I personally like this GATE. Its more suspenseful than the Any Way the Wind Blows GATE and utilizes your reflexes/observational skills. There still is an element of luck that is mostly out of your hands (the 3 cup shuffle), but so long as you can quickly identify the cuts on the bamboos, you usually can identify a lot of the areas of where not to stand. I've managed to get through to the end once (though I've only played it 3 times), but once you do this enough to immediately identify how each bamboo will fall (however long it takes you to), your odds of surviving go up (like anything else). Like if a bamboo you are standing by has several cuts, you need to immediately move away, or if it has a vertical cut, you should be lined-up with the cut as the bamboo will split and fall to the sides. The single-diagonal cut one is probably the easiest telegraph, because not only is this a recycled "mechanic" from the Ivalice raids, but the telegraph of where the line AoE will go is fairly predictable.

Quote Originally Posted by Espritduo View Post
Can you just ignore Daigoro and stay out of his way to pass the 2nd phase? I don't care about the MGP, I just want the achievement.
The one with the multiple piles of gold? Pretty sure you can, just don't be next to a pile of gold and not between him and his next target pile (which he will face before jumping).