Honestly. You can see it in their eyes. They're still smiling bc they've finally got the answer to the puzzle. Then they respawn and take in their surroundings - and the smile immediately drops into a dead-eyed stare. Fucking beautiful.
Tomb Raider 1 on PS1 has a somewhat similar feeling. The ps1 version for some reason decided to make the save points work only once, so when you came into a room and saw two save spots floating around, you would feel absolute dread because you have no clue when you should use one of them.
This is not a troll level. Not like those you find in mario maker that are good (sorry fir but no you broke too many rules) This does cross into psychological torture
See, they're trying to predict the double-bluff. If you go into a level expecting everything to be a troll, then the biggest troll is for something to be normal.
If you do the obvious thing and it fails, you feel a little dumb. If you ignore the obvious thing and it was the solution the whole time? You feel super dumb.
For all intents and purposes he could’ve. We’d just never know. Getting the solution in 5 minutes doesn’t make good content for your friend. So he’d either have to go through everything or get cut from the video. Maybe he gets a short solo segment at the end but it’s just not funny enough
@@XYZeNxghtmxre fwiw months later, Smant did clarify on stream that while he didn’t find the door, Fir did later tell him that if he had, Fir would’ve asked him to play through anyways :)
15:07 Ant: "Wait, what if there's a secret door at the start" Fir: **Starts Sweating** Ant: "You got quiet" Fir: **Sweats Profusely** Fir: "I just don't want to give hints without being prompted"
I was half expecting that the timer room was actually secretly SMO Online, and Fir would just hit a button on the other side of the map at some point in their frustration for comedic timing to open the door
But doing so brings them to a “real” room with a checkpoint. They have to get through a series of rooms to get back to the start, unless they pull an Alpharad and just restart from Cap.
I think maybe he wanted to check it, but went along with the level for content. I don't know, his intuition seemed too strong to search as minimally as he did.
When you hid the win condition in the odyssey pipe, my first thought was "smallant is absolutely the type of person to think to look at the odyssey during one of these challenges" And I was only half wrong.
My favorite part of these videos will always be the tight race between cj and smant since their play styles are so different yet effective in their own way. Smant can cut out failures and therefore save time with his intellect and guesswork, meanwhile cj keeps diving headfirst and learns later. It's always a toss up to which one is better and I love finding out at the end. (Tldr, I attribute this loss to smant hesitating before picking up the death heart instead of skipping it altogether, or picking it up right away like cj did)
I just realised that while cjya & smallant thought they were doing an escape room at first while alpharad thought he was doing a troll level right of the bat because alpha has only done the other troll level
The instant they started doing nonsense thing in the goomba room, I knew it was gonna be a timer. Nothing they did was alike, and it reminded me too much of a psych experiment I'd seen on tv befor, where a group of people were trying to increase a score, that turned out to be controlled by the movement of a goldfish xD
I know a lot of work goes into making these escape rooms, but I love them so much. Dont think theres a series of videos on TH-cam I'm more excited to click on, and that is including Hide and Seek.
This was the best one so far. The fact that Alpharad and Smallant made a comment about the exit being at the beginning is amazing 🤣. And also including the only checkpoint at the very end after they realize that the exit was at the beginning 😂
I laughed so hard! I do feel a bit sorry for them though, that must have been so frustrating.. But one of these days, you'll have trained them well with the troll levels. And then it's just going to be a perfectly normal custom level and they'll second guess themselves at every step I look forward to the next descent into madness!
"I'm like a rat doing random activities thinking it's gonna give me food..." -Smant I'd say that's a fairly accurate description of ALL of your troll levels, fir. 😂😭🤣
Fir. What went through your mind when SmAnt went behind the Odyssey? E: Wow... E2: Actually, I want to say it. I love these levels you make. Be they escape room or troll. Genuinely look forward to seeing more.
I mean, he does the first world in less than 25 minutes, so he decided to cheat after he had already lost -- and Fir likely let him know that. At that point, it didn't really matter anymore; he isn't a Odyssee speedrunner like the other two so going back with the trick jumps would likely just have been painful (to do and to watch).
The formula to a good troll: "Make you focus at X, while Y interacts in a way you're not expecting." For example: the jump = X, the hidden block = Y. Or, a room with a lot of moving parts (that do nothing) = X, fireball that kills you because you're standing still = Y. This level had none of that. Just a lot of killing. You have a lot to learn.
Yeah!! (If you didn't watch to the very end, fir explains that the goomba room is just a timer) i heard about an actual psychological study that was conducted where people were put into a room with a printer that would print out a dollar every thirty seconds, but they weren't told that. They were just told that they had to figure out what causes the machine to print. (They were also being recorded and they knew that they were) so people would make up wild theories according to random things that they did in the room because they assumed that it was something that they were doing.
On the one hand, thanks for the entertainment. On the other hand, you're a monster, Fir. I feel bad for the guys for what they've been through in this level. That fish section in particular looks like insufferable tedium.
Really fun troll levels and escape room you have made recently but I do think it is more fun to guess the solution during the video which the reveal at the start kinda stopped for me, but fire videos. Keep it up!
Spoilers: Honestly I think smant should’ve won that. Fir told cjya to go get the moon as fast as possible at the end there. Although mad respect for Alpharad taking an unorthodox strategy at the ending.
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smant: "unless theres one behind the odyssey"
fir: *breathing stops*
smant: "no theres not"
fir: *sigh of relief*
The only reason Smant didn't notice is because the camera flipped out and didn't show him the proper view which makes it more hilarious.
I'm your 2k like
I respect Jacob's commitment to say "naw I'm not playing this game" and just booting up into Cap Kingdom to get back to the start
TBF that was pretty big brained
Extremely dominant move. I wish he'd won with that strategy.
@@Drekromancererm… kind of alpha… 😍
@@decayingfairy3996 I thought it was rad
Why do you respect that…? He’s a quitter
You gave me an extra minute for not having my costume last time. Can I have it this time to plsplspls 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
how does smallant have only 25 likes
How does this only have 2 comments is the real question
I mean to be fair, if Fir didn't yell at CJ to "GO GO GO GET THE MOON HURRY" he would have hesitated longer then those 2 seconds..
Yes
HEY SMALLANT
"You found the checkpoint"
Never has so much despair been attached to that phrase
Honestly. You can see it in their eyes. They're still smiling bc they've finally got the answer to the puzzle. Then they respawn and take in their surroundings - and the smile immediately drops into a dead-eyed stare. Fucking beautiful.
Tomb Raider 1 on PS1 has a somewhat similar feeling. The ps1 version for some reason decided to make the save points work only once, so when you came into a room and saw two save spots floating around, you would feel absolute dread because you have no clue when you should use one of them.
I’ve seen it a lot in Mario Maker maps, but my god this one is even more dreadful and I love it.
It's some Re:Zero kinda stuff
My names Jacob
Having the level be playable both forwards and backwards is genuinely cool
You have an interesting definition of playable in this specific case...
Pizza Time
I mean, most Mario levels are playable forwards and backwards
@@SomeGuyNamedDezecra Bruh
@@rainlion10 Every level of every game is, you just need to go back to the start like Alpha did
The smirk on your face as Alpha and Smant were talking about a dev door at the start must’ve been massive
Alpha: There should be a dev door
Alpha minutes later: I wish there was a checkpoint
Well, he got what he wanted
@@tpfoxCastro
Just not _how_ he wanted…
But hey, that’s what happen if he didn’t specify, XD
@@Zack_Zander Djinn wish
@@vasconcelos7356 or monkey's paw.. but yeah "be careful what you wish for, you just might get it"
So at what point, I wonder, does "troll level" cross the line into "psychological torture"? Because this one felt pretty dang close.
I feel like the 2 go hand in hand
There is no line, they're just the same
it's when Valefisk gets involved
Psychological trollture
This is not a troll level. Not like those you find in mario maker that are good (sorry fir but no you broke too many rules)
This does cross into psychological torture
Little did smallant know how close he came at the start lmao
Bro got that 1000 IQ
almost@@JosephJoestar69420
Little did smallant know.. it even happened more than once
Bro literally almost screwing up Fir's plans twice in the span of like 2 minutes
Edit: and then again later.
Dude he was so close to screwing up Fir's master plan twice. Smart even mentioned a secret entrance BEHIND the odyssey
i love how they always try stuff that would actually make sense first even though they know it's not gonna work.
Thats a streamer moment right there
See, they're trying to predict the double-bluff.
If you go into a level expecting everything to be a troll, then the biggest troll is for something to be normal.
If you do the obvious thing and it fails, you feel a little dumb.
If you ignore the obvious thing and it was the solution the whole time? You feel super dumb.
It's also more comforting to just rule it out from the start so you don't spend every attempt questioning if that really was the solution all along.
I love Alpha's reverse psychology on these levels
Alpharad is smart dude
yep
When you're not that technical and more so a playboy you're gonna think in a different shape
Reverse engineering.
Guessing based on what he would do.
@@randompog8493 😂😂😂
A playboy? Seriously?
If Smant saw it the first time he went around the Odyssey, that would have truly been a legendary moment in Mario Escape Room history.
For all intents and purposes he could’ve. We’d just never know. Getting the solution in 5 minutes doesn’t make good content for your friend. So he’d either have to go through everything or get cut from the video. Maybe he gets a short solo segment at the end but it’s just not funny enough
@@XYZeNxghtmxreHe probably would have started a second run to get the Level as well
Just imagine CJ and Alpha losing their minds as Fir tells them that Ant has already finished
@@zyrage Honestly Smant is the kind of guy that would play the level just to be the homie.
@@XYZeNxghtmxre fwiw months later, Smant did clarify on stream that while he didn’t find the door, Fir did later tell him that if he had, Fir would’ve asked him to play through anyways :)
15:07
Ant: "Wait, what if there's a secret door at the start"
Fir: **Starts Sweating**
Ant: "You got quiet"
Fir: **Sweats Profusely**
Fir: "I just don't want to give hints without being prompted"
**Deception Successful**
Out of all of the things that conspired in this level.. I love how Small Ant lost to CJ from trying out multiple hearts for 'science'
Oh, man. Even a single mistake or scientific inquiry would account for the difference. That's horrendous. 😂
Even worse, some of those tests were suspecting the exit was at the beginning of the level. If only he was more exploratory then
I was half expecting that the timer room was actually secretly SMO Online, and Fir would just hit a button on the other side of the map at some point in their frustration for comedic timing to open the door
That would have been legendary
I can’t wait until for the next escape room where every single one of the them tries the odyssey at the very beginning
But doing so brings them to a “real” room with a checkpoint. They have to get through a series of rooms to get back to the start, unless they pull an Alpharad and just restart from Cap.
I knew that room had to just be a timer. The way Fir led them on I think stopped them from realizing. Great stuff.
going through cap kingdom instead of hell was actually genius, timer be damned
Agreed. I wish it had paid off by making him fast enough to win.
Fir and Smallant continue to share a brainstem. If only Smant had trusted his gut about the exit! But the final scores are a fantastic result too.
I think maybe he wanted to check it, but went along with the level for content. I don't know, his intuition seemed too strong to search as minimally as he did.
cj winning by 2 SECONDS that's insane. Love this content fir
I just want to know what Alpha, Smant and cjya did to deserve this troll level
alpha made the impossible escape room. the other two, idk.
but only cj participated in that one so he got double punished@@fiendfi7119
They keep beating Fir at Hide and Seek
They know what they did
I feel like cyja is the only one who doesn’t deserve this torture lol, he is just the 3rd one that wouldn’t get genuinely mad lol.
That checkpoint foreshadowing tho.
When you hid the win condition in the odyssey pipe, my first thought was "smallant is absolutely the type of person to think to look at the odyssey during one of these challenges"
And I was only half wrong.
my heart broke when cj forgot about the prison at the very end. crazy video, i love this series so much
Smallant performing the most elegant series of blueballing teases imaginable in this one
The design on this is actually golden. The gate at the beginning has so many layers.
alpharad suggesting the dev door fuckin killed me lmao
How did Alpharad not realize he could just load a completed save and take the Odyssey to Cascade Kingdom?
I was so surprised I won I could've sworn I lost
Hi CJ 😊
i love u cj
@@cjya hi!!!!
I love how these really just show how smart Alpharad is...That or he just thinks like a sadist just like Fir, one of the two, or both.
One half one, one half the other. He's smart, but he's the same type of person, so he can use his smarts to put that to use.
You know it’s a good day when Fir uploads
Yep always the best
You know its a great day to watch a fir vid
I follow him now for a few months and damn i love it indead. Keep it up Fir!!!
It’s always a good day when firs around 😂
Shut up with the copy paste comments
At some point, they should form an alliance to make a level specifically for you.
imagine if you got simpleflips to do one of these, his mindgames and understand thereof is next level
these escape room levels are really fun
But do it all without checkpoints is hell
I've come to the conclusion that Fir's love language is SMO troll levels
DGR, the king of Mario trolls, has started doing Fir's challenges. I cannot WAIT for him to get to this one
I probably scared my neighbors with the laugh I let out when the _one_ checkpoint in the level was revealed. 😂
I can't believe Smant went back to the Odyssey to look for an exit twice and missed it.
25:30 is so gold, you can see them slowly figure it out by their facial expression 🤣🤣
this is incredible! i love how all of them thought about the solution but didn’t think fir would be that evil 😂 what a devious lil level this is
My favorite part of these videos will always be the tight race between cj and smant since their play styles are so different yet effective in their own way.
Smant can cut out failures and therefore save time with his intellect and guesswork, meanwhile cj keeps diving headfirst and learns later.
It's always a toss up to which one is better and I love finding out at the end.
(Tldr, I attribute this loss to smant hesitating before picking up the death heart instead of skipping it altogether, or picking it up right away like cj did)
even if jacob didnt win this, he definitely was the one who outsmarted the outsmarted
He probably just died too many times
How does Fir still have friends, if this is how he treats them?
It's all good fun in the frustration of others
Who needs enemies with friends like them?
I just realised that while cjya & smallant thought they were doing an escape room at first while alpharad thought he was doing a troll level right of the bat because alpha has only done the other troll level
The instant they started doing nonsense thing in the goomba room, I knew it was gonna be a timer. Nothing they did was alike, and it reminded me too much of a psych experiment I'd seen on tv befor, where a group of people were trying to increase a score, that turned out to be controlled by the movement of a goldfish xD
Every Fir video these days is an absolute banger, literally becoming one of my favorite channels
29:05
CJ: “I FORGOT”
Fir: “You forgot!”
Me: “He FIRgot…”
Okay but was anyone else thinking about what good emotional support that Altaria plushie behind Fir would've been for them? They really needed it.
I know a lot of work goes into making these escape rooms, but I love them so much. Dont think theres a series of videos on TH-cam I'm more excited to click on, and that is including Hide and Seek.
smants last line is actually genius xD
18:20 accidentally getting a corner clip is crazy
“Well they all finally know where’s the exit, but why are there still six minutes left in the video?”
“OH-“
I love that CJ screams like Tom from Tom and Jerry
I really love this type of videos Fir! Even Troll levels are really fun to watch and I think Smallant/Alpharad/Cjya are a great trio
20:00 “I don’t jnow how fish momentum works” is such a funny comment out of context.
This was the best one so far. The fact that Alpharad and Smallant made a comment about the exit being at the beginning is amazing 🤣. And also including the only checkpoint at the very end after they realize that the exit was at the beginning 😂
Yes! I love the custom-level videos Fir. I instantly watch them every time.
25:35 the way his smile falls
They’re learning GAMERS ARE LOOKING UP
Im really enjoying this series. The troll levels aswell as the actual escape rooms
Damn fir, ant would have totally got it if you didn't straight up tell him it wasn't at the Oddessy lmao
CJ finally won one of these and that pop off was legendary 😂
I laughed so hard! I do feel a bit sorry for them though, that must have been so frustrating..
But one of these days, you'll have trained them well with the troll levels. And then it's just going to be a perfectly normal custom level and they'll second guess themselves at every step
I look forward to the next descent into madness!
25:33 my jaw dropped this is like 4 layers of evil
The concept was already hilarious, but I wasn't ready for the checkpoint twist. Genius.
The silence in all of em the moment they found the checkpoint is so funny
these custom levels have become some of my favorite things Fir has made, who knew how evil speedrunners could be
i find it funny that if smallant dint do the “i grab the life apart” joke he would have won.
This level really was full of its ups and downs.
CJYA being 2 seconds under is INSANE! 🤣
For some reason I thought there was a drama with CJ because I hadn’t seen him in a while and was sad.
Glad to see he’s still around 😊
Loved this one! What a photo finish!
You definitely need to make more of these for your friends. Their reactions, especially Cjya's were SO FUNNY!
Smant was definitely slapping his past self when he learned
"I'm like a rat doing random activities thinking it's gonna give me food..." -Smant
I'd say that's a fairly accurate description of ALL of your troll levels, fir. 😂😭🤣
That being said, that was correct about the key room with goombas, the hidden wall, the pit with lava, and other stuff.
I love how Jacob just reloads that checkpoint
Fir. What went through your mind when SmAnt went behind the Odyssey?
E: Wow...
E2: Actually, I want to say it. I love these levels you make. Be they escape room or troll. Genuinely look forward to seeing more.
I love trolls where the player barely has to do anything but has to go through hell to find that out!😂 Kudos for doing this,my friend!
Dang, Smant almost found it so early. But at least CJ got a win out of it. Way to go CJ.
The best part is that if Smallant hadn’t picked up the heart in the tank level “for science”, he probably would have won.
I can't believe that Alpharad just gave up and tried to cheat the system... and he still lost.
I mean, he does the first world in less than 25 minutes, so he decided to cheat after he had already lost -- and Fir likely let him know that. At that point, it didn't really matter anymore; he isn't a Odyssee speedrunner like the other two so going back with the trick jumps would likely just have been painful (to do and to watch).
I mean, it probably was faster than redoing Fir's level, he simply wasn't going to beat CJ and SmallAnt regardless.
I love it because he was the only one who thought about skipping challenge and actually find a way
Yes, he lost, but i still like the way he think
man fir is such a gigatroll with his responses and all that. dude just casually "helping" and everything 😂
Fir! Next escape room, you should make the oddessy a warp to darker side! : D
I rarely comment on videos but I absolutely love these custom level uploads. Keep up the great work
"...I mean you made it to the checkpoint! "
I. Died. Laughing. XD
"Flying or creating people will feel unnatural"
WHAT
Alpharad deserved to win with that cap kingdom play
The formula to a good troll: "Make you focus at X, while Y interacts in a way you're not expecting." For example: the jump = X, the hidden block = Y. Or, a room with a lot of moving parts (that do nothing) = X, fireball that kills you because you're standing still = Y. This level had none of that. Just a lot of killing. You have a lot to learn.
Yeah!! (If you didn't watch to the very end, fir explains that the goomba room is just a timer) i heard about an actual psychological study that was conducted where people were put into a room with a printer that would print out a dollar every thirty seconds, but they weren't told that. They were just told that they had to figure out what causes the machine to print. (They were also being recorded and they knew that they were) so people would make up wild theories according to random things that they did in the room because they assumed that it was something that they were doing.
This was such a good troll level! Making them play through the whole thing backwards was such a funny idea!
Ah, so today is the day when we test where a social experiment crosses into the “mindbreak” tag
*It’s gonna be so glorious*
On the one hand, thanks for the entertainment. On the other hand, you're a monster, Fir.
I feel bad for the guys for what they've been through in this level. That fish section in particular looks like insufferable tedium.
Really fun troll levels and escape room you have made recently but I do think it is more fun to guess the solution during the video which the reveal at the start kinda stopped for me, but fire videos. Keep it up!
“I’m just a rat doing anything to get some food.” Perfectly describes smallant
That is the single most alpharad play ive ever seen
i was so worried cj lost the win with that damn prison at the end (start?) so i'm happy he won anyways 😂 wild level, very entertaining
I was hoping you had a 4th contestant for this level, but they actually beat it instantly so you didn't show their footage until the end
Smant is too smart but he need to trust him more about not trusting his friends
28:43 the reverse red herring has me sweating nervously
1:34 Small: “unless there’s one behind the Odyssey”
Oh honey, you were so close 🥲
Spoilers:
Honestly I think smant should’ve won that. Fir told cjya to go get the moon as fast as possible at the end there. Although mad respect for Alpharad taking an unorthodox strategy at the ending.