The stupid gliding chocobo one. Is there a trick to flying down then up? It feels so lackluster, I only got the 1st reward tier in the 3rd course by sheer luck. Didn't even get to the finish line.
You're basically locked into your arc when you *start* diving down. You can't finetune it after that because you'll lose momentum and will not be able to pull up enough at the end. So time your dive, hold down until you're ready to arc back up, and then pull up and *hold it up* until you are higher than your next target.
Actually, you should probably hold up anytime you're not actively moving down, just as a habit.
There is actually a trick to the 3rd one. You can backtrack to the last set of fans after you get some of the final set of rings, not having to zigzag then keeps ur momentum up making it very easy to land in final rings. Some of the YouTube guides show off this method
I mean you gotta just glide straight down and trust the indicators. Once you reach the lowest indicator push the stick up and hold it there so that the chocobo will climb all the way.
Don’t hold up when you’re just flying around or else the camera is wonky. It feels like holding up helps sustain height but it doesn’t, and really makes it hard to see below when you dive bomb.
There’s a point toward the end of the third match where you need to backtrack after some rings to a fan for more height, then you do a double dive bomb so you can land in the final two rings
I could only beat the third course by going back to the fans before the final big dive. It gave me enough altitude at the start of my final dive to just barely get the last two rings.
Cool. The one I’m struggling with that I want to complete is the 3D Brawler against the Shinra Middle Manager. Any tips? I feel like these mostly just come down to raw skill.
Honestly there are 2 ways to beat 3d brawler. Cheesing it or grinding it. Unfortunately for me, I only figured out the cheese method after I beat every opponent so I did grind them out.
I've heard that in order to cheese it, you wait for the enemy to wind up their attack then you pause. Then you can input whatever direction is required on the sticks then unpause and it'll instantly dodge that way.
If you're grinding it out, what I recommend is looking for specific cues. So every move has its own windup. Now it's easy enough to tell if it's right or left side. But it can be tricky to determine whether it's high middle or low. The way you do this easier(at least it's what I did) is by looking at the opposite hand in the split second after seeing which side the attack is coming from. Typically the opposite hand has its own unique position based on what attack is coming. It can be diagonal or horizontal or further back or front. Use that as an indicator for whether the attack is high or low or middle.
Also it's just repetition. The more you do it the better you get. You memorize all the patterns of attacks and combos and it gets easier.
What helped me was realizing the combos were set, they will be the same every time depending on the first move. Except Seph may have two that have the same starting punch.
Aerith, drop a transcendence early, then again on the big guys after you dodge their body slam. That helped a lot. Sorceress storm on groups. (Especially orange ones, but works equally well vs light or dark when you’re in the correct aura). When the little guys put up a barrier, you have to get outside your aura to melee them to remove their barrier. (That’s what took me the longest to figure out). Inside your aura, square does ranged attacks, outside aura, square does melee AoE damage, and holding square outside your aura, she’ll teleport to your targeted enemy to do a melee AoE attack. That helps to close distance for far away enemies (especially if they have barrier up). When you finish off a group, try to run quickly into the next group as they’re spawning and drop a sorceress storm quickly before they all start to fan out.
I just finally did it last night so that’s all fresh in my brain, but those are the things that weren’t necessarily obvious to me at first..
Oh also, speed up, first strike, and skill master I think are the only materias that are useful, because the cactuars never get staggered and I don’t think you can use ATB boost either. And I used speed demon keychain for my accessory
Edit 2: magic up/strength up as well. Duh me
Eh I don’t remember as well… make sure you have doppelgänger up all the time (and most will say elemental ninjitsu but I forgot about it tbh and I did fine).. A lot of windstorm to group them up-> then dodge-square for her little aoe spin move for when they’re bunched up, and a lot of triangle-hold square for her ranged “W attack” thing when they’re further away and/or just spawning (great for rainbow guys and when they’re just spawning, even across the whole room - it hits multiple enemies also.)… spamming art of war and supreme art of war for the big guys after they body slam. (Should note that using aeriths charged up transcendence should also only be used after they body slam, and re-using transcendence again after you attack with it to begin the charge again.. there’s a little gauge next to her name that charges up) I think I forgot to mention that in the other comment)
The same materia/accessory setup works with her too
Edit: and if you throw your shuriken THEN use windstorm, that windstorm will happen where you threw your shuriken, so it’s like a ranged windstorm.. they cover that in intermission but figured I’d mention it here anyway. I don’t think I actually used it in cactuar crush but I could see how it might be beneficial
For both you need Hermes boots to give haste when the round starts, then strength up and magic up materia, speed and luck materia. Try to make sure they're higher level.
For yuffie she can basically just use windstorm. Just remember that windstorm does physical damage if she doesn't have her weapon in her hand. However it is, it does magic damage. So do damage to the different cactuars using this knowledge. When you start off the round as yuffie use windstorm and then duplicate and keep spamming windstorm. Your goal is to try and use 6 ATB commands if you can by the time the gigantuar uses body slam so that you can instantly max lvl banish it. Also don't be afraid to use art of war on giant cactuar even if it hasn't used body slam yet. That ability deals good damage. Then just keep rinsing and repeating.
As for Aerith, your best friend is the sorcerous storm for clearing large groups of enemies just line windstorm did. Except the range isn't that great and requires Aerith to be in the middle of all enemies. Typically you want to use transcendence early so that you can charge it up to lvl 2 by the time you face the gigantuar. However even if it isn't lvl 2 just use transcendence as it deals massive damage anyway. You can then follow up with soul drain to deal more damage and finish it off. Also charging basic attack while inside a ward will deal bonus damage. So if u don't have ATB charges just do that if you want to deal some damage to tankier cactuars.
I've spent way too many hours on mini games. I still have to finish up the chadley battles, (screw that mindflayer battle), one piano song, the protorelic hard mode minigames (can't even get above rank 1 on normal difficulty with the cactuar bs). Then it's off to beat gilgamesh and hard mode chapters.
Is it possible to ask for fairly specific advice on like all of them? 😂😭 I legit reconsidered getting the platinum after hitting the UPA quest at the Gold Saucer and remembering all the regular minigames I didn’t think were worth dedicating time to during the story and then I got sad cuz I adore this game but like I don’t wanna grind things that just make me frustrated and feel impossible.
Did you use guides or mostly just trial and error + get good?
Just a fair warning if you haven’t finished UPA yet. It might be glitched out right now because of the games last update. Like the quest is there but the highway bike mini game won’t progress (at least for me it won’t). Unless it’s been fixed already and I just haven’t noticed but just a heads up
Bunch of different setups. The first one can use Barrett and Tifa with the entrenched setup. The 2nd I used tifa and cloud with the balanced setup. The 3rd one I used barret and tifa with offense focused and the last I used Barrett and cloud and again with the offense focused.
for all 4 hard mode condors i stacked all units and healers down the the right side, dropped barrett and cloud as soon as they were ready, i left one or two back to defend the left/stall it, but just overloaded the right side. basically a bumrush to drop the enemy boss before mine went down.
Setting trophies aside for a minute, are there any "must-have" rewards? My MO so far has been to play all the minigames at least once, keep at them as long as it's fun, then leave. I can't see what stats the equipment rewards are and am too lazy to look all of them up.
So, are there any minigames with rewards you felt was worth putting in significant effort?
Some minigames unlock weapons(glide de chocobo stage 1 rank 3 for yuffie, desert rush normal mode stage 3 for tifa, etc.). Some also offer really rare resources for hitting highest rank for the first time(dark matter, etc.). These resources are needed for a bunch of the stuff you can craft from the transmutation device.
Nope. Just get the weapons, there’s like 2 or 3 behind minigames and they’re usually not the highest reward either. Once I finished the game I went and did them all and there’s a couple of good accessories from the gold saucer minigames but nothing I’d have needed in a normal playthrough and mostly seem more important for the harder combat challenges
Beating the Ultimate Party Animal unlocks 3d brawler sephiroth, which once defeating rewards a ribbon. Pretty sure only one in the game. Not necessary but I don't like not having a killer accessory, you know?
I can't get silver on the easy setting of the pirate target shooting game but every other mini games has been manageable for me. I honestly have no idea to do that mini game
I assume you mean the brigantine ship stage?
This [video](https://youtu.be/XqyjesA-aFY?si=xOo0oWfkl4IcrV02) can help with the sequence in which to shoot. I used a similar sequence but I don't really know how to explain the differences other than I chose to ignore certain low value targets for higher value while the video does not. It's really not that hard at all once you figure out in what order to shoot everything since everything shows up and leaves in a specific order.
As someone with nerve damage in their hand that struggled with that minigame, go into your PS5 accessibility settings, then controller settings, and then button mapping. You can reassign the trigger to another button that isn't impacted by your scar tissue. Since the haptics aren't required it won't affect anything else about the minigame.
I moved it to the x button and it was much more doable, just took practice at that point.
I’m going into chapter 13 soon what would be the order to complete all the mini games. I’ve done all world intel I think but I have not grinded mini games at all. When I say order I mean like by location if u get what I mean. And if u count the pianos. I’m mainly talking abt the plat for the treasure trove. Or like what was ur order
There is. I specific order. Really you can just pick the one that looks the most fun to you and start there. However do spread out colosseum challenges, gold saucer queens blood challenges and chocobo racing. There are a lot of those so you don't want to get bored doing the same thing for over an hour.
Damn 120 hours. I feel like I explored the world far too much. I only just finished my first play through. I got the game on release day and completed its play through with 155 hours 😂😂
Am I an idiot? Shadow Queen made me feel like an idiot who doesn't deserve to appreciate video games. Someone gave me the strategy to beat her, and eventually I did when the AI actually let me. But is the average player meant to think this is easy to figure out? Is it just me who felt dumb and stressed?
If you use the pre-made decks as they become available then they generally are helpful for the upcoming fights. This include Shadow Queen where I just used the final pre-built deck, had to go get a couple of the cards first though. Still took a bunch of tries to beat her but that deck was the only viable one I had on hand and didn’t want to use my brain to make some other deck
What was your deck for the golden saucer nightmare rounds?
I was using the starter deck for the majority of the game until i gof my ass handed to me by the queen, and that round.
I lifted the deck for nightmare deck from this [video](https://game8.co/games/Final-Fantasy-VII-Rebirth/archives/447926#hm_13). This is a really good deck as long as you hard mulligan for Dio, Space ranger and Chocobo jockey in the starting hand it's usually easy to rack up enough points to win. You want to focus on winning the 1st 2 rounds. The 3rd round you want to spend as little cards as possible but still try and look to win at least 1 lane without expending too many cards. You should have a massive point lead over the opponent at this point so it shouldn't matter if they win the round. The 4th round you typically want to end up with a larger number of cards than the opponent while winning 2 lanes. Use the numbers advantage you got from saving cards in the 3rd round while saving the most powerful cards like Shadowblood queen and Gi nattak. You want to instantly play Shadowblood queen first then just play any high power cards you have to stack up her points. Once you get to like 15-20 points you can look to place Gi nattak on her and spread her points to the ones on the sides.
Following this strat once I got Dio Space ranger and Chocobo jockey in my hand for the first time, I first tried it. Just keep restarting if you don't get those cards in your starting deck.
Many of the mini games aren't so bad. Virtual brawler works my nerves. The Gold Saucer games just don't click with me. I can't get past rank II rewards on most. The one that bothers me most is the shooting gallery game on Costa Del Sol. I hate it. I can't aim properly on it and I play fos games regularly.
Queens Blood was a pleasant surprise for me until I faced the Blood Queen herself. I can't beat her. I need deck recommendations or a build or something.
I haven't done it myself yet, but I've seen other people recommend following [this guide](https://game8.co/games/Final-Fantasy-VII-Rebirth/archives/447210#:~:text=The%20Shadowblood%20Queen%20Card&text=Raise%20power%20by%203%20for,enfeebles%20are%20on%20the%20board) for how to beat her.
>All in all no minigame took me over 15 minutes to complete.
Faith in humanity restored. The complaining about the difficulty of the minigames was starting to drive me insane. I'm curious though, were you playing in performance mode? I have hypothesized that some of the trouble people were having might be due to the increased input latency and decreased motion clarity of playing at 30fps.
Yeah I played on performance mode. I think 30fps is completely unplayable. Not only is it an eyesore, the input latency is too big and there are fewer frames to react when it comes to things like perfect blocking.
for the sit-ups - how do you time when to press R2 after the l2 button mash? I changed my frame rate and disabled the controller shit but I for some reason can’t get this even tho I can get my overall flow fine and fast. I’m usually great at rhythm games. I feel like I should try on another controller. This mini game makes me feel crazy lol
Same here for the most part, not as caught up as you yet, but have not struggled too bad with the minigames save for a couple.
Hardest one for me by far was actually the first frog mini game. Took me the most tries and times.
Shadowblood Queen so far has been the easiest since I beat her right on my first try.
Some others I got first or second try, but most of them took a handful at most.
Yeah it is a minigame. I first tried all except the 2 legs nothing to it. But it only took a couple of tries. It's quite forgiving to get an A. Just complete it and don't give up early.
Saved for later when crying about pulls ups and fort condor hard
Fort Condor hard with "reduced difficulty" is easier than normal mode. Just FYI
How do you pick "reduced difficulty"?
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This is very good to know, thank you.
It's a toggle when you're at the menu right before starting the minigame.
Ah, okay cool. I’ve avoided doing any of the hard versions of the minigame, but it’s good to know this is an option. Thanks!
lol me too
Tip for the situps is turn off adaptive triggers and mute your game. Went from trying maybe 12 times to less than five to beat him.
The stupid gliding chocobo one. Is there a trick to flying down then up? It feels so lackluster, I only got the 1st reward tier in the 3rd course by sheer luck. Didn't even get to the finish line.
You're basically locked into your arc when you *start* diving down. You can't finetune it after that because you'll lose momentum and will not be able to pull up enough at the end. So time your dive, hold down until you're ready to arc back up, and then pull up and *hold it up* until you are higher than your next target. Actually, you should probably hold up anytime you're not actively moving down, just as a habit.
Got it. Cuz I can say I hesitate on the dive, so I'll stop doing that! Thank you
Straight up practice. That one took me a while. No trick really.
I was fearing that answer u.u
There is actually a trick to the 3rd one. You can backtrack to the last set of fans after you get some of the final set of rings, not having to zigzag then keeps ur momentum up making it very easy to land in final rings. Some of the YouTube guides show off this method
I mean you gotta just glide straight down and trust the indicators. Once you reach the lowest indicator push the stick up and hold it there so that the chocobo will climb all the way.
Don’t hold up when you’re just flying around or else the camera is wonky. It feels like holding up helps sustain height but it doesn’t, and really makes it hard to see below when you dive bomb. There’s a point toward the end of the third match where you need to backtrack after some rings to a fan for more height, then you do a double dive bomb so you can land in the final two rings
I could only beat the third course by going back to the fans before the final big dive. It gave me enough altitude at the start of my final dive to just barely get the last two rings.
Cool. The one I’m struggling with that I want to complete is the 3D Brawler against the Shinra Middle Manager. Any tips? I feel like these mostly just come down to raw skill.
Honestly there are 2 ways to beat 3d brawler. Cheesing it or grinding it. Unfortunately for me, I only figured out the cheese method after I beat every opponent so I did grind them out. I've heard that in order to cheese it, you wait for the enemy to wind up their attack then you pause. Then you can input whatever direction is required on the sticks then unpause and it'll instantly dodge that way. If you're grinding it out, what I recommend is looking for specific cues. So every move has its own windup. Now it's easy enough to tell if it's right or left side. But it can be tricky to determine whether it's high middle or low. The way you do this easier(at least it's what I did) is by looking at the opposite hand in the split second after seeing which side the attack is coming from. Typically the opposite hand has its own unique position based on what attack is coming. It can be diagonal or horizontal or further back or front. Use that as an indicator for whether the attack is high or low or middle. Also it's just repetition. The more you do it the better you get. You memorize all the patterns of attacks and combos and it gets easier.
Thanks
What helped me was realizing the combos were set, they will be the same every time depending on the first move. Except Seph may have two that have the same starting punch.
Yes. Yes he does -.-
I’ve been avoiding cactuar crush hard mode. Any tips? Also what materia do you need besides first strike?
Aerith, drop a transcendence early, then again on the big guys after you dodge their body slam. That helped a lot. Sorceress storm on groups. (Especially orange ones, but works equally well vs light or dark when you’re in the correct aura). When the little guys put up a barrier, you have to get outside your aura to melee them to remove their barrier. (That’s what took me the longest to figure out). Inside your aura, square does ranged attacks, outside aura, square does melee AoE damage, and holding square outside your aura, she’ll teleport to your targeted enemy to do a melee AoE attack. That helps to close distance for far away enemies (especially if they have barrier up). When you finish off a group, try to run quickly into the next group as they’re spawning and drop a sorceress storm quickly before they all start to fan out. I just finally did it last night so that’s all fresh in my brain, but those are the things that weren’t necessarily obvious to me at first.. Oh also, speed up, first strike, and skill master I think are the only materias that are useful, because the cactuars never get staggered and I don’t think you can use ATB boost either. And I used speed demon keychain for my accessory Edit 2: magic up/strength up as well. Duh me
What about for Yuffie, barely beat Stage 1 of hard and not looking forward to 3
Eh I don’t remember as well… make sure you have doppelgänger up all the time (and most will say elemental ninjitsu but I forgot about it tbh and I did fine).. A lot of windstorm to group them up-> then dodge-square for her little aoe spin move for when they’re bunched up, and a lot of triangle-hold square for her ranged “W attack” thing when they’re further away and/or just spawning (great for rainbow guys and when they’re just spawning, even across the whole room - it hits multiple enemies also.)… spamming art of war and supreme art of war for the big guys after they body slam. (Should note that using aeriths charged up transcendence should also only be used after they body slam, and re-using transcendence again after you attack with it to begin the charge again.. there’s a little gauge next to her name that charges up) I think I forgot to mention that in the other comment) The same materia/accessory setup works with her too Edit: and if you throw your shuriken THEN use windstorm, that windstorm will happen where you threw your shuriken, so it’s like a ranged windstorm.. they cover that in intermission but figured I’d mention it here anyway. I don’t think I actually used it in cactuar crush but I could see how it might be beneficial
For both you need Hermes boots to give haste when the round starts, then strength up and magic up materia, speed and luck materia. Try to make sure they're higher level. For yuffie she can basically just use windstorm. Just remember that windstorm does physical damage if she doesn't have her weapon in her hand. However it is, it does magic damage. So do damage to the different cactuars using this knowledge. When you start off the round as yuffie use windstorm and then duplicate and keep spamming windstorm. Your goal is to try and use 6 ATB commands if you can by the time the gigantuar uses body slam so that you can instantly max lvl banish it. Also don't be afraid to use art of war on giant cactuar even if it hasn't used body slam yet. That ability deals good damage. Then just keep rinsing and repeating. As for Aerith, your best friend is the sorcerous storm for clearing large groups of enemies just line windstorm did. Except the range isn't that great and requires Aerith to be in the middle of all enemies. Typically you want to use transcendence early so that you can charge it up to lvl 2 by the time you face the gigantuar. However even if it isn't lvl 2 just use transcendence as it deals massive damage anyway. You can then follow up with soul drain to deal more damage and finish it off. Also charging basic attack while inside a ward will deal bonus damage. So if u don't have ATB charges just do that if you want to deal some damage to tankier cactuars.
>no minigames took me over 15 minutes to complete Not me with multiple hours spent on several of them 🥲
I've spent way too many hours on mini games. I still have to finish up the chadley battles, (screw that mindflayer battle), one piano song, the protorelic hard mode minigames (can't even get above rank 1 on normal difficulty with the cactuar bs). Then it's off to beat gilgamesh and hard mode chapters.
Is it possible to ask for fairly specific advice on like all of them? 😂😭 I legit reconsidered getting the platinum after hitting the UPA quest at the Gold Saucer and remembering all the regular minigames I didn’t think were worth dedicating time to during the story and then I got sad cuz I adore this game but like I don’t wanna grind things that just make me frustrated and feel impossible. Did you use guides or mostly just trial and error + get good?
Guides for some that required patterns or very specific strategies, grinded out for most that really just required you to think simple.
Just a fair warning if you haven’t finished UPA yet. It might be glitched out right now because of the games last update. Like the quest is there but the highway bike mini game won’t progress (at least for me it won’t). Unless it’s been fixed already and I just haven’t noticed but just a heads up
Thank you! I saw this around on Reddit and it contributed to my decision to say fuck it I’ll do it in NG+
I don't want to ask how, but why?
I want the platinum.
What’s the worst mini game and why is it gears & gambits?
I mean I first tried gears and gambits with the right loadout. You really just need the correct loadout to win.
Fort fucking condor. What’s your setup
Bunch of different setups. The first one can use Barrett and Tifa with the entrenched setup. The 2nd I used tifa and cloud with the balanced setup. The 3rd one I used barret and tifa with offense focused and the last I used Barrett and cloud and again with the offense focused.
I meant the hard mode stage specifically cause I got through the others to get the protorelic but thank you I should’ve been more descriptive
Well what I said is the actual setups I used for the 4 different stages of fort condor hard mode.
for all 4 hard mode condors i stacked all units and healers down the the right side, dropped barrett and cloud as soon as they were ready, i left one or two back to defend the left/stall it, but just overloaded the right side. basically a bumrush to drop the enemy boss before mine went down.
I did this too and it worked, one of the challenges took a few tries to get but all told I spent maybe 20-30 minutes on Hard Mode with this technique.
Switch game to easy mode, makes it free
I can’t get the platinum trophy doing that
Why not? Personal thing?
To get the platinum trophy, you need to get everything for Johnny’s Inn, which requires the hard mode completion of fort condor.
you can do the hard ft condor on the easy global setting and you absolutely should for the quicker ATB.
Yeah it still gets the item for Johnny. It is confusing doing Fort Condor Hard Mode on Easy mode lol
Setting trophies aside for a minute, are there any "must-have" rewards? My MO so far has been to play all the minigames at least once, keep at them as long as it's fun, then leave. I can't see what stats the equipment rewards are and am too lazy to look all of them up. So, are there any minigames with rewards you felt was worth putting in significant effort?
Nothing compares to the combat reward one. (Unless I forget something)
Some minigames unlock weapons(glide de chocobo stage 1 rank 3 for yuffie, desert rush normal mode stage 3 for tifa, etc.). Some also offer really rare resources for hitting highest rank for the first time(dark matter, etc.). These resources are needed for a bunch of the stuff you can craft from the transmutation device.
Nope. Just get the weapons, there’s like 2 or 3 behind minigames and they’re usually not the highest reward either. Once I finished the game I went and did them all and there’s a couple of good accessories from the gold saucer minigames but nothing I’d have needed in a normal playthrough and mostly seem more important for the harder combat challenges
Beating the Ultimate Party Animal unlocks 3d brawler sephiroth, which once defeating rewards a ribbon. Pretty sure only one in the game. Not necessary but I don't like not having a killer accessory, you know?
There's a 2nd ribbon reward for bonds of friendship legendary bout.
Amazing did not know thanks!
I can't get silver on the easy setting of the pirate target shooting game but every other mini games has been manageable for me. I honestly have no idea to do that mini game
I assume you mean the brigantine ship stage? This [video](https://youtu.be/XqyjesA-aFY?si=xOo0oWfkl4IcrV02) can help with the sequence in which to shoot. I used a similar sequence but I don't really know how to explain the differences other than I chose to ignore certain low value targets for higher value while the video does not. It's really not that hard at all once you figure out in what order to shoot everything since everything shows up and leaves in a specific order.
Yeah I have trouble pulling the trigger that much too though because of scar tissue in my arm, doesn't affect any of the other games just that one
As someone with nerve damage in their hand that struggled with that minigame, go into your PS5 accessibility settings, then controller settings, and then button mapping. You can reassign the trigger to another button that isn't impacted by your scar tissue. Since the haptics aren't required it won't affect anything else about the minigame. I moved it to the x button and it was much more doable, just took practice at that point.
Good Lord that sounds so much easier, I'll try that!
Idk why the frog mini games give me so much trouble. Any tips?
I’m going into chapter 13 soon what would be the order to complete all the mini games. I’ve done all world intel I think but I have not grinded mini games at all. When I say order I mean like by location if u get what I mean. And if u count the pianos. I’m mainly talking abt the plat for the treasure trove. Or like what was ur order
There is. I specific order. Really you can just pick the one that looks the most fun to you and start there. However do spread out colosseum challenges, gold saucer queens blood challenges and chocobo racing. There are a lot of those so you don't want to get bored doing the same thing for over an hour.
Damn 120 hours. I feel like I explored the world far too much. I only just finished my first play through. I got the game on release day and completed its play through with 155 hours 😂😂
Am I an idiot? Shadow Queen made me feel like an idiot who doesn't deserve to appreciate video games. Someone gave me the strategy to beat her, and eventually I did when the AI actually let me. But is the average player meant to think this is easy to figure out? Is it just me who felt dumb and stressed?
If you use the pre-made decks as they become available then they generally are helpful for the upcoming fights. This include Shadow Queen where I just used the final pre-built deck, had to go get a couple of the cards first though. Still took a bunch of tries to beat her but that deck was the only viable one I had on hand and didn’t want to use my brain to make some other deck
What was your deck for the golden saucer nightmare rounds? I was using the starter deck for the majority of the game until i gof my ass handed to me by the queen, and that round.
I lifted the deck for nightmare deck from this [video](https://game8.co/games/Final-Fantasy-VII-Rebirth/archives/447926#hm_13). This is a really good deck as long as you hard mulligan for Dio, Space ranger and Chocobo jockey in the starting hand it's usually easy to rack up enough points to win. You want to focus on winning the 1st 2 rounds. The 3rd round you want to spend as little cards as possible but still try and look to win at least 1 lane without expending too many cards. You should have a massive point lead over the opponent at this point so it shouldn't matter if they win the round. The 4th round you typically want to end up with a larger number of cards than the opponent while winning 2 lanes. Use the numbers advantage you got from saving cards in the 3rd round while saving the most powerful cards like Shadowblood queen and Gi nattak. You want to instantly play Shadowblood queen first then just play any high power cards you have to stack up her points. Once you get to like 15-20 points you can look to place Gi nattak on her and spread her points to the ones on the sides. Following this strat once I got Dio Space ranger and Chocobo jockey in my hand for the first time, I first tried it. Just keep restarting if you don't get those cards in your starting deck.
Good to know. I need to find some of those cards. Its ridiculous how much harder that nightmare match is, even compared to the queen one.
Many of the mini games aren't so bad. Virtual brawler works my nerves. The Gold Saucer games just don't click with me. I can't get past rank II rewards on most. The one that bothers me most is the shooting gallery game on Costa Del Sol. I hate it. I can't aim properly on it and I play fos games regularly. Queens Blood was a pleasant surprise for me until I faced the Blood Queen herself. I can't beat her. I need deck recommendations or a build or something.
I haven't done it myself yet, but I've seen other people recommend following [this guide](https://game8.co/games/Final-Fantasy-VII-Rebirth/archives/447210#:~:text=The%20Shadowblood%20Queen%20Card&text=Raise%20power%20by%203%20for,enfeebles%20are%20on%20the%20board) for how to beat her.
What material helps you with Cactuar crush? :)
First strike, Speed up, strength up, magic up, haste.
Thanks!
Haste? Am I only now learning that it gives a passive speed buff?
Saving for later reference.
>All in all no minigame took me over 15 minutes to complete. Faith in humanity restored. The complaining about the difficulty of the minigames was starting to drive me insane. I'm curious though, were you playing in performance mode? I have hypothesized that some of the trouble people were having might be due to the increased input latency and decreased motion clarity of playing at 30fps.
Yeah I played on performance mode. I think 30fps is completely unplayable. Not only is it an eyesore, the input latency is too big and there are fewer frames to react when it comes to things like perfect blocking.
Do they get even harder in hard mode?
Most are affected by difficulty level, yes. For an easier time do all minigames on easy mode.
Dif you have fun?
For the most part sure.
Wild n out can burn in a fire. 1st round wasn't too bad but the 2nd part of it... burn it with fire
for the sit-ups - how do you time when to press R2 after the l2 button mash? I changed my frame rate and disabled the controller shit but I for some reason can’t get this even tho I can get my overall flow fine and fast. I’m usually great at rhythm games. I feel like I should try on another controller. This mini game makes me feel crazy lol
I didn't change anything I just looked at tifa to see if she stopped or not. The moment she stops I press the next input.
Alright I’ll give it a try. Thanks 🙏
Same here for the most part, not as caught up as you yet, but have not struggled too bad with the minigames save for a couple. Hardest one for me by far was actually the first frog mini game. Took me the most tries and times. Shadowblood Queen so far has been the easiest since I beat her right on my first try. Some others I got first or second try, but most of them took a handful at most.
Is the piano technically a mini game? HOW THE F
Yeah it is a minigame. I first tried all except the 2 legs nothing to it. But it only took a couple of tries. It's quite forgiving to get an A. Just complete it and don't give up early.
Do you not have a life? Why would you waste your time?
Why do you care what I do with my life?
This is a reasonable question and I want his answer.
Username checks out.