-
Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!
Worst minigame in a Square Enix game?
- Thread starter Haeralis The BRave
- Start date
Don't listen to Cathcart's lies
Megidolaon
Member
Junahu
Member
Fort Condor in FF7. It's a slow and tedious "strategy" game, where the main strategy is spend-money-until-you-win. There are 15 battles that take place at different points in the story, so every battle other than the mandatory one is missable. And you will miss most of them, because they take place at very precise moments, and many of them require that you backtrack all the way across the globe to get back to Fort Condor.
And the rewards for doing this? Complete junk. Restorative items that you can steal or buy for cheaper, and some weapons that turn up in shops later in the game.
And the rewards for doing this? Complete junk. Restorative items that you can steal or buy for cheaper, and some weapons that turn up in shops later in the game.
Terareflection
Member
Wait.
I've never player Star Fox.
I spend far (FAR) more time gummi-shipping instead of key-blading in KH.
Tell me more about this.
Green Mamba
Member
Blitzball isn't the worst because it was way too easy to stack your team and win really fast. It just took up some time. I'd say FFX Chocobo Race garbage or the Gummi Ship shit from KH1. In the very least both blitzball and chocobo racing weren't mandatory to progress in the game (cept that one blitzball game). You were forced to do the Gummi ship stuff just to get from one place to the next. Absolute trash.
"I see you're enjoying FFXIII-2. Let's take a break of all that time travelling and fun combat to make you feel like an idiot."
Yeah,that's the truth.Dis shit is annoyiingigngigngin and tediousssssss
At least most of the stuff in FFX is optional and,during the one time you have to play it,don't need to win Blitzball.
ShironRedshift
Member
The stupid ice cream rhythm minigame thing in Ven's version of Disney Town in Birth By Sleep, yeah. At least with stuff like Blitzball, you can fail at it, and the game will never actually force you to play it again.
In BBS though, you need to clear this stupid minigame to continue with the story, which is odd since it has nothing to do with anything, the "story" reason you play it doesn't make any sense at all (you're trying to fix the ice cream machine, but the fact you're able to play this miniame at all proves it's fne), and it's just dumb to not only break up the flow of an RPG with a rhythm minigame but gate the player's progress with a completely unrelated genre of games out of nowhere like that. I tried that shit for several hours, couldn't clear it, and just gave up since I'm terrible at rhythm games myself and it's the dumbest thing in the world to have something like that gating the player's progress and be necessary for beating the game when it has nothing to do with anything
In BBS though, you need to clear this stupid minigame to continue with the story, which is odd since it has nothing to do with anything, the "story" reason you play it doesn't make any sense at all (you're trying to fix the ice cream machine, but the fact you're able to play this miniame at all proves it's fne), and it's just dumb to not only break up the flow of an RPG with a rhythm minigame but gate the player's progress with a completely unrelated genre of games out of nowhere like that. I tried that shit for several hours, couldn't clear it, and just gave up since I'm terrible at rhythm games myself and it's the dumbest thing in the world to have something like that gating the player's progress and be necessary for beating the game when it has nothing to do with anything
momo no oji
Neo Member
YES! that Ice Cream Beat is AWFUL! It can get annoying to keep up with them and having to listen to that terrible music doesn't help either.
The mini game in Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance where you're flying as Riku or Sora was bad. I hate having to do that. The gummi ship was more enjoyable than that.
In terms of FF games though that chocobo treasure game in FF IX was bad. I didn't like playing it at all. I didn't get anything good out of it.
BrianRoyale
Member
I was gonna say Blitzball (which i actually liked at first but wore out it's welcome pretty fast) but weren't most of the mini games in Square games pretty lame?
Haeralis The BRave
Banned
They should be ashamed of themselves for making me not want to hear the Destiny Islands music...
mcz117chief
Member
I actually enjoy them a lot, they are relaxing and challenging just right.
tintin1029
Member
Somebody already said it, but yes, definitely the KH1 Gummi ship BS.
Professor Beef
Banned
I love Chocobo Hot & Cold. Blitzball isn't bad, just boring as hell. The lightning dodging can go straight to hell, same with the Fort Condor nonsense.
The KH2 Gummi segments play like an homage to Star Fox and other rail shooters. Look up videos of Star Fox 64 or Assault (mainly the former since the latter doesn't have as many ship battles) and you'll see.
There's no ship customization in the Star Fox series however, if that's your thing. The SF series is mainly loved for the gameplay and the cheesy (in a good way!) voice acting.
The KH2 Gummi segments play like an homage to Star Fox and other rail shooters. Look up videos of Star Fox 64 or Assault (mainly the former since the latter doesn't have as many ship battles) and you'll see.
There's no ship customization in the Star Fox series however, if that's your thing. The SF series is mainly loved for the gameplay and the cheesy (in a good way!) voice acting.
Blitzball was great, you're all scrubs that didn't get Jecht Shot. The terrible minigames I can remember:
- KH 1 Gummyshit and 100 Acre Woods;
- Things required for Ultimate Weapons on FFX (except Blitzball for Wakka's);
- Tetra Master was terrible considering it was a follow up of the amazing Triple Triad;
- FFXIII-2 clock bullshit;
- FFVIII Chocobo Forests were pretty bad too;
-
- KH 1 Gummyshit and 100 Acre Woods;
- Things required for Ultimate Weapons on FFX (except Blitzball for Wakka's);
- Tetra Master was terrible considering it was a follow up of the amazing Triple Triad;
- FFXIII-2 clock bullshit;
- FFVIII Chocobo Forests were pretty bad too;
-
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
Everything from FFX.
BrosukeHanamura
Member
Professor Beef
Banned
It's possible to have obtained Jecht Shot and still not like Blitzball. Just sayin' is all.
bobawesome
Member
Final Fantasy X is filled to the brim with terrible minigames but Blitzball is the worst by a mile.
Professor Beef
Banned
Oh my god, I had almost forgotten about the Chocobo Forest stuff.
Red Mage
Member
This. This. This.
rhophiehalul78
Member
I loved blitzball. I love that you can recruit several NPCs into your roster.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Anyone who says Triple Triad is evil.
KittenMaster
Member
Any time there's a QTE section with FMVs running in the background in FF8.
R_thanatos
Member
I ..loved those ... it was just basic maths and logic, the difficulty wasn't that high either ..most of them don't even have a time limit and the number of possibilities is so low you can do them with luck too .
Look! The Pie!
Member
Blitzball, lightning dodging, chocobo racing, butterfly catching. Basically, FFX: The Thread.
And it isn't the worst ever or anything, but Tetra Master was such a disappointment after Triple Triad.
And it isn't the worst ever or anything, but Tetra Master was such a disappointment after Triple Triad.
You had to suffer through it.
But yeah, anything from FFX. Jank controls along with them not being mechanically fun, either.
Sphere Break was probably the one I disliked the most.
I actually liked blitzball to the point that I'd sometimes boot up the game just to play it. And seriously booted and recruited players for games.
Although by default, its mandatory minigames that you have to win to progress.
I actually liked blitzball to the point that I'd sometimes boot up the game just to play it. And seriously booted and recruited players for games.
Although by default, its mandatory minigames that you have to win to progress.
entremet
Member
I feel like the fucker responsible for FFX's mini games was some rouge employee.
Those things were terrible and what sucked is that many had really important items for post game success.
Such a terrible design.
Sacrilege!
Mods de Chocobo is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xErfUvB7NI
Those things were terrible and what sucked is that many had really important items for post game success.
Such a terrible design.
Sacrilege!
Mods de Chocobo is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xErfUvB7NI
Ice Cream Beat. Just why Square?
For some reason I remember enjoying that one. What was the problem with it?
Architechnophile
Member
Mercifully though, you could just not do anything, let the enemy reach the top, and fight a relatively easy mini boss.
I'll go with the FFX chocobo race.
Aside: Sneakily fun, and almost never mentioned--the FF7 submarine battles.
SkylineRKR
Member
HD was the first time I spent time with FFX minigames and they're all fairly terrible.
Chocobo trainer was bad but lucked out after 30 minutes of trying or so. Butterfly was pretty fucking terrible too. Blitzball was the least bad I think. You didn't need much luck, just a good team you could assemble very early on.
Triple Triad from FFVIII was good, but fucked by rules.
Chocobo trainer was bad but lucked out after 30 minutes of trying or so. Butterfly was pretty fucking terrible too. Blitzball was the least bad I think. You didn't need much luck, just a good team you could assemble very early on.
Triple Triad from FFVIII was good, but fucked by rules.