![]() Along the way there are incidentals such as coins to hoover up - which you'll do by pulling on the Ring-Con - and doors to blast open - this time by pushing on the Ring-Con to mimic bellowing air. ![]() Inclines are harder to climb, while stairs - those damn stairs - require high-knees running in place, providing short bursts of more intense activity. The traversal itself is a form of exercise as you jog gently on the spot. You do this by conquering several self-contained worlds, each featuring a series of short levels where you run from one point to another and beat the various enemies you encounter along the way. The adventure is at the heart of it all, a fully-fledged, full-length RPG that has you and your avatar traversing the lands to defeat Dragaux the body-building dragon. As a piece of software, it's often inspired. When hooked up with the Ring-Con and Leg-Con strapped discreetly around your left thigh, your entire body is the controller - though if that particular phrase gives you flashbacks to the dark ages of motion control of which Wii Fit was a part, be assured that this thing works, and it does so flawlessly.Īs a piece of hardware, Ring Fit Adventure is assured. This way, the Ring-Con becomes a controller you push and pull, your efforts measured and translated effortlessly, and all accompanied with a satisfying level of haptic feedback. The real magic, though, comes through where the Joy-Con and Ring-Con interact. It's a pilates ring effectively, a thick matte rubber thing that works in unison with the Leg-Strap that's also included, and it's all sturdy and slim enough to pack in your bag so you can play anywhere (I wouldn't advise busting out the squat thrusts during your commute, though it is handy to be able to carry it with you on short trips - and you can even set the activity to low impact so you don't wake people up in the hotel room downstairs). Oh, and you'll be doing this while holding the Ring-Con, the packed-in accessory that enables all of this. Ring Fit Adventure repeats that particular trick through ingenious use of the IR sensor. Nintendo has previous in this department - there's Wii Fit, the sadly unreleased Vitality Sensor and, if you can remeber that far back, Tetris 64's biosensor that would monitor your heartrate. At its heart Ring Fit Adventure is an RPG in which you're guiding your avatar through fantastical meadows and sugar pop savannahs, fighting off magical beasts as you level up and learn new abilities along the way. This is a video game, and loudly and proudly so. You might not even consider it a game, really - a successor of sorts to the hugely successful Wii Fit, it's a piece of fitness software that, as my aches attest, is remarkably effective.īut if Wii Fit was emblematic of that era of Nintendo, cheerily blurring the lines as it courted - and attained - mainstream success, then Ring Fit Adventure is emblematic of this current Nintendo era. Heck, it's a burn I can still feel tingling away, a full day since I last played this fascinating new Switch game. It's a burn you'll feel in your thighs, mostly. Availability: Out 18th October on Switch.But the greatest video game enemy I've faced this year? It's Ring Fit Adventure's stairs. So far in 2019 I've bested mechs the size of skyscrapers, pummelled ancient demons into the pavement, even terrorised the citizens of a sleepy English village as one very naughty goose. An exercise game with legs - providing you can get over your own sore legs.
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