Extremely good at doing what it does. Exercise games in the past have either failed to provide adequate exercise like Wii Fit, or are just a fun game that happens to get you moving like Beat Saber or DDR.

This is neither of those things. This game looks at what is an effective exercise first and then designed a game around it. It's a linear runner game that's split up by turn-based combat where you need to do a full set of callisthenics to perform attacks, with adjustable difficulties determining your set counts. It's genuinely a very effective way to motivate yourself to exercise at home if you have trouble with it, as many people do.

There's a lot of room for improvement though, the biggest one being the attack balancing doesn't make any sense. A lot of the times easy exercises like arm spin end up being more powerful than difficult exercises like squats and planks. Some of the exercises have weird form to coincide with the game needing motion for the attack systems, i.e. planks make you do an unneeded hip lift - this could have been remedied by adding a mechanic for holding form to attack instead.

This is a great purchase though and I'd love for it to get a sequel.

Reviewed on May 31, 2021


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