(loving)Rant about the Gestral Beaches

[Katcher]

I say this with love because the game is fantastic. Who's the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ who thought platforming and climbing challenges were a good idea? I just want you to know you should feel bad and I hope you step on a Lego.

[goodbye_bonito]

Those are not even problematic ones, cmon

[Katcher]

Originally posted by goodbye_bonito:

Those are not even problematic ones, cmon

I suck at them :(

[goodbye_bonito]

Originally posted by Katcher:

Originally posted by goodbye_bonito:

Those are not even problematic ones, cmon

I suck at them :(

It's junky as hell hard to disagree here, even frustrating at some points, but doable

[zefyris]

The game has lots of references to other games, especially older JRPG, and especially FFX. It's fun to see how many things are in the game when you've played oldies.
FFX was well known to have plenty of bad mini games, sometimes really awfull (way more than the volleyball one here BTW) to do with the game's controls.
At least here you miss nothing of value by not doing them (baring a Steam achievement I suppose), which really wasn't the case in FFX where you'll have to do ALL OF THEM AND THEN SOME if you wanted all of your best weapons, so the devs didn't go sadistic.

[Elondre]

The only really badly made one is the volleyball, all others are very easy to overcome if you think about it for a second or two

[[VSS]JakeX]

I am genuinely hating the Gestral beach defend the wood mini game. If the player character was locked into fixed points to reflect the enemies back it would have been a bit more fun/fair. But the open direction of the character makes the mini game less about "am i hitting the enemies back in time" to more "am i positioned correctly" which feels less fun.

HOWEVER i say this i am aware a lot of the team are juniors and there are a lot of concepts and things you try out as a junior so i am forgiving that no probs, especially since the rest of the game is such a gem <3 .

[Dogi ( ﾟ ヮﾟ)]

Volleyball can be hard to see but it's pretty easy. The only really bad one is the uncharted climbing while dodging rocks. Simply because they can spawn in unavoidable patterns

[Yorik]

I really don't like the "Only Up" beach, not a fan of the concept, took a shot at it and failed too many times now I won't ever go back there

[Galroche]

both volley and jumping puzzle were instant mod/cheat engine for me. i'm not wasting hours on such boring content ... wasn't really worth it anyway since the swimsuit kinda suck.
climbing wall was the only one i even bother doing fairly.