


The only interaction you have, other than the camera, is Marina’s whistle. Though, you won’t be able to get creatures that are high up without barely having Marina in the frame and I do wish you could move her without getting out of selfie/camera mode if you found yourself a bit too far away from the creatures you wanted in frame.

You can even do selfies, with Marina having a handful of expressions for her to have. The only thing here is that I do wish you could get closer photos of the creatures here, as some are really cute and there are some instances where they’re even in cuter positions. Heck, this even uses the Switch’s gyroscope feature while you’re in camera mode, which I totally didn’t expect. In camera mode, anything you haven’t taken a picture of will be unknown until you do and you can zoom in or out how much you want (no instant max zoom here) as well as the height of where Marina is holding the camera. You’ll be able to walk around in each of the three different, distinct areas and bring out your camera anytime you see anything you want to snap a picture of or you suspect is something new. Once Marina arrives, you soon get the goal of photographing anything and everything. Along the way, she will also flip through her grandfather’s journal to see what he wrote about the creatures and his drawings. Everything that her grandfather told her was true and after realizing that the island might even disappear forever as no one else knows about it, she decides to take pictures of the creatures here as they are pretty unbelievable that they even exist. Marina must be either lucky or the island senses her intentions as she finds it. But, per his wishes, she sets out to try and find the island. When Marina was a child he used to tell her about the kind of creatures that inhabited it, but as she grew up, she never thought that what he was talking about was true. The journal details about a strange and magical island, dubbed as Maravilla Island by him, which seemingly only him managed to find. Here, you play as Marina Montez who recently received a journal from her late grandfather. And the new game on the block is Beasts of Maravilla Island. This year is a good year for those that have been craving photography games for years or just recently after playing New Pokemon Snap is seems.
