It sounds simple, but by placing other Miis in the environment, every game in the collection is made more fun. She actually finds the aerobic exercises as much fun as the balance mini-games, which is pretty amazing. At eight years old she’s pretty active anyway, but now she’s obsessed with adding time to her Fit Piggy – more often than not by going on long jogs. While my step-dad will likely only play on the mini-games, my mum has already started doing the Yoga exercises and my little sister can’t stay away from the board. Wii Fit doesn’t even have a party mode, but it doesn’t matter it’s still the best family game ever made. All the time my mum was telling him what he was doing wrong, as if an expert skier herself. What followed is without doubt one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen, with the room being filled by a jumbled mess of arms and legs, before balance became an afterthought and he went tumbling towards the TV. Now imagine him with knees bent, in the skiing position. A six-foot tall man in his 50s, protruding beer belly, skinny arms and legs and a false sense of superiority after the game had told him he was in the ideal BMI range – 0.1 away from being overweight. Whether you’re skiing, tightrope walking or trying to catch fish, you’re able to do so instinctively. You step on the board and playing the games just comes naturally. Games usually require a stage of learning, but Wii Fit doesn’t. While the Wii Remote is itself generally far easier to use than your traditional gaming controller, you can’t really get simpler that standing on a board and moving your weight around. So just what struck a chord with them? I think it’s pretty simple really: Wii Fit is easy to play and understand.
When Wii Fit came out it was gone midnight before they’d gone to bed and the following day my mum seemed genuinely disappointed when the local Gamestation had sold out when trying to buy a copy. To put things into context, my parents are usually in bed by 10pm, they don’t play games at all (save for my step-dad playing Links on the PC every now and again) and most technology is met with the fear that any wrong move will break it. I knew it’d go down far better than the usual games I’ve tried to push on them over the years, but I simply didn’t realise just how brilliant the game is for non-gamers. I’ve seen a lot of amazing things in my 25 years, but nothing could prepare me for my parents playing Wii Fit.
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