Action scenes

[Okami]

[I play Fahrenheit on PC]

It is a bit embarrassing but I must admit I do not understand at all how to succeed in the action scenes.

The manual says that I must follow the key sequence but the fact that two key sequences appear (sometimes similar sometimes different) is very confusing for me. Should try to follow both ? Should I choose ? Is there a bad choice and a good choice ? How can I know if I failed because I made the bad choice or because I wasn't fast enough ?

Anyway I try all possibilities and I fail in 90% of the cases. So I'd like to know if I should be quick to push the key down or to push the key down and then release it quickly (in other word does the game test when the key is going up like any other program, or when the key is press down ?) Should I wait a while with the key down ?

Is there a mean to succeed in that sequences without having learned by heart the indications that appear ?

BTW the game is incredible. :atari:

[Understudy]

I'm playing PS2, but I've had a good description of the PC controls....

You get 2 circles on the screen, and they do the 'simon says' sequences... For the most part, you just need to press the right buttons in the order shown... Left circle is (allegedly) the cursor keys and the Right circle is the arrowkeys on the number pad.

As the sequence appears on the screen, just hit the buttons. Its a press and release type of thing.

Some sequences, dodging things - there's a fantastic 'the matrix' style sequence, dodging bullets and everying, later on - require you to enter the sequences quickly.

Have you managed to complete the tutorial dodges, they are simultaneous and time dependant.

[elchrys]

The manual along with the Tutorial should make the controls quite clear.
Whether you will have to press the corresponding "left" & "right" keys as fast as you can, or you will have to press the keys you see on the screen as soon as you see them.

Imagine your keyboard like two sticks. The arrow keys is one, and A,S,D,W is the other. The circles you see on the screen show the dirrection of each of the two 'sticks'.

*Takes a deep breath and hopes that she made herself clear*.

[Okami]

Thank you.

I'm sorry : as I read the manual and complete the demo, I thought that the tutorial was useless to me (I almost forget there is one !). I was wrong.