Lightning, butterflies and balls oh my!! (Minigames: FFX)

Ok so everyone who has played a game know what a minigame is.  These are little games within the games, usually they take no longer than 20 minutes and are....alright.

Minigames range from really good to poor to awful to a nuisance.  Case in point I've been playing Final Fantasy X....lots and lots of Final Fantasy X, and one of the things I love to be in RPGs is overpowered.  That being said FFX has some of the most annoying minigames to complete in order to get the ultimate weapons.  These include butterfly capturing, blitzball and dodging lightning 200 times (admittedly not exactly a minigame but a feature of the game in a specific area but still).

So how do these work.

Butterfly hunting: you need to get the 7 blue butterflies without bumping into the red butterflies under time conditions (roughly 30 seconds).  Simple right? Well the added twist is that the red butterflies are nearly indistinguishable from the environment, to the point that you need to increase the brightness of the console you're playing on before attempting this.  There's also very small room for error as these butterflies are quite difficult to dodge, oftentimes finding yourself surrounded by 2, 3 even 5 at one point.  And the most evil butterfly of all is that one blue one that decides to sit right at the exit to the forest, go to far and you will exit the area thus resetting the minigame.

Blitzball: this is actually quite a big feature in the game.  You have 6 players who play in a large sphere filled with water and from then it's basically football.....but with more tackling that can cause poison or sleep....I still don't get how you can punch someone and they fall asleep....doesn't that mean they need hospitalization? I just don't....anyway so the goal is well to make more goals than the opposing team.  There are no fouls or extreme rules you just throw the ball from teammate to teammate, get it to Tidus (the main character) get him to use Jecht Shot next to the goal, repeat and voila, you win.  The game itself isn't difficult...just irritating.  You have to playthrough 3 league/tournaments to get a character's overdrives (ultimate attacks) and then you only have a 50% chance of getting the item you need to upgrade his ultimate weapon.  The leagues take far too long being 10 rounds each, and it just ends up being a nuisance having to do this over and over and over again. The funny thing is, if you've beaten everyone (not that hard) and reach round 7 without losing then there is no team that can catch up to you points wise, so you could literally sit there and let them have goal after goal and still win the league.

Lightning dodging: this......this is just pure evil.  The goal of the game is to press x when the screen flashes white.  The times this happens in are random, the lightning comes within the same second as the flash and sometimes you get 2 in a row just coz why not?  At least I don't need to do this crap 200 times right? ......right? .........damnit........It gets worse when you realise you can't save or exit the area because if you do the number of times you dodged gets reset.  This means you need to dodge 200 lightning strikes in 1 sitting.....

...nope. I'm done. Who needs ultimate equipment? I'm fine with only dealing 9999 hp damage.  Who needs that glorious 99,999 hp damage......*Sigh*

Alright well hope you guys have an awesome day, as for me? I'm going to grab some rubber shoes, a butterfly net and fill a dome with water. Gotta get that beautiful 99,999 hp damage.....some day you shall be mine