Let's Get Fit Review (Nintendo Switch)... Playing It for 30 Days! (IS THE GAME WORTH IT???) - FGR
34Let's Get Fit Review (Nintendo Switch)... Playing It for 30 Days! (IS THE GAME WORTH IT???) - FGR
Let's Get Fit is easily up there as the most comprehensive fitness game I have ever played. Containing pretty much everything that I wanted in a fitness title since I started this series. Generated custom workouts, programs, challenges, badges and goals, over 100 exercises, and more. However, the issues that plague the game bring it down a big notch, with the limited budget being incredibly apparent. Do I still recommend purchasing this game? Wellโฆ watch and find out. What's going on, everybody! My name is Jack Jenkins, and welcome to my YouTube Channel. It's a fitness games review and Let's Get Fit is today's victim.
[Introduction]
Let's Get Fit came sneakily under the radar. I found it originally while searching the main page of the Eshop. There was no real marketing in the United States and no physical release. It's from the same publisher of Let's Sing, which I guess is a sister series and a franchise that I've been meaning to jump on for like a year now. Keep coming up with more popular ideas, so it's getting pushed backโฆ I'll get to it soon. With a thirty-dollar price tag, I purchased and began my thirty-day journey on this game. My idea was to play it for thirty days every day. My goal was to burn at least two hundred calories after twenty minutes of playthrough. That seems to be my threshold in these more intensive fitness games. With that outline created, I started up the game.
On firing up, it requests using the let's get fit straps. These straps come with the physical version that, again, did not release to America. Luckily you can go on amazon and get the wrist straps for Just Dance for about ten bucks for two. I will link what I got below in the description. They worked wonderfully in both Just Dance and this game. Using these and the Ring Fit Adventure Leg Strap is all you need to get started. Alternatively, you can use the joy-con separately. Still, the playstyle would be different, and the game won't recognize your moves either. It sucks that there isn't a control-less method like there is in Yoga Master. For accessibility reasons, that should one hundred percent be in every fitness-based game or motion-controlled game. Not everyone can say Run in place, so Ring Fit made the update for those in apartments or wheelchairs. The fact that this game doesn't have this is the first of many marks against this game.
Once you are all hooked up, you complete the optional pre-game survey. It has the traditional gender, weight, and height survey that all these games have to calculate your burned calories. Put a pin in that thought for later. After your survey, you get your level and get introduced to your fitness instructors. They are Lucy, the Zen Instructor. Jeff is the overall surfer dude, bro. Julia, the party girl, and Mike, who should be in tropic thunder. Seriously though, in all the promotional art, they have him colored super dark, but he is just a tanned white guy in the game. Maybe they had to fit a diversity quota at the last minute and put this dude in photoshop. Either way, it's pretty weird and threw me off the first time I started a program with him. All these instructors are bad stereotypes with horrible voice acting. Mike sounds like every d-bag hogging up the smith machine at Planet Fitness. Julia sounds like a Zumba instructor who will try and hit on your husband after class. It honestly reminds me of early 2000's games when they relied much more on stereotypical humor. They don't say anything offensive like many games back then, but the vocal performance matches that vibe.
With these characters introduced, we get to the main menu. You have three modes to choose from Free, Program, or Challenge. The free mode allows you to choose whatever pre-made workout is available or generate your own. You can't actually create your own routine, though, which is another mark against this game. The issue with the generator is I've run into it telling me it's impossible to generate a workout based on my options many times. If it's impossible, don't give the player these specific combinations. Seriously it's user experience 101. Overall, the generator works fine when it does give you options, and the pre-made workouts are okay. I wish there could be more customizability with the option of creating your own workout from scratch, like with Yoga Master. Still, I understand the developers were on a limited budget.
The program is where the meat of the game lies. Each program has you run through a set of exercises that work out whatever part you choose. This section of the game relies on the results of the survey you took in the begging, so hopefully, you didn't lie; otherwise, you will be working out well! The programs range from getting Arms of Steal to working out your Legs...
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