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by douglaspaul
2135 days ago
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We actually love Ring Fit! Have you tried it? We managed to get one of the first copies available after it had sold out through the lockdown, and have put in a good few hours over our lunchbreaks to benchmark against it. In our opinion Nintendo has done a really good job, and we even managed to break a sweat playing it. That said, Ring Fit Adventure is limited to Switch users, and the game itself was not compelling enough to build a real fitness routine around (if Peloton and Zwift are too far in one direction, then RFA is too far in the opposite). It's taught us a lot about how important certain aspects from the game design will be as we continue building the Quell game world though...and anything that is encouraging people to look after their health gets a big thumbs up from us. |
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- Gamification does sometimes interfere with the workouts and/or workout enjoyability. The tasks that were gameplay-optimal were often either tediously easy or exhaustingly targeting the same muscles repeatedly.
- Not enough cardio opportunities in the game, IMO. You get interrupted from the jogging sections repeatedly. Only a couple of the skill moves targeted cardio at all really.
- Lots of downtime and fiddling with menus and only semi-skippable instructions/tutorial videos of things you've done before. Enemy animations even for non-actions. Squeezing one's smoothies while dorky music plays. A half-hour workout took more like 50 minutes.
- Difficulty of exercises not reflected in their impact. Partly due to the fact that each person finds different exercises difficult and the game had no way of accounting for that.
- Sweat! I sweat a lot during any workout and I felt gross wearing the leg-strap repeatedly and the non-washable ring grips. I can guarantee I'd make the Quell gear stink in a few months max and would need a cheap way to wash them and replace padding that wears out.
The rhythm game section they added in a more recent update is super fun, though. I wish it were incorporated into the main game. Overall, I like RFA and have benefited from adding it sporadically into my exercise routines. I could definitely be in the market for Quell.