January 1st, 1970 by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News, Virtual Console, Imports
We know a lot of people have been waiting for
Pokémon Snap, because they tell us. Frequently! It should come as a comfort to those people, then, that the game is scheduled for release on Japan's Virtual Console on December 4th, which makes a release in other territories soon after a near inevitability. We admit to a fondness for the nonviolent rail shooter ourselves, and it's aged rather well for an
N64 game.
An N64 game on the VC is big enough news (they can only come out during a full moon on a warm night, and then only if nothing is there to spook them), but the release of
Pokémon Snap also carries some news that is significant to the very nature of the Wii's classic game download service. You will be able to send your in-game photos to Wii Friends. We don't necessarily think Pokémon photo sharing is, itself, a killer app or anything, though we'll probably take advantage of the service if we can generate awkward enough poses. This is the first time that a Virtual Console game has had functionality added to it (instead of having functionality
removed) and it means that Nintendo is not above going in and changing a game for a good reason. As long as that reason is
Pokémon. Also surprisingly, the game will be the normal 1000 Wii Points.
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January 1st, 1970 by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Virtual Console
On December 10th, six days after the
Japanese launch of
Pokémon Snap, the American Virtual Console will feature the rail-photography game. To promote the release, the online
Toonami Jetstream channel will show a week of
Pokémon cartoon episodes featuring Todd, the protagonist of
Snap who was hamfistedly crammed into the show to help sell cartridges.
Why should you care about a
Pokémon spinoff game? We'll recap:
- It's a pretty okay game
- Judged against other Pokémon spinoff games, it's a freakin' masterpiece
- Expanded functionality allows you to share photos with Wii Friends
- (if you're me) More attention on Pokémon Snap could finally get the "photography game" genre going, or at least convince Hudson to let us download Photograph Boy.
So, in conclusion,
Photograph Boy is a great game. What? Oh, right. The Pokemans thing is good too.
[Thanks, Orange Soda!]
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