I felt this was really going a above and beyond taking delays into account even though this is a common practice in rhythm games. She rated this game as an excellent alternative to real fitness boxing and she gave it a score of 7. There are plenty of other movements within the game, such as weaving, uppercuts, and steps, but I won’t go into much detail for those. The exercises themselves can be engaging, and it’s nice to keep track of your progress (and the game does give you a fitness age that seems arbitrary, I kept getting in the low 20s although I am far from that), but the amount of unlockables and achievements (which were added to this game and not present in the first) aren’t really enough to keep you going if you don’t like the thought of constantly throwing punches.

For starters, the calorie counting is wildly off, and I’m saying this as somebody who was a personal trainer for five years. I have wondered recently how easy it would be to mod the game to 'fix' these issues, and to change the music. Each icon represents a punch or a motion like a duck or a step, and when you get into the faster workouts with refined movements, they can start to look similar when placed near each other (for example, the body jab and step-in jab are both red and have forward arrows. You’ll hold Joy-Cons sideways in each hand – or possibly one hand if you’re playing in co-op – and move to the rhythm when the icons reach the squares. Whether it’s either watching or participating in sports, I tend to avoid most things related to them.You might find yourself with a new pair of shorts for a trainer that you never use more often than you like. However, I did have some slight issues with the game registering my weaving and ducking which required me to perform the action with more exaggeration than you'd have to in real life. Fitness Boxing contains a playlist of instrumental versions of popular pop songs that is played with each workout exercise. His favourite Nintendo character used to be a guitar-playing dog, but nowadays he prefers to hang out with Judd the cat.

Susurrus your data transfers, but you have to start from the beginning and earn the different workouts again. The problem is simply that there isn’t enough variety here, and while there are a series of different workouts to unlock, they’re all the same sort of thing. The daily routine is an intense workout that does offer up a bit of a breather during the exercises, but mostly barrels full steam ahead for the duration of the exercises. It’s not checking to see if you’ve done the uppercut properly, because it’s got no way of telling that.

Unfortunately, you are unable to save playlists, which is a right shame, it would’ve been nice to go back to sessions I’ve created in the past rather than have to remember which workouts I added. Fitness Boxing 2 comes packed with about twenty or so tracks, including some original pieces which I actually quite liked, but may not be everyone’s cuppa tea. Janice is incredibly enthusiastic and bubbly, but if that isn’t your style, there are eight other instructors to choose from, including three new trainers introduced in this sequel: Janice herself, Hiro, and… Karen; surprisingly, her personality is the complete opposite than some would suspect!

Like with the original Fitness Boxing, these are purely instrumental reimaginings of music, rather than the original tracks themselves. You may shrug off the advice to bring a bottle of water and towel, I know I did, and boy did I regret it. When a game mainly consists of following a set of large squares sliding up the screen, it becomes far more noticeable when those squares aren't moving perfectly – and they certainly chug along at times. The game may not replace an actual personal trainer, but it still holds up as a decent alternative, especially during these strange times. The music is awful - but the Game gets the job done - I've lost a stone in weight in Lockdown using it.The Reno Gazette-Journal gave Fitness Boxing a 6 out of 10, saying that "Fitness Boxing works great as a fitness app but not so much as a game. I know I’m being very picky here, but it is rather annoying that there is no way to input the time on a keypad, rather you have to scroll through each time in fifteen-minute increments on each day you want to set the alarm. There’s still a good fitness game here, but it’s not enough to push anybody that isn’t new to fitness and feels stifled by a lack of more in-depth options around the difficulty. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.