DLC Picnic Panic is not a picnic! Harder than original game!

[rambo_fox]

I'm now at the voodoo hearts race at the end (or almost?) end of Picnic Panic. Ouch--this is waaayyy harder than anything in the original game. Is it just me, or did the devs decide to torture fans with insanely difficult material this time around?

[HighLanderPony]

Yeah, it's a bummer.

[Sphinx]

yeah the only reason I won that race against the dark messenger was because he got stuck on a wall

[Miguelh1020]

Ugh I can't get that last achievement.
I loved the game, and the picnic in itself is not that hard, but that final race is making me bite my own teeth.
What a change of pace to what is otherwise a fun and relaxing game!

[Lynx]

Ooohhh yeah, easily my least favorite part of an otherwise pretty awesome DLC. Finished it but it wasn't without lots and lots of restarting.

[Plumber]

The final room in a perfect 5 wins is almost impossible to do blind because of the way the game handles momentum, and even then it'll take time to play it well enough to win.

[Saul]

The voodoo race is actualy so full of crap, it had me rage like no other game has done in +20 years. Made me rage so badly i tossed my controller to the wall which broke the poor thing and even made a small crack to the wall. Had to uninstall the game before smt more important (or expensive) breaks.

That experience with the DLC kinda ruined my whole feeling about the game now.
If I'm ever to recomend this game to someone, I'll tell them to stick to the main game and leave this godawfull DLC be..

[Flytrap]

I dunno. I perfect the race, and the only segment that gave me trouble was the final gliding piece. The rest of the DLC, while somewhat harder than the base game, was still only moderately difficult.

I like this it this way tho. I played platformers where they went full force on the difficulty and the game just suffers for it, thankfully Sabotage didnt do that with the messenger.

[ShinryuEXE]

The race was easily my favorite portion of the DLC. Maybe even my favorite segment of the entire game.

[L.3.N.Z.]

Originally posted by ShinryuEXE:

The race was easily my favorite portion of the DLC. Maybe even my favorite segment of the entire game.

I thought the race was epic and enjoyed the difficulty because, for me, it showed how much skill the Dark Messenger had story-wise, making him a worthy rival for the hero.

[Chadwbacca]

Wtf, the race hard? You can win the first 4 races against the shadow without even trying, and that is on first try. You would only lose if you do not press circle, never. The only hard thing is doing the first five races on perfect because the 5th race.

[Seth Abercromby]

Having just fully completed the Game and DLC myself, the Picnic Panic isn't that much of a step up in terms of difficulty, the enemies just get way more annoying. If you just want to win the Voodoo race, the final map when it's 4-4 is extremely easy if you don't mess up your cloud jumps, the momentum challenge was a lot of fun to tackle, it was just a little annoying I needed to do 4 other rooms before each time I could attempt it. Though I'd have appreciated a faster method of restarting the race than quitting back to the title screen every time I mess up a jump.

Some of the challenges surrounding the Power Seals are still the most difficult things the game throws at you, but they make you feel like you've properly mastered a mechanic.

[Capital JACK]

The race is a lot of fun right up until the final one where the game suddenly goes "ok here's a mechanics we've never asked you to use before (gliding with ring momentum), do it perfectly here at the end of a gauntlet or you lose"
If gliding with ring momentum had been a thing the game asked of me at any prior point, if I'd been given the opportunity to practice it at any point, it wouldn't be so infuriating, but the only way to practice it is to repeatedly restart a gauntlet from the beginning for one short stint of practice before you inevitably lose again because the dark messenger does it almost flawlessly

[Seth Abercromby]

Originally posted by Capital JACK:

The race is a lot of fun right up until the final one where the game suddenly goes "ok here's a mechanics we've never asked you to use before (gliding with ring momentum), do it perfectly here at the end of a gauntlet or you lose"
If gliding with ring momentum had been a thing the game asked of me at any prior point, if I'd been given the opportunity to practice it at any point, it wouldn't be so infuriating, but the only way to practice it is to repeatedly restart a gauntlet from the beginning for one short stint of practice before you inevitably lose again because the dark messenger does it almost flawlessly

There are actually places where you are required to use gliding momentum, if you went and collected all power seals in the base game. The final course is essentially the 'graduation test' of learning the timing and jumping required to make it to the end in one clean go. You also only 'lose' if you want to get the achievement. Otherwise the course at 4-4 is very easy to do quickly if you just want to clear the DLC.

[Moulinx]

Sadly I had to drop this game after attempting to get this achievement too many times. Which is sad, because I liked it a lot, but this is absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and shouldn't be a thing. It's been months now and whatever I'm trying it's impossible

[Seth Abercromby]

Originally posted by Septembre:

Sadly I had to drop this game after attempting to get this achievement too many times. Which is sad, because I liked it a lot, but this is absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and shouldn't be a thing. It's been months now and whatever I'm trying it's impossible

It very clearly isn't impossible. According to Steam, only 3.2% of completed the achievement. However, contrasted against the achievement you get for completing picnic panic (13.7%), it means about a quarter of all the people who made it to the end have managed to complete the race with a perfect score. You can see it as the final test where you can show off every skill you have honed during the game. If you went for every power seal and mask part you should have gotten plenty of practice.