Jump Rope Genius in Super Mario Odyssey is my white whale

Git gud?

Same

Mental stuff.

It's the hardest thing in that entire game.

I found volleyball to be a tad more difficult

That's volleyball for me. I just don't have the patience.

It was interesting - on my first playthrough I had so much trouble with it. Try it numerous times, jumped in and out of the level to try it at different points of the game and then it was one of my very last moons that I mastered.

And then - on my second playthough - I made an attempt just for fun when entering New Donk City and it immediately clicked and I got it on my very first try. I couldn't stop laughing :D

Can't cut it with either the rope or volleyball to be honest. Stupidly hard. Jump rope in FFIX got me all confident, only for this game to go "Oh, you think you can jump?"

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At least with volleyball you can make it easier by playing as cappy

Volleyball is easy if you don´t mind cheating via two-player mode.

I found it to be quite easy. :P Did it on my second try.

I'm with you mate. Just can't do it.

I spent so much time googling ways to cheese that shit.
I tried to replicate that one bug for hours. Scooter didn't help me at all either.
As usual, I got it after giving up for a while, doing something else for a couple of days and then casually giving it another shot.
Don't lose hope!

Do what I did and cheat by glitching out the game.

Sgt. Demblant said:

As usual, I got it after giving up for a while, doing something else for a couple of days and then casually giving it another shot.

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This is what always helps.
I do this on difficult bosses all the time too.
Most of the time I then nail it on first or second try.

This is the only moon I have left to get and I've given up. I've tried the glitches and couldn't get them to work.

Shut your eyes, turn up the volume, feel the rhythm, jump.

Not your fault op, bad design. Moons like this are why this game isn't as good as Galaxys.

The first time I did it, I got 83.

The game came out eight months ago and I have no touched that number since.

Close your eyes focus on the Hey's

All these mini game challenges were easy, there is nothing to say other than git gud. Just match the rhythm.

I guess if you have really bad input lag on your TV then it could be an issue.

I did it first try. No joke. And it was on a TV

1-50 is way harder than 51 to 100, that stupid noise it makes when it gets faster is off putting. Once you get past 50 I suggest not looking at the screen, just press the button when you hear hey and don't look at your score

unicornKnight said:

Not your fault op, bad design. Moons like this are why this game isn't as good as Galaxys.

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Galaxy had the fucking mantaray levels, which are 1000x worse than jump rope.

Galaxy also locked stuff for not getting every star, something Odyssey doesn't.

I didn't bother with these. Glad I'm not a conpletionist.

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I didn't bother with these. Glad I'm not a conpletionist.

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1000% this.

Look on the bright side, it's not gonna drown you in a very karma-rrific way

I really didn't like this moon and also the volleyball ones - at least for volleyball you can do the 2P co-op cheese (which I unashamedly did).

For the rope I remember the key for me to getting it was not looking at the TV - I didn't close my eyes (that felt weird somehow), but just looked down away from the screen while pressing jump upon hearing the "hey!". I think the problem was that as it gets really fast it looks like Mario's jump animation is too slow to make it (I think the landing animation is cancelled when you jump again) and it psyched me out every time. Looking away from the TV I did in two attempts.

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Not your fault op, bad design. Moons like this are why this game isn't as good as Galaxys.

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Can't say that when Galaxy has those bomb the trash stars

It was the "hey" that got me through this after about 5 million attempts. Just gotta focus on that and blank everything else out because once you've reached half way the rhythm doesn't change and if you can hit like ten in a row, you can easily hit fifty more. Don't try and hit when she says "hey," just use it to train your finger to press the button with that exact timing.

At some point (probably at 50 points) the speed doesn't change anymore so you literally get into a rhythm and just keep going.

I think the first time I got over 100 I got to 160 or so.

Clip one of the letters outside the boundary, park it in the jump rope then just sit on top.

YouTube how to do it. I gave up trying the proper way.

I wanted to show how hard this challenge was to a friend last year. Usually shit doesn't work at all when you want to show it to someone else, but in this case I managed it on my first try. I tried it a million times before that..

The trick for me was to focus on barely hitting the button at all. A full press is way too much, and a half press is even too much once it speeds up past 50 or so. You need just a slight microtouch of the button.

Skipping rope is easy if you listen instead of look.

Volleyball on the other hand, good fucking God.

I managed to finally do it using the scooter. Took a while.

Skipping rope was my most difficult challenge but I managed to do it pretty easily once I tried it with the scooter.
For the volleyball, stand in the middle and just use Cappy.

I feel you OP. I gave up after a bunch of times. I think I got up to 50 ish jumps. I never cleared the volleyball one either. Got the 848 other moons, or whatever the number was.

Aters said:

I didn't bother with these. Glad I'm not a conpletionist.

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shaneo632 said:

99% this.

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FTFY

eh, try getting the king of jump rope in final fantasy 9 (requires 1000 jumps)

Yeah this shit is easy just close your eyes

Got it first try luckily. Not that beach volleybal thing.... had to use the 2player use cappy thingy for that. That was awful.

Got it second try. It's actually super responsive. Just quick tap. There's a rhythm to it.

If I recall correctly, the trick is to only make low/light jumps, as soon as you land. Repeat.

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Not your fault op, bad design. Moons like this are why this game isn't as good as Galaxys.

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Shit at something? It must be because it's badly designed!
How would you better design pressing a single button in a rhythmic sequence...?

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Shit at something? It must be because it's badly designed!
How would you better design pressing a single button in a rhythmic sequence...?

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I wouldn't put in the first place. 100 perfectly timed button clicks, cool. Imagine a 2D Mario level where there are 100 single tile platforms like that one in SMB 8-1.

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I wouldn't put in the first place. 100 perfectly timed button clicks, cool. Imagine a 2D Mario level where there are 100 single tile platforms like that one in SMB 8-1.

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The core design tenet of repeating a simple action at an ever-increasing speed has been one Nintendo have executed literally since they began making games.
The whole 50+ Game & Watch line is this without much variance in complexity throughout.
This has been a legitimate game design archetype for over 40 years but now all of a sudden it's "bad design" because you happened to struggle with it? No.

The trick is to not even look at the screen, close your eyes or look away and go by sound

Did it second try.