Ring Fit Adventure Catch All

Sh*t, I got exhausted just watching that.

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Maybe I need to make some room and get RFA. :/

I upped the difficulty to 15 and it was the right call. At least for now it's a good balance for me, where it's pushing me but I'm not feeling sore the next day.

Something about the way it counts time always makes my final counts seem less impressive than they felt. Last night I turned it on at about 10:10 and wrapped up at 10:40 and yet the game tells me I did something like 16 minutes of exercise. I understand that it's not counting time as I'm squeezing through dialogue or buying a potion at the potion store, and probably not counting the stretching time either, I would guess if I timed myself at the gym using a stop watch only while I'm actively doing an exercise I'd get a similar result, but it still feels slightly discouraging. Oh well, I'm sure I'll get used to it.

Is the friends stat stuff working for you all? I am Switch friends with at least a few of you now but every time I go to check stats, it takes a pretty long time thinking and then just shows all my stats and says I'm #1 in everything, which I don't believe.

mrlogical wrote:

Is the friends stat stuff working for you all? I am Switch friends with at least a few of you now but every time I go to check stats, it takes a pretty long time thinking and then just shows all my stats and says I'm #1 in everything, which I don't believe.

I expect that, for the stats to show up, other people need to subscribe to Nintendo Switch Online. I am not a subscriber at the moment. As I outlined above, paying $25 for having access to the Ring Fit Adventure leaderboard feature is not enough for me to justify the cost. (And I have... other means of accessing the NES and SNES games that come with it, so...)

mrlogical wrote:

Something about the way it counts time always makes my final counts seem less impressive than they felt. Last night I turned it on at about 10:10 and wrapped up at 10:40 and yet the game tells me I did something like 16 minutes of exercise. I understand that it's not counting time as I'm squeezing through dialogue or buying a potion at the potion store, and probably not counting the stretching time either, I would guess if I timed myself at the gym using a stop watch only while I'm actively doing an exercise I'd get a similar result, but it still feels slightly discouraging. Oh well, I'm sure I'll get used to it.

Not just that. Even in the middle of an exercise, the timer only runs while doing a rep. It stops even if you pause for a millisecond between reps.

Bumped up the difficulty to 13 yesterday and boy oh boy was I sweating. Cleared the first level in World 3 but then I failed the next factory level. I got to the monster at the end and I only had 3/4 of a heart left so he killed me. The screen after suggested buying clothing so maybe I should of done that? I thought they were just an aesthetic thing but maybe they bump up attack/defense.

Forlorn Hope wrote:

The screen after suggested buying clothing so maybe I should of done that? I thought they were just an aesthetic thing but maybe they bump up attack/defense.

They do. Some will give bonuses if you equip the whole set. Make sure you have some smoothies on you as well so you can heal. (You do get a yoga move to heal at some point, call fan pose, I can't remember at what level though.)

Yeah the clothes at the first shop were like +10 attack/defense over the starter clothes.

The game still plays like an RPG.

That leg section in world 5 nearly killed me. I won't be spending as much time today as I did yesterday.

I can't buy smoothies until I complete that level but I'll try redoing it today with the better clothes.

Forlorn Hope wrote:

I can't buy smoothies until I complete that level but I'll try redoing it today with the better clothes.

You can also grind previous levels for XP and therefore stat boosts, because RPG.

I've also joined this craziness, because hearing everyone here talk about it is hilarious and inspiring.

Jolly Bill wrote:

I've also joined this craziness, because hearing everyone here talk about it is hilarious and inspiring.

I'm glad this thread is getting love. I was surprised no one started one two months after the game released! This game deserves more attention. Hoping it sold well enough for Nintendo to go down further this gamification of exercising.

I spend a lot of time thinking about whether satisfying the game's needs is at odds with my workout needs. I just defeated Dragaux on World 3, largely due to some attack power enhancing smoothies. Doing more damage with fewer exercises means I'm not working my body as hard and that's bad, right? Presumably it just balances out because I put that exercise time into another activity rather than taking a second attempt at the boss. But what about when I'm in a level that wants me to focus on ab-based workouts and I have done barely any arm stuff? I'm just hoping the designers knew what they were doing in how they laid this stuff out.

mrlogical wrote:

I spend a lot of time thinking about whether satisfying the game's needs is at odds with my workout needs. I just defeated Dragaux on World 3, largely due to some attack power enhancing smoothies. Doing more damage with fewer exercises means I'm not working my body as hard and that's bad, right? Presumably it just balances out because I put that exercise time into another activity rather than taking a second attempt at the boss. But what about when I'm in a level that wants me to focus on ab-based workouts and I have done barely any arm stuff? I'm just hoping the designers knew what they were doing in how they laid this stuff out.

That's when you need to up the difficulty. You should be getting a workout and desperately using smoothies to stay alive.

Edit: there are smoothies later that let you change all exercises to arms, abs, yoga, or whatever you want, so you do get to decide what you want to focus on during each battle of adventure.

I've been pondering that too, but I've already gone down the road that tuffalo suggests - I spent the first few levels upping the difficulty incrementally before re-doing the calibration with max effort, and then continuing to bump it up (currently set to 27, and that'll be maxed out at 30 before long).

As someone who's a long way from ripped, but has been pretty active for years and has a reasonable pedigree in strength training, there's only so far you can go with unweighted exercises - more reps only goes so far before it stops being interesting.

But honestly, the issue with smoothies pales in comparison to the freedom to select your exercises and the massive variation in intensity between them. The 40-odd squats it asks of me gets a sweat up, but the 10 side bends in Warrior 1 barely gets my heart rate elevated. After a quick Google, it seeems that the yoga exercises don't scale reps with difficulty, whereas all the other types do.

mrlogical wrote:

I'm just hoping the designers knew what they were doing in how they laid this stuff out.

I think they did know what they were doing, and that was designing a fitness-flavored game, not a game-flavored fitness regime. To be honest, you need to take the same approach to it as you would to a gym - use it with your goals in mind, and pick your exercise selections and difficulty setting accordingly. Ain't no point in ambling along on the treadmill before doing curls in the squat rack.

Yeah, I definitely focus on the more strength oriented stuff like squats for legs, overhead presses for arms, and the plank lifts or whatever they call them for core. I like the exercises that are gonna make you sore the next day. I use the Yoga stuff and the easier exercises to "take breaks". I think it ends up getting to be a really well-rounded workout so long as you go at least around 30 minutes or longer on the in-game workout clock (ends up being around 45-60 minutes real time.

I'm actually really liking the yoga stuff sprinkled in because I think if you do the exercises correctly, they do feel good, and I've never been good at stretching and the like. I'd never want to do JUST yoga, but the exercises feel really good for taking a break. After doing these exercises, I understand why people do like yoga.

The game really starts to give you options once you get into world 7 or so. I think I just finished 7 last night. I ended up going 40 minutes in game to just BARELY squeak through the boss since I ran out of smoothies and those heart exercises take forever to recharge when you only have one slot of that.

Can you ask the game not to give you running? My knees are kinda screwed up...

Robear wrote:

Can you ask the game not to give you running? My knees are kinda screwed up...

Have you tried the silent mode? I find it easier on my knees.

I don't have the game yet, which is why I'm asking. Thanks.

bobbywatson wrote:
Robear wrote:

Can you ask the game not to give you running? My knees are kinda screwed up...

Have you tried the silent mode? I find it easier on my knees.

Yeah, I think that mode just has you lightly squat up and down to move. Haven't tried it myself yet.

Squats I can do. Thanks!

I just bought a copy for myself. I wasn't keeping up with 6am yoga classes when it meant walking there in the cold and wet. I hope being able to exercise at home is enough activity to get me through the dreary days of winter.

I also bought a copy, despite (or perhaps inspired by) my snarky comment at the top of this page. I tried it out today and got through the first world-and-a-half over two sessions; two of my kids and my mom also tried it out -- they might also have gotten hooked.

I'm on board, as are 2 of the 3 kids and my wife. It's a family console so my wife's and my accounts are labeled "Daddy" and "Mommy". It's a bit weird for the ring in-game to refer to me as "Daddy".

Druidpeak wrote:

I'm on board, as are 2 of the 3 kids and my wife. It's a family console so my wife's and my accounts are labeled "Daddy" and "Mommy". It's a bit weird for the ring in-game to refer to me as "Daddy".

"Move vigorously, Daddy!" "Squeeze harder, Daddy!" Hmmm... Yeah. Kinda distracting.

About 11 days in. a little over half way through world 5 (the 4 masters). Add me / I'll try to add others later.

I went through world 1 yesterday and felt good. It seemed like a decent workout, not trivial, not intense. Legs slightly achy today from all the squats and leg lifts. That's encouraging.

Those of you who complained earlier about the planking weren't kidding! I got that added to my repertoire this weekend and holy crap, I barely finished a small set. TBF, though, any of the exercises it has you do where you can't see the screen's depiction of what you're supposed to be doing as you do it are pretty rough. I had to keep pausing and sitting up to look at it, and I'm still not certain I'm doing them right. I'm tempted to just never put planking in my set again, but will instead try to treat it as a challenge.

Yesterday I experienced an annoying problem for the first time: just 2 or 3 minutes into what I intended to be a long session with the game, my controllers powered off. Since starting with this game a few weeks ago, I have kept the joycons in the Ring Fit controllers, so it's not a total shock, but I was periodically checking their power levels, and as recently as the day before was seeing a half full battery meter. I guess those meters just don't have much granularity? Are they basically "charged, half charged, dead" and that's it? Anyway it really messed up my plans but I suppose I'll click them back onto my Switch more often going forward.

mrlogical wrote:

just 2 or 3 minutes into what I intended to be a long session with the game, my controllers powered off. Since starting with this game a few weeks ago, I have kept the joycons in the Ring Fit controllers, so it's not a total shock,

I've gotten in the habit of swapping the joycons in the Ring Fit gear with the ones sitting on the Switch in the dock when I finish a session.

Only works if you've got 2 sets of Joycons, obvs.

I decided to increase my difficulty because I thought everything was just too light.

Oh man. This game doesn't pull any punches when you request a better workout. Finally got to the 90% on my heartbeat.