Author: Simulacrum  <nub>    99.47.225.102 Use this link if you want to link to this message and its entire thread of discussion. Post a Msg
Date: 7/24/2025 9:46:33 PM
Subject: Minigames must die

I am two steps away from getting all Horizon Forbidden West achievements. I have to complete the game in ultra hard difficulty, which they should rename to "We Will Notify Your Next of Kin" difficulty. But before I can do that, I have to win two rounds of Machine Strike. This is probably the worst minigame ever devised. I can understand why almost no one bothers with it.

I subjected myself to all the melee challenge pits so I could get the achievement for defeating a super fighter called The Enduring, and that was miserable. But I did it believing that Machine Strike would be trivial in comparison. Yet I do not think I will ever win a single round of this convoluted abortion of a minigame. I can't find any useful tutorials because only idiots bother to play this excremental waste of time, so their videos are useless.

I have entered a purgatorial holding pattern that bars me from the nine hells of ultra hard. I am denied the experience of being drawn and quartered by the equivalent of six hundred Yodas hitting me with six hundred walking sticks.