If you're looking to add a little extra sportiness to your Ring Fit Adventure workout, Nintendo has just launched the perfect solution for that. Welcome to Switch Sports, the latest title that makes getting fitter fun. Although it's not as fitness-focused as our plight to take down Drageux in Ring Fit Adventure, it's the perfect complement to your workout sessions.
As the sequel to the Wii Sports series, many long-term Nintendo fans may well know what to expect with Switch Sports, but there's plenty here to enjoy for fans old and new. Here, you'll head down to Spocco Square, where you can take part in six different sports - bowling, badminton, football, tennis, volleyball, and sword fighting, which is known as Chambara.
Like Ring Fit Adventure, Switch Sports is all about having fun whilst staying active, and with Switch Sports there's always the added benefit of local and online multiplayer to really incentivise a play session. You'll be able to feel your arm and leg muscles working as you take part in each sport, because there's a physicality to play. Each sport is designed to get you moving, firstly with your arms as you mimic playing the sports in real life, but also you'll find that the more you get into it, the more physical playing Switch Sports becomes.
Regardless of which sport takes your fancy, each one is easy to pick up and play, and - just like Ring Fit Adventure - there are excellent, straightforward tutorials to ease you in. They're so quick to jump into though, it's easy to get your friends and family involved too. There's nothing quite like upping the competition when you're serving to win.
Along with the fun though, there's the fitness element too. Each sport uses motion controls to play, so you'll be moving around to play. For badminton and tennis, for example, you'll need to swing your Joy-Con just like you would a racket, timing your swings to pull of special moves and angling your shots to give your opponent the runaround. Bowling too sees you mimicking the swing of the ball with your Joy-Con to send those skittles flying.
Chambara has some excellent nuance to it as well, as it asks you to learn how to not only attack with your sword but also block incoming blows. Then there's volleyball, where you must act out the various pass types with your Joy-Con, timing each one perfectly so you have the best chance of scoring a point.
But particularly interesting for Ring Fit Adventure players is football. While the core modes of one-on-one or four-on-four will have you wielding running around a pitch and using a swish of your Joy-Con to kick, there's also a Shoot-Out mode that makes great use of the Ring Fit Adventure leg strap accessory. Strap yourself in, and you'll be able to play through a series of penalty shoot-outs, which really gets your body working.
Plus, in a later free update for Switch Sports, you'll be able to use the leg strap accessories to play the main football modes too. You'll be (virtually) running round that pitch in no time
So while Switch Sports isn't quite as targeted in its fitness prowess as Ring Fit Adventure, it's fantastic at getting you moving while still having run. Combined with Ring Fit Adventure, there's never been a better time to get fit with Nintendo Switch.
