Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

We purchased this game hoping for the ability to have a yoga disc that provided us with a new yoga session each day. What we got was not worthy of a single workout, let alone a daily routine. I popped in the disc and it had me create a profile, ok, that's easy enough. I was presented with 3 game modes, story, training, or routine. I figured I would start with story mode and see how the game plays. We select our instructor, then we get a video from Anja Rubik saying why she loves yoga, then the game loads again. Finally we get into the yoga temple. For the first 5 minutes you follow your instructor around the building stopping to look at every statue and painting along the way, we finally get to a room that has a painting with a pose inside of it. I finally get to the room and it teaches me that pose. Basically, the story mode is going from room to room learning each pose one at a time with a couple minutes of break in between. Argh. I went back to the main menu after a while and selected routine, it turns out we can select between 9 different routines with different target areas, heart, headache, etc. I choose one of them and the voice says 'follow my movements' and bends over. I bend over, at this point I can't see the screen, and sit there for a minute. I decide to start looking up every 5 seconds and eventually he moves and starts doing another pose, at about the third pose the voice says 'remember to hold your pose' or something along those lines. It just spits out a random sound byte every once in a while. I guess if you did this a bunch of times and had it memorized it would be good, but if you have to keep turning your head to see what you are supposed to be doing at any time you kind of lose all concentration on what you are supposed to be doing. There's no audio signals whatsoever during the routine. To get the full experience I went to the training mode. This is basically just like story mode where you do one pose at a time but you actually get to choose your pose. That's at least better than the story mode. In the end, I guess if you are a complete beginner to yoga, you could use this as an instructional video to see how to do poses, or you could just look up pictures on the internet and do that and end up with the same result. There's really no reward to doing poses in story mode as nothing really unlocks except more rooms to do one pose in. The only thing Anja Rubik has to do with this game is the introduction video you see at the very beginning of the game. After that it's silence except for horrible voiceovers that describe a painting in detail but then narrate a routine with the words 'follow me'. This was a huge letdown for me in a game that had so much potential but in the end can't even be used for a workout. Try to stay away from this game and stick with wii fit or a yoga dvd. Edit: It turns out if you keep playing story mode long enough, that while you're following your instructor (who walks soooooooo slow) around the temple, Anja will randomly pop up to describe something else about yoga when you're not expecting it, only to have the game load for another minute afterward. I don't want anyone saying "you didn't play the game" or whatever because of a small error in my post, so I figured I would add that correction.