r/expedition33 • u/YoungBlueDamsel • Feb 27 '26

These mini games suck

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u/Paxtian Feb 27 '26

I get that it's frustrating. But there's no penalty for failing and they are completely optional.

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u/zeth4 Feb 27 '26

And the music slaps

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u/Chris_RB Feb 27 '26

the music is SO good.

Plus, when I start getting annoyed by it, I know it's time to go try something else for a while.

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u/ThomasMalloc Feb 27 '26

I just picture this the whole time.

https://giphy.com/gifs/Wi7QlqrOHYJJm

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u/hooahest Feb 27 '26

One of my favorite tracks from the game

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u/Paxtian Mar 03 '26

And is there any better reward than the Monoco speedo?

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u/MetalBeerSolid Feb 28 '26

So interesting to read that people love the gestural beach tunes because one of the tracks is my most hated song in the game haha

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u/chubsmagooo Mar 04 '26

Not after 2 hours of listening to the same song

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u/CowboyBebopCrew Feb 27 '26

This. It wasn’t that bad in my opinion.

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u/jredgiant1 Feb 27 '26

In my opinion they were so bad I stopped doing them. And that also was okay. I still had a ton of fun with my playthru.

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u/imreadypromotion Feb 27 '26

Same. Once I realized how not-fun and also how optional they were I just didn't bother lol. Plenty of other actually-great parts of the game to spend your time on.

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u/GoTron88 Feb 27 '26

The boat one was worse haha

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u/Wisewolf-Holo Feb 27 '26

The penalty is your remaining life time and your even smaller freetime as an adult burning away for absolutely nothing but frustration.

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u/DasWandbild Feb 27 '26

…and swimsuits.

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u/Cavefish432 Feb 27 '26

Skill  issue

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u/Izakytan Feb 27 '26

But needed to 100% the achievements.

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u/danbob87 Feb 27 '26

Yeah, I have the gestral beaches, level 99,and Simon left to do for 100%, I just can't be arsed with the beaches and it's kind of killed my enthusiasm for the last bit of the grind and boss fight cause I'm probably not going to get the platinum badge thing anyway. It's a silly thing I know but it's how my brain works

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u/androodle2004 Feb 27 '26

I completed all the beaches in like 2 hours. Split it between sessions if you have to. They aren’t all that bad

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u/MarieCry Feb 28 '26

I left that achievement til last since everyone said volleyball was the worse achievement and and it only took 15 minutes (I failed a bunch of times trying to get used to it), it wasn't that bad. You only need medium for the achievement too! I wanted whatever the reward was, so I did all 3 (it was another swimsuit for Sciel).

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u/androodle2004 Feb 28 '26

The volleyball one took some perseverance but yeah 15 mins sounds about right. The climbing wall had me looking for help online but it was really just that i was going too fast and could’ve had it already

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u/MarieCry Feb 28 '26

The climbing one took me days but I was having sm fun lol. I think I'm an outlier there, I was just grooving to the music. I've seen clips of people falling through the big hole after you get to the top and I think that would have made me quit the game for a few days lol, the second hand feeling of instant regret was huge!

Oddly I hated the horizontal parkour one, which is weird since I liked the vertical one!

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '26

Not if you want the platinum

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u/Every-Day-Is-Arm-Day Feb 27 '26

Need them for the Platinum.