Their most obvious use is to activate crystabloom flowers that can attract Pokémon or even trigger changes in a course, you can also just throw them right at Pokémon to make them glow. You'll find plenty of use for all of these, but of the entire toolkit the illumina orbs are perhaps the most surprising. Lighting Up the RoomYou'll start your photo expedition with nothing but your camera, but you'll quickly unlock a set of tools that will enable you to take better photos: edible fluffruit, glowing illumina orbs, a music player, a scanning feature that will sometimes spark unique reactions, and an accelerator that you can use to catch up with fast Pokémon. These are most noticeable in one stage in particular, when an absolutely massive Wailord slowly breaches the ocean surface and briefly slows everything to a crawl. You'll visit a sparkling beach, a dense jungle, a desert, underwater caverns, and several more locations, all of which look better than I've seen any Pokémon game look yet – beauty which comes at the cost of some occasional frustrating framerate dips when it pushes the Switch beyond its comfort zone. New Pokémon Snap also has far more story to drive it along, with a Pokémon professor named Mirror and his crew of research assistants trying to solve yet another Pokémon mystery, though overall it’s a fairly forgettable progression tool. It even has more (in a sense) of what made old-school Pokémon Snap's final course, Rainbow Cloud, so special – though I can't say more about it here due to Nintendo being overly precious about that part. But I am happy to report this was a non-issue: If "Pokémon Snap, but more" were the baseline for New Pokémon Snap being any good, it would handily clear that simple bar with far more courses, available Pokémon, and possible photos than its decades-old parent managed. “22 years later, I had a real fear that New Pokémon Snap would end up similarly repetitive or limited in either sheer Pokémon numbers or in course availability. Given the timbre of my happy yells every time a Wooper said "Woooh!" at me, if my neighbors had known what I was doing they'd probably agree that New Pokémon Snap is a delightful success on this front. After successfully digging into their combat prowess in Pokken Tournament, Bandai Namco has been handed the far more peaceful reigns of an on-rails nature photography game and charged with portraying Pokémon as wild creatures in living ecosystems to be observed, befriended, and only "captured" via camera. I love the way The Pokémon Company has, in recent years, begun letting more companies outside Game Freak (think Niantic with Pokémon Go, or Legendary Pictures with Detective Pikachu) make media that shows off Pokémon not as collectibles or as static RPG party members but as lovable, intelligent creatures. Without fail, each time I played a new course a Pokémon would appear out of nowhere, or do something cute, or react to something I did in a surprising way, and I (this is not an exaggeration) would sit up on the couch, point at the screen, and go "Aaah!" in delight. It's a good thing no one had a camera on me during my first playthrough of New Pokémon Snap, because I probably looked and sounded like a total dingus.
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