The Perfect Mii

I’ve been using Wii Fit for about 2 weeks now.  I’ve got the top scores in the house on the step aerobics and am looking for more challenges, so I just bought Wii Fit Plus.  I don’t know if the mii’s will be following me to the newer version, but I hope not.  

When I first met them, I was all set to like them.  They were unthreatening and sweet, or so it seemed.  The problems started with our first step class together.  They were all lined up and it was clear they’d done this together quite a bit.  I was told to join the other mii’s and protested that I, in fact, was not one of them--I was a human.  It quickly became obvious that I should just play along.  

Everything was all about them--follow the [other] mii’s, watch how the [other] mii’s do it.  I missed steps, the program stopped and told me what I was doing wrong.  They never did anything wrong.  They never missed a step, they never stopped smiling and moving in perfect rhythm.  I was reminded repeatedly that I wasn’t stepping in time to the music.  I was stepping too fast, too slow, missing steps.  At the end of each 3-minute session. I got a score card.  I didn’t get to see theirs, but I assumed it was A plus plus plus.

But then I noticed that the audience was responding to me, not the mii’s.  When I did better, the audience cheered me on.  No matter what the mii’s did, the audience was focused on me.  I was inspired.  It drove me on.  Quit or Try Again? Ha, Try Again!  

Yes, again and again until the mii’s were no longer my focus.  And the audience, well, yes, sure, they could watch and cheer, but my attention was glued to the steps, the feet, the arrows, the little flashes of “Perfect!” on the screen.  

But then, I realized the program was flawed.  As long as my feet hit the board, the Wii didn’t know if I was facing in the right direction.  Ha!  The mii’s couldn’t tell either, they just kept smiling and stepping.  And the audience, well, as long as I kept going, they kept cheering for me.  I stepped and stepped and stepped, driving harder and harder for the top scores.  Exhausted, legs aching, heart pounding, I hit “Try Again” until not only did I have the top score in the house, I had the top 5 in both step aerobics categories.

I sense the desperation in the [other] mii’s.  Theirs was a team victory, no one mii recognized for his or her spirt and individual accomplishment.  They have no choice, they will remain in basic and advanced step forever while I, well, I am moving on.  I’m going to the Locker Room now to set up Wii Fitness Plus.  I hope there are no mii’s in the Locker Room.  I still have a long way to go and they are so, well, perfect.