Bro, on behalf of myself and everybody in the comments section, THANK YOU! I’ve watched so many guides on how to do this and yours was easily the best and most detailed. You deserve so many more likes/views. Thanks again man!
after 5-6 hours over 2 days, THANK YOU!!! i watched a handful of guides but i felt like yours had the best advice. i made it with 12 balloons, 0 birds, and about 34 seconds. it's SO RNG BASED it's crazy.. it just takes a LOT of patience and a crap ton of luck. it was a miracle i managed to dodge so many birds at the end. to those attempting this, don't give up!!
Watched your video... implemented everything... and literally got it on my 3rd try 😅 Got 3 balloons in phase one and gave up mentally,,, then in phase two it just seemed like magic. This saved me so much time! Thank you. ♥️
Oh my God, thank you so much for this walkthrough. After trying for over an hour I watched your video, and after a couple more tries I finally got it! 18 balloons and 3 birds!
First time trying this, went straight to a guide before starting because of how notorious this minigame is. 15 tries, aced it. Appreciate the advice!!!
Not just that but the majority of the time you can't focus on one balloon without a bird deciding to come your way every chance they get. The lack of freedom of movement makes it feel like you're on some kind of track with an invisible barrier which is really stupid
Thank you so much! For everyone trying - don't get angry! Put on an easygoing tv show or something and keep going. You will get tons of horrendous runs but that's just the RNG
I spent the last two days trying to do this and couldn't do it after getting close 1.05 a few times. But after watching your guide I got into on my second attempt so thank you. The run I got it on I didn't even think I would have beaten it giving my frustration from before. Don't quit and take breaks because doing it over and over when you are frustrated will make it worse, RNG!
Omfg thank you bro! I literally attempted this for days straight, watched your video and my very first attempt after I got it! I think the key is not getting greedy. You only need 4 in each section and the first section has no birds. Get four and then play safe till the next.
The direction advice on Phase 2 and 3 is really interesting. I always found that dodging right works best, but I might have not paid enough attention in Phase 3.
Yeah it's really interesting how quickly you're able to dodge birds right out of no where, just by knowing what direction to use. Good to see you doing well man!
I don't think I'd get the sigil if I hadn't been told which direction to run in Phase 2 and 3. I would have just done the same direction for each. This was great to watch for the help!
When I played through on the PS2 first time it took me about five and a half hours to complete it. Everything you say is correct this mainly takes patience and knowing for a fact that it will not be done in a short amount of time. My quickest is 15 minutes but that's only happened once, my other six playthroughs took at least 45 minutes
This was the best guide on the internet. Thanks to these tips, i was able to get a time of 1 second. I'll be honest, i feel like the game is just too glitchy, too rigged, to really complete. Im just playing the race for fun at this point.
Fantastic guide!! I have probably watched 2 or 3 hours today ALONE on guides for getting the sigil... I feel like I am almost a master! Now I just need to try it again. I have been playing FFT the last half a year or more, with only a couple FFX playings of Blitzball only... I'll be a bit rusty regardless of the amazing guides and FFX (FF in general) community! Thank you for the guide!
Hey, thanks for the feedback! FFT is my absolute favorite guide, so I appreciate your taste. Hope to be able to pick up the walkthrough one day soon to finish it up.
I was honestly ready to give up on this, your tips really helped. My advice to people is don’t give up, it’s frustrating, the controls are awful and it feels unfair. But you will get that ideal run and it will happen for you
I had this playing while trying again on the chocobo race and 2 minutes into the video, I finally did it. 14 balloons and 1 bird. I've decided that this video was a good luck charm 😊
I did it thanks to your guide, it's the BEST one out there! What helped was to understand the dodging mechanics in different phases and that the birds will target the trainer and you alternatively. That helped me to not worry and collect balloons when the trainer was targeted. Got really lucky and had 15 balloons and 2 hits at 28 seconds, yet got the 0.00! THANK YOU!
Just spent two days of my life… felt the desire to throw controller, ps5… finally did it to this video, guys mute the volume… it worked for me… this was one of the worst experiences of my life, but I wanted more..pain
I wouldn't say dodging 200 lightning bolts was "hard" per say. Just a test of endurance. The timing for pressing X was easy enough. My issue was finding a spot where the thunderbolt strike rate was consistent. After that, I wound up doing 50 dodge increments, taking breaks in between, and got it after like 20 minutes.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!!!!! I had been trying for days.....after watching this video, it took me 6 times, but I got it!!! thank you thank you thank you!!
Legit this video is a blessing you deserve to be knighted sir. On forums it’s just people saying “it’s not a fun or good mini game mostly luck based, get good at it and maybe in a few hours you’ll get it” or “I can do it Every time with my eyes closed using a guitar hero controller I’m a gift from god to all, square blessed us when making this mini game. Get good”
omg i did it! thank you for this guide! this was the only guide that actually explained how to do this well. this minigame's controls/mechanics are so garbage, so it was rough to do it, even with a guide. but thank you!
What a great comment to see. Thank you for your kind words and I'm really glad that it helped you so much! Quick question for you...are there any other types of guides for Final Fantasy X that you would really appreciate? Some of the harder things for myself as a player, is relatively "easy." which is why I made this guide to begin with. I actually completed the Chocobo Race about 6 times before finally making this video as an example heh.
JRPG Mickey - Walkthroughs & Guides well tbh, this is my first ever playthrough of the game. So there are many things I don’t fully know yet. Guides for superbosses, or a guide showing how to obtain each celestial weapon would prob help me, and many others out. That’s just a couple ideas I can think of. Haha! I’m currently on a binge of a bunch of the FF games, so actually once I beat FFX + the super bosses, I’m moving to FF12 then FF15 after as well, haha! Personally, there aren’t enough good/easy to follow guides for many of the final fantasy games, so any of the FF games might be a good idea to do guides/vids on 🙂
@@jacobtridef48 I would suggest playing ffx-2 man. It's kind of a really bad plot / story... But it's pretty unanimous in how FUN the game is. I've played all Final Fantasy games, and above all else FFX-2 shines brightly. Just a suggestion. And thank you for your insight! I'm gonna keep this in mind!
JRPG Mickey - Walkthroughs & Guides JRPG Mickey - Walkthroughs & Guides Ngl, compared to something like FF9’s story, FF10 isnt nearly as good imo. But 10’s gameplay is far better. So if X-2’s gameplay is good enough, it can def make up for bad/mediocre storytelling. Gotta love some fun gameplay, regardless 😁 haha! I’ll def try X-2 before I move to 12 then. Cuz X-2 came with my X Copy anyway. But np man. Ty for the game suggestion, I’ll def give it a go after X is complete.
Bless you man. Sunday is my only day off and I'm still in chapter 14 in Remake but tomorrow I'm going to go back to X after frame by framing this a couple times. I'll come back and let you know if it worked
I tried for a couple hours last week and I got around 20 seconds every time the rng was bad and 9 seconds every time it was good. Im going to try for a couple hours again in a bit but honestly I'm thinking that once you reach an age where your reflexes are slowing down it's not possible anymore.
@@JRPG-Mickey nah. I gave up a month ago. 4 seconds was the best I ever got. Now I'm playing FF9 and I'm stuck at the beginning with 98 Nobles 😆. And people are telling me to go buy a CRT TV just to get the 100%. Thanks for making this video though, but I'm going to have to accept that I can't get Platinum trophies anymore.
was watching this and doing it as you said "if you get hit twice scrap it unless you had a stellar phase" hit by 2 birds at the end. 0.00 time. Fucking alright clearly you are a lucky charm my dude
I am attempting this and I have to say that it’s not a hard mini game at all, just terrible controls. All around the game has terrible controls, but it only really becomes apparent when precision becomes necessary and on the back of a chocobo it feels like a shopping cart with one jank wheel.
I would rather do the lighting dodge 1000 times in a row using the crater trick rather than the 0.0 chocobo race. I am just so bad at the race but so good at lighting dodge at the same time.
Great video! I think I'll give this horrible mini game an other chance in a few days... when my nerves are cooled down a bit. Quit the game in furios rage after 2 hours of pure frustration...
I spent about 1 1/2 hours last night trying this. During lunch on my work setup(steam deck with ps5 controller, earbuds, and nreal glasses. Cannot recommend enough. I crack my windows and play for an hour a day where the misses can’t get mad at me) I booted it up to go to Remiem for the aeon fights. I decide to try the race a couple of times. I get it first try. I shit you not. It was super close but I had a perfect start, had a near perfect 2nd part, and did well on the 3rd part. I think it was something like 3 birds 15 balloons. I don’t think I could have cut it closer.
To this very day this is the only section of a game EVER to push me to the brink of my sanity. And what’s infuriating is it’s essential to beat for the ultimate weapon
managed to get to 0:00:9 after watching this video... now stuck again, as if the game realized I found a good method and now is going against it. -_- Edit: Noticing how I can't keep going further like the AI is learning, I restarted from my last checkpoint and finally managed to get 0:00:00 after three tries. So thank you so much, yours really is the most helpfull guide.... still screw this brokken ass minigame. I feel like square forgot the difference between challenging and "have no life" Not sure why they even made this game the way it is: Like at least give free movement of the cocobo, insert a dodge button or at least give an option to go into a menu and restart the game instantly, when you realize you can't win anymore, instead of having to go the whole thing to the end. Actually a lot of the minigames in this game are just horrible and again, No idea how none of them where fixed during the remasters.
THKS SO MUCH, after only 3 hours I did 35/36 seconds with 12 balloons and 0 bird :D (I didn't even have a good rng to begin with but the trainer was doing shit at the start and let me take the balloons x') )
excellent guide. thank you. any chance of finishing the ffx playthru? I've been thru the game four or five times and seem to get more out of it each time.
Your final run had 3 balloons in phase 1 but then you got 6-7 in phase 2 lol. Trainer was hit twice at the start and a total of 8 times. So you already had 9-10 balloons approaching phase 3 with the trainer having no hope whatsoever of interfering Its what we call good RNG
Ok so I listened to this 3 times thru on spotty connection and after like 50ish attempts I absentmindedly got -4 seconds what in the absolute fuck Thank you man
It is C.O.M.P.L.E.T.E.L.Y RNG based. 0% skill Why ? Because balloons change spots every race randomly, birds won't let you aim et them, and the chocobo handling is a freaking nightmare. That's the kind of trial you'll only succeed once then fail a thousand time again before you actually manage to succeed again. That's how badly designed this total shit is.
Hate to be that guy, but once you learn how to get past the first section with RNG it’s a breeze. You just have to be okay with resetting over and over until u get the right start. Also after u make the hard right in phase 1, bounce off the invisible wall to take the second turn.
For me the absolute worst part about this challenge was when I finally hit 0 seconds I didn't even get the Sun Sigil. Why? Because it turned out I had already completed the challenge and received it but after hundreds of attempts, playing day to night my brain was mush so I never registered that I already completed it and wasted so much time all for nothing...
I hate this mini game, I got stun locked on the finish and had to turn off the console. Gave up last night, but think I've put 3 or 4 hrs into trying this
I can't consistently get more than 8 balloons total, nor can I consistently dodge the birds. My typical run is 6 balloons and 4 birds, and I've been at this for 5 hours now.
A few other tricks: if you hug the right shadow as you're coming to the second turn, the birds targeting you cannot turn quickly enough to actually hit you. Same if you take the little separated jag on the left at the end of section 3.
It’s an amazing game but developers got sloppy and designed poor mini games just to come back and say you must beat these mini games to acquire key items for the strongest weapons in the game. For me personally I feel it’s a slap in the face, just my personal opinion.
I have a savegame wich is 2 years old without knowing it. I was so glad, that I dont have to play the whole game again and collect all the stuff again. With a smile a startet the savegame and now I see where I was and what will I say? I dont smile any longer.
This would be great if the birds didnt turn into FUCKING HOMING MISSILES!!! I dont know how many times I have literally witnessed them make a sharp turn into me at the last second when It was going to be a surefire miss
Or my chocobo will randomly turn into one when im not even close to a wall. Ill be holding right or left in the middle of the lane and all of a sudden itll just turn the opposite way right quick
I find the person who had uploaded 2-3 minute video claiming how easy it was and where they apparently beat it twice in said video with no commenting and for whatever reason I can't seem to believe that they weren't cheating in someway as the chocobo was being controlled perfectly and I mean perfectly no errors him getting 90% of all balloons and next to no bird spawning for him am I crazy for thinking he cheating somehow?
update: woke up, about 30 minutes of racing in, I got it! 35.3, 15 Balloons! 1 Bird, -6.7!, I was so tilted yesterday after going at it for hours! Great advice, breaking it down into phases really helped conceptualize what I had to do in each section to get a good time.
When he said that first part was mostly RNG and not your fault, I found myself tearing up in frustration
*Will Hunting intensifies*
Bro, on behalf of myself and everybody in the comments section, THANK YOU! I’ve watched so many guides on how to do this and yours was easily the best and most detailed. You deserve so many more likes/views. Thanks again man!
I really appreciate the feedback. Thank you very much for letting me know. Super glad that this helped ya!
@@JRPG-Mickey3 to 5 hours in I finally got the damn trophy. Your a fucking lifesaver my man. Great video.
after 5-6 hours over 2 days, THANK YOU!!! i watched a handful of guides but i felt like yours had the best advice. i made it with 12 balloons, 0 birds, and about 34 seconds. it's SO RNG BASED it's crazy.. it just takes a LOT of patience and a crap ton of luck. it was a miracle i managed to dodge so many birds at the end. to those attempting this, don't give up!!
When the trainer gets 0 seconds and you almost rage quit
Dude you SAVED MY LIFE!!! This was the most helpful guide I’ve found yet and I did it!
Love seeing comments like this!
I know it was three months ago but I remember that exact feeling, congratulations
out of all the chocobo racing guides, i think this is the best one
I really appreciate that man! Thank you!
I feel some kind of relief knowing that it isn't entirely my fault that those dumb birds won't get out of my way! lol once again, great work!
Been trying for hours. Watching your video while trying, and got that perfect. Thanks for the tips. It helped a lot..
Watched your video... implemented everything... and literally got it on my 3rd try 😅 Got 3 balloons in phase one and gave up mentally,,, then in phase two it just seemed like magic.
This saved me so much time! Thank you. ♥️
Oh my God, thank you so much for this walkthrough. After trying for over an hour I watched your video, and after a couple more tries I finally got it! 18 balloons and 3 birds!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I struggled with the Chocobo Race for 2 days. Your guide was spot on. Thank you!!!!!!
First time trying this, went straight to a guide before starting because of how notorious this minigame is. 15 tries, aced it. Appreciate the advice!!!
Being easier to dodge to the left and right is a great tip, of only that didn't make me miss every single balloon on the course
Not just that but the majority of the time you can't focus on one balloon without a bird deciding to come your way every chance they get. The lack of freedom of movement makes it feel like you're on some kind of track with an invisible barrier which is really stupid
@@Zonefire15and it’s a jagged invisible barrier with corners and spots that you won’t be able to predict this is painful
Thank you so much! For everyone trying - don't get angry! Put on an easygoing tv show or something and keep going. You will get tons of horrendous runs but that's just the RNG
I spent the last two days trying to do this and couldn't do it after getting close 1.05 a few times. But after watching your guide I got into on my second attempt so thank you.
The run I got it on I didn't even think I would have beaten it giving my frustration from before. Don't quit and take breaks because doing it over and over when you are frustrated will make it worse, RNG!
Omfg thank you bro! I literally attempted this for days straight, watched your video and my very first attempt after I got it! I think the key is not getting greedy. You only need 4 in each section and the first section has no birds. Get four and then play safe till the next.
The direction advice on Phase 2 and 3 is really interesting. I always found that dodging right works best, but I might have not paid enough attention in Phase 3.
Yeah it's really interesting how quickly you're able to dodge birds right out of no where, just by knowing what direction to use. Good to see you doing well man!
I don't think I'd get the sigil if I hadn't been told which direction to run in Phase 2 and 3. I would have just done the same direction for each. This was great to watch for the help!
Watched this after hours of trying, and just nailed it. Kudos!👏
When I played through on the PS2 first time it took me about five and a half hours to complete it. Everything you say is correct this mainly takes patience and knowing for a fact that it will not be done in a short amount of time. My quickest is 15 minutes but that's only happened once, my other six playthroughs took at least 45 minutes
This was the best guide on the internet. Thanks to these tips, i was able to get a time of 1 second. I'll be honest, i feel like the game is just too glitchy, too rigged, to really complete. Im just playing the race for fun at this point.
FINALLY BEAT THIS! 12 BALLOONS WITH NO BIRDS HIT AT 34 SECONDS, MUCH ANGER WAS THROWN OUT AT THIS
Congrats! Glad you took this hell raiser down!
It is quite ironic that this mini game is in Calm Lands.
The story talks about how many summoners give up their pilgrimage at this point. This game is probably why haha
Great tips! I remember getting stuck on this for hours.
Thanks D! I really enjoy making guides, so hopefully this can help some people out.
Thank you!! The balloons target count is what helped me out. Lol got it in 3 tries. Only because the balloons spawned in my favor
Fantastic guide!! I have probably watched 2 or 3 hours today ALONE on guides for getting the sigil... I feel like I am almost a master! Now I just need to try it again. I have been playing FFT the last half a year or more, with only a couple FFX playings of Blitzball only... I'll be a bit rusty regardless of the amazing guides and FFX (FF in general) community! Thank you for the guide!
Hey, thanks for the feedback! FFT is my absolute favorite guide, so I appreciate your taste. Hope to be able to pick up the walkthrough one day soon to finish it up.
@@JRPG-Mickey I hope so! FFT and FFX are great games to guide people on!
I was honestly ready to give up on this, your tips really helped. My advice to people is don’t give up, it’s frustrating, the controls are awful and it feels unfair. But you will get that ideal run and it will happen for you
thank you so much! i watched this video yesterday and got 0.0s today. thank you so much!
HELL YES!
11 hours of gameplay later... I did it. Thanks man, wouldn't have happened without this video!
I just wanted to thank you man I FINALLY did this mini game and got Tidus ultimate weapon so stoked
yeah this is impossible lmao the chocobbo ALWAYS runs towards the birds and AWAY from the ballons. impossible to beat
I had this playing while trying again on the chocobo race and 2 minutes into the video, I finally did it. 14 balloons and 1 bird. I've decided that this video was a good luck charm 😊
Brooo your guide actually worked! I finally got it! 🙌
I did it thanks to your guide, it's the BEST one out there! What helped was to understand the dodging mechanics in different phases and that the birds will target the trainer and you alternatively. That helped me to not worry and collect balloons when the trainer was targeted. Got really lucky and had 15 balloons and 2 hits at 28 seconds, yet got the 0.00! THANK YOU!
Finally did it! Great video! Very calming! Thanks!
WOW THE ANALYSIS, THANK YOU BRO!
Excellent video man, it really help me. However there is a huge luck factor, it took me almost 8h of gameplay to finally get the sigil.
Just spent two days of my life… felt the desire to throw controller, ps5… finally did it to this video, guys mute the volume… it worked for me… this was one of the worst experiences of my life, but I wanted more..pain
You ended up getting the 0:00!? That's awesome! Not sure if the guide helped or not, but awesome to know you got it!
I wouldn't say dodging 200 lightning bolts was "hard" per say. Just a test of endurance. The timing for pressing X was easy enough. My issue was finding a spot where the thunderbolt strike rate was consistent. After that, I wound up doing 50 dodge increments, taking breaks in between, and got it after like 20 minutes.
LITERALLY FINISHED IT JUST HAVING WATCHED, GREAT VID G
Oh my frakken god!!! I just did it!!! FINALLY AFTERB20 YEARS!!! thx you helped a lot.
I got this on like the 5th try after watching the video, legend!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!!!!! I had been trying for days.....after watching this video, it took me 6 times, but I got it!!! thank you thank you thank you!!
Legit this video is a blessing you deserve to be knighted sir. On forums it’s just people saying “it’s not a fun or good mini game mostly luck based, get good at it and maybe in a few hours you’ll get it” or “I can do it Every time with my eyes closed using a guitar hero controller I’m a gift from god to all, square blessed us when making this mini game. Get good”
Finally done it after taking a short break! Thanks for the tips 🙏
Hint - hold down left during phase 3
My chocobo watched "it" because he runs from the red balloons and he sings "i like a bird"
Best Video about this Challenge! Thanks
omg i did it! thank you for this guide! this was the only guide that actually explained how to do this well. this minigame's controls/mechanics are so garbage, so it was rough to do it, even with a guide. but thank you!
What a great comment to see. Thank you for your kind words and I'm really glad that it helped you so much!
Quick question for you...are there any other types of guides for Final Fantasy X that you would really appreciate? Some of the harder things for myself as a player, is relatively "easy." which is why I made this guide to begin with. I actually completed the Chocobo Race about 6 times before finally making this video as an example heh.
JRPG Mickey - Walkthroughs & Guides well tbh, this is my first ever playthrough of the game. So there are many things I don’t fully know yet. Guides for superbosses, or a guide showing how to obtain each celestial weapon would prob help me, and many others out. That’s just a couple ideas I can think of. Haha! I’m currently on a binge of a bunch of the FF games, so actually once I beat FFX + the super bosses, I’m moving to FF12 then FF15 after as well, haha! Personally, there aren’t enough good/easy to follow guides for many of the final fantasy games, so any of the FF games might be a good idea to do guides/vids on 🙂
@@jacobtridef48 I would suggest playing ffx-2 man. It's kind of a really bad plot / story... But it's pretty unanimous in how FUN the game is.
I've played all Final Fantasy games, and above all else FFX-2 shines brightly.
Just a suggestion. And thank you for your insight! I'm gonna keep this in mind!
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Ngl, compared to something like FF9’s story, FF10 isnt nearly as good imo. But 10’s gameplay is far better. So if X-2’s gameplay is good enough, it can def make up for bad/mediocre storytelling. Gotta love some fun gameplay, regardless 😁 haha! I’ll def try X-2 before I move to 12 then. Cuz X-2 came with my X Copy anyway.
But np man. Ty for the game suggestion, I’ll def give it a go after X is complete.
Bless you man. Sunday is my only day off and I'm still in chapter 14 in Remake but tomorrow I'm going to go back to X after frame by framing this a couple times. I'll come back and let you know if it worked
keep at it man. Let me know if you got any questions.
I tried for a couple hours last week and I got around 20 seconds every time the rng was bad and 9 seconds every time it was good. Im going to try for a couple hours again in a bit but honestly I'm thinking that once you reach an age where your reflexes are slowing down it's not possible anymore.
Any results?
@@JRPG-Mickey nah. I gave up a month ago. 4 seconds was the best I ever got. Now I'm playing FF9 and I'm stuck at the beginning with 98 Nobles 😆. And people are telling me to go buy a CRT TV just to get the 100%. Thanks for making this video though, but I'm going to have to accept that I can't get Platinum trophies anymore.
Mucho thanko got it for the first time ever with this guide
Thank you so much this was taking me hours watched this video and done it first time
was watching this and doing it as you said "if you get hit twice scrap it unless you had a stellar phase" hit by 2 birds at the end.
0.00 time.
Fucking alright clearly you are a lucky charm my dude
Hell yeah man!
I am attempting this and I have to say that it’s not a hard mini game at all, just terrible controls. All around the game has terrible controls, but it only really becomes apparent when precision becomes necessary and on the back of a chocobo it feels like a shopping cart with one jank wheel.
I would rather do the lighting dodge 1000 times in a row using the crater trick rather than the 0.0 chocobo race. I am just so bad at the race but so good at lighting dodge at the same time.
Great video! I think I'll give this horrible mini game an other chance in a few days... when my nerves are cooled down a bit. Quit the game in furios rage after 2 hours of pure frustration...
I spent about 1 1/2 hours last night trying this. During lunch on my work setup(steam deck with ps5 controller, earbuds, and nreal glasses. Cannot recommend enough. I crack my windows and play for an hour a day where the misses can’t get mad at me) I booted it up to go to Remiem for the aeon fights. I decide to try the race a couple of times. I get it first try. I shit you not. It was super close but I had a perfect start, had a near perfect 2nd part, and did well on the 3rd part. I think it was something like 3 birds 15 balloons. I don’t think I could have cut it closer.
El rayo es para principiantes comparada con está, Gracias monstruo me sirvió muchísimo !
To this very day this is the only section of a game EVER to push me to the brink of my sanity. And what’s infuriating is it’s essential to beat for the ultimate weapon
managed to get to 0:00:9 after watching this video... now stuck again, as if the game realized I found a good method and now is going against it. -_-
Edit: Noticing how I can't keep going further like the AI is learning, I restarted from my last checkpoint and finally managed to get 0:00:00 after three tries. So thank you so much, yours really is the most helpfull guide.... still screw this brokken ass minigame. I feel like square forgot the difference between challenging and "have no life"
Not sure why they even made this game the way it is: Like at least give free movement of the cocobo, insert a dodge button or at least give an option to go into a menu and restart the game instantly, when you realize you can't win anymore, instead of having to go the whole thing to the end.
Actually a lot of the minigames in this game are just horrible and again, No idea how none of them where fixed during the remasters.
THKS SO MUCH, after only 3 hours I did 35/36 seconds with 12 balloons and 0 bird :D (I didn't even have a good rng to begin with but the trainer was doing shit at the start and let me take the balloons x') )
thank u, i got it on my second try after this :)
Bro thank you so much the left and right dodging was fucking me all up
My boyfriend ended up doing it after many, many MANY tries. 13 balloons and no birds hitting. This minigame is not my favorite lol
Omg thank you so much. I was at my wits end with this stupid shit. I literally got it the first try after watching this. FINALLY!
I just got the achievement on steam! thank you
Hell yeah man, cheers!
excellent guide. thank you. any chance of finishing the ffx playthru? I've been thru the game four or five times and seem to get more out of it each time.
I do kind of wish the controls used the normal movement controls. It just feels off using the left and right buttons to course correct the chocobo.
Great guide watched it 3 mins and did it :)
Thank you my guy❕
Question who thought it was a good idea to have the chcobo race done with the d pad instead of the along stick
Your final run had 3 balloons in phase 1 but then you got 6-7 in phase 2 lol. Trainer was hit twice at the start and a total of 8 times. So you already had 9-10 balloons approaching phase 3 with the trainer having no hope whatsoever of interfering
Its what we call good RNG
Ahhh these kids today are discovering the pain we all went through 20 years ago
Yeeeessss let them FEEL the pain!
@@JRPG-Mickey IT BUILDS CHARACTER!!!
Ok so I listened to this 3 times thru on spotty connection and after like 50ish attempts I absentmindedly got -4 seconds what in the absolute fuck
Thank you man
It is C.O.M.P.L.E.T.E.L.Y RNG based.
0% skill
Why ?
Because balloons change spots every race randomly, birds won't let you aim et them, and the chocobo handling is a freaking nightmare.
That's the kind of trial you'll only succeed once then fail a thousand time again before you actually manage to succeed again.
That's how badly designed this total shit is.
What's funny is how when you use it normally it controls fine but then you race and you lose control of it
@@Zonefire15 right this is what I've been thinking what the fuck are they doing to these chocobos.
Hate to be that guy, but once you learn how to get past the first section with RNG it’s a breeze. You just have to be okay with resetting over and over until u get the right start. Also after u make the hard right in phase 1, bounce off the invisible wall to take the second turn.
For me the absolute worst part about this challenge was when I finally hit 0 seconds I didn't even get the Sun Sigil. Why? Because it turned out I had already completed the challenge and received it but after hundreds of attempts, playing day to night my brain was mush so I never registered that I already completed it and wasted so much time all for nothing...
Geez man. Stay strong. We'll get through this together.
your tips helped out alot thank you got it my third try :)
After this vídeo I've been tried for one week, and I just can't do it
I hate this mini game, I got stun locked on the finish and had to turn off the console. Gave up last night, but think I've put 3 or 4 hrs into trying this
Why doesn't anyone talk about the random movements of the chocobo. Sometimes i tap left and it goes right and vice versa.
Thanks for the great tips👍
I can't consistently get more than 8 balloons total, nor can I consistently dodge the birds. My typical run is 6 balloons and 4 birds, and I've been at this for 5 hours now.
A few other tricks: if you hug the right shadow as you're coming to the second turn, the birds targeting you cannot turn quickly enough to actually hit you. Same if you take the little separated jag on the left at the end of section 3.
It’s an amazing game but developers got sloppy and designed poor mini games just to come back and say you must beat these mini games to acquire key items for the strongest weapons in the game. For me personally I feel it’s a slap in the face, just my personal opinion.
… see I just had to vent my frustration out and I got 0 seconds… I will die on my hill still LMAO
I have a savegame wich is 2 years old without knowing it. I was so glad, that I dont have to play the whole game again and collect all the stuff again. With a smile a startet the savegame and now I see where I was and what will I say? I dont smile any longer.
Somehow got 14 balloons 0 birds after at least 5 to 8 hours over a few days…sweet release!!
Niiiiiice! Were these tips helpful to ya at all?
It’s so hard! You use dpad or joysticks?
Whoa wait what? The first two birds are specifically meant to target you?? I didn't know that
I finally did it thank you mickey
A friend of mine just did it and meant you have to technicly get below 0:00
The worst is when you do everything right and your 1.0 away
the best explain ever
This would be great if the birds didnt turn into FUCKING HOMING MISSILES!!! I dont know how many times I have literally witnessed them make a sharp turn into me at the last second when It was going to be a surefire miss
Or my chocobo will randomly turn into one when im not even close to a wall. Ill be holding right or left in the middle of the lane and all of a sudden itll just turn the opposite way right quick
Literally all the birds go for me and none go for the trainer. GG devs!
Thank you so much !
I find the person who had uploaded 2-3 minute video claiming how easy it was and where they apparently beat it twice in said video with no commenting and for whatever reason I can't seem to believe that they weren't cheating in someway as the chocobo was being controlled perfectly and I mean perfectly no errors him getting 90% of all balloons and next to no bird spawning for him am I crazy for thinking he cheating somehow?
Thanks for the guide, my new best score is 0.1 this has been bery helpful 😂😂(😂)
I did the first try after this video, you gave me luck man lol
Hell yes, what I like to hear!
Dude, I got the 0.00 time but I didn't get the sun sigil. What gives?
ending day 1 of doing this defeated with a 1.6 best, back to it tomorrow, this nightmare has added a whole days worth of playtime lol
update: woke up, about 30 minutes of racing in, I got it! 35.3, 15 Balloons! 1 Bird, -6.7!, I was so tilted yesterday after going at it for hours! Great advice, breaking it down into phases really helped conceptualize what I had to do in each section to get a good time.