I hate the Horror Coaster

[Philosopher]

Any tips? :( I always end up messing up around where the spiders are, or the little mask that comes right after.

[NordProtector]

you can miss twice that's it. Took me about oh 3 hours of memorizing the pattern at 30 fps. 60 it was just too impossible

[Werner]

Can someone tell me which inputs are being used for this?

I'm using a PS5 controller and it seems the triangle button (for me used for S-breaks and the camp/party menu button) is actually two inputs in one. It sometimes doesn't register the triangle button at all, with it working for the next input. This makes the game IMPOSSIBLE.

When I remapped the S-break and Camp to start and share BOTH are showing up in the coaster game!

[matthew]

Try resetting the controller buttons to their defaults and try again. Someone with a Xbox one controller had the same problem. And was fixed by resetting the controller buttons. Seems this could be a bug with the remapping system in the game.

[Letemao]

I have found a solution that work for me, with ALT+TAB key combination, the game pauses until you reenter again, so just press alt+tab before every enemy and you'll have all the time to prepare the corresponding assignated key. I know it's a bit annoying but that works for me.

[Revenge V]

I just did it. You basically HAVE to set your FPS to 30 otherwise the damn bats move way too quickly. I was at 144 FPS and could barely get above 2500.

I set it to 30 FPS and got 5200 my first attempt...

[Alex]

This s**t is better with FPS limit set to ~140, screen to 60fps + vsync off. But it will all depend on your videocard performance, if it can sustain 140, it will still be s**t. Try maxing out video settings for more stutter, the more stuttery it is, the easier it would be to pass. Also use keyboard, Luke.

[Alex]

Originally posted by Letemao:

I have found a solution that work for me, with ALT+TAB key combination, the game pauses until you reenter again, so just press alt+tab before every enemy and you'll have all the time to prepare the corresponding assignated key. I know it's a bit annoying but that works for me.

Yeah, going to go the same way. Passing grade's ok, but can't exactly get myself a perfect score otherwise.

[Alex]

6220 pt. (max, everything killed, so no chain breaks) check with ALT-TAB, keyboard/mouse (controller activates too slowly after tabbing back) and 30 fps limit.

It's freaking broken (seems like either mob movement speed /doubt/ AND/OR key image appearance time /most probably as it takes long to see some keys and some disappear too fast/ calculation does not account for timing properly) and needs tuning, even with using ALT-TAB I barely managed to catch some. On 60 FPS I missed few even with ALT-TAB'bing. Without ALT-TAB I'm not getting above ~2200 on 60 FPS, ~2500 on 30 FPS, on laggy 144 FPS @ 4K 4000 and some are barely but reachable.

Funny that on laptop (crappy integrated video) I'm easily reaching 4K+ without much hassle :D Double funny on Geofront version it's much easier no matter the setup.

[Julius Skeezer]

Who had the brilliant idea to put a QTE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in the middle of a JRPG, and then had the even more brilliant idea to make it "perfect or ♥♥♥♥ you"?

Because whoever that person is, I'd like to thank them for single-handedly turning my chill experience with this game into burning, seething hatred. If I had started this series with the Crossbell arc, and got to this (with the addition of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Pom Party, and my extreme aversion to Lloyd and Wazy) I honestly might've dropped the series instantly.

I know that sounds hyperbolic, but there are just certain things in games that I can't tolerate after 40+ years of gaming, and having certain annoyances build and build over the years because devs, for whatever reason, keep making the same ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ decisions and eventually the dam breaks. And ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mini-games that are "Optional" but really not*, are at the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ top of my list. Hell, mini-games on their own are something I look at with spite and disdain to begin with. I don't buy a brawler to have to play ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mahjong, for instance.

At any rate, I love that sensation of being comfy, playing my game, having to grudgingly participate in some obviously low-effort mini-game, and finding myself slowly heating up from irritation, that irritation making me uncomfortable, that discomfort making me angrier on top of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I'm stuck doing, my skin starting to crawl so I have to rip my left hand away from the controller every 3-4 seconds to scratch a random itch, the itching making me angrier, the anger making me hotter and itchier, and staring to sweat for no good reason, which, you guessed it - makes me angrier, all the while the stress and irritation thinking of the bag of ♥♥♥♥ that made the mini-game pushing me into a serene yet hyper-violent rage state, yet that serenity conveniently not broaching my hands, which at this point are so fatigued and nervously battered by anger that it becomes hard to move my thumb accurately.

This reaches a sort of demonic orgasm state when I realize I've finished a run, missed ONE enemy, and that ONE enemy was enough to not only keep me from 4,000, but knock me almost 500 points shy because it was in the middle of the run, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ my combo, but I figured I might as well just finish for practice.

Then to top it all off, realizing that I only hit a couple of the ones I did hit (the very last bat on the outside section, how the ♥♥♥♥ are you even supposed to do that legit?) by luck and will never replicate it without more blind luck.

Whoever you are, mystery mini-game coder, I can only say that I think butt cancer with a side of AIDS would be an appropriate karmic return. Truly.

*When I say "Optional" but really not, I mean I don't care if mini-games like this exist, but ONLY if they're truly optional, i.e. there is no interaction between it and any other part of the game in any way. The moment they cross that line, they're a festering, gangrenous wound in the game as far as I'm concerned. In this case it's doubly egregious because not only does it tie itself to the points for NG+ and a trophy (yes, I was stupid enough to want to play it on my TV, so I can't use cheat engine or anything to help), but it's in this one tiny segment of the game with limited tickets meaning you have to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ re-load or reset every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ time you so much as miss a single enemy, only putting a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ magnifying glass on how butt-♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid and out of place the entire mess of a mini-game truly is.

Sorry to anyone who bothered reading this novella of endless ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, but it's theraputic to a worn out grumpy old ♥♥♥♥ like me.

[Andrew 林]

Originally posted by Letemao:

I have found a solution that work for me, with ALT+TAB key combination, the game pauses until you reenter again, so just press alt+tab before every enemy and you'll have all the time to prepare the corresponding assignated key. I know it's a bit annoying but that works for me.

Oh my god, thanks for this tip. It works a charm! I don't think I'd have ever gotten 4000 points without this cheese

[Stabbey]

I finally did it. I did have to reconfigure the buttons to use the arrow keys and left click to make the muscle memory easier, and I did use video recording software and had to turn the FPS on the recording down to 10, and even so I still missed three times, but I made it to 4100. I just wanted it done.

[Dr.Doctor]

hahahaha. yeah. I split my gaming about evenly between Switch and PC, with a Switch Pro controller set to screen Xbox prompts. you know what? life can go without hitting this achievement. I've made my peace w/ this and moved on with my day.