Summary
AFinal Fantasy 10player chose to turn down the difficulty of one of the game’s most notorious challenges by creating a method for dodging lightning bolts in the Thunder Plains with relative ease. TheFinal Fantasy 10player posted their strategy on social media, where other fans and players both praised them for the effort and jokingly condemned them for trivializing the lightning bolt challenge.
As one ofthe highest-rated entries in theFinal Fantasyseries,Final Fantasy 10sees players assume the role of Tidus, a rising blitzball star from Zanarkand who finds himself transported to the land of Spira. He joins the young summoner Yuna on her pilgrimage to defeat the monstrous Sin and becomes one of her guardians alongside characters such as her cousin Rikku, who has an irrational fear of thunder. Yuna’s pilgrimage takes her through the desolate and stormy Thunder Plains, which is home to the lightning dodge challenge that is notorious amongFinal Fantasy 10players. However, one player decided to make the challenge of dodging lightning a thing of the past.
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On Reddit, a user named MarionetteScans shared a script they wrote in Python and shared it on the r/FinalFantasy subreddit. Given that it takes dodging 200 lightning bolts to obtain the Venus Sigil, which is necessary tofully power up Lulu’s Celestial Weapon,Final Fantasy 10players considered the challenge to be among the hardest in the entire series. However, MarionetteScans' script sought to minimize the input that players would have to enter by having the Python script simulate a controller button press anytime the screen flashes white, which is the tell that players will have for a lightning strike coming their way.
The OP advisedFinal Fantasy 10players to turn off random encounters, place Tidus on a Cactuar-shaped alcove in the Thunder Plains, and click back into the game by clicking on a dark part of the screen in order for the script to work. The post from MarionetteScans received over 500 upvotes on r/FinalFantasy in under a day. While someFinal Fantasyfans jokingly referred to the script as cheating the challenge, other users wondered ifRemote Play on Steamor a PlayStation console could be used to run the script. While the OP stated that Remote Play would add some input lag and make the timing tricky, they said it was theoretically plausible.
ThoughFinal Fantasy 10has a variety of mini-gamesand challenges for players to take on, dodging lightning bolts has now become simpler thanks to MarionettesScans' efforts. It remains to be seen how many players will use their Python script.
Final Fantasy 10 HD Remasteris available now for PC, PS3, PS4, PS Vita, Switch, and Xbox One.
