Monday, July 27, 2020

Ring Fit Adventure

 

During this worldwide Corona crisis, everything changed. Including the availability of a game known as Ring Fit Adventure. Suddenly, everyone wanted to stay fit inside while the Corona kilo's were stacking up, including mine.

As it has been sold out several times, fortunately I had the game in my possession back in late 2019. It wasn't until around June that I started out with it, despite hearing only positive stuff. As a spiritual successor towards Wii Fit and Wii Fit U, this game has reinvigorated the fitness genre.

The Ring-Con acts as your main fitness object where you will be able to use yoga techniques, perform motion controls and squeeze and pull with it to do more moves.  The Leg Strap acts as a supplement that will support your moves as it registers them back towards the Nintendo Switch's sensor.

It ships with an adventure mode which combines fitness exercises as attacks and navigation simlar to a rail shooter, while offering simple RPG mechanics to increase the joy. Through several worlds, you will collect more moves, items and abilities, while constantly thwarting up enemies.

Alongside that, Ring Fit Adventure also has mini games to let you play, including the recently added Rhythm Mode, letting you move along the soundtrack of the game, as well as some guest tunes. Mini games range from shooting up barrels, towards falling downwards and spinning up shapes of pots.

The game will also register and track your progression, while giving you fitness and health advice along the way. There is also an optional quiet mode available, if you don't want to disturb others nearby.

Ring Fit Adventure is best used to perform cardio and fitness exercise, while not so much for strength training. Depending on how old and fit you are, and what you define as fun, the game might be even more or less recommendable to you.

For me, it shows that Nintend has proved yet again that fitness and entertainment can be a fun combination!

Rating: 8.2

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