Even though it is tedious, I prefer sidequests of this nature to the complete travesty that is Chocobo racing for Tidus. When it's just 10% skill and 90% bullshit RNG that gets your hopes up and never quite lets you win until you get the most random luck, that is not fun or compelling.
It's all RNG. Fairly often there will not even be enough balloons spawned to achieve 0.0 even with 0 bird hits. Plus getting the chocobo to not turn into every other bird is also RNG, not skill.
The tip for the cactuar on the tent is....don't use ur analog stick. Use ur dpad button and *run* to the cactuar. ⬇⬇⬇ *But the most important thing you should be careful, the sound and the cactuar. (And the purple instruction box on screen) I am gonna explain... Try not to run following the cute sound of the cactuar to stop/run until u capture him.(goes the same for the purple instruction box) KEEP LOOKIN' AT THE CACTUAR. Stop when he's looking at you...but Everytime he turns his back u run. *After spending some "timeee" 😅 only in this way I've capture him. Hope this tip can help you. It worked for me. Good luck my friends
@@adamlozano3226 yesss You can "mute" the sound of your TV and just keep looking at the cactuar. Run when he turns his back and stop when he's looking at you. That's the way it worked to me. 🙂 You can do it after you get the way how this works. 💪🏻
Great video, but just a heads up to anyone else who is using this as a guide, if you don't win all the games, you also get a different bonus item at the end. ALSO in the mini game with the sand trap, you can actually go INSIDE the sand trap and walk all the way up to him at once
Thank you, it's very much appreciated! I have a few more videos on the channel for FFX if they could be any help to you as well! I will be uploading more content very soon!
Playing in Fall of 2024 and this was super helpful. Was stopping running a little too quickly and ran out of time but i saw the timing with yours. I was able to get the difficult one too, and had to get it because i accidentally saved after botching the first one, and i wanted the friend sphere.
NB!!! Isrra it’s really really easier... just go into the sand hole (right for tidus) and follow the way... you will appear in the hole near the cactus back to him, u can run even if he turn back to you because he can’t see u 👍👍
By FAR!!!!! The best guide to this. Number 7 I had to totally leave the area and go back to the sink hole and it appeared. I did try going back to the stone, back to the sink hole, didn't appear. I didn't catch 3 or 4 along the way, still got the goods :)
To soft reset the game hold L1 L2 R1 R2 and hold X, Pad, then hit the opinions button. This will save you a few menus instead of closing the game and reloading a save. 😃
The one you skip and say to fail has a relatively simple pattern you can try using next time. The rate in which he turns around is hastened in the middle and slower in the beginning and end, so you move up a lot at the start, only do stutter steps in the middle, and than you get to make a big move again towards the end.
This is dam near unbearable without no encounters equipped fucking mentally exhausting im pissed they didn't add atleast a x3 feature for the HD remaster
Going to explain my experience. Did 8 of these in a row without saving. Ran out onto the airship deck to grab the ninth cactaur and it triggered the final sin fight that I hadn’t done yet. Managed to beat him, barely! If I had to do over the entire godhand quest I was gonna be so fucking pissed.
@@joshuajones2532 Dude This game came out before the internet was had all the cheats and tutorials. Some of us didn't have game guides back then or read the little booklet it came with in the game case. I beat the game without celestial weapons as a kid but it was a grind since I had to really strategize and be careful. Now today, unless someone truly doesn't know or is just a casual gamer, its recommended to get at least a few of them. Lulu and Yunas weapons are hard to get as well as very time consuming. Not everyone has the time nor endurance to dodge 209 lighting bolts and do all that other crap.
@@60wwediva Yuma’s weapon is easy to get and so is lulu’s after you get a no encounters weapon. Tidus’ weapon is probably the hardest to get. Also also there were game cheat sites back in 1998 with aol. But ok I’m not old enough to remember
Yea you can. I just did it. After you fight Sin twice the ship lands and there’s a save point in the ground before you step onto the blue symbol. Just use it to get back in the ship then go to the roof. Elio will be there.
Aw u have Tidus's Celestial and Wakkas Celestial Weapons? My best time is 0: 0.1 and I suck ass at blitzball. Although at the same time CONGRATS!!! Lol
@@Gaming_Inquisitor Honestly I hated Blitz with a passion until I learned how to win the games. It's mostly all in getting the best high stat players and a goalie with Super goalie ability you can toggle by pressing Triangle when the opposing team tries to score especially if their shoot is like 11-15. I accidentally lost a goalie I recruited from Luca cause I didn't have the gil at the time to sign them and then got tired when I did and accidentally clicked don't sign him. The trick is to make sure Tidus is the mid fielder or at least pass the ball to him when you get a chance. If you get first go with the ball with Tidus hurry & swim to the edge of the Sphere pool. Don't go straight for the opponents goal. Swim to the edge so that way you can get swim around the sphere and at least only have to break 1 person if not 2 sometimes. Then use the Jecht shot or Sphere shot if in good range.
@@Gaming_Inquisitor main way to win tho is to at least get one goal and swim to your goal all the way (keep breaking other opponents and choose dribble*) and hide behind the goalie or beside the goalie. You can chill there not doing anything for until the 4 minute mark or the energy of the game so the other team doesn't get to do anything. Also beware that with teams like Goers and other strong teams there might be annoying players who will follow you right to your goal and get up under you & the goalie for a face off. It defies logic and the AI system but they do it anyway when they technically shouldn't be able to
The cactaur that hides in the hole, if you go into the first sand trap hole, you will have a direct shot under the sand to the second hole right beside the cactaur eliminating the chance of being caught, I just found this out today
I played the sand pit one so horribly I found a trick...I went left by accident when he turned around and went into the sand pit far away. When I came back up I came up the sand pit right next to the cactaur. Sometimes playing until I have finger fatigue brings out some useful "accidents"
You can get that tough one if after the 1st long pause you go a little to the left and then just remember that he does another long pause after that you should be close enough to grab him.
7:25 this cactar isn't there for me. I followed the guide though, any ideas?? Edit: I tuned in the sphere but he wouldn't appear untill I decided a Longshot and re-talked to the cactar stone then it appeared in the dune... Weird but okie dokie.
@@MR_Nickanator as I included in my edit part. Try to retalk to the cactar stone and he should appear. I'm not sure what causes this but that's what I did and then he appeared in the dune so it's worth a shot.
@@ViniciusLCH It'll take several tries, trust me. Run only forwards and try to stick near the sandpit like done in the video. After the second red light I say just run for it.
I always make kimarhi go rikkis sphere route so I have to stealers and I can have three fast characters and have some beef in case I'm ambushed. Rikku is def viable.
Ye I’m having the same issue as you about the cactuar in the hole, I think in some of the different versions that the names of the crests and Sigils are switched
Ik this was two years ago but for ppl who don’t know might come across but it’s labeled different names depending on what region of the world your game is… it’s the same item just different name mercury vs Venus
Completely disagree that having godhand is the only way to make Rikku viable to the party. Without it she’s one of my best characters. Made her a disgusting weapon. Only reason I even want godhand is for gillionaire. You’re probably just not using her properly
Now I start again with the Int version, but i got blessed gem from Elio before start, and it does not show timer and appear alots of funny conversation from airships people, does anyone can explain this?
Issra I'm having this strange issue where he is hanging even longer than normal. At some points he immediately turns around and holds the timer till literal milliseconds, is this normal?
"fight them all so you can capture 10 in 1 go" "i purposefully fail this one because its too hard, and theres no fight with that one" come on, if you are doing a guide at least have accurate info, and yes, capturing the most you can makes it so there are fewer that you have to catch later, but saying there are 10 you can catch when there arent is a little different
I know I'm just mad but whoever created the mini games must hate life, actually I hope everything they do makes them feel like crap for each person they screwed in the game 😅
Anyones Cactuar not appearing at 7:26 leave the area and come back, it should be there now.
Thank you for the help bro
Thanks man started to panic then
Thanks!
Np lol
Life saver
Even though it is tedious, I prefer sidequests of this nature to the complete travesty that is Chocobo racing for Tidus. When it's just 10% skill and 90% bullshit RNG that gets your hopes up and never quite lets you win until you get the most random luck, that is not fun or compelling.
i dont think it's tedious, it think it's tidus
It's not that hard lol
@@fatranga Oh but it can be. I've had runs where It took 10 hrs just for that stupid ass minigame. but also runs where it took 30 minutes or less.
It's all RNG. Fairly often there will not even be enough balloons spawned to achieve 0.0 even with 0 bird hits. Plus getting the chocobo to not turn into every other bird is also RNG, not skill.
thank you for actually being calm as you do this and not speeding through the entire thing in 3 minutes like a crazy person
The tip for the cactuar on the tent is....don't use ur analog stick.
Use ur dpad button and *run* to the cactuar. ⬇⬇⬇
*But the most important thing you should be careful, the sound and the cactuar. (And the purple instruction box on screen)
I am gonna explain...
Try not to run following the cute sound of the cactuar to stop/run until u capture him.(goes the same for the purple instruction box)
KEEP LOOKIN' AT THE CACTUAR.
Stop when he's looking at you...but Everytime he turns his back u run.
*After spending some "timeee" 😅 only in this way I've capture him.
Hope this tip can help you. It worked for me.
Good luck my friends
And start moving again as soon as he turns back around.
Are you talking about Vachella? I'm seriously losing my patience and I'm going to smash my controller. I'm getting fckn pissed.
@@adamlozano3226 yesss
You can "mute" the sound of your TV and just keep looking at the cactuar.
Run when he turns his back and stop when he's looking at you.
That's the way it worked to me. 🙂
You can do it after you get the way how this works. 💪🏻
@@adamlozano3226 you can lose one cactuar and stil get the best price.
Thank you! This worked like a charm! I got him finally!
Great video, but just a heads up to anyone else who is using this as a guide, if you don't win all the games, you also get a different bonus item at the end. ALSO in the mini game with the sand trap, you can actually go INSIDE the sand trap and walk all the way up to him at once
So if I mess up the ninth one I have to restart at one?!
@@veganwaffle there are bonus prizes for getting all of them but it's nothing special. Even if you catch none of them you'll still get the sigil.
😅 that was a cheese tunnel
One of the best tutorial vids I’ve seen hope your doing more FFX vids I’m playing though and could use your help thank you
Thank you, it's very much appreciated! I have a few more videos on the channel for FFX if they could be any help to you as well! I will be uploading more content very soon!
@@Magik_T agree with comment above, very good video.
Thank you so much for speeding this up. Can feel like a lifetime doing some of the optional things in FF.
Playing in Fall of 2024 and this was super helpful. Was stopping running a little too quickly and ran out of time but i saw the timing with yours. I was able to get the difficult one too, and had to get it because i accidentally saved after botching the first one, and i wanted the friend sphere.
NB!!! Isrra it’s really really easier... just go into the sand hole (right for tidus) and follow the way... you will appear in the hole near the cactus back to him, u can run even if he turn back to you because he can’t see u 👍👍
When you're doing the cactaur sidequest and then you go up to find the one on the airship... now I'm fighting Sin!
Ima bout to go up on airship, i might have to. Although it will he ez cause my anima does 99999
That's hilarious
same just happened to me
By FAR!!!!! The best guide to this. Number 7 I had to totally leave the area and go back to the sink hole and it appeared. I did try going back to the stone, back to the sink hole, didn't appear. I didn't catch 3 or 4 along the way, still got the goods :)
"Only way to make Rikku vaible?" ... u might wanna re-think that statement bud.
Most broken character in the game
Rikku got me good items back then
M........I..........X.........
Agreed I remember beating sin for the first time as a kid because I had quickhit and copycat
7:44 for that one go into the sink hole it will let you continue to walk during needle time and appear in the sink hole beside him
It doesn't even appear
I feel so dumb, I thought you had to turn around every time he said needletime. I still did it but it would've been so much easier this way.
To soft reset the game hold L1 L2 R1 R2 and hold X, Pad, then hit the opinions button. This will save you a few menus instead of closing the game and reloading a save. 😃
Its just L1-R1, start, and select lol
The one you skip and say to fail has a relatively simple pattern you can try using next time. The rate in which he turns around is hastened in the middle and slower in the beginning and end, so you move up a lot at the start, only do stutter steps in the middle, and than you get to make a big move again towards the end.
Thank you! I was badly struggling with that one too, but this advice got me through it!
If you use the d pad, and just press it once to twice ever time the difficult cactaur turns around, you will get him.
This is dam near unbearable without no encounters equipped fucking mentally exhausting im pissed they didn't add atleast a x3 feature for the HD remaster
Going to explain my experience. Did 8 of these in a row without saving. Ran out onto the airship deck to grab the ninth cactaur and it triggered the final sin fight that I hadn’t done yet. Managed to beat him, barely! If I had to do over the entire godhand quest I was gonna be so fucking pissed.
thanks man for your tutorial, very helpful
!like!
If you're at the point in the story where going onto the ship's deck will start the battle with Sin you cannot finish this.
Why would you go fight sin without getting their celestial weapons? Kinda need to have some of them to get through Omega
@@joshuajones2532 Dude This game came out before the internet was had all the cheats and tutorials. Some of us didn't have game guides back then or read the little booklet it came with in the game case. I beat the game without celestial weapons as a kid but it was a grind since I had to really strategize and be careful. Now today, unless someone truly doesn't know or is just a casual gamer, its recommended to get at least a few of them. Lulu and Yunas weapons are hard to get as well as very time consuming. Not everyone has the time nor endurance to dodge 209 lighting bolts and do all that other crap.
@@60wwediva that’s why they had strategy guides. I played this game when it came out on ps2
@@60wwediva Yuma’s weapon is easy to get and so is lulu’s after you get a no encounters weapon. Tidus’ weapon is probably the hardest to get. Also also there were game cheat sites back in 1998 with aol. But ok I’m not old enough to remember
Yea you can. I just did it. After you fight Sin twice the ship lands and there’s a save point in the ground before you step onto the blue symbol. Just use it to get back in the ship then go to the roof. Elio will be there.
Huge help. Even with the guide this took a long time. Ahaha. Cheers
Very useful video. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, but too bad I didn't have no encounters xD. But now I have Rikku's, Tidus', and Wakka's celestials😍
Aw u have Tidus's Celestial and Wakkas Celestial Weapons? My best time is 0: 0.1 and I suck ass at blitzball.
Although at the same time CONGRATS!!! Lol
@@Gaming_Inquisitor Honestly I hated Blitz with a passion until I learned how to win the games. It's mostly all in getting the best high stat players and a goalie with Super goalie ability you can toggle by pressing Triangle when the opposing team tries to score especially if their shoot is like 11-15. I accidentally lost a goalie I recruited from Luca cause I didn't have the gil at the time to sign them and then got tired when I did and accidentally clicked don't sign him. The trick is to make sure Tidus is the mid fielder or at least pass the ball to him when you get a chance. If you get first go with the ball with Tidus hurry & swim to the edge of the Sphere pool. Don't go straight for the opponents goal. Swim to the edge so that way you can get swim around the sphere and at least only have to break 1 person if not 2 sometimes. Then use the Jecht shot or Sphere shot if in good range.
@@Gaming_Inquisitor main way to win tho is to at least get one goal and swim to your goal all the way (keep breaking other opponents and choose dribble*) and hide behind the goalie or beside the goalie. You can chill there not doing anything for until the 4 minute mark or the energy of the game so the other team doesn't get to do anything. Also beware that with teams like Goers and other strong teams there might be annoying players who will follow you right to your goal and get up under you & the goalie for a face off. It defies logic and the AI system but they do it anyway when they technically shouldn't be able to
@@Gaming_Inquisitor I've won attack reels based on this method. Going to try for Aurorchs reels soon
Muting your TV when trying to tag the 10th cactuar made this much easier for me, I think I also just got lucky with good rng
Thanks for the help my guy
Good guide! Appreciate it!
The cactaur that hides in the hole, if you go into the first sand trap hole, you will have a direct shot under the sand to the second hole right beside the cactaur eliminating the chance of being caught, I just found this out today
Thank you!
Very helpful! Thanks!
The really fast music is strangely satisfying..
I played the sand pit one so horribly I found a trick...I went left by accident when he turned around and went into the sand pit far away. When I came back up I came up the sand pit right next to the cactaur. Sometimes playing until I have finger fatigue brings out some useful "accidents"
For some reason It stares me down so long that the tome goes out.
So helpful!! Thank you!
2021 you helped me out bro!
Thx u the best!
You can get that tough one if after the 1st long pause you go a little to the left and then just remember that he does another long pause after that you should be close enough to grab him.
7:25 this cactar isn't there for me. I followed the guide though, any ideas??
Edit: I tuned in the sphere but he wouldn't appear untill I decided a Longshot and re-talked to the cactar stone then it appeared in the dune... Weird but okie dokie.
Same same
I'm having the same issue
@@MR_Nickanator as I included in my edit part. Try to retalk to the cactar stone and he should appear. I'm not sure what causes this but that's what I did and then he appeared in the dune so it's worth a shot.
For me I had to leave the area and come back.
Thank you!!
Thank you! ^_^
1 like for you. This is the least I can do for this helpful video. 😊
Ty a lot!!
Great walkthrough. Thankyou. That sandstorms been bugging me for years
well done, thanks!
Thanks man
So at 8:17 my 🌵 isn’t appearing at the save. I’ve circled the area and left the area and come back.
The one inside the quick sand isn’t there for me. Do I have to beat dark ifrit?
can't find it either
Ok I solved it, you have to leave the area and come back
I was literally about to say the same as @Captain Butt but yes you have to leave the area and then return and it will appear. Well done!! Team Work
Wish i had no encounters lol
for a minute i though the cactuar village access would had cactuar quests in it but its empty...
👌👍
That cactuar by the quicksand I'm having trouble with because he stares at you for SO long! Any tips please?
Actually, no worries. I got the bugger in the end! lol
I have the same problems, on the last seconds he keeps looking ate me
@@ViniciusLCH It'll take several tries, trust me. Run only forwards and try to stick near the sandpit like done in the video. After the second red light I say just run for it.
@@CharlesXavier OR just dive into the sand hole pit and you'll access a secret tunnel that connects to the pit next to the cactuar.
For some reason the cactaur in the hole isn’t appearing for me. What is going on?!?!
Same. Dude who made the video is a liar
Good work
I always make kimarhi go rikkis sphere route so I have to stealers and I can have three fast characters and have some beef in case I'm ambushed. Rikku is def viable.
There was a venus crest in the chest, not the one u said.
And the cactuar in the hole isnt there
Ye I’m having the same issue as you about the cactuar in the hole, I think in some of the different versions that the names of the crests and Sigils are switched
Same here idk why I got the Venus sigil as well
Ik this was two years ago but for ppl who don’t know might come across but it’s labeled different names depending on what region of the world your game is… it’s the same item just different name mercury vs Venus
Completely disagree that having godhand is the only way to make Rikku viable to the party. Without it she’s one of my best characters. Made her a disgusting weapon. Only reason I even want godhand is for gillionaire. You’re probably just not using her properly
Now I start again with the Int version, but i got blessed gem from Elio before start, and it does not show timer and appear alots of funny conversation from airships people, does anyone can explain this?
What if the green dude not on the sand dune hole thing for the 8th one?
Rikku is meta out the gate, what are you on about? 🤣
Issra I'm having this strange issue where he is hanging even longer than normal. At some points he immediately turns around and holds the timer till literal milliseconds, is this normal?
Yes, I'm a bit late but that's his whole gimmick
I got a Venus sigil instead of Mercury. Why...?
Are you on the switch? That could explain why
I WAS WORKING ON THE AIRSHIP CACTUAR AND INSTEAD WAS THROWN INTO A FIGHT WITH SIN
I finished the side quest and talked to the woman and it was fucking dark ifrit If only I fucking saved halfway through
I Wonder why the cactuar in the hole dont pop up
Come out of the area and come back in. It will be there
f you for saying the one in the sand pits is straight forward and easy :’(
Thanks for the guide though
7:28 that cactuat don't appear to me
I got venus sigil, why?
If you provocate a kyactus , then he will attack you with 10000 nedlees, every kyactus does
5:50 My least favorite as well. . I came here hoping for a method to reach this one in time lol.
You dont need to fight them in order to get the spheres.
Just got Vachella sphere..: booyah
cactauar not showing up. damn game
I got Venus Sigil instead of the Mercury one
I couldn’t get the one in the tent either.
👍
"fight them all so you can capture 10 in 1 go" "i purposefully fail this one because its too hard, and theres no fight with that one" come on, if you are doing a guide at least have accurate info, and yes, capturing the most you can makes it so there are fewer that you have to catch later, but saying there are 10 you can catch when there arent is a little different
The og squid game haha
I done the tent one first time
Looking at the statue didn't start the quest for me. Oh well
Maybe get the mirror or the weapon for rikku first
I think it only opens up once your fighting sin also
I know I'm just mad but whoever created the mini games must hate life, actually I hope everything they do makes them feel like crap for each person they screwed in the game 😅
So I got a Venus sigil
It's the same item, just a different name for the Japanese and Switch versions of FFX.
My trial 1 time 5:0 but in this videos 10:00 whats wrong with me 😂
`why do you pronounce it like that tis kak-tar theres no fucking w in the word-
i hate this end game. why i am still playing.
It's pronounced "Cactar"
Sih-gel lol
ami minhaj
Thanks a lot!
Thank you!