As Alba, I’ve basically got free reign over the island in my week’s worth of vacation, and the story progresses as I hit certain milestones, like the number of birds photographed.Īnd there are a lot of birds to photograph, ones that I won’t ever see in my actual backyard or local park. This aspect of the game is, of course, where I see the Pokémon Snap influence, but the game also evokes the sort of naïve joy I felt as a child it’s all awe and wonder in exploring the beautifully crafted world, following sounds to snap a photo of a bird nesting up somewhere in a tree. These little things add up to a movement, as the girls collect signatures for a petition to stop the hotel from being built.Ī huge part of the gameplay is photographing and cataloguing the island’s wildlife - mostly birds, which is very exciting for a real-life bird dork like me. The island, though, is facing a crisis, with a corporate developer trying to tear down a wildlife reserve to create a massive resort hotel.Īlba and her best friend do little things every day, like seek out rare birds, fix signs, and clean up trash. The premise is simple: a young girl, Alba, goes on vacation visiting the island her grandparents live on.
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It’s UsTwo Games’ Alba: A Wildlife Adventure.Īlba: A Wildlife Adventure is available to play on Windows PC via Steam and on iOS devices via the Apple Arcade - and it will, eventually, come to consoles like the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. Thankfully for me, and maybe for you, there is a recently released game to play that evokes some of the joy I felt in discovering new things as a child. Now that it is, and soon, at that, I’ve started craving the memories I had as a child playing the game. (Birds and dogs, in these two games, respectively.)įor so long, it felt like a new Pokémon Snap game would never happen. You can see the influence of Pokémon Snap over a new crop of indie games that have come out over the past few years - stuff like Toripon or Pupperazzi, where the main goal is to take photos of animals.
I’d guess that a lot of people my age, somewhere in their mid-30s, have these sorts of memories: ones that are hazy, but mostly true, centered on playing this one game from our childhood.
My memory tells me I never owned it, that I waited patiently for it, week after week, to come back into stock at Blockbuster - the one just down the street from Nana’s. I only remember playing it in one place, at my grandmother’s house and in the living room, not the den. It’s been decades since I’ve played Pokémon Snap, but I still think of it fondly.
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