Festival Games

[Stray Dawg]

I think there should at least be some sort of explanation of how the minigames work before going into them. Because Tug of War makes no sense to me, the sack race made no sense to me. I can hit all perfects, still don't win, I try to hit perfects while also maintaining stamina, still don't win that way. I even tried to just brute force it with all perfects spam and eating the falls.

[bonussonic]

Me too, I think it's a bug. Because I saw other people's energy levels go up very quickly. I hope they fix it soon.

[GrandTickler]

u can practice the sack race till you got the hang of it. also u can attempt the real race as many times as u want to claim all the rewards. i think my fastest run was like 28 seconds and i havent seen any npc beat that, but theres probably also a part rng involved on how well the npcs will do

[Caerbannog]

Some of the festival games seem impossible or too annoying to win, so I don't bother anymore. I tried really hard to win that pumpkin smashing game, but I would get destroyed by RNG. Like, you can just stand there, wasting several seconds while rotten pumpkins spawn forever and waste all your time. Screw it, I'd rather spend hours farming than waste hours waiting for a good RNG.

I've tried out all the games, and even if it seemed I might be able to figure out the mechanics after a while, I *will* get bored if the RNG wastes my time. The prizes also aren't worth the time investment.

As for the sack race, I realized that first year I'd never win, since it uses my real stamina. I had, what, 300 stamina as a baby farmer? Yeah, just eat dirt while 2000 stamina Mark wins the sack race.

[Nefrarya]

The mini games are such an inconsistent, buggy mess that I don't bother with them anymore.

Some let you practice, others don't.
Some let you repeat the real thing, others don't.
Some work as advertised, others don't.

And all of that on top of the incredibly floaty controls that I still haven't mastered after 250 hours. Don't ask me to hit targets if your controls won't let me do it. *heavy sigh*

[marion.costello]

Well I finally got married in Coral Island, after restarting from the last major update (very frustrating but I stuck with it) I have reached 14 hearts with Mark and two weeks into the "honeymoon period" he doesn't speak at all only when i give him a gift! "Mark has nothing to say" is this another bug? (I hope so) also I cant give gifts to any other character in the game on their birthday? I hope the next major update sorts this out and the gifting. I think the game is very clever and I cant imagine the man hours required to produce this game, but for me it definitely isn't anywhere near complete and instead of giving me a feel good factor it is having the opposite effect. I know its only a game there has to be an end point I started this game in early access and watched it develop but now I am going to leave it well alone until all the bugs and updates are sorted. Shame really.

[Jouchebag]

Originally posted by marion.costello:

I think the game is very clever and I cant imagine the man hours required to produce this game, but for me it definitely isn't anywhere near complete and instead of giving me a feel good factor it is having the opposite effect..

I don't know what size of team they're working with, but considering Stardew Valley was basically a one-man-show, I'm not real impressed with Coral Island technically. The art seems to be where most of the effort went.

[SilverSpeedy]

Sack race with Cherry event. I can beat the npc but have no stamina right for the finish line. Full bar stamina at 774 max should be no problem. I tried a few times then gave up. I burn through my stamina like crazy. Fastest npc is like 30 seconds. I did manage to get 33 second once. Sack race is % drain not set base. Higher the max stamina, faster the drain.
Other mini game was one time play which is stupid.

Cherry event, donate food I think is bugged. I threw a purple star veggie in the pot and came back ok and nothing special. With that I should have thrown a bug in the pot.

[GrandTickler]

Originally posted by Caerbannog:

As for the sack race, I realized that first year I'd never win, since it uses my real stamina. I had, what, 300 stamina as a baby farmer? Yeah, just eat dirt while 2000 stamina Mark wins the sack race.

i doubt thats the case cause i went to the festival the very first year with only 225 leftover stamina and having barely leveled anything and still won on the third try by my before mentioned end-time of 28 secs

[Deagle Trainee]

Originally posted by Caerbannog:

As for the sack race, I realized that first year I'd never win, since it uses my real stamina. I had, what, 300 stamina as a baby farmer? Yeah, just eat dirt while 2000 stamina Mark wins the sack race.

It bothered me more that it seemed like the npcs most likely to win, never fell. And even if/when they did, they recovered super quick without losing their lead.

Originally posted by Nefrarya:

The mini games are such an inconsistent, buggy mess that I don't bother with them anymore.

Some let you practice, others don't.
Some let you repeat the real thing, others don't.
Some work as advertised, others don't.

And all of that on top of the incredibly floaty controls that I still haven't mastered after 250 hours. Don't ask me to hit targets if your controls won't let me do it. *heavy sigh*

100% agree. When I couldn't do the chicken fight over, I was peeved.

[TaylerBootz]

The mini-games have sucked since EA and everyone complained. I'm surprised they haven't addressed it yet. Starting to regret buying this game. Especially when 1.0 release isn't Full release.

[Pemixai]

i cracked the code for balap run. it seems that you need to be perfect from the start and be as fast as possible to the other end. then while others are still in the middle, you rest to get full stamina. just be perfect eveytime when you first go to the end

[Stray Dawg]

Well.. I truly hope they listen and fix these ridiculous minigames. I enjoy the game.