7 Most WTF Minigames We Swear We're Not Making Up

minigames exist to give you a break from the regular gameplay like when you settle in for a hand of Guenter for a monster hunt in The Witcher or when you pause the game go sit in the corner and get your breathing back under control after another Nemesis encounter in resident evil 3 ah these minigames will usually make sense in the context of the main game not always though as you'll see in these following seven minigames which had us wondering if we'd accidentally stumbled into a different game and it had just taken us a while to notice enjoy and beware minor spoilers for the following one of the afternoon watch and all's well I hope I see you well sir as you'd expect from a company that convinced us fallout 76 was going to be good Bethesda is usually pretty good at persuasion I read on the internet that our games have had a few bugs in their video games like Skyrim and the recent fall outs the way persuasion works is that when you level up you put points into your speech stats then when you're talking to people you'll be given persuasion conversation options along with your chance of succeeding it also helps if you put on a particularly charismatic hat man at dinner I can help you but not when you're holding a hostage let her go she can go this wasn't always the case as anyone who remembers the truly bizarre speech craft minigame from the elder scrolls for Oblivion can tell you whenever you wanted to try and persuade someone of something in Oblivion you needed to play this minigame wearing you were presented with a persuasion wheel divided into four quarters marked admire coerce joke and boast you should be ashamed each quarter also had a different sized orange wedge in it indicating how strong the reaction to that selection would be after each choice the wedge would rotate once clockwise and to complete the minigame you had to use all four responses at the right times to try and maximize the targets disposition you know like a real conversation remarkable how could you tell how a target would respond to you because highlighting each response caused them to wildly gern their way through various different facial expressions like they had their hands tied behind their back and would try to dislodge a spider from their face well done it was a bit harder to read the argonians on account of them having lizard faces but the Khajiit swery z those ears are a dead giveaway I mean Oblivion's faces weren't exactly photo realistic to begin with but you've got to admire the misplaced confidence that led to someone thinking that these lump and Muggs was so expressive that you'd be able to study the faces la noir style for subtle tales that would guide you towards making the right choices obviously what we ended up with we're NPCs either sporting face splitting grins that look like they've been dosed with smile X or angry frowns like you've just told them you ran over their dog don't try to manipulate me ironically this is the face I make when I'm playing Fallout 76 more at dinner Yakuza zero is the most wildly inconsistent game in terms of tone that I've ever played play for an hour and on the one hand you'll experience horrifying self-mutilation tense standoffs with mobsters and brutal combat sequences straight out of an action movie on the other hand you will also experience spectacularly wacky side missions where you sing karaoke teacher dominatrix how to be more assertive or help a Michael Jackson impersonator fight off a horde of zombies so it's saying something that even against this backdrop of wildly varying tone the telephone club minigame stands out as one of the most incongruous minigames I've ever tackled the telephone club is unlocked in chapter 5 when protagonist Q is supposed to be consolidating his position in the murky world of Tokyo's 1980s real estate boom these clubs are a throwback to the games 1980s setting places where patrons could go and pay a fee to talk to people on the phone usually to try and find a romantic partner this is a Yakuza game though so rather than a sedate conversation over the phone the telephone club mini game begins with kiri setting the record for the world's most dramatic answering of a telephone mush mush and then continues with a bizarre conversational shoot-'em-up in which you have to select the right response charge up your telephone beam by rotating the right sake like the dial on a rotary phone and then fire being careful not to hit the other catastrophic ly awkward conversation options that are suddenly crowding the correct answer like paparazzi around a Kardashian yes a Salter [Music] get enough responses right and he gets a shot at what the game calls the vital questions Roulettes where you get to artlessly ask the girl to describe her body and look way prouder of yourself than that really justifies done that okay Oh sh t don't get responses wrong of course and things will start to get awkward funny though ordered list this minigame is actually pretty hard searching your telephone beam is surprisingly tricky the responses travel in an arc and all the wrong answers that are dancing in front of you trying to distract you are often sarcastically large and almost impossible to miss persevere though and you can win over your chat buddies something the game represents with a big door with love written behind it you know the classic symbol [Music] then you can arrange to meet up with your date and there's a bonus have someone to sit and watch you do karaoke in future [Music] how whimsical right now back to slamming people's heads in car doors [Music] [Applause] Final Fantasy 10 - was the 2003 sequel to Final Fantasy 10 in which heroines Yuna and Rikku join up with moody new girl pain to form a kind of treasure hunting Charlie's Angels because every girl gang needs a nemesis Final Fantasy 10 - also added rival hunter LeBlanc is she trying to feed a complete outfit because she's 35 percent of the way there at the very least the block has the Eve de mystical sphere belonging to Yuna and friends and thus comes the inevitable point in a treasure hunting trios career when you have to secretly infiltrate the base of a rival crew okey-dokey let's change when that time comes you better hope these foot soldiers of that rival crew have a conveniently faced covering uniform now they do that's good I say oh so nice uniforms and you better hope those foot soldiers misplaced said uniform conveniently near where you're having a bikini slash fight oh they have that's good from then on it's a simple case of disguising yourself as the enemy sneaking into the enemy's chateau and then giving the enemy a sensual back massage wait what I'm waiting apparently LeBlanc's uniformed lackeys as well as being combat operatives are also trained masseuses whose responsibilities include helping the boss unwind with regular back rubs you go to the bosses chambre and tend to your duties so it before you thee pretend Blackie to pummel the stress out of LeBlanc's deep-tissue in a minigame that comes more out of nowhere than the ending of now you see me or a reference to the movie now you see me in the year 2020 oh we have to assume that guna has no professional massage therapy qualifications which makes this curious minigame in which you apply pressure to a grid representing LeBlanc's back and shoulders at least as dangerous as it is bizarre how bad krub supposed to crack like this if you do avoid breaking the boss's spinal column you accumulate satisfaction points while she gives you feedback so enthusiastic you can only hope it ends up on a lack of salary review somewhere this seems appropriate keep at it until the Blanc is all blissed out on massage minigame then she falls asleep and you can get on with stealing your stuff back oh I'm dead good either that's all you've snapped her spine Yuna whichever it is job well done [Music] minigames in fighting games tend towards using your incredible array of punches and kicks to perform feats of strength or just to destroy private property Tekken Tag Tournament however decided that maybe players have had enough of all that violence and instead might just like to play a nice relaxing frame of ten pin bowling no idea why they thought that but obviously they did because look here it is in the game Tekken Bowl as this mini game is no unless you pick from the entire roster of fighters most of whom literally want to kill each other and take them for a fun night at the bowling alley or rather a makeshift bowling alley set up in a dojo with an audience of monks and lesser Tekken characters using golden statuettes of Heihachi as pins those hoping for some any kind of connection to the fact that Tekken is a fighting game such as characters punching the pins or destroying them with devil gene chest lasers will be disappointed turns out it's a pretty standard bowling mini game with you choosing the direction and power of your shot and trying not to overcharge your throw otherwise your character will accompany the ball down the lane crashing into the pins and presumably hurting themselves quite badly something the game feels compelled to replay nine times weird as it is to see a bunch of highly-trained kung-fu assassins amicably bowling together you kind of have to admire the amount of thought that went into this during the aiming part of the bowling minigame regular human characters see things normally while combat robot jag has a sophisticated targeting system and clockwork weirdo yoshimitsu has a Robo samurai heads-up display [Music] Tekken Bowl reappeared in Tekken 5 dark resurrection and most recently in Tekken 7 where the entire roster can go bowling including guest characters so if you've ever wanted to see how noctus from Final Fantasy 15 deals with a 710 split now's your chance but might be time to leave when negan from The Walking Dead shows up here that guy's got a temper got something that might interest you the merchant in Resident Evil 4 is one of the most mysterious characters in video games who is he why is he here and why does he talk like one of Disneyland's animatronic pirates stranger what you need that for going happen an elephant possibly the most baffling thing about the merchant is the fact that not only has he ventured into the giant fortress belonging to the laws illuminatus cult which has to be the most dangerous place for hundreds of miles in any direction but also that he's decided to set up a carnival shooting gallery there you know for fun welcome to be fair it is a very large castle so the parasite-infected death cult that lives there probably aren't checking every room but if you remember earlier in this sentence when I said parasite-infected death cult you might start to see that it's still a bad idea anyway what's done is done and the upshot is that this spooky horror Castle does contain a fun shooting gallery for Leon Kennedy to enjoy when he isn't suplexing monks it gets even weirder once you start playing and realize the merchant has populated his shooting gallery with wooden targets representing notable actual villagers which can't have gone down well with the locals in no small feat of engineering the targets also move and various sections of the range slide back to reveal new parts of the shooting gallery and is this what you're spending all the money I pay you for guns on the merchant I'm not telling you how to run a business dude but you're not even charging for the shooting gallery come on in a crowning achievement of weirdness if you do well you're rewarded with what the game calls bottle caps which are painstakingly modeled figurines of you and your most hated enemies that each have a built-in sound chip so presumably at some point the merchant was following you around secretly recording you okay that has replaced the mutant regenerators as the creepiest thing in this game nice work merchant thank you when in number three be for salmon at sea forgots strong in the homestretch the third most popular duck what's this a big part of Shenmue two's appeal was its minigames I mean I assume it definitely wasn't the main story missions jeez they're either died versions such as arcade games gambling and street fights helped to make the games Hong Kong feel like a real believable city full of unique characters and gave you something to do to put off yet another story mission in which you're required to carry crates with all the frantic urgency of continental drift people were crying when they announced Shenmue 383 I mean so is I but for different reasons anyway while Shenmue is full of minigames most of them makes sense in the context of the game not all of them though as you'll discover if you come across Hong Kong's illegal clandestine duck racing scene I mean I see you miss illegal sounds like it should be [Music] located in a CD alley and only accessible after you've taken part in some underground street fighting the dark races let you gamble on the outcome of a race between various fleet-footed waterfowl you pick your favorite duck place a bet and then the Ducks who it should be pointed out are all wearing fetching bowties waddle off down the streets at breakneck speed and did I mention Rio is supposed to be looking for his father's killer because he is [Music] yes I am very impressive after you've been to the duck races for the first time Rio can get his own duck by punching one out of a tree but fewer I regret to inform you that it is both sassy and horny for human babes yeah beat all the other ducks with your terrible duck however and you can face the ultimate Doug a penguin miss penguin better turn out to be Rios father's killer or this is going to have been a real waste of time [Music] what will combat games don't tend to be about using your head they tend to be about using someone else's head as a baseball ps2 game Mortal Kombat deception changed all that with the chest combat minigame which was not only a more cerebral strategic take on combat of the mortal variety but also the only Mortal Kombat minigame where they couldn't change the letter C into a K and still have it makes sense should have gone with kerplunk combat instead what a game that is naturally develop a Midway looked at the grandfather of all board games chess beloved of kings and philosophers alike which is survived basically unchanged for well over a thousand years and thought we can definitely improve on this that's why chess Kombat shakes up how each piece can move allows you to play scraps on the board before a match begins and adds powerup squares power-ups squares why didn't they think of that in sixth century India more importantly every time you try and take a piece you have to participate in a one round fist fight damage to each piece is cumulative but the aggressor gets a minor health advantage and then bonuses are applied I get the feeling chess grandmaster garry kasparov wouldn't be quite as good at this version and I bet his fatalities rubbish to further complicate matters you have to choose which character plays which chess piece do you put your favorite character to be a grunt because you'll have more of them or do you choose to make them your champion who can move the most freely and aim to keep your powder dry for an attempt to checkmate honestly it's probably even more strategic than real chess carefully select your team keep an eye on your bonuses and judiciously pick your battles and you'll eventually be able to position yourself for a final confrontation with the other teams leader where the odds of you getting a checkmate are stacked in your favor that's using your head no wait that's using their head again as a to toy this time great where one takes the leader there you go those are seven of the most WTF minigames we have ever encountered in video games when you let us know some more weird minigames that you've played in your videogame career in the comments below and if you watch more videos from us then why not check out some of our recent live streams like this one where me and Mike compare our game collections to see who has got the worst game collection by checking our Metacritic scores that was a lot of fun and a nice live stream here where Luke and Ellen compared their Animal Crossing villagers to see who has the most valuable roster of Animal Crossing animals that was a lot of fun too so check out both those videos and we will see you next time on outside Xbox thanks for watching

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Length: 18min 23sec (1103 seconds)

Published: Thu May 28 2020