Fitness Circuit

Fitness Circuit, the latest game from Spike Chunsoft promises "Circuit Training for Every Body" - clever, I see what you did there this is a home workout program on the Nintendo Switch. The last time I played a workout game was Wii Fit, which used a balance board and the Wiimotes to measure your movements. This time with the Switch, you will be holding two joy cons that will track your motion, no other equipment is required.

- Alana Dunitz

Publisher: Spike Chunsoft

Developer: Spike Chunsoft

Genre: Sports

Release Date: Out Now

Platform: Switch

As soon as you begin the game the usual medical warnings are shown, and it reminds you to make sure you stretch first before you exercise, stay hydrated, and don't over-exert yourself. You head to Extreme Park where you will enrol by answering questions like:

What is your weight? (metric or imperial), this allows the game to calculate how many calories are burned.

What is your height? This is used to calculate your BMI

Next, you get to select who your Fitness Runner is.

They will accompany you when you work out and you need to help them complete their tasks by generating exercise energy for them. There are six different runners to select from, three female and three male, and each is voiced by an anime voice actor, in both English and Japanese. Since I usually watch anime in Japanese with subtitles, those voices were more familiar to me, I recognised voices like Hinata in Naruto and Kouichi in Cardcaptor Sakura. You can customise a few features of your runner like their hair and eye colour, skin colour, and which of the six outfits that they start with that you want them to wear. As you play and rise in rank, you will get new clothing that they can wear.