it's a dna photo and not a pikachu photo which is pretty awesome
in other shots we've also seen that you could go a few frames before and after in the same way like
an iphone's live photo works and all the other things like being able to change your exposure and
um your focal point that sounds more like raw file format so essentially you have a super
advanced digital camera which you should it's it's you know it's magic it's pokemon magic self co
made it there's also stickers that you can put on your photos i'm not gonna really talk about that
that doesn't seem like a feature i'm gonna get really too much into uh but it's something we're
gonna talk about very briefly later you're going to be able to upload your photos online and when
you upload it online you're going to have your own little profile here you're going to be able
to customize your name your slogan an image over here i'm not too sure what that image pulls from
and people are going to be able to see this snap profile you can compliment a photo by
hitting the sweet button sweet dude you can visit the profile of the person who took the photo and
i can't stress this enough but there's a report button there because i can only imagine if you're
going to be able to put down stickers and all you need is a rectangle and two circles and now you
have an inappropriate photo right so if you see something inappropriate hit the report button also
all these photos are gonna be ranked to an online leader board that i would like to hopefully one
day enter but it's probably just gonna be a whole bunch of japanese names on there it's just gonna
be all japanese players and hopefully it sorts by by country otherwise i'm definitely losing to
people in japan just just saying because every online leader port is usually japan well there
you go guys that is pokemon snap five important features to know changes from the original game
things i'm looking forward to things you should be looking forward to i have a few other pre-release
videos coming out this week so be sure to stay subscribed for pokemon snap videos tips and
tricks i don't know if i'm doing a walkthrough yet we'll see all right till next time austin john out