That damn toilet mini game

[nebiroth]

I just can;t figure out what the hell it wants me to do. Starting it is easy enough, just randomly press the AWSD and Arrow keys until you find the two it wants you to press and hold, then hit the Y key. But after that. It looks like it shoudl be a sort of guitar hero type game, but all I see is up to four keys literally flashing several times a second. Is it suppsed to give you some sort of order to press them or do you just mash all four, or what? It's clearly a game designed for a game controller and someone decided "hey, let;'s make it so that keyboard users get to try to find and press widely spaced keys slected at random". I honestl cannot work out what it wants me to DO. Sometimes I just mash all four keys as quickly a spossible and it works and sometimes not. It just feels like a horrible piece of design. All the guides out there seem to be for the game console versions. It's already spiling what otherwise is shaping up to be a great game. I mean you get something like the A, D, uparrow and downarrow all flashing, sometimes it's got something like an F key with some sort of symbol on it that you're obviously suposed to do something with while the A and D key flash, but what?

[♪ millennial92 ♫]

Yeah it also took me some time to figure that out. Last time I've played it is long time ago but as far as I remember back you have to push the Keys in the direction they are flashing. So, for example, if A and D is flashing you have to push A -> D quickly, same goes for the other buttons. Hope you understand what I mean (Sorry no native english speaker).
I tried it over and over again until I figured it out and got the achievement at the end. If you figured it out, it's pretty easy.

[nebiroth]

Thanks, I will try that. It's a great game but I have notice that compared to Stick of Truth, the ingame directors and indicators are comparatively lacking. The toilet game looks like a guitar hero type thing, but the keys don't light up, they literally flash at a speed that is quite impossible to tap in synch with.

So I assume if A, D, arrow up and arrow down are flashing, you go in that order, quickly. I also assume the character doign a dance move on the toilet indicates success.

The design means that just mashing all the keys quickly somrtimes works and sometimes fails, but the game gives you no vlue at all as to what you are doing right and wrong.

It's a very lamae ass port of something obviously designed for a game controller over to a keyboard and mouse.

I think what you mean is that two keys actually form what works like an analogue stick. That is, a flashing A and D are actually the equivalent of spinning the left stick clockwise. Quite how they expect people to do that with both hands across widely spaced keys and other keys randomly popping I do not know. There is evidently some technique to it (like the abortion mini-game, which took me ages to figure)

Absolutely horrible thing that I intend to largely ignore.

[♪ millennial92 ♫]

I agree with you, the port is horroble and the stick of truth was the better game in general compared to this imo. Let me know if you figured it out. Good luck.

[nebiroth]

Just gave it a go, didn't work, so screw it. Absolutely terrible design. There's clearly some kack to it but it just doesn;t give you the information you need. I doubt any more than a handful of PC players bothered with it.

[Cursed Hawkins]

You know there's an option for turning on a minigame assist?

[nebiroth]

Sure, but I don;t like using things like that. I had no issues with the mini-games in Stick of Truth or the FBH combat system. The toilet mini game just feels like something that was fundamentally designed for a controller with sticks and got a very bad port over to keyboard controls. I think the main issue is that they are trying to substitute keyboard buttons for the PS4 and Xbox controller, which is OK for the buttons, but really doesn;t work very well at all when you try to do the analogue sticks. Espescially if you randomly change the keys: not so bad if A and D are always "rotate left stick clockwise" but it evdently is not. I'm pretty sure that is what is going on. I also think it was a poor choice to change the combat mouse clicks for the spacebar. Right clicking on the flash to block felt intuitive and I very quickly got used to it...the spacebar, not so much. For one thing the spacebar is a clumsy key to use for such a purpose.

[Cursed Hawkins]

Originally posted by nebiroth:

Sure, but I don;t like using things like that. I had no issues with the mini-games in Stick of Truth or the FBH combat system. The toilet mini game just feels like something that was fundamentally designed for a controller with sticks and got a very bad port over to keyboard controls. I think the main issue is that they are trying to substitute keyboard buttons for the PS4 and Xbox controller, which is OK for the buttons, but really doesn;t work very well at all when you try to do the analogue sticks. Espescially if you randomly change the keys: not so bad if A and D are always "rotate left stick clockwise" but it evdently is not. I'm pretty sure that is what is going on. I also think it was a poor choice to change the combat mouse clicks for the spacebar. Right clicking on the flash to block felt intuitive and I very quickly got used to it...the spacebar, not so much. For one thing the spacebar is a clumsy key to use for such a purpose.

Its better than nothing, there's not many mini-games in this game that I'm thrilled trying to do by hand the toilets being one of them but if you want an easy way to get the achievement of getting the highest score on all of the toilets in South Park there you go.