Nintendo's New Fit Game (Ring Fit Adventure™)

[DarthMetalliCube]

JWeinCom said:

DarthMetalliCube said:
Wow.. I'm pretty shocked both at how much fun I'm having with this game, and how much it actually makes me break a sweat. As I expected, this is a very linear and basic game, qualities on usually not too keen on - but anytime you can make an exercise even moderately fun and interesting, it's super impressive and admirable in my book. I do sort of wish there was a bit more freedom of exploration, customization/upgrades, and a real difference in the strength applied to the ring translating to the strength of your attacks against enemies, but overall I'm enjoying it. The level of nuance in the motion controls/movement recognition is impressive and the feeling of tactility when walloping the monsters makes those typically grueling reps a ton more satisfying.

My only concern is beating the game relatively quickly as I've only logged a few hours of workouts and I'm already done with world 2. Though I suppose I can always go back and replay the game on "Extreme" difficulty (currently playing on the third tier difficulty which I think is called Intense). And I've still barely played the separate minigames and can always resort to just jumping into the "quick play" options which you just get right down to the reps.

The game has 20 worlds, and they get considerably longer as you go on.  I've put in about 8 hours of movement time and I just finished world 10.  Hoping there's a new game plus deal or some DLC.

You'll also unlock a skill tree a bit later on, and some other abilities that give you some more freedom to customize your workout.  

Was really surprised to learn about the 20 + worlds, that's pretty rad. I figured given what I know about typical Nintendo games it would be like half that at best XD.

I still would like to legit use this game like 4-5 days per week for at least an hour as I really have to get back into shape, which I definitely think is feasible given the length, the harder difficulty, and the separate mini-games/sets I could always fall back to.

And I'll still likely be joining a gym but it'll be nice to have this a supplemental/fall-back option when I don't feel like getting laced-up and going there.

It's nuts you wouldn't think squeezing that Ring-con would cause you to break a sweat but over the long haul it really does. I do wish there was a bit more cardio involved - like maybe have the stages extended more, but I suppose that's what the gym is for.