{"id":20259,"date":"2020-07-15T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T00:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20259"},"modified":"2020-06-27T12:20:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T12:20:37","slug":"pokemon-smile-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/15\/pokemon-smile-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Smile (Mobile)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Pok\u00e9mon has delighted and entertained kids for generations, and now the little pocket monsters are helping make brushing teeth a little more fun.\u00a0 Pok\u00e9mon Smile is a brushing app for mobile devices (reviewed on iPhone here) geared towards very young children.\u00a0 Best of all, it\u2019s completely free with no in-game ads or purchases.\u00a0 Not sure how it makes money, but good for them!\u00a0 But will it make kids excited to brush their teeth?\u00a0 You\u2019ll just have to read on to find out!<\/p>\n

The first thing you\u2019ll do is a pick a Pok\u00e9mon. You can choose Pikachu, Eevee, or one of the three starter Pok\u00e9mon from the generation one games.\u00a0 I picked Bulbasaur because that was my first Pok\u00e9mon.\u00a0 Oh yeah, I should also mention I was the one playing this.\u00a0 One reason why is because I have no shame, but the other reason is because there just aren\u2019t any young kids around the house anymore.\u00a0 That\u2019s what happens with kids, they grow up!\u00a0 It\u2019s a good thing I\u2019m still a kid at heart!<\/p>\n

Anyway, after you do that, you can start brushing.\u00a0 The game uses AR, or Augmented Reality.\u00a0 You\u2019re supposed to look at the screen, which will show a picture of you wearing an animated Pok\u00e9mon hat along with some teeth at the bottom.\u00a0 You\u2019re supposed to follow the picture directions to brush your teeth in certain places, and your little Pok\u00e9mon on the bottom will attack the purple germ clouds.\u00a0 Do this enough times and you can attack a big purple cloud with a Pok\u00e9mon inside.\u00a0 At the end of the duration, you can swipe the screen and attempt to catch the Pok\u00e9mon inside a Pokeball for your collection!<\/p>\n

After you brush, the game shows you some pictures of you brushing that you can save, and then you\u2019ll unlock a new hat to wear, stickers to put on pictures, or even a new Pok\u00e9mon.\u00a0 And here\u2019s the main problem I had with the game.\u00a0 I brushed my teeth every day straight for two weeks using this app and while I was able to unlock new stickers or a hat each day, for the life of me I was never able to catch any Pok\u00e9mon!\u00a0 I know the game is free and I shouldn\u2019t be complaining about it too much, but I just can\u2019t imagine kids being continuously encouraged if it\u2019s that hard to do.\u00a0 Or maybe it\u2019s one of those things that\u2019s \u2018so easy even a child can do it,\u2019 but adults can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Even though there are no in-game ads or purchases, I\u2019d still recommend parental supervision since a bathroom is a dangerous place for a cell phone, what with all the water and hard surfaces.\u00a0 I\u2019d also recommend that parents go to the option screen and change the brushing time.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s set at either three or five minutes.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how long you\u2019re really supposed to brush your teeth, but five minutes is a long time for any kid, I think.\u00a0 I guess it\u2019s worth a download since it\u2019s free, but just don\u2019t expect too much out of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pok\u00e9mon has delighted and entertained kids for generations, and now the little pocket monsters are helping make brushing teeth a little more fun.\u00a0 Pok\u00e9mon Smile is a brushing app for mobile devices (reviewed on iPhone here) geared towards very young children.\u00a0 Best of all, it\u2019s completely free with no in-game ads or purchases.\u00a0 Not sure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20259","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\/20259","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=20259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20261,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20259\/revisions\/20261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}