History VideoGame / NewPokemonSnap

* GlowingFauna: The Crystablooms, which glow and cause changes in various Pokémon, are shaped like blooming flowers.

* SleepCute:
** All of the Eeveelutions can be found sleeping with other Pokémon. Most of them give at least two stars when photographed.
** In the nighttime version of Florio Nature Park, you can find Grookey and Pichu sleeping together under a Torterra.

** More subtly, while there is a mild plotline to the original, it's almost non-existent aside from the clues leading to Mew. Here, while still somewhat loose, there are questions about the origins of the Illumina Pokémon, their energy's effect on the environment, and the question of a meteorite and how that affected the local wildlife.

** In Blushing Beach, you can lead a female Pikachu over to a sandbank, where she'll hop on a Stunfisk, and pretend to surf on it. This sequence is very similar to how Surfing Pikachu was gotten in the original game.

''New Pokémon Snap'' is a UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch game based on the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' franchise and the long-awaited sequel for the beloved ''VideoGame/PokemonSnap'' on the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64. It was developed by Creator/BandaiNamco, and was released worldwide on April 30, 2021.

** Pokémon that are known to have canon natural enemies or predators can meet and fight/hunt each other. It's the case with Pinsir vs. Heracross, Pidgeot vs. Magikarp, Zangoose vs. Seviper, and Corsola vs. Mareanie.

** Barren Badlands features a Shinx, Torchic, and Tepig dancing on a rocky archway, a reference to the Hakuna Matata scene from ''[[WesternAnimation/LionKing1994 Lion King]]''.

* ShoutOut: Much like Squirtle in the anime, the Blastoise makes a reference to ''Film/{{Gamera}}'' -- rising up out of the whirlpool while spining in its shell, then retracting its legs and flying away by shooting water jets out the openings.

** The Mightywide River level is basically designed as a huge, combined call-back to the River and Valley levels from the first game, with similar layouts and elements and even a few photo opportunities very similar to ones from the first game.[[labelnote:*]]There's a Psyduck that swims in the river as it did in the Nintendo 64 title -- hit it a few times while it's doing this and you'll get the same jumping up reaction. The update also has Metapod who hang down from trees like in the original, and brings a scene where you can knock Magikarp into a waterfall and Gyarados comes out.[[/labelnote]] Todd, the player character from the first game, even alludes to this when revealing the level to you and mentions that it makes him feel nostalgic for some reason.

** [[spoiler:Mew appears in Founja Jungle at night after completing the story. It covers itself in a pink orb, and must be hit with a Fluffruit to get a good picture, just like its boss battle in the original game. Though it eventually gets up close to the NEO-ONE, providing an easy shit.]]

** In the nighttime version of Barren Badlands, taking a picture of every Diglett, at the end of the stage, a group of three appear in the craters resembling a Dugtrio. This is referencing the Tunnel, where taking pictures of Diglett eventually causes Dugtrio to appear.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Shiver Snowfields at night features a lone female Weavile sleeping in a tree. Hitting her with a fluffruit will cause her to fall out of the tree and get buried headfirst in the snow with her legs flailing comically.

* OneHundredPercentCompletion: Not only are there a ''lot'' of Pokémon to photograph, every Pokémon has at least four different poses to record in your [=PhotoDex=] (with some poses ranked the same amount of stars), and photographs can get up to a Diamond rank depending on their quality. And then there are the LoadsAndLoadsOfSidequests, of which there are ''234''-- one for ''every single Pokémon in the game''.

** Upon completing the story, Todd grants the player access to Burst Mode, which lets the camera take a series of shots in bursts of 3, 4, or 6, making it easier to snap photos of fast moving Pokémon.
** All Lumina, legendary and mythical Pokémon yield an extra 1,000 points bonus in the category "pose", regardless of what you do[[note]]for instance, if Prof. Mirror considers your photo to be bad, you'll get 1,200 points instead of the usual 200[[/note]]. This is likely to avoid frustration as to how hard these Pokémon are to photograph in the first place.
** The August 2021 update added a minor one in that, if a photo fulfils a Research Request, it'll now be marked with a symbol while you're selecting your photos, saving you the frustration of submitting a photo only for the "Request complete!" message to not appear.

** A couple of Jynx can work together to revive a rare Ice type Pokémon -- this time, an Aurorus.

** There's usually more than one way to get higher ranked photos of Pokemon besides requests. Weeks after the game's release, players were still finding new scenarios that count as 3 or 4 stars.
* DoWellButNotPerfect: Getting one, two, or three-star photos can be more difficult than the highest rank depending on the Pokemon, as some are almost always in dynamic poses and rarely lay down to rest.

* FloatingInABubble: Much like Mew in the original, [[spoiler:Yveltal]] hides from you in a glowing orb. Before you can photograph it, you have to hit it with lots of Lumina Orbs.