Review: Fitness Boxing Fist Of The North Star – A Fun Crossover That Delivers Basic Beats

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Despite what you may initially think, combining a fitness game with much-loved manga and anime series Fist of the North Star isn’t the completely left-field crossover it appears to be. In fact, it’s not even the first game based on the IP that makes the player swing actual punches.

Many years ago, this writer used to regularly frequent the Trocadero in London (RIP) to play the brilliant Fighting Mania: Fist of the North Star, a Konami arcade game where the player had to put on boxing gloves and punch six pads which would come out in various patterns. It’s not an exaggeration to say playing it was a regular highlight in this writer’s life at the time, despite not having much interest in Fist of the North Star.

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