Tatsu-ya Ramen mini-game broken?

[E.P.D. Gaffney]

I'm having a hard time getting the highest score, and I want to know is that because it's broken on PC, like a whole load of the mini-games in these ports? It feels almost impossibly fast in the final round. If it's just about practising, I'll do it, but if it's legitimately like twice as fast as was intended, I don't know that I want to.

[hammerstar]

It is about practicing. The last round is intentionally designed to mess you up. That's why all of a sudden it drops the left to right order pattern and starts giving you random positions, and yes, why it is so fast.

I used that minigame as the way I made money for Kiryu to go ahead and get the weapon shop up to level 10 so I could get the armguards and stuff, and I couldn't stand driving the taxi anymore. And I got better at it with the number of times I did it. Haven't got max score, but I got closer every time.

[E.P.D. Gaffney]

I didn't even know there was a weapons shop haha. Just finished the taxi stuff. I really liked it. So, you got the Ramen King score or not yet? I've been able to get I think 87/100 orders right, but it didn't get me the top rank. I haven't practised since posting this, though, so I'll try it again if it's actually possible to do.

[hammerstar]

Since I have the game open, I pulled up the completion list just to double check, and yes, I do in fact have it. You don't have to be perfect to get it, I think just 90+ will do it, since I think my high score is 94 or so.

And yes, I'll also confirm there is a weapon shop, you invest cast to level it up, and its max level is 10, and that's when you can buy the premium arm and leg guards so you can block knives and not be staggered by low attacks.

[E.P.D. Gaffney]

Thanks a million. I was going to post a screenshot with an appropriate Kiryu line but Steam doesn't seem to allow that, so suffice it to say I'll be practising.

[E.P.D. Gaffney]

Well, on my next attempt I got the top rank. I somehow managed to miss only five in the final round, whereas prior to that, I had only got I think about half of them at my best.

Couple hints if anyone's interested:
1. You can just look at the voice bubbles at the bottom and hit the button when they turn pink.
2. The bar fills moderately fast, so you can miss it you following #1, until you get a feel for how long each type of order takes.
3. For Dunk orders, just mash the appropriate button as it's counting down. That way you can sort of forget about them and pay attention to what else is going on for a moment. Very useful in the final round.