10 Impossible Video Game Side-Quests That Cost You 100%

Typically, the hardest optional quests in video games tend to involve late-game trials and boss fights that test your mettle. It’s not usually simple sports mini-games that cause players to rip their hair out.

In Super Mario Odyssey's Metro Kingdom, players can find a park and play a jump rope game to grab two of the game’s Power Moons. What makes Jump Rope Genius' demand for 100 perfectly timed jumps particularly difficult is that the game starts off slow and gets faster over time, causing players to carefully shift speed. One mistake and you’re back to that slow start again.

Forget the likes of Bowser, players had more trouble with a skipping rope. When the game released, gamers found any way they could cheat the system after spending so long trying and failing to tick this off their checklist.

Things get perhaps even worse at the later Beach Kingdom of the game, where there are two Power Moons associated with the beach volleyball mini-game where you have to return the ball 100 times. This is so notoriously hard that the accepted strategy is playing in two-player mode so that someone can help as Mario’s new friend Cappy.

With over 800 Power Moons to collect, it’s embarrassing and all too likely that the few short of your 100% run could well be these unreasonably hard mini-games.