jorb wrote:I'm not fond of it either, and I'd love a better minigame.
Throw a rope on animal, start at 10 distance. The minigame is directional key presses, up, down, left, right. It's composed of sequences - one sequence is for example <up, up, left, down, up, right>, appearing one after another. You have about a second (or less) to press the right key, pressing the wrong one fails the whole sequence.
Win sequence, get 1 distance closer to animal, fail sequence, get 2 distances away from animal. If distance >10, then you lose the rope and can't retame for x minutes or whatever. Animal is tamed at 0 distance.
Simple and fun :p