{"id":1319,"date":"2025-08-29T00:21:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T00:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/hands_on_fitness_boxing_2_rhythm_and_exercise_-_more_of_the_same_and_that_might_be_fine"},"modified":"2025-08-29T00:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T00:21:19","slug":"hands-on-fitness-boxing-2-rhythm-exercise-more-of-the-same-and-that-might-be-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/hands-on-fitness-boxing-2-rhythm-exercise-more-of-the-same-and-that-might-be-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands On: Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise – More Of The Same, And That Might Be Fine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The first Fitness Boxing<\/a><\/strong> launched two years ago, when Nintendo and developer Imagineer presumably decided it was their duty to eradicate obesity around the world. Last time we checked, though, a load of us are still packing plenty in the podge department, so now the pair are back with a sequel to make sure they get the ruddy job done this time.<\/p>\n

At its core, Fitness Boxing 2<\/a><\/strong> doesn’t appear to be massively<\/em> different from the first one. Although we\u2019re still only scratching the surface at this stage, the general gist seems to be similar: choose a workout, swing your Joy-Cons to perform certain punches to the beat, get a score based on your accuracy, feel a bit sweaty, wake up the next day with sore arms and repeat. This was a formula that worked well enough in the first game, so if it ain\u2019t broke and all that.<\/p>\n

One new addition, however, is three new trainers to accompany the six that were already in the first game. You\u2019re introduced to the first of these, Janice, in the tutorial that appears when you play the game for the first time and she\u2019s frankly terrifying<\/em>. Whoever recorded the English voiceover for her was probably told to sound energetic, but it comes across as frantic, intense and downright intimidating. She often talks extremely quickly (presumably so her lines fit over whatever the original Japanese lines were), meaning she\u2019ll regularly yell \u201cOKAYTHAT\u2019SGOOD\u201d at you, which can be somewhat jarring during what\u2019s supposed to be a relaxing cooldown exercise.<\/p>\n