8 Most Stressful QTE's In Video Game History
1. The Skipping Rope - Final Fantasy IX
And so we end on a quick time event that despite its focus on a childhood activity teaches you one painful lesson: That playtime is most definitely over.
Very early on in the game, Vivi happens across some kids playing jump rope and can watch them laugh and play away their day.
He can also ask to join in, and while the player might assume that this will open up a nice, relaxing way to kill some time, they've unwittingly engaged with a QTE section more stressful than the lightning dodging challenge from Final Fantasy X!
See, by completing certain numbers of jumps, the young girl next to you will reward you with prizes, and seeing as these range from rare items and cards and in the re-releases of the game, a special achievement which can only be grabbed for hitting those sweet jumps 1,000 times!
One. Thousand. Times.
Let that sink in.
You cannot make a single mistake with any of the one thousand button presses you're about to make, and as the jump rope reaches such speeds that you'd think the kids handling it would propel themselves into space, mistakes are going to happen a lot.
Let the sweat flow, my friend.