>>46985843One more point.
-Back in the 90s when the original came out, because there was no internet, there was less to do and less games to play. It made a lot more sense to squeeze every last secret and every last drop out of the games you had. I couldn't just look up how to find Mew or how to make Lapras appear in the originals, I had to figure it out like solving a puzzle. Now since I can play anything I want, or do infinitely more things in real life I'm not going to sit around watching the same cutscenes/level over and fucking over again for no reason. That's boring as shit.
>>46984326Also comments like this are very intentionally made to be disingenuous. "Beating" sword and shield are the absolute worst parts of those games. Fortunately since there is online multiplayer, you can have more fun raising your pokemon and battling online, trying out different strategies and teams. That alone would kill a lot more time than Pokemon Snap. I've been able to have fun training my guys, catching them, trying different abilities, movesets, and teamcomps online for 50+ hours easily. Even if you don't count online okay, Isle of Armor/Crown Tundra, the ONLY decent parts of playing gen 8 without requiring online, still, by themselves, offer you more to do and more fun things to do than Snap does.
I'm not saying Snap has no place in the modern market, if it was a 20 dollar eshop title I'd buy it, but as it is now at best it's something I skim through gameplay of on youtube for 20 minutes before getting bored and moving on. And truthfully, I haven't even bothered to do that yet because it just isn't very interesting.
In the modern age, there's no good reason not to combine Snap with the mainline RPGs. The main RPGs are obviously very lazy and no effort, which I know I don't need to explain to anyone here, but if there was any justice the way Snap looks right now is how the main games would look, and you'd get a camera in those games as a fun side activity.
