Wii Fit

Recently there have been a few new things of interest in the world of Wii. I have a couple things to say about this, so I'll break it up into two posts. Wii Fit was released and the balance board looks like it could be a fun addition to the Wii interactive body movin' game play. I'd be interested to try the We Ski game with this, for example. Anyway, the idea behind Wii Fit is to get exercise in a fun way. Stretching, flexibility, strength training, cardio, and even yoga are some of the draws. What I found funny was that there's a whole bunch of exercises and menus but then there's also "unlockable" exercises.

I don't necessarily mind unlockables; it adds a small sense of accomplishment when you do well enough in a game to get some bonus fun. But there are plenty of times when I would rather just have all the game features available from the get-go. Plenty of fighting games make you work to unlock all the fighters, and I'd rather have those up front. Karaoke Revolution or Guitar Hero games give you both the good and the bad- I'd rather have ALL the songs available up front, but I like unlocking crazy items based on my "good work" (funny hats or costumes, new characters, new guitars, etc.). These kind of unlockables are just icing on the cake and don't take anything away from the actual playable game, whereas not being able to immediately play Sweet Child of Mine on Guitar Hero II definitely bugged me.

Anyway, the main point is that Wii Fit has unlockables and I find it amusing that the game would make you drop and do 20 pushups before you could do yoga or something.