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[Noctiluca]

You should play the game however you want. But if you've already spent the money on it, I don't see why you wouldn't want to get the most out of it. Is there really any rush to plow through it? Unless you just want to move on, in that case just beat it.

Except lightning dodging that's never worth it. Never.

[No.78]

It's weird how some people find lightning dodging harder than the race... Maybe it's something to do with different ways of thinking...

[ValiantKnight]

Well the race was moderately frustrating.. cause of the birds hitting me.

However the race has an much faster restart timer than the lightning would I imagine.

ie.. if you get to 50 bolts and have to start over(2-3minutes or more like 5-6?)... you've wasted alot more time than if you lost one race in the chocobo trainer course. (1minute~)

/shrug.

[Noctiluca]

I think the racing and lightning dodging hate/indifference comes down to which one you happened to get lucky at. I got lucky at racing and not so much with dodging lightning. I have frustration limits... and it's not high enough for both T_T

[No.78]

I dodged 200 lightning bolts in less time than it took me to get 3.3 secs on the race... Meh

[farplaner]

Geez. Neither of them are all that difficult. Tedious? Without a doubt, but not so difficult as many of you make it sound.

choco race: one of the five or six patterns of balloons that comes up allows you to get about five or six balloons before you turn the first corner, afterwards it's just a matter of coming at the balloons from angles that allow you to snatch them and also dodge the birds.

Lightening dodge: there is a place (a couple, actually- but one that I use) where the lightening strikes in a regular pattern, you can get Lulu's sigil in a matter of twenty minutes- if you don't decide to take a couple of breaks between.

Dodging the butterflies is not luck. The butterflies fly in a set pattern, back and forth. There are a couple of spots near the end of both dodges where it's a little tricky to see where the butterflies are in relation to the path, but once you try one or two spots, then by deduction the correct path must be that which you've not yet taken. Granted, you need to reach the trouble spot in roughly the same time in order to predict the position of the butterfly, but since the early part of the dodges are pretty easy that shouldn't be too difficult.

You're probably thinking by now, "surely he must be through blabbering" but no such luck! ...."blabber, blabber, blabber....etc., etc."

[tidus_rox]

I dont even know where to go to get to the race... so where is it?

[No.78]

Originally Posted by farplaner ^

Dodging the butterflies is not luck. The butterflies fly in a set pattern, back and forth. There are a couple of spots near the end of both dodges where it's a little tricky to see where the butterflies are in relation to the path, but once you try one or two spots, then by deduction the correct path must be that which you've not yet taken. Granted, you need to reach the trouble spot in roughly the same time in order to predict the position of the butterfly, but since the early part of the dodges are pretty easy that shouldn't be too difficult.

So that little part with like 4 butterflies together, I've tried many different ways of going through, running through the middle of the path, and each side... None of them work, Tidus always grabs a red one (the idiot)... Don't make sense ;_;