Easiest and hardest game to Cherry?

[MrTherandomguy42]

For me, easiest would be Quibble Race (you 100% don't need to take out a loan at all).
Hardest? I am not quite sure yet, but so far I'd say either Onion Delivery for the awful controls or Combatants for...being Combatants XD

[Groversoup]

Elfazar's hat and big bell race are generally pretty easy to beat and cherry isn't much harder. I'm also nominating camouflage for being probably the easiest puzzle game in the collection. I'm still making my way through the games so I can't comment on the hardest but bushido ball gave me a ton of trouble and onion delivery is such a nightmare to control that I haven't beaten it in the first place despite it being pretty high up on my playtime list.

[Songbird]

I'd say a few games are "free" to cherry:
Avianos (just very easy to abuse the AI and reroll the map if it's too hard)
Night Manor (no fail state, not super long)
Quibble Race (just go all in on the last race and the rest doesn't even matter, only downside is it's RNG and not particularly fun if you don't get it quickly)
Big Bell Race (just not difficult to win, very short)
Camouflage (not super long, cherry is easy enough)

Additionally, the long games like Porgy, Grimstone, Divers, and Mini and Max have cherry conditions that are either very easy or just require you to do a little more exploration once you beat them. They're not skill tests so much as just finding some extra items with no real fail state to worry about. However, they're longer games to begin with, so you have the time commitment to finish them in the first place.

Hardest are Star Waspir, Rakshasha, Kick Club, Onion Delivery, Cyber Owls. Of these, Cyber Owls has an absolutely massive gap between gold and cherry. Onion Delivery you should probably just aim to cherry the first time you finish it by counting 15 total extra deliveries, trying to do at least 5-6 of those on day 1. The others you'll likely cherry when you gold them.

[der.dida83]

I'd vote for Night Manor as easiest, since you only need patience and can't really loose the Cherry condition.

When speaking of easiest to get from gold to cherry, I'd vote Grimstone, since when having finished the game, the Cherry condition isn't much more difficult. Same for Mini and Max.

Hardest... No idea, only cherried a couple myself, but Party House appears to be up there and I hated cherrying Pilot Quest so much (no spoilers)

[MrTherandomguy42]

Originally posted by der.dida83:

I'd vote for Night Manor as easiest, since you only need patience and can't really loose the Cherry condition.

When speaking of easiest to get from gold to cherry, I'd vote Grimstone, since when having finished the game, the Cherry condition isn't much more difficult. Same for Mini and Max.

Hardest... No idea, only cherried a couple myself, but Party House appears to be up there and I hated cherrying Pilot Quest so much (no spoilers)

Ngl, getting the Party House Cherry was RNG HELL for me lol

[der.dida83]

Originally posted by MrTherandomguy42:

Originally posted by der.dida83:

I'd vote for Night Manor as easiest, since you only need patience and can't really loose the Cherry condition.

When speaking of easiest to get from gold to cherry, I'd vote Grimstone, since when having finished the game, the Cherry condition isn't much more difficult. Same for Mini and Max.

Hardest... No idea, only cherried a couple myself, but Party House appears to be up there and I hated cherrying Pilot Quest so much (no spoilers)

Ngl, getting the Party House Cherry was RNG HELL for me lol

Yeah, I still don't have a clue how to work with seeds which provide very little money. Since if you cannot extend your house far enough, the likelihood of getting 4 stars in one turn is very small.

Also no available peacemakers but a lot of trouble always kills me.

Maybe there are some expert tactics for every possible seed, but I'm always losing patience to really get this good.

[Songbird]

I was going to list Party House as one of the easiest cherries in the game, but people would be mad at me. I think my very first streak went to 20 or so, and I definitely average over 15 per streak with a peak of 34. IMO it's an incredibly forgiving game with no execution barrier to overcome, unlike most of the games in the pack.

Low money seeds are definitely the only hard ones, but there's still tricks like intentionally not buying non-money guests until you've accumulated more money (unless they mitigate trouble in some way), abusing cheerleaders, minimizing buys for popularity, etc. And it's very unlikely you'll see a low money seed during a 5-streak.

[Jean]

Big Bell race is definitely the easiest. Did that on my first try and managed to win every race. Hardest I think would come down to which game you personally struggle with the most

[MrTherandomguy42]

Originally posted by Groversoup:

Elfazar's hat and big bell race are generally pretty easy to beat and cherry isn't much harder. I'm also nominating camouflage for being probably the easiest puzzle game in the collection. I'm still making my way through the games so I can't comment on the hardest but bushido ball gave me a ton of trouble and onion delivery is such a nightmare to control that I haven't beaten it in the first place despite it being pretty high up on my playtime list.

So, apparently you can lower the number of wins per round for Bushido Ball from 8 to 4. While you still have to fight every opponent, and the AI scaling seems to get harder per match, it makes the Cherry Disk a LOT more tolerable.

Also yea, Camouflage is probably the easiest puzzle game. I almost forgot about it tbh since I beat and Cherried it simultaneously. But as for the hardest puzzle game to Cherry? I’d nominate either Bug Hunter or Devilition. I have never even gotten past Job 1 of Bug Hunter and both games have quite the annoying RNG.

[pi73r]

Bushido ball is pretty much a free cherry. Pick any arcadey game with awful controls for hardest.

[der.dida83]

Originally posted by Songbird:

I was going to list Party House as one of the easiest cherries in the game, but people would be mad at me. I think my very first streak went to 20 or so, and I definitely average over 15 per streak with a peak of 34. IMO it's an incredibly forgiving game with no execution barrier to overcome, unlike most of the games in the pack.

Low money seeds are definitely the only hard ones, but there's still tricks like intentionally not buying non-money guests until you've accumulated more money (unless they mitigate trouble in some way), abusing cheerleaders, minimizing buys for popularity, etc. And it's very unlikely you'll see a low money seed during a 5-streak.

Wow these tricks sound really interesting. I have to think about those. I think I still don't get a lot of strategies which are likely very plentiful.

But I wouldn't be mad actually since it is usual that different people find different challenges easy or hard. I found velgress easy due to the game being quite short and just trying often enough led to success soon. But it isn't an "objectively" easy game.

[droaan]

I'm just not into this type of game.
Nesting doll games are always a difficult thing to adopt for me. I prefer a game that is fledged. Like one full fledged game.
When you end up in a game that has many games it's often like having no games. .
Like I buy 50 games and now I own no games just a lot of choices without really any excitement.

[MrTherandomguy42]

Originally posted by droaan:

I'm just not into this type of game.
Nesting doll games are always a difficult thing to adopt for me. I prefer a game that is fledged. Like one full fledged game.
When you end up in a game that has many games it's often like having no games. .
Like I buy 50 games and now I own no games just a lot of choices without really any excitement.

While I respect your opinion on UFO 50, said statement is rather irrelevant to the thread topic which is about the easiest and hardest games to Cherry Disk in the collection.

[MrTherandomguy42]

Originally posted by der.dida83:

I'd vote for Night Manor as easiest, since you only need patience and can't really loose the Cherry condition.

When speaking of easiest to get from gold to cherry, I'd vote Grimstone, since when having finished the game, the Cherry condition isn't much more difficult. Same for Mini and Max.

Hardest... No idea, only cherried a couple myself, but Party House appears to be up there and I hated cherrying Pilot Quest so much (no spoilers)

Night Manor might be next on my list to Cherry and I also plan to do it whilst getting the best ending as a lil bonus. In order to get the best ending, you need to get the ending for the Cherry Disk without dying to the killer even once. While that may be a bit tricky with the tense hiding minigame and all, you really only need to do it once. Afterwards just open both the front door and garage door in that order (because the sound of the latter will spawn the killer shortly afterwards). Doing so will create a loop of rooms which will allow you to evade the killer every time!

[der.dida83]

Originally posted by MrTherandomguy42:

Originally posted by der.dida83:

I'd vote for Night Manor as easiest, since you only need patience and can't really loose the Cherry condition.

When speaking of easiest to get from gold to cherry, I'd vote Grimstone, since when having finished the game, the Cherry condition isn't much more difficult. Same for Mini and Max.

Hardest... No idea, only cherried a couple myself, but Party House appears to be up there and I hated cherrying Pilot Quest so much (no spoilers)

Night Manor might be next on my list to Cherry and I also plan to do it whilst getting the best ending as a lil bonus. In order to get the best ending, you need to get the ending for the Cherry Disk without dying to the killer even once. While that may be a bit tricky with the tense hiding minigame and all, you really only need to do it once. Afterwards just open both the front door and garage door in that order (because the sound of the latter will spawn the killer shortly afterwards). Doing so will create a loop of rooms which will allow you to evade the killer every time!

Huh? Don't you still need to hide in the bushes? Since you cannot really function normally while being hunted (jittery cursor)?

[MrTherandomguy42]

Originally posted by der.dida83:

Originally posted by MrTherandomguy42:

Night Manor might be next on my list to Cherry and I also plan to do it whilst getting the best ending as a lil bonus. In order to get the best ending, you need to get the ending for the Cherry Disk without dying to the killer even once. While that may be a bit tricky with the tense hiding minigame and all, you really only need to do it once. Afterwards just open both the front door and garage door in that order (because the sound of the latter will spawn the killer shortly afterwards). Doing so will create a loop of rooms which will allow you to evade the killer every time!

Huh? Don't you still need to hide in the bushes? Since you cannot really function normally while being hunted (jittery cursor)?

It really depends on where you are when the killer spawns. But if you have the Garage door and front door open, you can just go through the loop in this order: Front of house —> Garage —> Kitchen —> Dining Room —> Foyer and then you can repeat the loop of rooms till the killer loses you. Also I literally just Cherried Might manor with zero deaths ^^
Although I did end up doing the hiding minigame like 3-4 times total. It’s kinda easy to forget the layout of the house lol