Can't win mini games?

[BeastyBby]

Am I crazy or something or just that bad? I can't seem to get the hang of the festivals mini games - even the beach clean up tug of war, which is just space mashing, I had the bar to full power the entire time and still lost??? Might just need balancing because of Early access... However I would like to see at least a screen that tells me what place I came in also some prizes for winners in the future :P

[UsagiFelton]

The mini-games are still impossible, I've yet to win a single one. It's ridiculous because, yeah some NPC's will mess up but there's always at least one or two that does everything perfectly. I did the pet run, and my pet kept stopping JUST BEFORE the finish line (I mean paws on the white line but not over) and allowing an NPC to beat me out of first. But when I got second then in the next round two NPC's had pets that NEVER delayed. And the tug of war was just ridiculous, I don't know how that one person won but you're deffo in the minority.

[Falaris]

At least some of the games are stat based - stamina, I believe (swimming for sure).

For an old geezer the minigames certainly are too difficult, esp. the 'click button' thing for the pet pestival. I get that they're supposed to be hard, but it would be great if there was a difficulty setting for them - I could have done them easy back in the day, but now my decrepit old form has no chance.

It would be nice with more transparency on what, if any, difference various stats do; are the games that hard because my character is a wimp, or is it because the game is pure player based and they expect leet kids on adrenalin to play this?

The same is true for weapons - there's no information what spending 30k on a weapon does compared to 10 (not 10k, 10).

[McAlexander79]

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too heavy for me.
i never win a game by 1st rank...
And you have just 1 chanche, so i must wait 1 whole year..... :-/

[Ray]

I've won the swimming and tug of war; the sack race was tricky and I only got to the second round (maybe this one's stamina based too?)
The rodeo was seemingly impossible, mainly because the inputs aren't clear enough. It is slightly easier with a controller, still couldn't win though.
Chicken and cow competitions depends on their affection, so you might have to wait for year 2 to win more easily.

[Meslyin]

I don't exactly think the games are hard, but they don't make sense in some ways. Like, with the tug-o-war. I was clicking and clicking, tried multiple times, but it seemed to never go to my side past a certain point, so I eventually gave up. People are saying it's based on stats/stamina, so I guess I just have to wait until my stamina is better to win, hopefully.
The other one I had an issue with was the bull-riding. I would mash the button, but the little countdown would happen so quickly that I'd end up missing them, sometimes. And are they just random keys? I thought it was only certain keys and then on my 3rd try, it threw out a key that hadn't been used previously. Again, I left it alone.
And with the animal mini-games, I couldn't even play those because the game told me, once I entered the area, that I didn't have any animals, even though I did, so I didn't even get to try those games.

[SemiFreddie]

Allright peeps - I figured it out: it's not about smashing the button but when to smash it, keep it steady, not fully green: you should be giving a smash when the other team gets lower red and keep an eye also on your team's bars: when they are red, smash.

[resonance]

for the swimming and tug of war it is just about max stamina. I just did that festival a day ago and I obliterated everyone there first year. Not only can you raise your cap by levelling up your skills, but you can get stamina fruit to raise it a bunch as well (90K from black market - a little unrealistic to get first year - and a free one once yo get to the merfolk kingdom), but the best way is if you can find a ginger (mines) or a ginseng (unlockable forest mid area), it gives a buff that boosts max stamina by +100 for two hours. Since time does not pass in the festival, that means it lasts the whole time!

I had the free fruit and some ginseng to put my max at 739 for the first festival and I won both mini games with almost no effort.

As for the chicken staring and bull riding, I use the keyboard/mouse to play and the prompts that show up are in the pattern of the buttons (so the W always shows above when it appears, A to the left, D to the right and S under. So I don't even have to read the letters. I just treat it like directions: up down left right. I got two minutes on the bull ride and tied in the final round of the staring contest (because my opponent chicken had WAY more health than mine - I didn't miss once and still ran out first).

Another tip: for the cow contest, just mash all four buttons at once repeatedly when your cows stops. There is no penalty for a wrong press so it will count all of them and count as right for each part.

As for the sack race, it is very hard first year but doable. I have not done it but it can be done (just watched a youtuber do it) and you can try as many times as you want and yes more stamina means more jumps before needing to rest. The timing however is all on you.

[ashlyn_61]

I checked out the discord and found 'updating minigames' was something they listed as something they were working on in the dev diaries more than once, so here's hoping they all see some improvement soon. Personally I don't think I liked one minigame in EA, and looking at other feedback I was not the only one who took issue with them. I could see a lot of work went into creating them and I applaud the devs for what they were trying to do, hopefully the updates will make the minigames more fun to play and less frustrating

[StoneFire!☭]

I can only speak for myself here but I've managed to win every mini-game on year one (and only just getting my first stamina fruit during winter), except for the animal mini-games from the first festival as I didn't have any pet or animals at the time.

There's usually some pattern to beat them, like the sack race you have to hit combos till you're almost out of stamina, then re-gen your stamina and repeat, they might overtake you but you'll end up zooming past them again. Same goes for the swimming one, it helps to have full stamina outside the mini-games before entering that one.

Some of them have a bit of RNG to them, like the skull smashing one, or the tug of war, but you have unlimited tries and in my case I didn't have to retry them too many times to win them.

[Pathetic]

The festival mini games that were purely skill based were pretty easy to beat personally. the only ones I couldnt win were the pet race where I got second place (the winner's pet kept dashing instead of getting stuck which I assume is based on hearts) and the chicken fight in which stamina is based on hearts with the chicken.

[Cutlass Jack]

The only minigames I managed to crush was bobbing for apples and bull riding.
The rest were too frustrating and I gave them a pass after trying a few times.

[Austin]

I agree that most of the video games are too hard to win. Most farming games make the mini games easy to win until you you take 1st place for the first time and then they make them harder to win, but Coral Island makes the really hard to win right from the beginning. Some of the mini games are easier to win than others, such as the swimming race and tug-of-war

[Falaris]

I think that, in some cases it's not made clear what you actually need to do, which doesn't help things.

[syzara]

The twitchy mini-games are entirely the opposite of the rest of the game and it sucks.

[Pheonix Fontaine]

Depends on the minigame. The swimming minigame is unwinnable because it uses your actual stamina max. Sunny is rigged with a significantly larger stamina amount. (Looked like double mine, so maybe 1k-ish) Every other minigame I've seen is technically winnable with caveats of bugs, luck and input speed. Most minigames just don't feel enjoyable.

Quicktime events, buggy inputs and a need for perfect gameplay appear to factor into what's least enjoyable from players I've seen.