In a word, no. I’ve been playing Wii Fit on and off for roughly three months and that’s the main problem. The game is supposed to be played daily, or very close to that, and yet that’s the problem. For whatever reason I can’t be drawn in to get my exercise on any regular basis with Wii Fit.
A large part of the reason, in my mind, is that there’s too much lost time in between the different activities. For me anything that gets in the way of just working out kills my excitement. What Wii Fit really needs is a way for the user to string together a group of exercises. I don’t want to spend half of my work out time looking at the ranking screen, selecting Retry or Quit, seeing how many coins I received for the given exercise, and the time it takes just to move from one activity to the other.
Then there’s the graphics. In general, I’m getting real tired of Wii games with bland graphics. For Wii Fit that is not too much of a problem as long as you’re not doing any of the jogging exercises. Then you’ll get so tired of seeing bland courses you’ll want to tear your eyes out. The Wii can do amazing things, just look at Mario Galaxy or Metroid Prime. Why couldn’t Nintendo do something to make that portion a better experience?
I actually wanted to do a test to see if I could set a goal to loose a given amount of weight for a couple of months time, but Wii Fit is not doing anything to motivate me to do so.
I guess I’ll wait and see what Wii Fit 2 will bring, for now it's back to my soda, and bag of potato chips.
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Have you seen the game "My Fitness Coach" for the Wii? I rented it and have done it a few times so far. You start with a fitness "test" and the game makes a workout program for you based on the test and what equipment you have to use. It doesn't use the wii balance board. It goes through the entire workout without stopping. You might like it.
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