BellaOnline Forums Computers Computer - Console Gaming Help Help with the chocobo catcher

what you need to do in the first part is to go for the first balloon on the right. the trainer might get the first one or two balloons if they are on the left, but you will get the rest on the first stretch. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

as for the birds that come out of nowhere and hit you b4 you even see them, i found them easy to avoid if you just move diagonally for most of the time rather than straight. it will barely affect your time. you should do so towards the end of the 2nd stretch, and at the end of the race.

personally i didn't see the big deal about the chocobo race, i did it in a half hour. the main thing is to keep a positive attitude, and it's alot less frustrating the less birds hit you, that's more important than getting balloons.

good luck- it can't be worse than the butterfly game, i can only find >6< blue butterflies!!

I got 0.00 on my fourth or fifth try today, with 13 balloons and 0 birds. If you get way ahead of the trainer, the birds just stop coming for you. Either that or i just got real lucky cause very few birds came for me. Basically, in the first, straightaway part of the race, you need to get 3 or 4 of those balloons-just let the chocobo go straight and he's a touch faster than the other person. In the winding part of the course, don't go for the balloons, just make a beeline for the finish. Just make sure you go on a line that makes you run into a bunch of balloons. Eventually you'll get lucky and win with 0.00

just out of curiosity whats everyone's best at the other three
mine are
Wobbley Chocobo 12.1sec
Dodger Chocobo 13.8
Hyper Dodger Chocobo 18.5
TSA

I'm sure my chocobo is playing dodge the baloons cos every time i'm heading in a straight line toward one it darts off to the side, grrrrr why cant it do the same for the da*n birds
TSA

The secret is really to go diagonolly like the dre said. If you do that and just try to ge as many balloons as you can. It will take along time i started monday morning stayed up all monday night played all dday tuesday.woke up at 7:30
wesday morning and at 4:15 wensday afternoon i finally beat it. Aintd was talking in his post <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> about dark yojimbo keeps him up at night. well i couldnt go to sleep without dreaming of riding on an oversized chicken dodging birds. but now i can finally sleep easily.

I lack the wonderful dedication of you people......I try it, fail, get frustrated, try again then decide I can't be bothered........every time :-(

Get more than 15 ballons and you are done, basicly, i got it on my third try, 16 balloons, 3 birds, and a time less than 40 secs, 39.8 i think. you just have to be lucky enough to get the balloons on your side at the start, she goes for them but gets stuck behind you, and then just avoid the occaisional bird and concentrate on the balloons, there are two rows of bal;loons after the first stretch, and you can get the one on each side if you steer quick, meaning you end up with many more ballons than needed, but you end up going in a
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pattern, straight after the race you'll see a guy to the left saying you did well to beat her, he used to guard a path in the top west that gives the unpowered caladbolg, so go there now, it isn't a seperate area, so there is no green dot on the map, and you have to get off your chocobo.

You don't need under 0.0.0 to get that - I have that, and I haven't managed under 0.0.0 (though I have improved my time to 0.6.4, giving me renewed hope I might manage it).

To get the weapon all you need is to beat her in the race when shes at the entrance to the calm lands.

When I did it i had my best regular time ever i had 34 seconds annd i got 13 balloons and 0 bird so actual when you do the math i got a score of aproximitly -5 seconds, it took long enough but i finally beat the stupid thing after probably 1000 tries