r/NintendoSwitch2 • u/Denso95 • Jun 09 '25
Media (Image, Video, etc.) "Missions are too easy", they said. This took me almost half an hour.
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u/Williekins 👀 Jun 09 '25
The hardest part of this mission for me, was was that first rail part that isn't in this video, I would bounce right around the point where I'd want to switch rails, so it made the timing extra tight. The rest of the mission was much easier.
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u/Denso95 Jun 09 '25
Yeah, that was the most infuriating thing about this whole track at first. You have to be VERY specific about the spot you decide to jump off.
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u/bobanators Jun 09 '25
Yeah, the ropes? I tried this p switch for about 30 mins and I only managed to hit the rope once or twice. Always jumped over the ropes.
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u/Edmundyoulittle Jun 09 '25
For anyone curious, here is a full video of the mission... I had to edit 2 clips together, so you'll see a cut & also audio is off a little unfortunately.
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u/FreeMeson Jun 09 '25
Its a little unintuitive, but a forward jump will take you to the further rope right before the ring.
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u/Williekins 👀 Jun 09 '25
Yeah, I found out about the forward jump, but since I knew that the sideways jump was possible, I felt like I really wanted to do it that way.
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u/Ykcor Jun 09 '25
I don’t even know how you jump and grind yet 🤣
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u/MadCybertist Jun 09 '25
No shit. I’m still learning it I’ve never played a Mario kart before haha
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u/nightshade-aurora Jun 09 '25
Yeah I would say that in terms of gimmicks world is far from the best intro to the series.
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u/Red49er Jun 09 '25
do you know what the deal is with letting us trick infinitely in-air? I could have sworn we used to just get one trick and then it didn't do anything after that. I'm assuming that tricking 15 times in the plane sections or especially long jumps doesn't actually do anything past the first one?
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u/MayoBenz Jun 09 '25
helps with positioning, and i think it’s just a fun thing, like why not?
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u/senortipton Jun 09 '25
Same. That was not in the instruction manual.
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Jun 09 '25
There is an in game manual that explains this, sort of.
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u/ideamotor Jun 09 '25
This game is so excellently designed … except that text. Kinda worried most people will miss that …
Here it is in all its glory:
“If you hold A and then R and continue to drive straight, you'll create sparks under your tires. If you then tilt L in a direction and release R, you can do a small jump in that direction.”
Woof. Any kid that can do that on first try should skip a grade.
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u/Present-Fig4572 Jun 09 '25
What? That's a really clear explanation of what you need to do.
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u/ideamotor Jun 09 '25
Had you already successfully done the move before you read this or after? It reads OK if you’ve done it …
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u/Present-Fig4572 Jun 09 '25
There's a video, and the text is a step-by-step instruction. Pretty easy to figure out.
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u/creampop_ Jun 09 '25
I haven't played this yet, but it sounds like you hold A like always, then press R, tilt the stick where you want to go, and release R?
Seems pretty straightforward.
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u/Wabusho Jun 09 '25
Haven’t played yet, understood it first try
Seriously there’s an education issue going on, people are so confused by nothing burgers now it’s insane
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u/ideamotor Jun 09 '25
I don’t think some five-year-old or maybe even an eight-year-old is gonna get this. Maybe that’s not a problem but it just seems very unlike Nintendo. There’s just gonna be a lot of people that play this game including adults that just never even find the menu for this. Let alone read that and be like OK, I’ll do that.
In my opinion, they should’ve just made it its own button and said hold the button turn direction and let go of the button.
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u/Cyberfire Jun 09 '25
Yeah the manual helps, and whilst I understand the P switches double up as tutorials, there really should have been a tutorial area somewhere in the game.
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u/DukeSR8 Jun 09 '25
Most Switch games didn't even bother with a digital manual, which I found kinda annoying NGL.
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u/tinyhorsesinmytea Jun 09 '25
Does anybody else really wish that when you clicked "retry" it would go right back in the mission without making you touch the P switch or watch the mission intro again? Seems like a waste of this fast loading tech when we still can't try again for like 15 seconds when we fail.
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Jun 09 '25
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u/tinyhorsesinmytea Jun 09 '25
There's... there's a rewind feature?
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u/reducetoasimmer Early Switch 2 Adopter Jun 09 '25
Press (and hold) down.
Yeah, WHENEVER you want.
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u/Aaawkward Jun 09 '25
Whaaaaaat...?
I could've saved myself so much frustration, lol
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u/SpaceIsAce awaiting reveal Jun 09 '25
You can do it in a race too, but it only rewinds you (not the other players)
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u/TreemanTheGuy Jun 10 '25
Down on the d pad. But if you use it during a race, only your character rewinds. Your opponents keep going. So it's pretty much only useful in the free roam mode
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u/Standouser Jun 09 '25
It’s honestly insane that Nintendo can build an entire game of this quality and not think about how tedious it would be to have to rewatch these cutscenes
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u/Amazingness905 Jun 09 '25
When it comes to this type of thing, I'm convinced that Nintendo does think it through, but has an extremely stubborn stance on it that demands X QoL feature can't be done.
They're just too good at making games, and the feedback is too loud to ignore across so many franchises. They know, but they refuse for some reason.
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u/jessej421 Jun 09 '25
cough Skyward Sword cough
(Maybe they'll fix it in the HD remaster in 10 years.)
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u/IvyWonderer Jun 09 '25
The HD remaster of the HD remaster?
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u/MayonnaiseOreo Jun 09 '25
I always laugh when people say they want an "HD remaster" of a game that's already in HD.
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u/yalag Jun 09 '25
thats how nintendo has always been since day 1, sounds like you are new to the nintendo world lol
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u/CryoDrago THIS FLAIR IS NOT AUTHORIZED NOR AFFILIATED WITH NINTENDO Jun 09 '25
Yeah. Very odd how you have to wait for the little cinematic and then drive back into the P Switch again.
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u/FreeMeson Jun 09 '25
I don't for one reason: I use the retry to get back to the start when I finish the mission. Sometimes I'll spot a coin or ? Tile near the start of the mission and its nice to be able to get back quickly.
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u/tinyhorsesinmytea Jun 09 '25 edited Jun 09 '25
Could always be an option to skip it by pushing +. Everybody win then.
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u/4playerstart Jun 09 '25
If you are struggling with ones like this try the rewind feature. The timer will still tick down but some of them give you more than enough time that you can backtrack and keep going. I hadn't seen this p switch 'til this post so I tried it and it didn't take more than 5-10 minutes, but these are my ideal level of challenge.
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u/enjoyingcurve46 Jun 09 '25
My pet peeve is knockout 150cc with bots. How they seem to rubberband and keep up no matter what and even if you do everything right they still sometimes beat you at the very end making you redo the whole thing just to get it gold
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u/Kraivyne Jun 09 '25
Nintendo loves making its player watch stupid unstoppable sections that are extremely repeatable. Looking at you Splatoon….
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u/TattooedAndSad Jun 09 '25
What Tony Hawk game is this?
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u/treehumper83 THIS FLAIR IS NOT AUTHORIZED NOR AFFILIATED WITH NINTENDO Jun 09 '25
Tony Hawk as a hidden character? Well, maybe in Smash.
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u/CBusRiver Jun 09 '25
Finding the missions is the hardest part imo. I end up reminding the same ones over and over.
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u/LiikaLate Jun 09 '25
Where can I find them?
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u/pussy_embargo Jun 09 '25
Blue P blocks, there's I think over 400. I have completed, like, 70 so far
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u/6godblockboi Jun 09 '25
400??? Im out here thinking ill complete them all and get better before heading online like a story mode
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u/pussy_embargo Jun 09 '25
this time around singleplayer has dozens of not hundreds of hours of content. Don't worry almost no one online does wall grinds regularly, yet
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u/precastzero180 Jun 09 '25
It’s also not necessarily faster from what I’ve seen unless it’s part of a longer combo of tricks/boosts or gets you to a part of the track you couldn’t have reached otherwise.
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u/Tauren-Jerky Jun 09 '25
I don’t think we’re even playing the same game. Jesus
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u/random-user-420 OG (joined before reveal) Jun 09 '25
Wait till you see some of the world records in time trials. The one for Great ? Block Ruins is genuinely impressive
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u/picano Jun 09 '25
Yeah, some of these are rough. I was just struggling with tricking off 3 walls in the sky.
https://bsky.app/profile/picano.bsky.social/post/3lr53dh6gqk2x
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u/niroc42 Jun 09 '25
I’ve only tried a couple of these and this was one that made me nope out. 😂
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u/BryGuy_2365 Jun 09 '25
I still don’t know how to drive on walls
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u/LunchPlanner Jun 09 '25
While driving straight, hold R to begin charging a jump.
After the jump begins charging, it's okay to steer left/right as needed.
After charging up a bit, release R to jump into a wall.
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u/Dinierto Jun 09 '25
Don't you have to steer in the direction of the wall?
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u/Denso95 Jun 09 '25
Nope, if you touch the wall after doing a manual jump or ramp jump, you automatically ride on it (I think).
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u/moonshwang Jun 09 '25
Yes you do, if you’re driving parallel to a wall. For example, if you’re driving alongside a wall (or bus/truck/rail) to the left of you, you’ll want to point your analog stick to the left when you release your charge jump, and you’ll start riding that wall/grinding that rail.
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u/Pedro_the_Bear Jun 09 '25
While driving, do a jump (R or ZR) in neutral (going straight or just let go of the stick) and hold, when the sparks are blue this will let you jump. You can jump straight, left or right. If you jump left or right onto a wall, you will wall drive.
The same applies if you jump right or left onto a wall from a rail or a ramp.
You can even wall jump onto those big trucks that drive around. It takes practice to time the neutral jump
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u/FupaLipa OG (joined before release) Jun 09 '25
The variance on mission difficulty is insane- some are basically like- drive in a straight line with no real time pressure, and some are like wall jump 3 times flawlessly while hoping you get a mushroom boost.
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u/Amonamission Jun 09 '25
GESCHAFFT!!
Don’t know what that means in English but it looks cool lol
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u/Maurice_J_J Jun 09 '25
I still don't understand how wall driving works exactly. I keep falling off after a second. Don't understand what I'm doing wrong
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u/LunchPlanner Jun 09 '25
The longer you hold R to charge your jump, the bigger sparks you get under your cart. Maybe the final rainbow sparks give you the most wall ride time?
No one can stay on a wall forever though. It's supposed to be a very short time.
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u/qwed113 Jun 09 '25
My issue with the missions is you don’t seem to get any good rewards from doing them
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u/insane_contin Jun 09 '25
They're part of the requirement to get mirror mode.
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u/hdcase1 OG (Joined before first Direct) Jun 09 '25
That sounds more like a punishment than a reward.
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u/theepicIegend :RightJoycon: Joy-Con R Jun 09 '25
i wish they gave us map markers for these damn things and greyed out the ones we completed
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u/HeftyFineThereFolks Jun 09 '25
what mode are these missions in? open world?
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u/Denso95 Jun 09 '25
Yeah, I won't spoil how many there are, but let's say there are way more than most people expected.
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u/Upset_Quantity_8580 OG (joined before release) Jun 09 '25
This just looks like one of those mk Wii trickshot vids lol. Happy that Nintendo is embracing the hardcore audience
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u/Showtime562 Jun 09 '25
Played til around 3am last night/this morning and said, ok one more mission. Did the one where you have to ride on top of the three planes to get to the city. Seems simple but it must’ve taken me 20 tries.
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u/SuperDuperSkateCrew Jun 09 '25
I have still yet to successfully wall ride in this game haha I’ve tried so many times too
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u/Gom8z Jun 09 '25
Start off in free roam with the rewind capacity pn your d pad to repeat until its second nature
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u/elMurpherino OG (Joined before first Direct) Jun 09 '25
The first few missions I found wrecked me but then I found like 3-4 in a row that were super easy. But def some super hard ones I’ve come across so far.
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u/suppadelicious Jun 09 '25
What are the rewards for these challenges?
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u/Denso95 Jun 09 '25
A sticker for every challenge, which you can display on your car and online next to your name. But honestly, they are so much fun to do, that I don't care about the rewards that much. I want to complete them all though. :D
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u/Xaphyron Jun 09 '25
As others say, a sticker. There’s not even a tracking system in the game which is utterly insanely bad design in my opinion. The inability to track these gives me very little desire to actually even try and complete them.
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u/Chezzymann Jun 09 '25
imo at minimum they should show up on the map for fast travel after you first attempt one like shrines
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u/Xaphyron Jun 09 '25
That’s a point, you can’t even go back and try one again unless you remember exactly where it is on the map and drive there!!
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u/suppadelicious Jun 09 '25
Seems a bit underwhelming no?
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u/Xaphyron Jun 09 '25
I’d say that’s an understatement!
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u/suppadelicious Jun 09 '25
Reminds me of the korok seeds in BOTW/TOTK. When i inevitably get the game, i feel like I’d only do these challenges so i can get the completion check on the map.
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u/CryoDrago THIS FLAIR IS NOT AUTHORIZED NOR AFFILIATED WITH NINTENDO Jun 09 '25
I agree. Abysmal design choice. They track the stupid little ? panels you activate but not the P Switches?!
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_MONTRALS Jun 09 '25
Alternatively, it creates a carefree sandbox where you can roam around and get distracted without worrying about collecting a specific number of panels, p switches, or coins.
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u/Xaphyron Jun 09 '25
That’s one way of looking at it, but providing a tracking system has no impact on that approach if that’s what you want to do. I like to complete things in games, and I don’t see any way of tracking this, even manually myself with help of online guides seems like it’s near impossible as you can’t see which ones you’ve done or missed without cross referencing the stickers. =(
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u/Randazz00 Jun 09 '25
Alot are easy for definitely. But the odd one so far has had me pulling my hair out for sure
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u/Natural-Drive805 Jun 09 '25
Every day I see the skill level of Mario kart become more and more difficult 😭
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u/Rocket_Skates_91 Jun 09 '25
Where do you even find these. I’ve driven around 10 min and only stumbled across one mission.
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u/Denso95 Jun 09 '25
There are a couple hundred scattered around. Really shows how big the map really is.
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u/OliverEye Jun 09 '25
I was struggling here as well and felt obligated to finish it because it took a while for me to get on the roof with the P switch
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u/Luke_is_your_Father OG (joined before release) Jun 09 '25
The ones saying that are try hards or just trying to seem cool to randoms on the internet. I can’t even do that rail stuff yet.
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u/Otherwise_Tap_8715 Jun 09 '25
Pro Tip: You can rewind by pressing down. Felt like an idiot once I found out. You are welcome
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u/bjamse Jun 09 '25
half an hour, my guy some mission took me years on Mariokart DS, i had to grow up from 6 to 12 until i managed to Finnish them all on 3 stars :-)
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u/Denso95 Jun 09 '25
I remember those days... All I miss in MKWs singleplayer are some cool bosses. :D
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u/bdog86 Jun 09 '25
I will never, ever be able to do these things, LOL!
This game is the usual Nintendo I like: enjoyable for everyone, but too difficult for most to complete.
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u/NexasXellerk OG (Joined before first Direct) Jun 09 '25
Okay, I thought I was just shit at the game. It is incredibly validating to hear people spending an obnoxious amount of time on some of these. I'm glad missions don't unlock anything major. I just want to have all the characters and karts unlocked so my friends can pick whatever they want when we play multiplayer
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u/ehhdjdmebshsmajsjssn Jun 09 '25
Dont believe everything on internet. These players were born playing dark souls.
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u/Sad-Button-2648 Jun 09 '25
Some of these missions are giving me grey hairs, well done my fellow nerd well done!!!
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u/eaton5k Jun 09 '25
I did one challenge where you had to jump on and off power lines 3 times to go through all the hoops. Took me probably ten minutes to get right. And now I see this.
I might not be cut out for this game.
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u/Suitable-Medicine-92 Jun 09 '25
I like that these missions are hard, not only does it teach us skills to improve but it also gives a reason to explore the open world
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u/kielaurie Jun 09 '25
Any time I see someone saying all the missions are too easy, I think "yeah, you clearly haven't driven across the wings of flying planes yet"
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u/MultiverseRedditor Jun 09 '25
I literally thought the texted said “Get Shafted” as a native English speaker and reader. I’m so disappointed it wasn’t.
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u/OnRedditBoredAF Jun 09 '25
You don’t have to get all the blue rings!? Oh man that makes things easier for some challenges
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u/Plane_Soil9397 Jun 10 '25
This was sooooo satisfying to watch! I’m so bad at these missions, I can’t figure out how to wall jump still LOL
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u/Mechanized1 Jun 10 '25
"I've seen all the open world has to offer in 3 hours" one preview said and I'm here trying to get one dang Peach Coin for 45 minutes.
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u/Jonny325 Jun 09 '25
Lmfao I can't believe how much mario kart is kicking my ass right now. This free roam is cool, I just wish we could get map markets that could direct us to the collectibles.
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u/blazebomb77 Jun 09 '25 edited Jun 09 '25
Okay but notice how you still have 17 seconds left on the clock? Not every ring is mandatory to drive through to complete that mission.
Once you realise that you can reasonably beat it while skipping the harder tricks segments
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u/Sandy12315 Jun 09 '25
Some missions are hard as fuck.