Every Pokémon game is Pokémon Sleep to me
Bedroom fire hazard skinner box with no perceivable benefits to your sleep routine, borderline data scraping tool. One of the worst projects Nintendo has put out in years, honestly. Imagine the inept out-of-touch gimmicks of their Wii U era shenanigans mixed with their morally-depraved Switch era anti-consumerism.
feel like it's hard to really review this as a 'game' but the design decision to have like 15 minutes of text-heavy tutorials immediately after you wake up was a strange one. this is considered enough of a 'game' to have a battle pass and multiple premium currencies, i guess. i'm sure once they figure it out it'll also beam in-game advertisements for even more Pokemon™ products directly into your in-sleep brain.
told me what i already knew (only like 4 hours of my sleep a night in total are restful) and then made my phone run slow and at a really high temperature for a few hours after. thank you pikachu
Definitely a thing where they came up with the idea of having a sleep tracking app first and then had to sloppily build a game around that idea. Mechanics are just sort of thrown at you, with no attempt at telling you why you should bother doing any of this besides "maybe we'll tell you if you sleep funny after all this busy work". Also, this game has some glitch with me where the sound doesn't work if I don't have headphones, and for some reason that results in the alarm being comically quiet, so it can't even do the basic function of waking me up. Chikorita was there, that was nice I guess.
I was lost without Pokémon Sleep, I was a shambling corpse, wide a wake with no reason, but now I have a reason, A REASON TO SLEEP! THANK YOU POKEMON SLEEP! SEE YOU GUYS IN 5 YEARS WHEN I HAVE MY SHINY MAGIKARP THAT SLEEPS ON IT'S FUCKING HEAD!!!
I caught a Squirtle sleeping in his shell while I was half asleep x'D I understand what they were going for but I definitely won't remember to check into it every morning xD xD
I can't believe this glorified sleep app has more tutorials and mechanics than a mainline Pokemon game.
It's very frustrating that every night I have to sit through fifty pages of dialogue and explanations at about 10 frames per second when all I want to do is go to sleep it's 5 in the morning please I'm so tired-
It's very frustrating that every night I have to sit through fifty pages of dialogue and explanations at about 10 frames per second when all I want to do is go to sleep it's 5 in the morning please I'm so tired-
Finally, I can be a part of the pokemon competitive scene
Remaking Pokemon Sword/Shield was an interesting idea but I respect the boldness!
dude that shit made my phone hotter than gerard way
imagine if you have pokemon sleep going on while you have sex and in game you get an egg
fine idea, but i have better sleep putting my phone on some flat surface that isn't my bed and playing youtube videos in the background for better sleep instead of generic sleep music to try to make go to sleep. turns it into a chore tbh
my phone fucking combusted under my pillow and nearly burnt my home to the ground.
game SUCKS i go to BED
In typical Game Freak fashion, this is technology from a decade ago being paraded around like it's cool when it's Pokemon. Accelerometers tracking your movement in the night certainly works as a means of tracking sleep, but integration with wrist trackers, smartwatches, and smart rings (and AI beds? Whatever that even means?) have allowed a greater degree of fidelity for users. Sleep as Android has been doing a damn good job of telling me I have horrible sleep hygiene for a decade, only improving with time. It has recommended ways of improving my sleep, alarms that go off only when I'm in a light sleep cycle so I'm less groggy, 'captchas' were I can only turn off my increasingly loud alarm with math, or tapping an NFC point, or shaking my phone like it owes me money. Not only am I firmly entrenched in my current sleep tracker, it has always been frictionless. I tap a widget, I put my phone beside me, I sleep.
Pokemon Sleep shows a fundamental misunderstanding of why sleep trackers are used, how they are presently used, where the market lies, and how the gamification of life actually works. This isn't Habitica or Fabulous trying to improve your life through things you don't already do. I have no choice in whether or not I sleep. The appeal of a sleep tracker is that it is set and forget, a companion for something I have to and will do anyways, so it better not be an annoying partner. If Pokemon Sleep wants the user to be concerned about the quality of their sleep, shouldn't it be able to sync up with existing hardware that can supplement its readings? If sleep is meant to be restorative, why is that rejuvenation immediately undone by tutorialisation and currencies and systems and a goddamn battle pass when I wake up? Why am I chastised when I wake that I only got 54/100 sleep points because I woke in the night and can only get 5-6 hours of sleep a night if I'm lucky? Why is the assumption that 8.5 hours of sleep is a perfect ideal for everyone to aim for? Why is there no accommodation for the peculiarities of the human sleep experience, for the insomniac, the narcoleptic, the medicated? The very least it could do is offer a sleep quiz, or a calibration period. The very least it could do is not inundate me with things I have to learn and keep in mind. The very least it could do is not make my phone radiate enough heat that my wrist tracker thinks something is wrong. The very least it could do is not eat 80%(!!!) of my battery at night so I panic when I wake up. And for the chronically eepy like me, the bare minimum amount of effort could be put towards not having a minutes-long load-screen before I can track my sleep. Last night I passed out waiting for it to complete. Y'know what it took for my wrist tracker to document my sleep last night? Nothing.
In typical Game Freak fashion, this is technology from a decade ago being paraded around like it's cool when it's Pokemon. Accelerometers tracking your movement in the night certainly works as a means of tracking sleep, but integration with wrist trackers, smartwatches, and smart rings (and AI beds? Whatever that even means?) have allowed a greater degree of fidelity for users. Sleep as Android has been doing a damn good job of telling me I have horrible sleep hygiene for a decade, only improving with time. It has recommended ways of improving my sleep, alarms that go off only when I'm in a light sleep cycle so I'm less groggy, 'captchas' were I can only turn off my increasingly loud alarm with math, or tapping an NFC point, or shaking my phone like it owes me money. Not only am I firmly entrenched in my current sleep tracker, it has always been frictionless. I tap a widget, I put my phone beside me, I sleep.
Pokemon Sleep shows a fundamental misunderstanding of why sleep trackers are used, how they are presently used, where the market lies, and how the gamification of life actually works. This isn't Habitica or Fabulous trying to improve your life through things you don't already do. I have no choice in whether or not I sleep. The appeal of a sleep tracker is that it is set and forget, a companion for something I have to and will do anyways, so it better not be an annoying partner. If Pokemon Sleep wants the user to be concerned about the quality of their sleep, shouldn't it be able to sync up with existing hardware that can supplement its readings? If sleep is meant to be restorative, why is that rejuvenation immediately undone by tutorialisation and currencies and systems and a goddamn battle pass when I wake up? Why am I chastised when I wake that I only got 54/100 sleep points because I woke in the night and can only get 5-6 hours of sleep a night if I'm lucky? Why is the assumption that 8.5 hours of sleep is a perfect ideal for everyone to aim for? Why is there no accommodation for the peculiarities of the human sleep experience, for the insomniac, the narcoleptic, the medicated? The very least it could do is offer a sleep quiz, or a calibration period. The very least it could do is not inundate me with things I have to learn and keep in mind. The very least it could do is not make my phone radiate enough heat that my wrist tracker thinks something is wrong. The very least it could do is not eat 80%(!!!) of my battery at night so I panic when I wake up. And for the chronically eepy like me, the bare minimum amount of effort could be put towards not having a minutes-long load-screen before I can track my sleep. Last night I passed out waiting for it to complete. Y'know what it took for my wrist tracker to document my sleep last night? Nothing.
It told me to keep my phone on my bed charging and when I woke up from 4 hours of sleep it told me I slept for 1 hour and then my phone immediately crashed from overheating
I fucking love sleep i fucking love sleeping i am so eepy im so sleeppilled i love sleep honk shooo mimi etc.
Seems kind of neat. it was pretty accurate with the date it collected but its a bit creepy it records you all night.
Honestly I don't know what I expected, but for a game teased 4 years ago and released in this state I guess I expected...more? I mean I think about how Pokemon GO just drops on a dime and sweeps the world by storm without any hype but this has barely any fun attached.
You just go to sleep and catch whatever pokemon you can that came to meet you overnight.But to catch Pokemon you have to buy these biscuits and feed them enough to follow you around? Most of it is just mindless and boring.
Also this dropped at the worst possible time frankly, as I just moved into a house where there's no outlets anywhere near my bed.
You just go to sleep and catch whatever pokemon you can that came to meet you overnight.But to catch Pokemon you have to buy these biscuits and feed them enough to follow you around? Most of it is just mindless and boring.
Also this dropped at the worst possible time frankly, as I just moved into a house where there's no outlets anywhere near my bed.
this game has done more to fix my sleep schedule than anything else i've tried in the past 6 years and that's gotta count for something
I put it face down like it says, I wake up and the game was closed. I guess it crashed. Tried again a second night but face up this time. Same results. Uninstalled
I had more crashes in this than my entire time with launch Scarlet and Violet
I had more crashes in this than my entire time with launch Scarlet and Violet
sorry no i cant stay up to talk longer. yeah sorry. its my pikachu. he needs me to go to bed right now or else he'll be real dissapointed in me. cant let that happen yk.
It made me realize my sleep schedule SUCKS ASS
Unironically this has brought me a lot of joy and helped me keep an eye on when I go to sleep. Progress is very slow (I ve been trying to evolve this shiny Pupitar for months), but I really enjoy interacting with it 3-4 times a day
I can finally sleep. I have been awake for so long. Thank you Snorlax.
I can't wait to sleep together with my best buddy, Darkrai!
unlocked the ouroboros difficulty where i worry about what the game will say about my sleep patterns and therefore losing sleep and getting poor results and worrying about those results as i go to sleep. thanks guys game works great
Yes, I've played this everyday since launch.
caught the sound of my neighbor accidentally putting a hole in my wall with a 9mm