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Oh man, I'm so sorry to hear you lost four of your fingers! Was it some sort of industrial accident? ;-)
Joking aside, minigames vs computer opponents are pretty much never fun. Mario Party with friends can be fun. Mario Party as a single player game is the worst. Mini games are just too simplistic to be fun when you aren't playing with friends and that goes for any game-- even games that are 100% made to be just a collection of minigames.
The only minigames that I've found even slightly amusing vs computer controlled opponents are rhythm games to catchy music and even then you pretty much know when the computer is letting you win because it's impossible to obfuscate the AI making planned mistakes since the games are so simplistic. It's fine that this game has minigames but people should expect them to be on par with every other minigame that exists in the universe: Fun vs friends but horrible vs computer.
One of the contestants (Sunny) never stops. He just moves on with not a care in the world. The rest of the contestants have varying degrees of stamina, with the one to the far right stopping about 4/5th of the way to the finish line.
But Sunny? Nope, he's apparently an Olympic Gold swimmer with how he's not stopping for a second.
Everytime I do the main event in a festival and it says 'Are you sure? There's still fun games to play!" I think "What fun games? They must be in another game because they're not here lmao". I love the rest of the game, but I was so hoping for an overhaul of the minigames from EA to 1.0. The stuttering makes the sack race very difficult (I'll hit the button when I see the meter is at perfect but due to lag it's actually off perfect and I'll fall down) and with many of the others it's wildly hard for me to beat any of the NPCs. The only one I actually won 1st was the swimming minigame weirdly enough. The Animal Festival is very cute but my first playthrough I wasn't able to unlock pets or buy the barn/coop in time so I basically could only play the rodeo minigame (which was...uh........), meaning it was kind of just a wash my first year. In my 1.0 playthrough I'm spending Spring rushing to buy and unlock things so I can actually participate, and it definitely kills some of the cozy atmosphere.
It's definitely possible I may be just bad, but I did win at and really enjoy all the Roots of Pacha minigames so I can't be too awful.
I do hope that this is true! It'd be nice to feel as if our voices have been heard.
All the button smashing is just annoying, frustrating and the opposite of the rest of the game. Who asked for all these twitchy bits anyway.
/and i say that while also having won the rodeo thing during animal festival... the fact that i can sometimes win it does not make it a nice experience
Going by online discussion on the sack race, I believe this is because you need more max stamina to succeed in it (since even when I had no misses, I was still behind the NPCs waiting for my stamina to refill). Okay, so I think that the idea is for a minigame that's extremely difficult to win the first year, but by second year you'll have more max stamina and a much better chance. Not a bad idea, it means players want to keep going to festivals after year 1.
But then I looked at the rewards for winning the sack race, and the reward for 1st place is $1000, 5 candies, and 100 merit points. Merit points are useful, but you get them anyways just for going to every festival. And by second year spring in just my first playthrough I was raking in thousands per day and had access to cooking so the money and candy would be virtually worthless to me. The time that reward would actually feel like a major reward would be...first year Spring, when a player is starting out and needs money/energy items. So this is a minigame extremely difficult to win the first year, with rewards that would have the most value the first year? It just feels like a no win scenario for the players.
I would love if they made the games more possible to win, especially in the first year. I know mods will come out that will probably give you autowins/infinite stamina/etc., but I wouldn't think that the devs put so much effort into making a wide variety of games just for people to skip or autowin them. I imagine they want players to find the games fun and rewarding, not unfair and frustrating. So I have my finger crossed that, after all the bugs are fixed, this is something that also sees a hotfix. This is really the only major issue I have with the game, so if it's fixed I genuinely think it could be one of my favourite games.