Melatonin – Rhythmic Dreams

When I first hear the word “melatonin” what obviously comes to mind, like many others is the hormone and the supplement. I actually did try taking the latter a few times and I found that it helped me fall asleep, but not stay asleep. Everyone would brag about how great it was, how it would just knock them out, some of them would even pop another one if they woke up in the middle of the night.

I did that a few times, but decided to stop because I didn’t want to become dependant on it. Well, in truth it’s not a narcotic but that doesn’t mean you can still be addicted to it a different way. Any substance can be addictive in a way.

Anyway, this is a game involving rhythm-based puzzles within dreams. A person is on the couch asleep and each night there are four dreams to play. Each of them has a practice mode, a scored mode, and a hard mode. Once enough stars are earned from each level in the regular scored mode, a final dream opens that combines them all into one.

In the gameplay, you have to keep an eye and ear on visual and audio cues to hit the right buttons at the right time. For instance, the first dream about food you have to time right so that the food land’s in the guy’s mouth and it’s different every time. This took some practice with each dream level, but the game has some options to increase accessibility so it’s not too difficult.

This includes enabling a metronome, a visual indicator of what to press and when, easy scoring, and less deduction if timing is early or late. I like this option because I am not a fast learner at this, and at least this game can hold my hand if I want it to, unlike Geometry Dash!

I noticed that each of the dreams relate to different things in life that are relatable and become more complex with each chapter.

The first night involves essential things we use everyday like food, technology, social media, and shopping. I was able to ace the food level but the technology one was my favourite as the audio cue was the easiest to recognize.

The second night involves more of this with things we do often our lives like exercise, work, money, and dating. I found the exercise one to be the hardest and the dating one to be the easiest.

The third night is where we get into the deeper things involving mental health which is: time, mind, nature, and space. These ones were definitely challenging, especially the time one as there were multiple things to remember and holding the right button down.

Then the fourth night relates, in my mind, to challenge our thoughts about certain things in our lives: stress, the past, our desires and the future. I was able to master the stress and desire one in no time. The future was definitely the hardest ever.

Just like how each night wraps up with combining all four dreams, there is a morning level at the end that merges everything together to really test your skills. Surprisingly, I didn’t have too much trouble with it.

There isn’t really much story to this game but it has relaxing visuals and music and if you want to try to aim for all the stars, rings, and perfect scores, it’ll take a ton of practice. I recommend it if you just want something relaxing to play that provides a decent challenge.

👽Emily