Polygon.com / 21.06.25

We need a new Ring Fit Adventure on Switch 2

It has been six years since Ring Fit Adventure, the Nintendo Switch fitness game that asked players to defeat monsters (and a sexy dragon) through exercise. The workout game used the Joy-Cons accelerometers to measure your movements and translate them into fitness attacks on screen. Its weird, its wacky, but it worked. I played quite a bit of Ring Fit during the COVID-19 lockdown. What can I say: Nintendo kept me active at a time when I wasnt doing much else. And it didnt take long for me to notice that I felt stronger. Exercises like squats or leg lifts, which were incredibly difficult in my first week, got easier. Even now that the world has opened up again, as a chronic miser, I hesitate to join a gym or a yoga studio. At the end of the day, I cant help but think: We have Ring Fit at home. (I dont endorse this mindset, but I do own it.) But as the years have gone by, a creeping fear has grown in the back of my mind. And now, in the early weeks of the Switch 2s release, it seems unde...
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