 I have invited several of the microphones up here. I have invited, that's too close. I have invited several people to my house to play the ring fit. Since every time the ring fit's been marketed, there's a bunch of people behind the person playing on the couch cheering them on and having a great time. And I wanna see how much of a great time it actually is. Furthermore, I wanted to group together a bunch of different body types to see how everyone reacts to the ring fit. Furthermore, there's one friend that's supposed to be here now, but he's late, he's an hour late. We've all been waiting an hour for him. So to get back at him, I'm sorry if you can't see me. So to get back at him, I'm gonna be setting the ring fit to the hardest difficulty, which is hard. It's like four levels above what I've been playing at and I've been dying. And the friend in which we have selected to do this, it's too close, just a little bit, there you go. He's not exactly the fittest berry in the bunch. So it should be interesting and this is what you get for being late, Jordan. Now let's have some fun playing the ring fit. Hi, Konnichiwa. Yes, I'm back from Japan. No, I'm not done with my Japan videos, but other things are happening right now, like the ring fit, and I wanna talk about it. All right, so initially this was gonna be my entire video on the ring fit. Run faster. I am. Move your little legs. I am. And as fun as it was, watching all of us struggle to play ring fit on the hardest difficulty, we all ended up developing quite the appreciation and affection for the game, myself included. I am honestly just incredibly impressed by this thing. And so it didn't quite feel right just leaving it here, and I wanted to include some of my own personal thoughts and essentially review the thing as we go along. Give you guys a reason as to whether or not you should pick it up and also just give you a little more detail on how the game functions and how it works. So I'll be popping up here and there within this video and at the end I will give you my final thoughts. So hopefully you stick around for the entire video. Thanks for being here. Remember to smash that like button and subscribe. Sound good? Okay, now let's have some fun. All right, other than our very late friend who's gonna get what's coming to him, everybody is here. And then more people over there. Yeah, these people have like YouTubes and stuff and we'll get to that, but there's links down below and make sure you check them out. But I am gonna start this video since I'm the only one here that currently knows how to play the game. However, I can't wear this. Hold on, I'll be right back. Oh, and Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes covering everything you could imagine. And most recently I decided I would use Skillshare to learn how to speak Japanese. 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Now I'm not gonna stretch because I already played this for an hour earlier and to be honest, I'm already exhausted. Are we playing the adventure mode or? Yes. So the story mode. So this is a nine minute 30.737 mile 57 calorie stretch. All right guys, let's go. Let's go for a joke. Am I doing great? Are you guys cheering me on back there? Yeah. What happens if you don't? So you can like do like blasty things. Whoa. It's fantastic. Now I got to move through this mode. Like I really got to hike through it. High knees, high knees. What's that noise? You're hitting a floor board that's squeaky. I meant to, you got to like squeeze this thing out to suck this stuff up. And then you can like sprint to if you want to go faster. Kind of reminds me of breath of the wild and the way it looks. Yeah. A little bit. I mean you are, you're breathing. It's like it's breath of, breathing. Heavy breathing of the wild. Breathes, breathes of the wild. So now we're in a turn-based battle. Oh. This takes forever. So we're going to start by doing some squats to attack holy crap. There's two enemies this time. It's like no joke. I got to do 29 of these things. Oh, it makes you hold. Oh man. Like this legit takes a while guys. Cool. Look at the damage I'm doing. Wow. Yeah. That's going to take forever. How many, how many left do you have? 25. Oh no. Wow. I told you it's the hardest difficulty. So as you can probably figure out by now, the adventure mode is set up to have you jog along a linear path and every now and then you can squeeze in the ring fit to do, I should probably get the ring fit. And every now and then it will have you squeeze in the ring fit to send air blast towards things like crates to break them open or it will have you pulling it outwards to suck in things like coins or collectibles. It's honestly a really fun mechanic at its core and you don't really think about it but what it's doing is it's having you warm up your body before the turn-based battles which are essentially the actual workout. All of this light jogging and then occasional sprinting and knee lifts and squeezing and pulling the ring fit, it's stretching out your body and it's warming you up. Honestly, it's extremely clever and each level is laid out in a very specific way. For example, some of the more intense levels will have platforms that run backwards which will have you having to run a little faster. And sure, your in-game brain might just be telling you oh, it's a faster convey about so I need to run faster here but what you don't realize you're doing is actually interval sprinting. Meaning you're starting out in a light job, you're interval sprinting to get along this convey about, then it has you light jogging again with some light on movements and then interval sprinting again. It's actually a method of running. It's a method of working out that they've implemented into the level in a very strategic way and again, all of this warms you up before you hit the battles which become the workout. And what all of this equates to is a full body core workout and you do really start to feel it. So once it gets to the blue bar, I gotta do them a lot quicker. Quicker? And that's fun too. And this is what we're gonna get Jordan with when he finally rocks up. So now my squats, they're on cooldown. Thank God. So we can do something else. Not that I wanna break, but someone else try it. It's like, it's legit. See how hard you gotta squeeze it. Hey, that's easy. Like a whole can. How many of these do you gotta do 24? What the heck? I mean, I get it. Fast forward. All right. Who wants to finish the level? Do you wanna see me die and do it? I mean, I'll give it to you. All right, I'm already back. As I said, these turn-based battles essentially equate to the actual workout part of the adventure mode. On your turn, you'll select what attack you wanna perform. Let's say you wanna do squats. And depending on the difficulty you've set will depend on how many squats you have to do in the set to complete the attack. For example, Scott here has to do 30 of these squeeze above the head things. And while the ring fit itself might look simple, it's actually deceptively tough. It takes a decent amount of strength to squeeze it in. It's not too bad. But when you start having to hold it at the middle point and then release and do it 30 times, it does, you do start to feel it. And that's just with the ring here. When you start doing things like placing it above your head, you're activating muscles that you usually wouldn't use in this fashion. But it is a lot tougher. And don't get me started on the pulling out. All right, take that back. And don't get me started on the having to squeeze the ring out. They actually really make you squeeze this thing to the point where it feels like it's going to break and my arms start shaking. And that's just for one rep. And then you gotta keep going. Although I will say that you calibrate it yourself. Again, I've set everything to extreme and I calibrated this to my own ring strength. And what I really love about it is it really does all hit you right in your core. The game is set up as a high intensity workout that focuses on your core strength. And when you up the difficulty, it starts giving you drop sets to do, which essentially means you do your initial set at full strength, whatever the workout might be. And then represented here in this blue bar is the drop set where you end the set by doing five to 10 more reps a lot faster. You don't have to hold it as long as not as intense. It's just you have to be quick about it. And that's what they call drop setting. And again, it's high intensity workout combined with the running and the jogging and the 40 different workouts that you can unlock anything from squats to knee lifts to arm raises, you name it. They put a lot of thought into this. And it can destroy you on higher difficulty. All right, eight more. Come on, push, push. Seven, you got this. Six. All right, just five more. Come on, Scott. Come on, Scott. Give it. Come on. Give it to me. Make that cheeseburger now, won't you? Monetize. Two more. Monetize. One, two, three, four. No! All right. All right. Now, Abgod probably just- Hey, Godram! You still got more workouts to do, man. Let's do it. I'm focusing. Oh, okay. He's focusing. I'm the guy jamming with the headphones. Yeah, with the headphones. How do you jump? Jumping. Come on, Eric. Hey, so can we take a second to appreciate how freaking cool the Joy-Cons are by holding your thumb over the IR scanner and actually measures your heart rate? Since when can it do that, by the way? I assume it's always been able to and Nintendo just had the forethought that one day they probably want to make a fitness game? Either way, it's actually really cool getting to the end of a level or a workout and getting to see how high your heart rate is. Furthermore, just the fact that all you need is these two Joy-Cons, one strap to one leg and one in your hand on this ring thing, which I still don't understand, like how it knows I'm... I don't get it. But all you need is these two things. These things seem to be magic and have endless possibilities. You're doing great. Run, run, run a little faster, Eric. All right, do a big blast jump to get those ones. You did great, Eric. Dude, I haven't even got to do an enemy attack yet. Run faster. I am. Move your little legs. Pretty little... Be faster. Faster, faster, faster, faster. Faster. Faster, faster, quicker. Faster, faster, faster, faster. I mean, you're doing great, Eric. Loving every second of it. It's a lot harder than you would think. We asked you to go faster and you said you did, but you did not. I was moving my little legs faster than I could. I'm sweating. It's getting sweaty in here. I put the air conditioner down to 70. If I really wanted to showcase more of the game, I really should have lowered the difficulty, but that's not fun, you know? When we hit the doorbell. We're gonna stop changing. We should put it on easy and have someone play it for a little bit. Let him, like, watch. And then I'll, like, ask him to go get me something out of the way. Do you mind if I sound like a little kid that could come and do it and look all easy? Oh, I said he was here five minutes ago. Well, I guess I should go let him in, but I don't want him to see Eric struggling. I'm not struggling. Let's get that straight. I'm not struggling. All right, Katie, you're up. All right, just in case you forgot the plan here. We are tricking Jordan by taking the difficulty all the way down to the easiest level and having Katie, who, by the way, has a bum leg right now, play the game and make it look super easy. Like, to beat enemies, we've gone from having to do four sets of, like, 40 reps to one set of three reps. There is a huge difference here. And then once Jordan's seen her play for a little bit, I'm gonna take Jordan out of the room, have the others raise difficulty back up to max, and then bring Jordan back in. He's gotta think that it's supposed to be really easy and he's not gonna wanna tell us that he's struggling big time. Jordan, take a seat. Take a seat. It's great. We're just doing the ring fit, making a video for ring fit. Wow, that's great. But kind of, we've set it up like the commercials Everyone's had a go so far. I think we're all having a pretty good time here. It's really easy. It's not too hard. I mean, it's kind of like the Wii Fit. Yeah, you feel the burn a little. Yeah, a tiny bit. Come on, Kate. Kate, come on. You're gonna experience the backwards track in a minute. Yep. For reference, Katie has an injured leg right now. I have an up-up bum leg. So. Oh, yeah. But I could cheat the system. So she's cheating by just doing, so we know now that you can only move one leg. What are you thinking of this game? Have you seen it yet? No, I haven't. Well, I only came out today, so you wouldn't know much about it. A lot of her is people going, wow. Legs up. Just do your left one. Legs down. Boom. Kick it in the face, Katie. Oh, kick it right in the face. All right. It's a jump. I just want to tell you, I'm hiding how to play it. It just tells you. It's real simple, but for Jordan, I have a little surprise. I have a little outfit for you to wear. Just to like increase the size. And you, you just hold on to that. You come with me. He's getting dressed. Okay. We, we, we just did. Yes. All right. You're back. Hey, I just want to clarify that. I also want to clarify that. All right. Someone play his theme music. Who you got to call when you need someone to spice up a very long game. Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na. Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na. All right. What is that? You should have taken that out of your pocket because this needs to go over here. So you saw how easy it was. So we're just trying to make this a little bit more fun. Something like this. So all you gotta do is reach the goal. Simple. Doing what? All right. You start running. Running actually makes your character run. And then squeezing will shoot. There you go. You can shoot those. You gotta run a little faster, buddy. Yeah, he's getting the crates low. Yeah, you gotta shoot through. You get coins out those arrows. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Run a little faster, buddy. Jump, jump, jump, jump, jump. If you put, if you, if you point, if you point the ring down and squeeze, you'll jump. Give it, give it a try. Just now, even though it's not going to do anything for you. There you go. You actually have to jump. Look, see, that compares a lot. There you go. There you go. Run, run, run. There you go. Come on, come on. All right, shoot those dumbbells. All right, push down and do a big jump to get those coins. Yeet. Yeah. You don't, again, you don't actually have to jump. You're getting better. All right, here's the first three enemies. Took Katie like 10 seconds. Shouldn't take you too long. So now you pick a workout. I recommend squats. Squats are always great. Do squats. I didn't do the squats. All right, squeeze that in and confirm your choice. Stand that still for a second. Yes, now stand still. Look, I got a little out of breath there, buddy. I'm also wearing two layers of clothes. All right, 28 more. Let's go. You have this, pretty sure. I had trouble doing this, too. That's great. You got this. You got this. I didn't do the squats. You're working them down. You're working them down. Let's go, Jordan. Hey, come on, man. We don't have all day. I don't want to be in an hour of video. I have to hold it, so don't do that. That is fair. You can't go any faster. Oh, come on, you want to cheer him on. Come on, just like the conversion. This is a squat if he wasn't here already, because remember, we ended my turn. So are you tapping out? I'm tapping out. All right, we actually put it on the hardest difficulty while you were getting changed. I figure. But we all did it, we said 30. Hey, we all did it, too, though. We all did hard, too. All up, I really like this game and what they did with it. It's for sure the best fitness-inspired video game I've ever played. So here's what I propose. The Ring Fit Challenge. Starting this Friday on whatever date that is, I'm gonna play this game an hour a day for 30 days. It should take me and anyone else that wants to do this with me all the way up to Thanksgiving, so then we can ruin our diet and exercise by eating a load of marshmallows, sweet potatoes. An hour a day for 30 days, I'm gonna couple that with eating healthy, drinking a lot of water, make sure you stay hydrated. And I'm gonna check back in in 30 days and see if I'm right. See if I could actually get in the shape with this thing. Even just a little bit. Whether this game is right for you, though, it really depends on what kind of person you are. I, myself, have a love for fitness and staying active. And I also love video games, so seeing them mesh together so well is really cool. Also, I can tell while I'm playing that I'm also getting a fantastic core workout and that excites me the same way that going to the gym and finishing a great workout excites me. You can get out as much as you want to put into this game. I'm pushing and challenging myself by raising the difficulty so hard that it is hard to get through the level and I feel sore after. The day after I played this the first time my legs were sore. That means I had a good workout. The joy cons in the game work so well together it actually does teach you the correct form of these workout routines. What I love about that is that it's literally training you and teaching you how to workout. If you know nothing about fitness, you've never stepped foot in a gym, you could pick up a ring fit and learn the exercises. So whether you're like me and you love fitness and games and wanna check this out, or you're someone who's considering this as a viable solution to getting into shape with little to no workout knowledge or you're a fitness buff who wants to put the ring fit to the test, really don't think any of you will be disappointed. Again, I am very impressed by this thing and it's absolutely worth the price, 100%. We all had a great time playing it that night. Hey, what do people do if they wanna subscribe? The hair flip all over that button. I have one fan in the room, I love it. And like the video if you had fun. I don't know what this was, I hope it was good. I'm gonna go shower now, bye. Together. Everyone say bye. Bye. Fantastic, Nintendo bringing people together once again.