{"id":87117,"date":"2024-11-13T22:14:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T22:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/13\/pokemon-tcg-pocket-fans-are-begging-for-a-dark-mode\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T22:14:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T22:14:49","slug":"pokemon-tcg-pocket-fans-are-begging-for-a-dark-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/13\/pokemon-tcg-pocket-fans-are-begging-for-a-dark-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket Fans Are Begging For A Dark Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"


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It\u2019s midnight. The room is pitch black. I gingerly creep into bed so as not to disturb the amorphous blob of children that may be residing somewhere near its center. I\u2019m sleep-deprived but unable to turn my brain off. I pull out my phone and see a tiny notification out of the corner of my eye that my booster pack stamina has recharged. My finger taps the Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket<\/em><\/a><\/span> icon to open the game and collect my rewards. The light of a hundred dying suns immediately fills the room. <\/p>\n

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Even on my phone\u2019s darkest setting, Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket <\/em>is bright as hell. In the morning, when I\u2019m opening my packs and battling for Laprases while my coffee cools, it helps the mobile card game\u2019s beautiful creature art pop amid the window glare. When I\u2019m trying to sneak a session in while mixing formula or rocking a baby back to sleep, however, having Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket<\/em> open is like shooting a phosphorus flare directly into my eyeballs. At one point or another, probably every one of the game\u2019s over 30 million players have realized<\/a><\/span> how completely absurd this is<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really hope they add a dark mode,\u201d one player wrote on Reddit<\/a><\/span> during early access. \u201cWill they ever put a \u2018Dark mode?\u2019\u201d another player wrote when the game came out. \u201cDark Mode PLEASE,\u201d continued a plea on Halloween. \u201cHot take: Can we have a Dark mode ui?\u201d someone chimed in a few days ago. \u201cI\u2019m a designer and wanted to save everyone from blindness with\u2026dark mode!\u201d a fan wrote today alongside their mockup. It looks like every other dark mode app on my phone. I need it now. <\/p>\n

There are a couple of reasons the status quo in Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket<\/em> is particularly bad. First, there is just a ton of white space in this game. Loading animations and default backgrounds all look like they\u2019re made out of pearl. The result is like facing an oncoming car with nauseatingly bright LED high beams that never actually drives past. Second, because of all this light being output, Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket<\/em> absolutely destroys my phone\u2019s battery life. A five-minute match ticks multiple percentage points off my meter. Before I know it, the whole thing is shutting down just as my Charizard<\/a><\/span> has hit four energy. <\/p>\n

Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket<\/em> needs a lot of things at the moment. Card trading for one, a feature that is missing but listed as coming soon. Also emotes, or any other way of communicating with opponents during matches. How else can I troll people when they make a mistake or their turn-one Misty immediately flips a tails? But more than any of those things, Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pocket <\/em>needs a dark mode. I let my premium pass free trial lapse today. If it came with a dark mode, I can promise you I would have re-upped. My family\u2019s uninterrupted sleep and my corneas depend on it. <\/p>\n

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