{"id":16989,"date":"2017-11-03T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T00:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16989"},"modified":"2017-09-27T17:16:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T17:16:28","slug":"pokemon-playhouse-ios-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/03\/pokemon-playhouse-ios-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Playhouse (iOS, Android)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Kids love Pok\u00e9mon.\u00a0 And they have for more than two decades now.\u00a0 But surprisingly, with all the kid-focused Pok\u00e9mon games out there now, there is very little for the younger crowd.\u00a0 Sure there have been a few games like Pok\u00e9mon Channel on GameCube and the PokePark games on Wii.\u00a0 But not really much for the preschool set.\u00a0 Until now.\u00a0 Introducing Pok\u00e9mon Playhouse, a game designed for the smallest of Pok\u00e9mon fans.\u00a0 It\u2019s available to download on iOS and Android devices (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 Best of all, it\u2019s a free to play game with NO in game purchases or ads!<\/p>\n

The game is set in a playhouse, with various rooms featuring activities with Pok\u00e9mon.\u00a0 Tap on whatever you want to do or go, and tap and drag and drop to play the games.\u00a0 Lilly, the playhouse caretaker, will guide your child with spoken voice instructions, too, so reading skill isn\u2019t required to play.<\/p>\n

In the playroom, you can put together simple Pok\u00e9mon puzzles where you drag and drop the characters to the outline that fits in the picture.\u00a0 Tap on the door outside to go out at night and play flashlight tag with Pok\u00e9mon.\u00a0 Drag the light around and spot hiding Pok\u00e9mon silhouettes to find them.\u00a0 Also in the playroom are three Pok\u00e9mon storybooks you can read.\u00a0 Lilly will read aloud these five-minute stories, and the pictures have interactive spots where you can tap on the Pok\u00e9mon and they\u2019ll do things.<\/p>\n

In the lounge, Pok\u00e9mon eat snacks and get taken care of.\u00a0 Match the correct berries to the Pok\u00e9mon who wants to eat them in the snack game.\u00a0 In the grooming game, take care of Pok\u00e9mon by brushing, washing, and putting bandages on their boo-boos when they ask for it.\u00a0 In the tower, use the telescope to look at the stars and play connect the dots to make constellation pictures of Pok\u00e9mon and color them in with northern lights.\u00a0 Also in the tower is a stage where you can put on a Pok\u00e9mon show.\u00a0 Tap the correct Pok\u00e9mon in the right order and they\u2019ll sing a song.<\/p>\n

Lilly gives you a Pok\u00e9mon egg to hold onto as you play these games.\u00a0 When you finish a game, the egg will crack a little.\u00a0 Play enough games and it\u2019ll hatch into a new Pok\u00e9mon, and then Lilly will give you another egg.\u00a0 You can view the Pok\u00e9mon you\u2019ve hatched and made friends with in the center of the foyer.\u00a0 Go outside from here and you can place the Pok\u00e9mon you\u2019ve collected onto a playground scene.\u00a0 It kind of reminds me of those old Colorforms toys.\u00a0 Anyone remember those?<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s pretty much all you do in Pok\u00e9mon Playhouse.\u00a0 For a free-to-play game, it\u2019s surprisingly of very high quality, so it\u2019s hard for me to find any fault with it either.\u00a0 I guess some of the games don\u2019t control as well as others, like the star constellation game.\u00a0 And it would\u2019ve been nice if you could choose an option to read the stories yourself, or maybe make the games harder so the game will grow with your child.\u00a0 But other than that, it\u2019s still a pretty darn good preschool app, I think.<\/p>\n

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What surprises me the most is that this game is free-to-play and there are no in-game ads or purchases!\u00a0 Which is good since this is a preschool game and you can feel safe letting your kid play it on their own.\u00a0 But it also makes me wonder how they\u2019re making any money with this.\u00a0 Maybe The Pok\u00e9mon Company is thinking they can make a game for very young kids, so they\u2019ll want to buy all the games and toys and cards later on, I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 But I will say that when the very first Pok\u00e9mon games came out, my little brothers were very young and couldn\u2019t read very well yet.\u00a0 But they wanted to play the Pok\u00e9mon games so badly that it encouraged them to work hard and learn how to read so they could play them.\u00a0 And I think that\u2019s a good thing, don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kids love Pok\u00e9mon.\u00a0 And they have for more than two decades now.\u00a0 But surprisingly, with all the kid-focused Pok\u00e9mon games out there now, there is very little for the younger crowd.\u00a0 Sure there have been a few games like Pok\u00e9mon Channel on GameCube and the PokePark games on Wii.\u00a0 But not really much for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16991,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16989\/revisions\/16991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}