Aksys Games has announced that the next installment of theirFitness Boxingseries is coming West this Fall. Previously announced for Japan,Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Mikuis a version ofFitness Boxingthat featuresHatsune Miku, if that wasn’t clear.
If you’re unfamiliar,Fitness Boxingis an alleged exercise game where you perform various boxing punches in time to pop music instrumentals. If you’re unfamiliar withHatsune Miku, she’s a Vocaloid voicebank that broke free from her software prison to become a full-fledged pop star. If you’re unfamiliar with Vocaloid, it’s a voice synthesizer so you may experience what it’s like to control a computerized voice before they control us.
It’s not a terribly weird mix when you consider thatHatsune Mikuis a music… thing andFitness Boxingis a rhythm game. However, she’s not what I think of when I think about fitness or boxing. We last sawFitness Boxing: Fist of the North Star, and while that’s a license that isn’t focused on boxing, it is at least fighting-adjacent. Punches are often thrown.
Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Mikuwill set you up to train with Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin, Kagamine Len, and Megurine Luka, with Lin and Evan from the coreFitness Boxingseries joining as instructors. I don’t know who any of these people are. It will feature 24 songs from Piapro, along with “Melt” and “The Vampire” which I’m guessing are popular.
I don’t have much familiarity withHatsune Miku. I was considering gettingFitness Boxing 2, since I recently started taking Muay Thai kickboxing lessons. Not that I think it willhelp, but it might at least be fun exercise that aligns somewhat with my new interest.
Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Mikuhas a vague release date of Fall for the West on Switch. It’s already out in Japan and is supposed to come out in the rest of Asia on July 12.
