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Anyone who runs Mario Party, Crash Bash, or any game that's meant to imitate those, I have something you might like: Party Girls, a Japan and PAL only budget PS2 game where a variety of lovely ladies compete in sets of minigames for victory. If you live in the USA, you can just use your PAL PS2 you got for Crash games or Japanese PS2 you got for Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix or whatever it is you run on it. This game is published by 505 Game Street in PAL regions (Just like Pink Pong), so it'll work on your NTSC TV.
The main category to run is 100%. That means you have to beat all 10 girls, unlocking the bikini of each girl you beat. You don't have to play as all of the girls, however, so Kana Momozono (the green haired one) is used throughout the majority of the run. This is because each girl has an interview at the end when they win, and Kana's is the shortest. Conveniently, the other 100% requirement is revealing Reiko Mizusaki's name (it starts as "????" when you unlock her) which you do by winning against any opponent while playing as her. This is when you play against Kana. One more thing: You start the game with only 7 of the 10 girls. The other three, Riho, Kyouko, and Reiko, have to be unlocked by beating all 5 minigames in a row in each of the sets with no losses, and they're always unlocked in that order, meaning Reiko's last no matter what. This means that ideally, you'll beat the two sets that aren't the shortest in one try to unlock Riho and Kyouko, and you'll have six chances to unlock Reiko.
So here's the route: the longest and most random minigame is the first minigame of Set 2, Helmet and Hammer. It's like a cross between Rock Paper Scissors and the Game & Watch game Judge. The spinners pick the RPS winner at random, and whoever wins has to smack the opponent with the Hammer by pressing Circle. First to three wins A successful dodge, done by pressing X to use the Helmet, doesn't give you any points, so you're at the mercy of the RNG (ohhh yes) to win quickly enough. And there's no time limit for this minigame either. Oh and there's something I haven't mention yet: every mistake you make is multiplied by two in this game. After every single minigame (Every SINGLE one), there is an unskippable replay of the ENTIRE minigame you just played, so saving time is crucial. In my PB, I did Set 1 first to get it out of the way since I have more trouble with it than Set 2, but I imagine an optimized run of Party Girls would keep doing Helmet and Hammer until they got a pretty good run with only 2 or 1 losses (or even zero) and then proceed to beat Set 2 and then 1 with no losses, then have plenty of chances to beat Set 3. Not to mention I found out Set 3 was the shortest set when I did an attempt where Set 1 was what I did 8 times instead of Set 3, and it took longer even though I made fewer costly mistakes. Using this route, you'll have to see the credits a minimum of ten times (Yes, you watch interviews and the credits 10 times, nine of them with Kana, and they're unskippable). Below is my PB, and below that is my Set 1 8 times for comparison (and no, playing on the PAL or Japanese version makes no difference that I know of)
Time starts when you pick the second opponent before the first Set of minigames. Time ends when the game tells you you've unlocked the final swimsuit (if you've revealed Reiko's name of course). You can check to see if you got 100% by seeing if "Go" mode has been unlocked.
The main category to run is 100%. That means you have to beat all 10 girls, unlocking the bikini of each girl you beat. You don't have to play as all of the girls, however, so Kana Momozono (the green haired one) is used throughout the majority of the run. This is because each girl has an interview at the end when they win, and Kana's is the shortest. Conveniently, the other 100% requirement is revealing Reiko Mizusaki's name (it starts as "????" when you unlock her) which you do by winning against any opponent while playing as her. This is when you play against Kana. One more thing: You start the game with only 7 of the 10 girls. The other three, Riho, Kyouko, and Reiko, have to be unlocked by beating all 5 minigames in a row in each of the sets with no losses, and they're always unlocked in that order, meaning Reiko's last no matter what. This means that ideally, you'll beat the two sets that aren't the shortest in one try to unlock Riho and Kyouko, and you'll have six chances to unlock Reiko.
So here's the route: the longest and most random minigame is the first minigame of Set 2, Helmet and Hammer. It's like a cross between Rock Paper Scissors and the Game & Watch game Judge. The spinners pick the RPS winner at random, and whoever wins has to smack the opponent with the Hammer by pressing Circle. First to three wins A successful dodge, done by pressing X to use the Helmet, doesn't give you any points, so you're at the mercy of the RNG (ohhh yes) to win quickly enough. And there's no time limit for this minigame either. Oh and there's something I haven't mention yet: every mistake you make is multiplied by two in this game. After every single minigame (Every SINGLE one), there is an unskippable replay of the ENTIRE minigame you just played, so saving time is crucial. In my PB, I did Set 1 first to get it out of the way since I have more trouble with it than Set 2, but I imagine an optimized run of Party Girls would keep doing Helmet and Hammer until they got a pretty good run with only 2 or 1 losses (or even zero) and then proceed to beat Set 2 and then 1 with no losses, then have plenty of chances to beat Set 3. Not to mention I found out Set 3 was the shortest set when I did an attempt where Set 1 was what I did 8 times instead of Set 3, and it took longer even though I made fewer costly mistakes. Using this route, you'll have to see the credits a minimum of ten times (Yes, you watch interviews and the credits 10 times, nine of them with Kana, and they're unskippable). Below is my PB, and below that is my Set 1 8 times for comparison (and no, playing on the PAL or Japanese version makes no difference that I know of)
Time starts when you pick the second opponent before the first Set of minigames. Time ends when the game tells you you've unlocked the final swimsuit (if you've revealed Reiko's name of course). You can check to see if you got 100% by seeing if "Go" mode has been unlocked.
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