Cube game? Not fun.

[Ryuukaze]

The cube game was cute at first, but it got old pretty fast and when it warned me I was getting low on cubes, I just gave up. If you want to make a hard version of the game for people to replay later, that's fine... Don't make it be a mandatory part of a *puzzle* game.

[tazamiga]

It's not really all that hard. Just takes a little bit of time to master how it all works.
Just keep moving and build barriers to protect yourself. Whenever you see an opening fire a blue cube into the centre. Don't fire unless it is moving up though or you lose the blue cubes.
As long as you keep the momentum going you should be able to complete it quite easily.

[sturmkoenig2k]

I encountered the first cube mini game and i do not like it. Let me skip that crap BEFORE. :( These cube action "puzzles" are not fun for me.

I have nothing against puzzles if they fit the rest of the game. Check QBEH-1 for a proper puzzle game with cubes.

EDIT: I'm at the second cube puzzle. Boring. :( I wish they had some other ideas, some real puzzles for these parts of the game.

[V10lator]

I don't get how the cube games can be hard. Finished all of them in a single run:
- Right click cubes you don't need - That way you'll find the ones you need quicker + make new ways.
- Left click the ones you need and press E immediately after. If it tells you your inventory is full: Go to the stream and just press the right mouse button till all cubes have been ejected.
- Always (except when ejecting cubes) keep moving.
- If you see the enemy: Just run away from it (sometimes you might not be fast enough but that's no big deal. If it traps you try to crawl below the blocks - If that's not possible just right click them a few times. If the enemy is directly in front of you click it - can't remember if left or right mouse button - then it will run away from you). If it explodes: Go back and collect the exploded cubes you need.
- Go slowly from top to bottom. If you fall to a lower area (either by accident or by running away from the enemy) use the stream to get back up.

That's all I did. Didn't need platforms nor bombs for that and I'm all other than a pro-gamer.

[Ryuukaze]

Not everyone has your instinctive gaming prowess, V10later. Thanks for the tips, but most of them are not as obvious as you think they are. I didn't even know I *could* store them with E. I didn't think of it. And I didn't know you could click on the enemies, either. This information is not given by the game and is not intuitive IMO.

Here's another tip: If you fall to the very bottom and lose some points... Don't go up immediately! There might be some cubes down there that you can collect, and you won't lose any more points for staying down there longer.

Also, using a point cube on a white cube says it'll 'make a platform'... But it will also create at least 1 point cube, and usually more. That can help you finish the game easier.

[Zorlond]

Guys, I think the problem is pavilion 2 (the third one you're sent to).

I actually had no problem at all with the first two cube games, I completed them on the first try. And then I got sent to pavilion 2, and slammed into a brick wall. I failed four times in a row before deciding I'd had enough and skipped it. When I got sent to pavilion 6, I fully expected to be forced to skip it as well. It turned out just reaching pavilion 6 was the hardest part about it, actually playing that cube game was as simple as the first two, beat in the first try.

Something about pavilion 2 is off. I'm not sure what it is. It might be a scarcity of usable blocks, maybe the very random placement of blue blocks making you repeatedly fall into the water, maybe the apparently increased frequency of monster blocks. Maybe all of it. But trying to beat that level is just straight up hard.

[76561198213938032]

引用自 sturmkoenig2k：

Check QBEH-1 for a proper puzzle game with cubes.

There is also Q.U.B.E.
Just don't play DCut.

[CrumbleCat]

The third one really annoyed me and I had to restart about 7 times. I got fed up with it and waited forever for it to FAIL.

Why oh why couldn't they have put the skip button at the start after the first cube game? It's not skippable if you have to wait 10-15 mins for it to fail.

[Zorlond]

引用自 MasterCrumble：

It's not skippable if you have to wait 10-15 mins for it to fail.

Actually, if you deliberately fall into the water over and over, you can force your score down low enough for it to fail. You need to ride the wind up and stand on a blue block for 2-3 seconds before dropping down for it to count.

[CrumbleCat]

^ Yeah, I guess you can do that, but it's still a tedious annoyance. I would have developed a phobia of cubes if they kept throwing those games at me.

[wintermute]

引用自 Surtsey：

It would be OK if your cube count didn't decay, but it does.

It would make it less frustrating. Mostly my experience of the cube game is: fall to the bottom; ride the stream up; attempt to jump off towards a likely looking ledge; miss the ledge and fall to the bottom; repeat.

引用自 Limmin：

Basically...I'd be OK with the whole (frustrating and sort of irrelevant) cube game thingy if we had the option to skip the mini-game BEFORE we have to play it.

100 times this. Or just have more useable cubes about (like a difficulty setting). I have plenty of action games already, I do not need this to also be an action game.

[Mandrashee]

The cube games aren't much fun because they are too depending by luck, they are more like a random puzzle game than a logic game.
But I really appreciate the possibility to skip this mini-games, isn't lore friendly and a bit odd taking the required object in this way but it's functionally for the story and allow you to keep concentrate on it.

[RonJambo187]

I also find the cube puzzle extremely annoying. Been playing the first one for about 45 minutes now, just can't get the score. I shot a lot of blue cubes into oblivion because the cyclic disappearance of the chute is quite hard to see. I keep falling down constantly and there are fewer and fewer blue and white cubes left.

I really love the adventure part of the game, but this platformer thing just sucks.

Does anybody know a cheat to skip this?

[Ailes]

引用自 atterratio：

If you read history, you'd know that the mini-games are not for fun, it's for stupefied player.

What you mean by that? The children? Or us, the actual human players?

[Ryuukaze]

RonJambo, if you continue playing and just fail the game, it will supposedly let you skip it. But you have to fail it first.

[RonJambo187]

Thanks for the hint, but what does it mean to "fail"?
I've been trying to collect score and jump down into the water to erase the score for a while now.

Is there a certain score you have to reach before you start erasing it?
Just collecting four or five points and losing them is not enough I guess...

... I'm such a loser I'm not even able to fail at this!!!! :-((

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