Thousand Arms' Minigames

Here we go, a game where you're more likely to enjoy the minigames more than the actual plot, due to the whole dating mechanics involved. Well, you don't have to do this, but a whole chunk of the game is much harder unless you date the ladies, since you lose out of weapon power and magic skills. There's several ways to do this, by actually dating, giving presents, and finally, the minigames, oh yes.

Cooking Attack

Sodina's minigame is a simple Simon Says, up to 10 different combinations which start at 2 button presses, then go up by one after every two combinations is finished, up to 6. It's super easy and honestly quite boring but better than some of the games on here.

Hammer Strikes

A whack-a-mole game involving the Playstation's direction buttons and actual buttons, basically hit the corresponding button when a Damashi pops up but don't hit Wyna. There's a few set patterns, so this one is actually save-scummable to get the perfect score. One pattern actually opens every single door at once, with seven Damashi to hit accurately. Not save-scumming this one could make this one of the harder games.

BJ King

This is honestly self-explanatory enough for those who know how to play Blackjack and I'm not gonna say much about it. Except that it's one of two luck-based minigames and that's all there is to it.

Hit Damashi

The worst mini-game. You have to protect Nelsha from Damashi which show up around the screen by shooting at them with a crosshair, but not shooting her or letting them hit her. Problems with this game include the slow crosshair speed, the high amounts of Damashi that pop up before the timer runs out, and the awful hitboxes of these characters. I think this game actually is scored based on how many Damashi you actually kill, but it's hard to remember when you have to protect Nelsha too. The fact that this skill-based game is more annoying than the two luck-based minigames really shows.

Sweeper Blues

This is the best mini-game. Palma has it, and it's a nice puzzle involving cleaning up every single square on the 5x5 board and it's got the nice puzzle element that has some nice thought to it. This one is graded by time but is still surprisingly easy and worth it.

Shell Joint

Kyoka's minigame is a memory game where you have to pick which face is the one that she wants. This is actually the easiest minigame, due to it only being three patterns. Once you memorize those patterns, you can just do it blindfolded. I'm not even joking. They don't even bother to really change locations of the faces here.

Super Rock Paper Scissors

And then we go to possibly the worst luck-based minigame I have ever seen. Yes, it's a RPS game, but you'll notice that the opponent either wins or loses against you, never ties. And then the second round is basically guess which way the robot will turn, one of four cardinal directions, or if you lost the first round you have to avoid it guessing you. Both rounds need to be won in order to gain a point, no partial credit. It's save-scummable, yes, but not fun, and Marion's voice really is grating. Making matters worse is this game is actually required for one quest!

Brain Teasers

This is an easy addition/subtraction of shapes. It's timed but still rather easy and shouldn't even be possible to lose unless you are deliberately trying to lose intimacy

Palace of Knowledge

A trivia game. Save the answers to these ones and you win every time.

So yeah, Thousand Arms has some pretty easy games to figure out. It's actually the most fun thing to do in this game, because this game's battle system although unique isn't really all that fun to get the hang of. And the dating questions are often trick questions, so I often leave actual dating out of the question. Basically, these games are the best ways to go.