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 Post subject: Another Yoga training game
PostPosted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:16 pm 

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Just tried one tonight. I wasn't really very impressed, sadly. Sadly, because I spent 40 euros on it.

Name of game: Yoga
Publisher: JoWood (via, as always, Nintendo)

Maybe I need to play it more, but it doesn't seem to be worth the effort.

The graphics were muddy, with inappropriate music (music to accompany Yoga should either be New Agey or Indian, and this was neither). If you think that going from one exercise to another is slow in Wii Fit (or Plus), you've seen nothing until you've watched the loading screen on this game. You will have plenty of chance to watch it.

I tried some exercises - the Mountain wasn't too bad, and the graphical elements on the screen provided feedback on posture and balance - two feet in coloured zones that allow you to see as your weight shifts - and a guide as to when to breathe in and out. The latter was less obscure and seemingly reversed than the blue circles in WF/+, but still not entirely clear - lungs alternate between big and small, not between wide and tall.

The Triangle, however, had a serious flaw. The on-screen trainer directs you to look up at your hand rather than at the screen. This is all very well, but she doesn't actually tell you when to stop doing this, and, because you are looking at your hand (straight above you at this point), you cannot actually see the screen to tell when she has straightened up.

The on-screen trainers are also slightly oddly proportioned and lack the grace of the Wii Fit trainers. The trainer for the Triangle could barely reach below her knee, suggesting unusually short arms.

The game also does not exploit the Wii's wide-screen capability, which helps make the graphics look crude compared to games like the Wii Fit series.

All in all, I presume the "top international model" featured on the cover got paid well for her participation, although it seems a bit much, since despite assurances to the contrary, I did not see any sign of her trying to guide me through the world of yoga.

My advice is, obviously, that you should save your money. :oops: :cry:

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 Post subject: Re: Another Yoga training game
PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:17 am 

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Update: The nice folks at Game gave me 13 euros for this one in a "buy your old games" session. I later saw it in various shops' used sections, priced at 30 euros!

However, the new price is now 12 euros to buy it new, 8 for used. I presume they'd give you about 3 euros for a second-hand copy.

I'd say that pretty much everyone shares my opinion of it.

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 Post subject: Re: Another Yoga training game
PostPosted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 2:21 pm 

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cynique wrote:
Update: The nice folks at Game gave me 13 euros for this one in a "buy your old games" session. I later saw it in various shops' used sections, priced at 30 euros!

However, the new price is now 12 euros to buy it new, 8 for used. I presume they'd give you about 3 euros for a second-hand copy.

I'd say that pretty much everyone shares my opinion of it.


I would agree with that: games that are popular tend to hold their price.

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 Post subject: Re: Another Yoga training game
PostPosted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 5:28 pm 

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lajoggeuse wrote:
I would agree with that: games that are popular tend to hold their price.

That's no lie - Modern Warfare 2 is still 70 euros, nearly a year after release.

The weirdest thing is that I have a PC game by JoWood, Spell Force 2, which is (in my opinion) actually quite a good game. Slightly odd gameplay concept, alternating fairly seamlessly between 3rd person 3D RPG and Age of Empires (using something like the Age of Mythology engine), but still pretty good, so I don't have any clue how the yoga game escaped from their studio.

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 Post subject: Re: Another Yoga training game
PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 6:04 pm 

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i really hate thing thing.
when there is a game then why money asking for it ???


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 Post subject: Re: Another Yoga training game
PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 12:06 pm 

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This yoga training game is easy to perform and also
help in fitness.because yoga exercise have
natural effect on the body.
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 Post subject: Re: Another Yoga training game
PostPosted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 3:43 am 

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Cynique--I didn't like this one, either. All that wandering around the building, looking for rooms with exercises you might want to do. And it said that you have to work through the asanas on one level to proceed to the next, then my "guide" headed for the stairs after I'd only done "Mountain" and one other.

There are some pre-arranged exercise routines, where you go from one asana to the next, but they are quite short, and don't always have you do the pose on the opposite side.

And I thought the expanding/contracting lungs were creepy!


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 Post subject: Re: Another Yoga training game
PostPosted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 3:18 pm 

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coloharpare wrote:
Cynique--I didn't like this one, either. All that wandering around the building, looking for rooms with exercises you might want to do. And it said that you have to work through the asanas on one level to proceed to the next, then my "guide" headed for the stairs after I'd only done "Mountain" and one other.

There are some pre-arranged exercise routines, where you go from one asana to the next, but they are quite short, and don't always have you do the pose on the opposite side.

And I thought the expanding/contracting lungs were creepy!

Sounds like you stuck with it for longer than I did. Sorry to hear that it claimed another victim. I hope you at least managed to not pay full price for it...

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 Post subject: Re: Another Yoga training game
PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 5:43 am 

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Hello

This yoga training game playing very important roll in the human body as well is easy to perform and also help in fitness.because yoga exercise have natural effect on the body.By it a man always looks young person.

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