It's important to keep your mind and body in top condition, and Sally's decided to address this in Sally's Studio. Use your time management skills to keep your clients happy by catering to their fitness and wellbeing needs. Help them warm up, meditate with yoga, exercise with weights and do aerobics routines. Travel the world and impart your fitness expertise to the teachers, tourists, athletes, dancers and more in many exotic locations!
Sally, the star of hit time management games Sally's Spa and Sally's Salon, is back with her next big business in Sally's Studio (and what are the odds that her next venture will be Sally's School?). After learning that her local gym has closed down, Sally decides to buy the place up and continue providing the same services. After all, everybody needs to maintain their health and fitness!
Sally's Studio begins with you starting out in your newly re-opened studio in the United States, but you will soon be providing your expertise and services to clients all over the world. Throughout the game, you will be able to help people do yoga on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro, lift weights in a mountaintop cabin in Vancouver, and perform other health and fitness activities in many other exotic locations around the world.
The gameplay is what you would expect from a time management game, requiring you to move from task to task efficiently while juggling the needs of your different customers. In Sally's Studio, you will need to efficiently move your clients from one fitness station to the next. Some clients might just want to do some yoga; but others might want the whole works, starting with some warm-ups, then moving on to the yoga mats, then doing some weights, and then maybe an aerobics workout.
You will have to make sure that your clients' needs are closely monitored. Leave them neglected and unattended for too long and they will lose happiness. And a client who isn't happy is a client who won't be giving you much in tips! Don't worry though; the money you earn from your clients will all go towards upgrading and improving the efficiency of your studio. You will be able to buy magazines and coffee to keep your clients happy while waiting, and workout CDs that provide benefits such as making you work faster or keeping your clients happy.
You can also hire assistants to help out in your studio. At the start of the game, you will have to personally help your clients warm up, do yoga and lift weights etc. But once you have earned enough, you can hire assistants to help you out. Just drag your clients to the warm-up station and the assistant there will start working on your clients automatically. The same goes for your weights trainer and aerobics instructor.
There are also minigames that challenge your reflexes. When a client is doing yoga, a small screen will pop up showing you various yoga poses. Choose the pose that the client wants, and you complete the minigame and continue with the normal studio management. The same goes for choosing specific types of weights for your clients. These minigames are basically shape-matching games. You will need to quickly choose the right pose or weights, since everything else continues at normal time while you are in the minigames.
Things won't get boring in Sally's Studio. Every few levels, you will be able to travel to new destinations where you will provide your fitness services in very different locations, such as by the beach in Rio and in a tranquil courtyard in China. More importantly, the locations of all your fitness sections will change each time, as will the locations of your studio entrance and waiting area. You will have to stay on your toes to keep up with the new environments as well as the influx of more demanding clients!
If you liked the other Sally games (or any time management game in general), you will love Sally's Studio. The gameplay is polished while the art and soundtrack are vibrant and engaging. It's a game that will entertain you for hours! You can download the Basic Game, or you can get the Collector's Edition which includes exclusive extras such as extra gameplay, a special collector's shop, concept art and more.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
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