Wii Fit U Is An Amazing Mixed-Bag (I Kind of LOVE IT) - Wii Fit U Review - Fitness Game Reviews
5Wii Fit U Is An Amazing Mixed-Bag (I Kind of LOVE IT) - Wii Fit U Review - Fitness Game Reviews
00:00 - Intro
01:26 - Wii Fit U Overview
04:10 - Yoga & Strength Training
07:13 - Aerobics
09:58 - Dancing
12:22 - Balance Games
16:46 - Negatives and Conclusion
19:17 - Outro
Script:
Wii Fit U is the most recent installation of the Wii Fit video game franchise. I'm throwing Ring Fit Adventure into its own "spiritual successor" category. The 2013 game was released four years after the previous game and contained so much new content. Does this new content live up to the expectations the previous games left, or am I disappointed? Well, it's kind of the latter but mostly the former. What's going on, everybody! My name is Jack Jenkins, and welcome to my YouTube Channel. I do videos about Self-Improvement, and this is Fitness Game Reviews, where I review… fitness games. Today is on Wii Fit U.
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Wii Fit U starts off nicely by importing all of your old data from either Wii Fit or Wii Fit Plus if you have saved data on your Wii U. It's great to have all the content I already unlocked available for me at the start. If you don't have the content, you must create your own profile utilizing your Mii. Gotta be honest. I'm starting to get nostalgic for these little guys. Once you have your profile, you will be able to start off by completing your fitness test, which measures your weight, enters your height, tracks your weight loss or gain goal, and provides optional games to test your balance and age.
The process here is the same as the previous Wii series but with a twist. You can use the GamePad camera to photograph your face. That will help show progress as you lose weight with the system. Going from "Jabba the Hut" to the "Crimson Chin." After weighing yourself, you will still get your balance and BMl, including that sad noise and the board calling you obese. Dang, the 2000s to 2010s were wild regarding body positivity, for better and worse. After your weigh in you can calculate your Wii Fit age with new games involving the gamepad. It looks like all the previous content games are also in this area.
Speaking of, the meat of the game comes from the exercises in the game. The system includes almost all of the previous exercises in the previous games. It includes a whole host of new mini-games for you to play. These exercises are divided into Yoga, Strength Training, Aerobics, Dance, and Balance Games.
The Yoga and Strength categories receive no new exercises or improvements, which is disappointing. The only change I can tell is the Trainers' mouths move, and the areas being worked on are now highlighted during each rep. They still say the same exact, repeating lines as the other games. You still can't turn off the dialog, which blows my mind. Listen, they say the same things over and over again.
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Horrible! Nintendo really dropped the ball when it comes to these two categories, arguably the most important in this game regarding exercise. I would have expected at least three new exercises for each Yoga and Strength Training because that's what Wii Fit Plus did. I was hoping there would be a way to change the length of holding the positions like you can with Strength training but no. Without loading, you can't even create straight routines, such as going from Down Dog to Sun salutations. You can't turn off the instructor, no two-player support for these, and no swappable accessibility for some of the harder strength exercises. No such thing as sets either in this game which is disappointing because that's how real-life workouts operate. How neglected Yoga and Strength training are in this game is a big disappointment. Again, these are arguably the two most important categories for weight loss and toning, so no new exercises or other improvements are just sad.
The aerobics category is back, containing previous game modes such as running and hula-hoop with the addition of four new games. Puzzle Squash is a game of tennis mixed with Tetris, where the color of the blocks you hit will disappear. You have to walk in place to get to the right spot, and the swinging is accurate. Much better than the original Wii Sports thanks to the Wii Fit Plus. One of the best exercises in the game and is always fun to play. Free boxing is just boxing with the TV off like a free step. Feels redundant, but it's alright. Orienteering will have you run around Wuhu Island looking for Miis. It only uses the Wii gamepad and reads the running from that device. Definitely feels worse than reading from the Wii remote, and the running is very inaccurate. Good idea, bad execution. It's a nice touch that Wuhu Island changes with the calendar. Lastly, Rowing Crew has you pretend rowing on the Wii Balance board. You have to row based on the rhythm of the instructor. I have control issues with this one, especially when reading my upper body weight...
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