Pokémon Scarlet And Violet DLC Fixes Its Horrible Photograph Mode

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s Teal Masks DLC could not repair all of the efficiency points the video games have had since they launched in November 2022, however there’s one factor it dramatically overhauls: the sport’s godawful photograph mode.

When Scarlet and Violet launched, it allow you to take pictures and selfies together with your Pokémon mates and different gamers when you had been grouped up in its (surprisingly nice) co-op mode. However attempting to take sick pics together with your pocket monsters was insufferably dangerous as a result of your favourite critter would always run round, by no means pose in the suitable means on the proper time, and had been typically about as cooperative as a fussy child who wished to be anyplace else. In The Teal Masks, you now get extra direct management over what your Pokémon do when you’re attempting to arrange an ideal shot, and mates, I’m about to placed on a photoshoot.

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s Teal Masks DLC fixes photograph mode

Because the collection tends to do, Scarlet and Violet’s DLC makes posing your Pokémon diegetic, quite than simply flipping a change to make them do one thing, Pokemon usually makes quality-of-life modifications an in-universe change, like providing you with Operating Sneakers so your character can dash in Ruby and Sapphire, or the very controversial Hello-Tech Earbuds in Sword and Defend unlocking correct audio settings. For the photograph mode modifications, the tweak is that you just now play a little bit jingle once you take out your digicam, and relying on which you play, your Pokémon will react a method or one other. This consists of an lively battle theme that harkens again to the unique Purple and Blue, which makes your Pokémon do their battle animations, or you possibly can play a lullaby and snap photos of them being sleepy little guys.

Whereas it nonetheless takes some effort to wrangle all your group collectively for a gaggle shot, it’s at the very least simpler than it was at launch to convey your complete group out for a picnic and get them to all take a look at the digicam and make related poses. Earlier than The Teal Masks, getting good pictures of your Pokémon was all about gaming a damaged system and timing your screenshot excellent. The DLC additionally streamlines this course of by circumventing the standard “disguise UI and press the screenshot button” that plagues different photograph modes by mechanically capturing a clear picture with a easy press of the A button when you’ve obtained the digicam out.

So as to add to this, you additionally get the Roto-Stick, a selfie stick that enables for wider angles to take a greater group shot, and allows you to pose your coach in several spots throughout the body, so all of your selfies don’t look precisely the identical (just like the courting app profile of a straight man in his thirties). All of those small tweaks make Scarlet and Violet’s photograph mode really feel extra well-rounded and versatile.

In the end, I would like if there was a means we might instantly pose every Pokémon like most photograph modes, however on the very least Scarlet and Violet’s new photograph mode feels usable. Maybe it’s a really true-to-life mechanic as a result of getting your pet to pose for a photograph is a continuing battle, however when you handle to catch them at simply the suitable second, you get the right Instagram-worthy pic of your candy child to indicate to the world.Now it appears like I’d truly get some worthwhile pictures of my Raichu and all his mates. Hopefully it doesn’t distract me an excessive amount of from truly ending the story, however given how a lot time I’ve spent in a continuous photoshoot already simply within the first hour, the percentages are stacked towards me.