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Pokemon Snap is one of those weird Pokemon spin-offs. Either you love it or you hate it. Actually, before they released it on a Virtual Console, I had assumed I was the only one who loved it—I could spend hours playing the same five-minute stages over and over and over again, but I knew I was kind of a weird little kid and it probably
Whatever the case, I played that game to death. Hell, I still do.
And since I was putting all that time into it, something eventually started bugging me:
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The first thing that most players fussed about when they finished their Snap Dex is that it seemed finished nearly two-thirds too early. While older players probably had a better grip of what was reasonable for the hardware requirements, plenty of us 12-year-olds went in expecting to take photos of all 150 Pokemon, with Mew just being the icing on the cake.
Once you get over that little life lesson, you realize that the developers not putting in one Pokemon more for the flagship number of 64 is absolutely bizarre. Every N64 game that possibly could, and even games on later consoles used that number, usually in an up-front nostalgic manner, but sometimes as a delightfully obtuse Easter egg. For example, one intrepid Nintendo Power reader did a little math at the end screen of Star Fox 64, where a bill is presented to Sgt. Pepper based on how many ships you shot down, and worked out that each enemy ship was worth exactly 64 points. With companies going that far out of the way to make a reference that
There are a number of things pointing to this, if you take the time to think about it.
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*The game seems unfinished. You get a congratulations for documenting such a rare Pokemon after you catch a shot of Mew, and different credits roll, but nothing really happens. You
*This one requires a little outside knowledge, but HAL, the main dev company of the game, is better known for their work on the Mother series, known in the States as Earthbound. Many people have noted the similarity in appearance between Mewtwo and Giegue, the last boss of Mother (the precursor to Earthbound), and given that HAL has pitched in on a large number of Pokemon games, theorized that Mewtwo is either a tribute to Mother or an uncredited addition from the developers proper.
Given all of that, is it so hard to believe that Mewtwo was supposed to be in the game?
Whatever the case, I
A son that will always be lost.
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