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Bandai Namco Was Offered New Pokémon Snap Thanks To Its Work On Pokkén Tournament

In safe hands.

Whenever there’s a new Pokémon game on the horizon, fan expectations are always high – and that goes double when we’re talking about a sequel to a much-beloved sub-series. For New Pokémon Snap, The Pokémon Company has entrusted Bandai Namco with development duties, and it sounds like the project is in safe hands.

The game’s director, Haruki Suzaki, also directed 2016’s Pokkén Tournament, a fighting game that showed Pokémon in a new, exciting way. In some background scenes, Pokémon could be seen living with humans and interacting with the world around them in a similar fashion to the Detective Pikachu movie, and Suzaki has revealed to IGN that his studio’s work on Pokkén got them the New Pokémon Snap gig:

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