Fitness Boxing feat. HATSUNE MIKU Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

by Jim Smale · September 25, 2024

Fitness Boxing feat. HATSUNE MIKU Review, Partner up with Hatsune Miku, and duck, jab, and punch your way to fitness in the classic Fitness Boxing Mode, or in the brand new “Miku Exercise” mode featuring original songs from your favorite Piapro Characters! Get moving and have fun working out at home with Hatsune Miku!

Fitness Boxing feat. HATSUNE MIKU Review Pros:

Decent anime-like graphics.
2.4GB download size.
Own in-game achievements.
Japanese voice for Hatsune Miku.
English narrator for modes, and interactions.
Boxing fitness gameplay.
Use the Joycon in your hands.
One player (two Joycon) and two players (one joy-con each or two sets of Joycon).
The opening tutorial event is timed and shows what bars mean, feet icons, etc.
Fitness points – earned from playing and getting achievements. This is the game’s currency.
Daily workout where you put a stamp on the calendar.
Good loading times.
Four game modes – free training, battle, daily workout, and basic training.
Fully voiced characters/instructors.
It Plays like a rhythm action game as you time your punches to icons on the screen.
The shop has – instructors, outfits for the instructors, and songs.
Two instructors – Rin (female) and Evan (male).
Five total partners to unlock – Hatsune Miku (only one initially unlocked), Kagamine Rin, Kagamine Len, and Megurine Luka.
Unlock conditions for songs, clothes, and instructors are shown when you click them.
Daily missions for bonus fitness points.
My data is where you can view your stats like calories burned, highest score, punches thrown, etc, and look/edit your data (age/weight/height/target weight).
Music player, so you listen to the songs and favorite them to create a playlist.
Password protection can be turned on to lock your account.
Possible to record your workout in the game.
Two types of units – meters/grams and feet/pounds.
Basic game settings – rumble, units, the first day of the week, date/change time, weight entry announcement, and voice language.
Alarm – set the time and even if you are not in the game your console will go off.
Timing adjustment allows you to fine-tune the reactions and can help if it feels off.
Graphics and input lag sliders.
Action assists – Auto score for ducking, weaving, body punches, steps, and sway backs. (all individual options)
Your daily workout can be fine-tuned by turning off – ducking, weaving, body punches, steps, and sway backs.
Battle mode is where you have to face off against a set amount of enemies, you can keep fighting after the time limit for bonus score and fitness points. This is the mode that unlocks new instructors to buy.
Feels really responsive.
Every mode has a standard or a Miku-themed version.
End of exercise breakdown including score and calories burned along with hit percentages.
Generally feels like the game knows what you are doing wrong and tells you how to correct it.
The game will always prompt you to do stretching and cool-downs.
Free battle lets you choose any unlocked stages, songs, and workouts.
Has a full Hatsune Miku playlist of songs to unlock.
You can set your goals and this will recommend workouts to do.
Each workout shows what parts of the body work out.
Three exercise intensity difficulties – light, regular, and hard.
Stretching can be casual or thorough.
A timer is used for every mode including pre and Post cool-downs.
Big boss battles.
When a new workout is part of a session you can opt-in to try out and practice the new workout.
It gets very in-depth and varied.
Will knacker you right out.
Basic training is basically your tutorials – holding the Joycon, actions, basic rules, outlaw battles, and boss battles.
You can do orthodox and southpaw stances.
The Ui is clear and easy to read.
During a session, you will swap stances.
Constant feedback on performance.
Motivational quips as you play.
Everything you do is tracked from punches to calories to how many times you played a certain song.

Fitness Boxing feat. HATSUNE MIKU Review Cons:

No touchscreen support.
If you have the previous Fitness North Star game this will feel and play the same but with a Miku partner and soundtrack, locations.
You are forced to do a daily routine before you can even look at the menus.
Takes a while to get going in terms of punch/action variety.
The game is slow to load clothes and previews of them.
Will proper knacker you out.
Can’t put my finger on it but Hatsune Miku looks a bit different.
You have to unlock the Hatsune Miku music, you don’t even get one initial track.
No fun mini-games where the game could try new tricks.
The good vibe shoutouts repeat a fair bit.
Same animations over and over.