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[Kev Kev]

Piggy backing off my “Worst Final Fantasy mini games” thread, what are your favorite mini games in FF?

I know people hated it, but Blitzball was mega fun once I got the hang of it. I also loved the Golden Saucer arcade in FFVII, specifically the bike game. I think the submarine one was fun too. The mini game in FFVIIR where you smash boxes (Moogles Challenge???) was actually pretty fun too.

What are your favorites?

 

[Revolutionary]

Triple Triad is the GOAT

I still play it in XIV to this day lol

 

[yunkaiza]

Pretty much every FF7R minigame is decent but every other minigame in the series sucks ass

 

[bitbydeath]

Triple Triad, it’s also coincidentally from the best FF game.

 

[Kev Kev]

Triple Triad is the GOAT

I still play it in XIV to this day lol

there was an app on my iphone that had a bunch of FF stuff, and triple triad was on there. i cant remember what it was called tho. but yeah, i forgot triple triad. it is the best FF mini game, hands down

 

[TLZ]

Blitzball!

Loved the scouting!

 

[Pallas]

Triple triad from FFVIII

and the less talked about one

Tetra Master from FFIX

 

[Kev Kev]

Triple triad from FFVIII

and the less talked about one

Tetra Master from FFIX

did you ever figure out tetra master? i took the time to read up on it and understand the rules, but i feel like crazy random shit would still happen and i would lose my ass. i got to the point now where i only worry about the arrows, i dont even look at the numbers and letters. i wind up still winning like 70-80% of my matches that way so . any tips?

 

[Marcus Aurelius]

Triple Triad followed by the bike mini game in FF VII.

 

[Revolutionary]

there was an app on my iphone that had a bunch of FF stuff, and triple triad was on there. i cant remember what it was called tho. but yeah, i forgot triple triad. it is the best FF mini game, hands down

I believe that was the FF Portal app. Not sure if it's still supported, though.

But yeah, TT is still the best. It's a tad annoying in XIV because there are card restrictions and earning/winning cards is completely RNG, but they recently added short-term tournaments with randomized cards (as opposed to the old week-long tournaments with your own decks) that are pretty fun.

 

[Pallas]

did you ever figure out tetra master? i took the time to read up on it and understand the rules, but i feel like crazy random shit would still happen and i would lose my ass. i got to the point now where i only worry about the arrows, i dont even look at the numbers and letters. i wind up still winning like 70-80% of my matches that way so . any tips?

Aha to be honest, it’s been a loooong time since I played FFIX, so I can’t quite remember. But I do remember it was more complex than triple triad. When I get around to playing FFIX again and refresh my memory, I’ll have to revisit this thread.

 

[sublimit]

Blitzball and it's not even close.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

Triple Triad

Sphere Break

Blitzball (in FFX)

Fishing in FFXV.

 

[Kimahri]

did you ever figure out tetra master? i took the time to read up on it and understand the rules, but i feel like crazy random shit would still happen and i would lose my ass. i got to the point now where i only worry about the arrows, i dont even look at the numbers and letters. i wind up still winning like 70-80% of my matches that way so . any tips?

It's been a long time, but I mastered it pretty well to the point of never losing a game. Last time I replayed FFIX I tried to replicate my former success to great failure.

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My favorite is Blitzball though. Spent more time on that than the actual game. It's a bit of a shame it becomes impossible to lose after a while, but that music keeps me going.

 

[Mabdia]

Triple Triad is the GOAT

I still play it in XIV to this day lol

One and done.

Best mini game. I get the shit PS4 port just because of this and that is the only good thing about the port (Yes, I think that the PS1 version is better than the PS4).

 

[TheDrunkenMerchant]

did you ever figure out tetra master? i took the time to read up on it and understand the rules, but i feel like crazy random shit would still happen and i would lose my ass. i got to the point now where i only worry about the arrows, i dont even look at the numbers and letters. i wind up still winning like 70-80% of my matches that way so . any tips?

It truly is absurd considering the low quality detail on each card. There is Physical attack, Magic attack, and Elemental stats that all effect how you combo off other cards and shit, but it's ridiculous because all you see on the actual cards is some unrecognizable code like "M0102."

It's as if they recognized Triple Triad was slightly too simple, but overcompensated by making Tetra Master far too complicated by not giving you clear rules.

 

[Exentryk]

Triple Triad is the best mini-game in probably all of gaming, let alone FF games.

The GOAT!

 

[Captain Toad]

1. Triple Triad
2. Nothing

 

[Nymphae]

Other than the obvious winner Triple Triad, I'd say the squatting game from FF7 Remake, it was fun and the music was banging

 

[graywolf323]

definitely Triple Triad

I also enjoyed Blitzball

 

[Kev Kev]

seems triple triad is pretty unaminous winner. i looked up a video and its kinda fun just to watch

dat combo at 3:45

 

[dwish]

I agree with pretty much everyone here on Triple Triad lol. Also saw mention of Chocobo H&C yet.

Aa for Tetra Master, the card stats are like this:
[AtkPwr][AtkType][Def][MDef]
E.g
1M02 means strength 1 magical attack, 0 def, 2 magical def
4P21 means strength 4 physical attack, 2 def, 1 magical def

 

[#Phonepunk#]

Submarine mini game in FFVII I would have played a full length version of that

 

[jshackles]

Triple Triad and it's not even close.

 

[German Hops]

Pretty much everything in Final Fantasy VII.

Tripe Triad and Blitzball are pretty good, too.

 

[nordique]

Do the motorbike sequences in FF7R kinda count?

 

[Handel]

It's only in the beginning section, but the dueling mini-game in FFIX is fun. Also enjoy the motorcycle mini-game in FFVII.

 

[SantaC]

Triple triad /thread

 

[Kumomeme]

motorbike chase in FFVII

talk about XIV, leap of faith pretty fun too.

 

[DGrayson]

There was that tower defense mini game in FFVII. That was enjoyable.

 

[Fitzchiv]

 

[the_master]

The card game was the best for me. Really loved it and I wish it made a comeback in FFVII R 2.

It was a very well integrated minigame inside the regular game, across all the story and endgame. Besides it was strategic and fun, enticed you to get better cards and build a deck over the whole game. You could even convert the cards into items if you needed to. It would be great if you could actually equip them instead of consuming them.

 

[OrionNebula]

There was that tower defense mini game in FFVII. That was enjoyable.

Yeah I wonder how they will handle this in Remake 2. I enjoyed Fort Condor

My fav mini game is jumping ropes in FF9. I mean, you have to press X, and then you have to do it again, and then again, and then again, then again...

 

[Birdo]

The greatest love story in a Final Fantasy game.