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Channel Your Inner Wildlife Photographer And Chill Out With 'New Pokémon Snap'

After years of begging by fans online, Nintendo has released a sequel to the classic N64 game Pokémon Snap — it's a peaceful playthrough that has you taking pictures of monsters, not capturing them.
In the <em>Pokémon Snap</em> games, you're not capturing mons and forcing them to fight — you're taking pictures of them in their natural habitats.

When I was a kid, playing the original Nintendo 64 version of Pokémon Snap was magical. It brought all the little monsters I got to know in the anime and the other games to life in a new way. In Snap, you play as a wildlife photographer, taking pictures of the original Pokémon, and even some from Generation 2 and 3, in a 3D world, watching how they behave in their natural habitat without the interference of the humans that normally capture, train, and battle them — the first spinoff Pokémon game to break away from that structure.

I remember approaching the

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