Special attack is wonky?

[Violet Echoes]

No spoilers but I get how to do the attack, I know the button inputs.
But for some reason when I press them together, at the same time, it... does not do it.
I can maybe do a special attack once in about 20 tries using the same button presses.

What gives?

[Om nom nom]

Are you referring to the clue on one of the memo pages? The "memo notes" pages with actual scribbled notes? I think it was like page 52 and 53. Is this what you mean?

If so then the way I did it was practicing it several times next to the save statue so I could get all my mana back. I found the best way to do it the most often was using only the side of my thumb to hit all 3 buttons at the same time. I had the most success doing it this way and I was able to get the item that the memo page had a drawing of.

[Violet Echoes]

I was just talking about the 2 button one, did not even know about the three button one yet.

[SushiJaguar]

There's a sword special attack which is a rolling thrust, and the magic special attack I won't spoil. To do the rolling thrust, you have to be moving and press roll very slightly before attack. The timing is pretty tight, but you can nail it with some practise.

[Om nom nom]

Originally posted by Gittons:

I was just talking about the 2 button one, did not even know about the three button one yet.

Ah ok. You meant something other than what I thought you might have meant. I wasn't sure so I asked and talked about it a little if it was the part I thought you might have meant.
Don't worry. I didn't really spoil anything as you have no idea what I am talking about until you find that manual page. For both giving you a hint how to do it and where to actual do it. You will need that manual page.

[Om nom nom]

Originally posted by SushiJaguar:

There's a sword special attack which is a rolling thrust, and the magic special attack I won't spoil. To do the rolling thrust, you have to be moving and press roll very slightly before attack. The timing is pretty tight, but you can nail it with some practise.

Oh. I have never done it. Very early on in the game there is a manual page that shows this if it's what you are talking about. I tried doing this for a few minutes and nothing ever happened. So it must be a pain to do with the timing.
Do you have hit the attack button almost instantly after the roll because I was never able to do it. I might have to switch the sword to a different button to do it. But then that throws me off on which button I always use to put my sword in. No wonder I could never do it. :/

[Songbird]

There is no three-button special attack. The sword one should work as long as you have enough stamina, and I was able to do it by hitting the buttons at the same time (on a controller). If you're playing on keyboard then there is the potential of ghosting occuring, too.

[Om nom nom]

Originally posted by Songbird:

There is no three-button special attack. The sword one should work as long as you have enough stamina, and I was able to do it by hitting the buttons at the same time (on a controller). If you're playing on keyboard then there is the potential of ghosting occuring, too.

There is a 3 button "special attack", but you don't use it for combat but in a very specific area for a very specific purpose.