I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!
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I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!
Why is this thread pinned?
Moreover, why has it been pinned for five years?
because otherwise, the topic would be continusly asked by all the newbes out there, and the forum would be cluttered with the different threads, all giving the same advice.
I dunno, I stand in a "3 strike" area, I have no encounters on, I pause regularly. I am still nowhere near dodging 200 strikes. I have given up for now because it winds me up so much.
Actually I'm not convinced about putting on no encounters. Fighting fiends helps to break up the monotony and relax you. But not enough to help me. Guess my timing or concentration isnt good enough.
Cant believe the length of this thread!
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no encounters does help because then, it stops you getting into a battle just as a strike is about to hit, pushing the x button at the wrong time, and after the battle making you get hit by that bolt.
The best way to do it is to do 25 bolts, take a 15 minute break, 25 bolts etc, etc.
Ah, I see.
Anyway, this is easy. It's just monotonous and painful.
you don't need to break for 15 minutes, five minutes does just as good. It's not so much a time as a feeling. Conversing with someone helps, so don't do it at night when no one is awake.
i admit, that was a bit long, but the point is, you need to take a break once in a while.
What's the record for dodging lighting bolts? I did a quick search but couldn't find anything.
I'm wondering where my measly 641 continous dodges ranks. I probably could have done more if I only took a break somewhere when I was in the 500's.
Well I had another go, still without no encounters, but with the philosophy that every bolt I dodged over 30 was a bonus. With this in mind I avoided becoming tense (the battles also helped) and got to where I reckoned I had dodged over 100.
Unfortunately by that point I was not only suffering battle fatigue, but I was freaked out by the thought of how massive the tension would be as I approached 200 bolts. Instead of taking a rest, I just gave up and went back to the Travel Agency!
Somehow I don't think I will ever do it, but I am quite pleased with my total (of 120 bolts) which is an early game save so the 3 str and hp spheres actually made a difference.
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Ok, I've followed all of those tips except for turning the sound off. I'll do that. I'm pretty bad at this. It's probably my TV. It's an Insignia, and I've noticed on SNES things register like a fraction of a second slower maybe, so maybe that's the problem. Anybody know about hertz on TVs? Would an Insignia TV be why I'm bad at this? My record is 50, and I've only done that 2ce. I get hit alot even though I think I'm hitting x when it's flashing. It's very frustrating. I'm gonna use a different tv and see if that works.
Oh, Kimahri wasn't that bad. Tidus was really frustrating. After like 50 tries I finally was able to collect enough balloons while following the sidequests faq on gamefaqs and praying that the birds will have mercy on me. As for Kimahri, it's just memory of where to go and having the sound on doesn't hurt since it's relaxing music. But yeah there's some dim butterflies it's easy to mess up on and it took me a bunch of tries on both of them, but you can do it eventually. It's not just the dim butterflies, but it might take some tries to figure out where to go when you get the side-on view stupid camera angle, and also pray that you don't have to doubleback for a blue butterfly and also pray that the game does not register that you hit a red butterfly a couple steps away. But what makes Kimahri's sigil easier than Lulu's is that it's not like you have to dodge 200 red butterflies than start over if you don't make it.
As for Rikku, you don't need to catch all of the cactaurs, but I wanted to anyway for the friend sphere. I was afraid I'd have a hard time with them b/c of my TV but I was able to do it somehow with not too many re-do's.
I don't know what's wrong with my lightning dodging. Usually when I press X when there's a flash, it lets me dodge it, but I dunno, maybe the flashes are randomly faster than they're supposed to be, or sometimes I think it's because I have the analog stick foward. I'd be pretty angry at the game if it thought I was pressing X too much when the last time I pressed X was a couple seconds ago at the last bolt.
EDIT: I hooked up my PS2 to the other TV. Up to 50 no mistakes so far. Taking a break for a few minutes. I feel like I'm gonna make it this time! If I go any farther it'll be a personal record and I should make it.
EDIT: 138! NOOOOOO!!!!
EDIT: 231! Oh yeaaaah!!! Maybe it was the TV making it harder. Now, I just need to whine about Wakka.
my experience with this is dreadful
1st high score 123 missed
2nd high score 156 missed
3rd high score 196 missed
by the way pausing and having a break is better for calming down rather than fighting monsters i have been so dishearted by 196 missed then getting hit so i gave up alltogether good luck
This is a copy/paste from another forum.
I found an 'EASY' way to dodge lightning!
In the second main area, (after the travel agency) right when you start out - walk northwest until you come to the lake in this area. Where I stood was the corner of the lake (where you could either walk up-left diagonally on the d-pad to go towards the west side of the plains, or right/up-right on the d-pad to go towards the east and north ends of the plain respectively.) Lightning here dodges as follows: first bolt in about 8-10 seconds, followed by a 2-3 second interval 2nd bolt. It may sound a little odd at first, but once you get the timing down it is SO easy! I dodged, waited a few seconds and dodged again; ran back to the edge of the lake again and waited a few more seconds and repeated. Doing this, I was able to dodge 230 bolts in a little over 45 minutes (I think, I didn't time myself - but will next time) all this while STILL FIGHTING! I was able to capture all the fiends in the calm lands AND get the sigil very easily.
Secondly - I wanted to note this because in addition to the sigil, you also get a) 2x MP sphere for dodging 20, b) 3x Str. sphere for 50, c) 3x Hp sphere for dodging 100, and d) 4x Megalixer for 150. I'm currently working on a Tidus-only challenge, and those Str. spheres and Hp spheres will come in handy - especially early on in the game! Best of luck (you won't need it!)
~ I hope this helps someone while they're trying to dodge lightning - I heard that there is also an area by one of the cactaur stones that is ideal and you can use this same strategy. I've also tested this on both the PAL and US versions of the game and it works the same way. Happy dodging! ^,^ ~
Edit: Honestly, I don't know what the big deal is on this - I understand that dodging 200+ isn't necessarily fun...but it's simple (if you follow this advice anyway - at least the frequency of the strikes will be always nearly identical.) It's certainly not as difficult to do as the calibrating mini-game in X-2. @_@
Yeah, but with the callibrating mini-game you don't need to callibrate all the towers to get the best prize (The Samurai Garment Grid). All you need is to get about half of them (I think) and merely attempt the other ones. Then Al Bhed guy will give u the GG. And anyway the GG is no big deal.
Lulu's Sigil isn't essential, but without it she will become a lame duck at a certain point in the game, particularly if you are beating the Arena/Dark Aeons. So it is a bit annoying that its so hard. Its just the sheer number of bolts rather than the difficulty of dodging.
Still I finally triumphed in the Chocobo Race, so maybe I will crack this too eventually. The Choc Race was more like fun though!
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