It would probably do pretty well on Wii U Virtual Console too. Pokémon Snap sold a million copies way back then. There are two ways to approach taking photos of creatures and monsters: The workmanlike route, where you just try to get the darn thing in your Compendium however you can, and the artistic route, where you play Pokémon Snap a la Zelda and try to get the best pictures you can.
It’s a little harder for moving items like frogs and bugs, but if you forgot to take a picture of it in the wild, just find an enclosed room somewhere and drop away. If you want to track hearty radishes because you can’t find any in the wild, but have one in your inventory from earlier in the game, you can drop it on the ground, take a picture of it, and then proceed to track it. Herbs and rocks and such things are easy to take pictures of, and you don’t even have to remember to do it when you gather them. So don’t worry about taking ugly pictures when a quick temporary one will do. First tip: You can take pictures of something you’ve already logged, and if the new picture is better, you can replace the old one in the Compendium. That’s okay: It’s worthwhile to take pictures just to log something in the Compendium. Photo: (c) Nintendoįilling out the Hyrule Compendium doesn’t require you to take good pictures-and many of the pictures you take, especially of dangerous monsters, probably won’t be so hot. Find a super rare stone or frog and need to get more? Take a picture of it, track it, and the Sheikah Sensor + will lead you right to it. The key is, you have to already have a picture of that object in the Hyrule Compendium. You can use the Sheikah Sensor + to track the locations of anything in the Compendium-monsters, weapons, herbs, treasure, creatures-in a similar way to tracking shrines: the sensor will beep when you’re approaching what you’re tracking.
Once you upgrade your Sheikah Sensor to the Sheikah Sensor+ in the Hateno Ancient Tech Lab for the low low price of three ancient screws, the Camera takes on a hugely important new role. But there’s a lot of value in the Compendium even if you don’t care about chasing down every herb or butterfly in the game.įirst off, modest spoiler time: The Camera is more than it seems.
To the completionist, this is immediately appealing. The Camera lets you take pictures of basically any object in the game-creatures, monsters, crafting ingredients, weapons and some kinds of treasure-and record them in the Hyrule Compendium, a visual encyclopedia. You first unlock the Camera function in the Hateno Ancient Tech Lab outside Hateno village, and initially it mostly seems like a novelty. The Sheikah Slate in Breath of the Wild has six core rune functions, and the Camera is actually the last of them you unlock. The scope of 'Breath of the Wild' is larger than you ever imagined.