Ring Fit Adventure Catch All

I've been keeping up with it more sporadically but I just finished World 12. Maybe I'm just a wimp but my sessions lately have been only 20 minutes on the ingame clock at difficulty level 17 and that feels just about right at the moment. I'm someone who has historically not exercised though so to have stuck with it this long is a miracle.

jrralls wrote:

Anyone been consistently doing the exercises this whole time?

Had to send one of my Joy-cons for repair, so no I got the Joy-con back about a week ago, but I haven't picked up the game yet, although I've been doing a lot more exercising outside of the game. I should really finish it though (I think I was close to the end of world 17).

Forlorn Hope wrote:

I've been keeping up with it more sporadically but I just finished World 12. Maybe I'm just a wimp but my sessions lately have been only 20 minutes on the ingame clock at difficulty level 17 and that feels just about right at the moment. I'm someone who has historically not exercised though so to have stuck with it this long is a miracle. :D

I'm no fitness expert but if it feels just right for you, that sounds right. I'm actually the heaviest I've ever been which is one of the reasons I picked this up.

I found a retail copy of this! I need to install it and get back on the exercise train. Any newbie tips? How are the difficulty settings? Can I customize it to cater to my damned bad leg?

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

I found a retail copy of this! I need to install it and get back on the exercise train. Any newbie tips? How are the difficulty settings? Can I customize it to cater to my damned bad leg?

Yeah, for the most part, you can skip any exercises that don't jive well with your bad leg.

Difficulty setting are basically setting number of reps to complete, and is a 1-30 scale. If you're in reasonable shape already, crank that sucker up. If not, start out low, and but bump it up as you progress and get fitter.

Jonman wrote:
UpToIsomorphism wrote:

I found a retail copy of this! I need to install it and get back on the exercise train. Any newbie tips? How are the difficulty settings? Can I customize it to cater to my damned bad leg?

Yeah, for the most part, you can skip any exercises that don't jive well with your bad leg.

Difficulty setting are basically setting number of reps to complete, and is a 1-30 scale. If you're in reasonable shape already, crank that sucker up. If not, start out low, and but bump it up as you progress and get fitter.

I think there are some settings you can change to avoid certain exercises. I'll check today.

There is an assist feature I haven't really investigated, but I'd start looking at that. If squats are especially challenging then I hope assist mode is designed for that.

You can 100% pick your own skills to avoid any that are too hard for you, and you can make smoothies so e.g. your red (arm) skills switch to blue so you can exploit the weakness of blue (leg) enemies. Or color swap to any of the colors.

So if you can't do or hate a particular exercise (planks for me) you don't really ever have to use it in battle.

However the game does have you doing squats fairly often outside of battles, plus chair pose and overhead press/pull. Those are used to power various modes of transport.

There are some gyms or battle arenas that have a specific list of skills that must be used, but I think those are entirely optional.

Found a copy at my local Target today, the last one they had and they said they just got them in this morning.

LeapingGnome wrote:

Found a copy at my local Target today, the last one they had and they said they just got them in this morning.

Nice!

Zwickle wrote:

There is an assist feature I haven't really investigated, but I'd start looking at that. If squats are especially challenging then I hope assist mode is designed for that.

I knew there was something like that. I haven't played around with it either but noted it might be useful if I had some sort of light injury.

I think I've burned out on the game aspect of this. It's a good workout but everything about the game side bothers me. I don't like the strategic decisions about what exercises to use, I don't like the feeling of slowly chipping away at the boss battles, figuring out when to use what potions... I guess I would be happier if it were simpler, just running through an environment with a few set exercises to do at 3 or 4 stages over the course of a run. I think the workouts I get with it are good but the game is detracting from the experience. I should just try the workout only mode.

So for multiple reasons I decided not to jump back into this throughout all of Covid, but finally did tonight. The biggest fix for the leg strap issue was to set it to Silent Mode, which basically just requires you to bend the knees at varying degrees and speeds. Or just walk in place and wind up sprinting everywhere. Regardless, it made the whole leg strap issue go away for me and I was able to just enjoy a twenty-ish minute exercise session.

If you're like me and struggling with the leg strap, I recommend trying Silent Mode. I still had quite a sweat built up with the exercises proper, though that's in part due to having a Dragaux fight prepped and ready to go. Those are surprisingly tiring since you don't have much downtime within those fights.

Found a copy of the game so went to pickup a switch. Changed my mind after seeing the switch price. Haven't been paying attention to the price of the switch. Going to be funny when I change my mind and can't find the game again.

Was thinking of starting back up yesterday. Broke my foot last night. Back on the shelf it goes.

Finished World 13 and umm.. that was interesting..

Spoiler:

Found Dragaux on the second level that I tried and then the game just moved onto World 14. Alrighty then..guess I don't need to do all those other levels..

Also forgot to mention in my last post that I changed a setting which forces me to do the whole exercise even if I beat the monster on the third rep which I think is more satisfying.

Forlorn Hope wrote:

Also forgot to mention in my last post that I changed a setting which forces me to do the whole exercise even if I beat the monster on the third rep which I think is more satisfying.

Where is this setting? I don't think it was in at the beginning of the year as people were asking for it.

imbiginjapan wrote:

Was thinking of starting back up yesterday. Broke my foot last night. Back on the shelf it goes.

Not cool. Get well soon, and hopefully there's no real long term impact.

Anyone else try the rhythm game element? I did two tunes this morning and was surprised I didn't see anyone on the rankings board. I wanted to do more exercise but knew sticking to the adventure would probably be a bit too much, so I decided to just do the Splatoon 2 Medley and Jump Up Super Star, first at Novice then Advanced. They're actually not too bad, but I'd like to see more music options available (and therefore a better way to navigate the songs).

My only issue was the implementation of squats, which combined with the arm gestures resulted in a lot of "am I even doing this right?" since I couldn't focus as much on posture and form.

Regardless, was a fun way to conclude the day's exercises.

ccesarano wrote:

Anyone else try the rhythm game element?

Not yet but good to hear that it's a fun workout. I might have to try it on a day that I'm not focused on advancing the story.

mrtomaytohead wrote:
Forlorn Hope wrote:

Also forgot to mention in my last post that I changed a setting which forces me to do the whole exercise even if I beat the monster on the third rep which I think is more satisfying.

Where is this setting? I don't think it was in at the beginning of the year as people were asking for it.

It wasn't - they added it with the March update that had new modes and stuff. It should be somewhere in the setting menu in Adventure mode. You can even just set it so you only have to complete exercises if they have two sides but I did it for all of them.

mrlogical wrote:

I think I've burned out on the game aspect of this. It's a good workout but everything about the game side bothers me. I don't like the strategic decisions about what exercises to use, I don't like the feeling of slowly chipping away at the boss battles, figuring out when to use what potions... I guess I would be happier if it were simpler, just running through an environment with a few set exercises to do at 3 or 4 stages over the course of a run. I think the workouts I get with it are good but the game is detracting from the experience. I should just try the workout only mode.

I've said this a little less directly/less vehemently in other posts. The game is a really generic/vanilla/simplistic RPG, and I don't particularly enjoy the game aspect of it, but it's largely inoffensive. Like a cucumber. I'd prefer a pickle, or anything with flavor or complexity, but to mix my metaphors I'm not playing for the game. It's just a wrapper to get me to do the exercise.

And the exercise part feels pretty legit. I know it's legit sweat I build up while playing, and that's good enough for now.

I was thinking a little more about the RPG side and I've never really cared for crafting and don't much enjoy making smoothies in this game (although my daughter does enjoy that part). I was thinking that simple quests to do X exercise 100 times to help you earn equipment would be nice. But they'd need some new ideas about equipment too. The current equipment is all generic top/bottom/shoes with mild bonuses.

Having a quest to do, e.g 1000 mountain climbers to earn the ultimate mountain climbing shoes which let you triple jump (or something like that) would be a good incentive for me.

Or some kind of environmental puzzle you solve with exercises to unlock the equivalent of the grappling hook in Zelda.

As it stands though I am happy with the purchase and interested in any DLC or sequels that refine the idea further. The core mechanics of the exercises are good, the setting is pleasant, and they just need more nuance in the RPG framework.

Thinking on it more, I think my main problem is that the only tension in the gameplay for me is risk of wasted time. If I go into a level and don't have the right combination of moves, don't take the right power ups, don't use my health potions at the right time, I might just have to do the whole thing over again, and may have wasted resources in the process. It's largely a theoretical concern--I think I've maybe failed 2 missions in 30 hours or so of play--but for me it just makes so much of the gameplay about anxiety, which is not what I want.

mrlogical wrote:

Thinking on it more, I think my main problem is that the only tension in the gameplay for me is risk of wasted time. If I go into a level and don't have the right combination of moves, don't take the right power ups, don't use my health potions at the right time, I might just have to do the whole thing over again, and may have wasted resources in the process. It's largely a theoretical concern--I think I've maybe failed 2 missions in 30 hours or so of play--but for me it just makes so much of the gameplay about anxiety, which is not what I want.

As you get further, you don't have to worry about failing really. You'll get a ton of hearts, and have more health potions than you can use. I think about halfway through you won't even need to use the health potions. It all just becomes about how fast you can beat everything. Sometimes, you may just hold on to your attack power up smoothies so you don't beat things so fast.

I remember a lot of frustration early on when I lost to something mostly due to being overconfident and then having some light sensor issues. That goes away.

I've found that a bit of mental ju-jitsu is in order to get over that anxiety.

You have to switch your gamer brain off and switch your gym-rat brain on. You're not playing Ring Fit to see the credits roll, you're playing Ring Fit for exercise. So failing a level is still a success because you got a workout out of it.

I just picked this up. Played the first level and lost in the boss battle due to loss of hearts. I had a blast and hope it will get me to set up a habit

Anyone play this game longer than a few months?

Congrats! I played for about 5 months but haven't in the last month plus.
I think I'm on the next to last world, so.i should really get back to it and finish it off.

Then start again focusing on different muscles/exercises.

bobbywatson wrote:
jrralls wrote:

Anyone been consistently doing the exercises this whole time?

Had to send one of my Joy-cons for repair, so no I got the Joy-con back about a week ago, but I haven't picked up the game yet, although I've been doing a lot more exercising outside of the game. I should really finish it though (I think I was close to the end of world 17).

So, 4 months later, I finally booted the game again yesterday. I was at the World 17 boss, which is weak to leg exercises. I did not stretch afterwards, and boy am I paying for it today! It was great to get back to it though, and I am looking forward to playing some more later this week!

I "beat" the game a couple weeks ago. I've been playing about once a week to supplement running. Probably played the last 1/3 or so on the highest difficulty. Only doing it once a week, I definitely get sore the next day. It's kinda fun! Right now, I'm just picking away at the extra stuff. Not sure when I'll just restart or how the NG+ stuff actually works.

I stopped for a couple of months but just picked back up a week and a half ago. I'm at the last world, Finalia, and back to enjoying it.

My plan is to do a NG+ play after this and break my days into Arms/Legs on day one and Core/Yoga on day two. This first play through I often found myself choosing attacks based mainly on damage output. I'd like to treat it more like a workout targeting particular exercises and maybe put it on shuffle.

I also expect to get more use out of it in the Winter now that the weather has turned rainy and cold.

So we just bought this game for me to work out with, but it turns out my boys are obsessed with it. They are 5 and 7 and will keep playing the game as long as we will let them. It’s amazing that anything will pry them away from Kirby or Pokémon Let’s Go, but Ring Fit has taken over their lives.

Anyone else have kids playing this?

Greatajax wrote:

So we just bought this game for me to work out with, but it turns out my boys are obsessed with it. They are 5 and 7 and will keep playing the game as long as we will let them. It’s amazing that anything will pry them away from Kirby or Pokémon Let’s Go, but Ring Fit has taken over their lives.

Anyone else have kids playing this?

Awesome!

I haven't let my kids play any fitness anything. Starting to rethink that with all the rainy days. I guess I did let them do the weird free jump rope game.

I picked up Fitness Boxing 2 earlier this year and played it for a few months. Eventually I realized that ai strongly prefer the format in fitness boxing where they pick the day's workout for me. I basically decide the length - light, normal, or heavy. This is great for me as it eliminates the time I often spend (too long) debating which exercises to do. And when I'm a little pinched on time I can still get a good workout in.

I don't recall what prompted it, but last month I took another look Ring Fit to figure out if there was anything like that.

While there isn't anything quite like the trainer that selects exercises for you, Custom Mode has what I was looking for.

In custom mode you pre-select up to 10 exercises, choose how many reps, and off you go. No RPG dialog or time spent in battle debating if I should use an attack that hits 3 enemies vs 5, or when do I need to drink a (potion).

It eliminated the part I wasn't enjoying (the extremely vanilla RPG) and the result is shorter sessions and much better workouts.

I designed 4 Custom Mode workouts of my own before coming across this 31 day Playlist designed by a personal trainer. Each video is short, about 5-6 min apiece, and no fluff or filler. The trainer has an approachable and relatable manner and is obviously a gamer.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...

I'm through day 21 (doing the level 2 program) and still enjoying the workouts.