Fitness Dash
Action & Arcade Games, Time Management Games November 8th, 2008
(2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
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Dinertown, the imaginary world of the Dash games, may be teeming with delicious food and hungry citizens, but they have their sense of competition too. And in the Fitness Dash game, you get to exploit this competitive spirit of the Dinertown citizens by starting a fitness center of your own and whipping these tubby nerds back to shape.
The idea for Fitness Dash started after the competitors of Dinertown for the regional tug-of-war tournament lost their crown from the challenging Donutville. Realizing that all they did the whole year was to eat the sumptuous cooking of Flo from Diner Dash, the citizens are on a quest to get into tip-top shape. Good thing that Jo is around to witness the struggle, and therefore, aims to help in any way she can and starting off by beginning her own Dash fitness center.
Just like all Dash games, this game also falls into the time management genre, where you’re supposed to serve customers and profit from making them exercise. The game employs a drag-and-drop mouse function as you designate your patrons to the machines that will satisfy their needs. Use the icons popping beside your customers’ bodies to know what to serve them next. Do this for all of the levels until you train the Dinertown residents enough for them to readily face the Donutville champions.
Of course, there are also additional tasks you have to accomplish when your customers ask for them. These tasks include cleaning the equipment, handing them towels and water bottles, and even changing the channel of the center’s TV according to their taste. To top it all off, various disasters strike too, like faulty plumbing on the showers and sneaky vendors trying to sell your customers some fat-producing ice cream. All in all making Fitness Dash quite a hectic game, but very balanced too with a steady difficulty curve over the course of the challenge.
The game looks like most Dash games too, which makes the graphics not that impressive when you think about it. The handling is very smooth though, and I loved how the queuing responds well to my every command. The match 4 mini-game during the actual tug-of-war matches against the neighboring towns is very much fun to play too, where the gameplay is very unique in itself as you try to eliminate bricks from the board before the other team pulls your players to the mud pit.
While Fitness Dash also features upgrades for you to buy before each level starts, it’s such a shame that you won’t be bringing those upgraded equipments to the next leg of your journey before challenging another town. Basically meaning that you’ll have to start from scratch for the next set of levels, even though most of the time, you won’t have a chance to complete all the upgrades from your previous journey.
Not a big problem though because in its entirety, the game is really fun and addictive. It’s definitely worth your try too, and can be very much welcome to your library of games.
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