The snowman wasn't melting he was using his own body as snowballs to throw at you until there was none of him left. Truly genius writing and a metaphor for the cost of success 🙏
I love how Ninja Kiwi is heavily involved with their community, to the point they knew that one half of their game was a hellscape full of escaped mental asylum patients and the other half was a bunch of 5 year olds, that they made two more games based off of the respective sides.
wish they cared more about fixing their games when they have major gamebreaking issues that go unremarked upon for weeks or months while the game's community never lets the discord/reddit moderators (who are not affiliated with nor work for NK) hear the end of it
2:39:24 The secret is found, it was added in update 42 and found an update later: If you sacrifice 5 Tiers of each category to a temple, and place a 000 tower of the same category on specific places; the middle will vanish and Everseer, a non-atacking Navarch will appear, it will hook in any Blimp what’s not a BAD. And also Dreadbloon's Rockbloons. So pretty cool.
I love how Aliensrock and ISAB both cemented themselves so much in Bloons culture to the point they appear in literal essays about the Bloons Franchise trajectory
The fact that he made an entire 3 hour essay about monkeys that throw darts at bloons is insanity And not to mention that there's actual editing just is amazing.
The blooms lore is literally just: There are these Balloons, spelled Bloon(s). These Bloons cause the monkeys to die, so they throw darts, boomerangs, bombs, lasers, God’s fire, and fricking mortars at them. Meanwhile the blooms are sending progressively stronger blooms, camouflaged blooms, blooms immune to magic that the monkeys have somehow, bloons immune to explosions and cold, and blimps just to get to the end of a path to somewhere.
@@Or-ang-Ethis is my first time watching you, I have only 100 hrs in btd6 and none in the others, I watched all the video and did laugh at a good couple of parts. I watch yt in a regular basis, this particular video is so good i cant begin to describe how perfect it is, congrats on making the video, actual crazy good in depth full length all inclusive history video (I dont like history at all) wp
1:10:08 I'd just like to address that setting the flash version of battles to "Low Quality" was necessary in competitive gameplay as it actually allowed you to compact towers closer together. It also reduced lag so that's why the quality was so poor. Sick video btw
I used to play the original Bloons back in computer lab in college instead of doing homework. Now 20 years later my son plays Bloons TB6 on his tablet.
Still waiting on the Cobra being added in BTD6 as either a support unit or Hero unit, but otherwise, yeah, this is a company that learns from what they did wrong, and listen to the community surrounding their games. Hell yeah,
I lost it at 29:59. Not only did the song get claimed, not only did that exact same song get claimed _multiple times,_ it got claimed *29 times,* which is such a specific number. I can imagine that after the 29th claim, they were like "Nah, that's enough. 30 would be overkill." And there's also the fact that an image site apparently has music. Great job, man.
Excellent video, and thank you for the nice comments about the music, I love writing for the Bloons games, and I look forward to bringing you more music in the future. For the fans reading this - To keep up to date with what I am up to you can follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/haywoodtim - you can find me on TH-cam, Spotify, and Bandcamp - I also have Facebook group thing. I occasionally lurk on the Ninja Kiwi Discord too. Thanks for the support!
Your Bloons Monkey City Music was incredible. I can’t imagine how long it took to have that much talent. It was so good they even added it to BTD 6 in the store
Yknow, I liked Ninja Kiwi for their games, but never really looked passed that. Now, after knowing just how well they actually respond and how community driven they are, genuinely makes me love the games even more. A ton of games don't even have half the community interaction NK has with it's fans, it's actually quite amazing
I'm always impressed when game devs go above and beyond. Most won't even respond to an important question, let alone provide this level of fan service.
battles 2 has got to be the biggest case of a poor release killing a game, nowadays everyone acts like every game can pull a no man's sky, but their rebound was impressive because it was an exception to the rule
Survived By was an early-access game teased at the Game awards. It was in development for years, but its launch into early access was so bad it died and the game has been shut down completely. There's plenty of other games that endured similar fates. I wouldn't say it's the biggest case of a poor release killing a game, because it's still technically alive on mobile and PC. Several hundred active players is more than like 99% of all fighting games.
I know I'm a year late, but this is both true and sad. If BTD battles 2 had released in the state it's in today, it would have been much better received. Unfortunately, it was so incredibly grindy upon launch that it lost the majority of it's playerbase in a couple weeks flat.
Yeah, like titanfall2, it's one of my favorite games, but its release was in-between a cod game and a battlefield game, and if it had a better release, it probably could've got the attention it deserved also we need a sequel for it
Battles 2 isn't bad these days, however I do NOT condone the "release now, finish later" mentality that's become so prevalent in gaming recently, so I still think NK needs to be criticized for it even if the game is playable now
BDT5 actually got a major update in November 2022 that added a shit ton of new stuff. A new Special Agent, a new map, a new gamemode, and 10 premium skins meant to recreate the retro art-style of the older towers. Finally, an actual update besides a new map every few months.
be grateful for even those map updates i mean the games 10 years old and barely has any players left yet nks still pouring in resources to maintain the game one has to appreciate that
that is quite considerate of the developer considering he had already released BTD6 and BTD battles 2. Most developers now days abandon their games before they even release a new one
I love that in BTD6 they added the callback to N.A.P.S.F.R.I.L.L.S through C.H.I.M.P.S mode, even if its easier in BTD6 it's amazing that they stayed so involved with the community.
I think my favourite part about BTD and ninja kiwi is how connected to their community they are. They're basically founded off community contributions and they've remembered that by very clearly listening to their contributions
it's just a shame the community is mostly comprised of idiots i doubt paragons will ever be fixed functionally, and especially visually (the entire idea is combining the 3 paths, why the fuck are people letting missing paths slide)
Pretty sure 'Bloons Pop Three' is just indicating that it's part of the 'match three' genre of puzzle games like Bejeweled, though you never hear them called 'match three' games nowadays which is probably where the confusion stems from
Just watched the finale to Hot Air Bloon, it ends in an epic chase after the Monkey Baron while Flight of The Valkyries plays in the background. You then save your wife, while Monkey Baron vows revenge and is revealed to be your evil brother.
Bro, people have died spoiling stuff like this. (Someone literally killed someone for spoiling Force Awakens in a movie theater bathroom back when it first released in theaters)
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1:04:45 "Someone should make a tower defense game where your towers dying is a core mechanic" Technically, you got the Plants vs Zombies Wall-nuts, and instant use plants. You also have Inscryption where sacrificing some of your "towers" lets you get better, stronger towers.
People keep mentioning pvz and its kind of my fault I didn't go into it. The type of game I meant was one where your towers die of old age, as in they expire after a certain number of turns. Rather than just a game where they can die
@@Or-ang-E I'm pretty sure there's a BTD5 challenge based of that mechanic Edit: Literally this 1:04:26 Edit 2: wait I'm actually stupid this is what you're talking about certified commenting before watching moment
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Good news everyone!!! Battles 2 is getting one of its biggest updates yet soon, with changes to basically everything still wrong with the game! I think this will finally be the update that gets the back into shape and hopefully will help it regain its player base.
Btw I wasn’t expecting you to see this comment so soon. I want to mention that this was honestly one of the best videos I watched on bloons, and was extremely well made. Can’t wait for the sequel in 5 years lol. I’m really excited for everything else ninja kiwi has to offer in the coming years!
@@joelplays3032 yeah good lord I was rewatching this because orange videos slap and I have nothing better to do with my time, seeing the heart on this comment from 12 days ago, that's huge
I cant imagine how much effort was put into this video, I get distracted in a 30 mins lesson but was so dedicated to watxg a 3hr lecture about monkeys popping balloons😂😂
The fact "You lose as many lives as the bloon had bloons inside it plus 1" is correct. If a blue bloon escapes, it has 1 bloon inside (a red one) so u lose 2 lives, 1 for the red one and one for the blue one. But it only has 1 bloon inside itself. The plus 1 comes from the phrasing that it only counts the ones INSIDE so the bloon itself is missing in the counting there.
The dedication it takes to make a three hour video while trying every game is a whole nother level that I don’t have the patience to do. Thanks for the history!
Imagine one day Sam appears in a video addressing random questions by community, and at Encrypted's secret he goes: "What do you mean 《Doesn't do anything》? Look, I have a game of Encrypted on mine phone here right now... - he pulls phone out of his pocket and BTD6 soundtrack overlayed with popping bloons can be heard, - ... and if I place correct towers here..." A few seconds of jolly music pass as Sam stares at his phone, his expression rapidly growing extremely concerned, before he drops his phone and points to person behind the camera, shouting "Cut the records! It's gone!!!", before video ends abruptly, BTD soundtrack on the last few moments being drown out by blaring sounds of emergency alarms...
That would be awesome! Especially if they First Striked his exact location to neutralise him, therefore stopping him from making Encrypted into Decrypted!! :D
Bro I used this video to fall asleep for over 2 weeks now and always started at the point where I fell asleep last night. I'm still not halfway done. Never slept so good tho
I was born in 1997, my entire childhood aligned perfectly with the entire Golden age of flash browser games. I have such a strong nostalgic feeling for the tens of thousands of random forgotten flash games I played growing up; I didn't have a good enough PC to play actual pc games and I didn't get new console games very often because we were kinda poor. Bloons is one of those few flash games that became so successful it broke out of the status of silly flash game into being an actual legitimate full videogame, and for that it'll always be close to my heart.
I actually loved city. I thought the limited amount of towers and town building aspect were pretty unique and made the game feel fresh. Aswell as the others blooms added.
The Sand snowman in the Christmas Edition of Bloons 2 might be because Ninja Kiwi is an NZ company, and in NZ, Christmas happens at the same time as the rest of the world, but its seasons are the opposite of northern countries seasons due to hemisphere differences. So it might be a nod that in NZ, if you wanna make a snowman during Christmas you'd probably have to settle for using sand instead of snow
Yeah, Summer in the southern hemisphere. no Winter Christmas here. Sand 'snow'men are somewhat common on NZ beaches in December but I'm not sure about other southern hemisphere countries.
@@bloonbrawler9872 wait what? They did? Who is it? Dabloon? Is dabloon the new host? Why? Why is it dabloon? What did the waffle house do to him? What did he do to deserve this? I hate waffles
It's so awesome how a game I remember being integral to 7 year old me, that I had all but forgotten about, has a thriving community, consistent updates and an unbelievably high amount of easter eggs
Yeah I remember playing Bloons as a little kid when I got my first personal computer ... graduated from all the base windows game like Space Pinball and Spider Solitaire to flash games and exploring all the flash games on the internet. Bloons tower defense was one of my favorite flash games to play with siblings, we even liked the other non tower defense Bloons games & stalked newgrounds for more unique games to try
12:13 The tip actually is true! "If a bloon escapes, you lose as many lives as the bloon had bloons *inside* it plus 1" where the plus 1 is for the bloon itself.
Bloons TD3 started a very weird obsession when I was a child. I played around with it, until my 45 year old father decided to try it out. He still plays Bloons games to this day when he gets the chance, It warms my heart and really makes me smile when I see it.
A bit of an addendum: The beekeeper originated in BTD5 before being added to BTD4 mobile, and the dartling gunner and spike factory were BTD4 expansion pack towers that were added into the BTD4 base game afterward.
I want to say, this is the first long form video I ever watched. And rewatching it now I realized why I got into long formed content, and it now makes sense this is genuinely a really good video
Man, I always wanted a 2 hour 46 minute and 32 second long video about a funny balloon popping monkey game explaining all the story and history of a small video game, thanks for making it!
The way you mix in completely unexpected jokes and random edits into videos and have them be consistently funny is genuinely amazing and it only gets better over time. Also I never knew that I needed an extensive video going over the entire history of the Bloons franchise until now especially since I was wholly unaware of half of these.
This is a awesome walkdown memory lane. Thank you for this. I remember that I played a ton of Flash games on my moms laptop during this time. I didn't knew it back then, but I really was there when a new BTD Game was released. And I really started the series, when there was only the first game. It is insane hot hard the first game is compared to the later ones.
Ninjakiwi seems to be always working to serve the community which is awesome to see, adding in so many fan made maps and features in btd6, constantly keeping really old games updated and even recognizing the community divide in the original bloons player base and making unique games for both sides
By far one of the best videos I've seen in a long time. This movie was genuinely a roller-coaster of nostalgia, laughs, and confusion. And yes, I watched the ENTIRE thing. 10/10.
This has been in my recommended for the past couple days and i got around to watching it finally and i can say that it was well worth the watch. Insanely impressive video with the amount of research that went into it, can't wait for you to do an updated version of this video in 5 years going over all of the btd 6 updates :D! I also think you capture just how good BTD6 is as a game, I got back into it a couple of months ago after not playing it for a while and the updates always seem to add something wildly impressive and content that can keep you playing for ages. I also think that the community interaction is probably ninja kiwi's biggest strength with the implementation of maps and other such things.
What next? The Five Nights at Freddy’s Song, based by the hit video game horror series, Five Nights at Freddy’s, composed by the artists, The Living Tombstone?
@@raihanvarghese8553 your grammar is outstandingly bad. but i sure would love to see the song Five Nights at Freddy's based on the hit video game horror series of the same name, composed by The Living Tombstone. and maybe a few years after the last song for FNaF, somewhere in like 2022 The Living Tombstone will release a mediocre song that uses the same voice editing as the first song. that'd be so cool, i'd strangle myself to fdetah.
oh hey I did the graphics and animation for BTD 3 , POP3 and a few othe rolder ninja kiwi games, this was a fun blast from the past thank you! Hehe to be fair there was only 3 of us in the company and we were learning as we went so it was a bit experimental :P
I dont know why, but I CONSTANTLY find myself rewatching this over and over. Whether invested or just kinda in the background. Maybe the video is just THAT good to me
The random CoC references, the jokes he makes, his voice, everything about this video I loved. A well spent 2 hours, 46 minutes and 32 seconds. edit, 33 seconds, thank you Obiwan.
This video played in my recommended auto-play, and I just kept listening to it while doing something else and then two hours later I was like "How long has this guy been on about Bloons?"
Simply WOW. I didnt believe that this video was THAT interesting. I delayed watching it for 1 month and i regret it. The script was splendid. All the story was wonderful. I respect you so much, you just made my childhood 10 times better. Thank you.
idk if someone mentioned it, but the 2 secret Christmas levels being "sand" themes is most likely a reference to Ociana having Christmas during their summer.
Usually I don’t comment twice but dude this video is so insanely good. I had never heard of BTD before and now I feel like my brain is 5x heavier. The editing is timed perfectly and it makes this such a funny video that I have sat through half of it at this point and it probably will be one of my favourite niche essay videos ever. Fantastic job. I hope this video gets the recognition it deserves.
Having grown up with the entire Bloons series myself it’s always a shame seeing people who don’t know most of the games outside of the td series so finally having a video like this confirming is not alone and educating others is really nice
I somehow read that as "I hope you make it" and was very concerned about what was coming further into the video. I think I might need to finish this in the morning lol.
fun fact: they actually found the easter egg in encrypted. you need a supermonkey in the middle and one T5 of each category in the other pedestals when you sacrifice the the T5s to the sun temple, all the pedestals will collapse and a portal will appear. it deals constant damage to bloons and pulls moabs, bfbs and zomgs like the pirate lord.
@@Minosprime69420 also good, also thanks for the compliment, the picture is a bit outdated and I might change it soon but I appreciate the compliment 😄
Almost three hours of video and i was hooked every single second, this video is simply a masterpiece AND a masterclass in editing, research and comedy, deserves every single view it has and oh so many more, this video should be in a museum
47:25 ok so fun fact: Ninja Kiwi is based in New Zealand and in that part of the world, the summer season is over December - February so Christmas happens during that kind of weather Also amazing video, can't believe this is such an underrated channel
Bloons Monkey City 2 is what I hope for, since the first one was actually my favorite for a handful of reasons. City building is quite fun for me, and I didn't mind the waiting all that much. I loved the tile capture system that changes the tracks and minor rulesets based on the terrain of the tile, plus the fact that each tile's bloons were not set in stone; memorizing the bloons would only work for one tile at a time. The feeling of progression was a cool change of pace, and limiting tower spam until your city got bigger promoted diversifying what strategies you used. Every tile was its own challenge, that is what I loved about it. The PC version adding a second city to work on at the same time with new terrain, music, and the engineer, was a good way to extend play sessions between needing to wait for things to finish building. The mobile features like the Monkey Knowledge crates and Bloonstones were technically microtransactions, but were plentiful enough just by playing well that it was never necessary to buy more. They actually handled it the best possible way IMO. I didn't like the MvM mode though, it just wasn't for me, so the fact that they had a Pacifist option that prevented you from being attacked and let you focus solely on city growth was a great feature. The Contested Territory was the better way to implement competitive to BMC. I love pretty much everything about BMC, so seeing a sequel that gave it BTD6's towers and upgrades with the city building progression and tile system would be a dream come true--AS LONG AS they don't get scummy with the microtransactions. First game did it perfectly, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I mean BTD games are always felt the same Same wave, same enemies for most of the time Usually its only new tower and map, but basic stuff isnt changed HOWEVER, monkey city shift it drastically. Same with adventure time. Sadly as this video said, ppl love BTD not as tower defense but as a sandbox game. So, new twist and invention to gameplay are mostly abandoned. Battles are taking unique new rules on top of sandbox gameplay, so its still survive (he explains battles player is like "could the enemies defend this rush?, how far stages we could get?" Etc. ) Not that i hate it but it gets boring after a while.
You put so much effort into the video man. It took me all day to finish the vid since I took breaks every once in a while and the vid was so good I fr thought it was only 30 mins, I was completely shocked to see I spent hours watching monke pop balloon lore
36:44 the implication that the bloons vs monkeys rivalry in the BTD games all came from blatant cruetly of the ancestors of the protagonists almost EXACTLY like Donkey Kong Circus with the original Donkey Kong just pleases me to no end for some weird reason.
40:09 - I remember making custom levels for Bloons 2 and was genuinely rather sad when I saw that it was gone, it even said it would be coming back for a while but it never did.
If you're curious in the first Battles there are still files left over for a map editor. At this point an editor isn't needed anymore since we can basically maps without an editor it's just very time consuming
ive been obsessed with btd 6 for a couple weeks after reigniting my old btd battles mobile mania and buying it. thank all the gods for this perfect video getting recommended to me.
Great video, one of if not the best you’ve made, you can really tell the hard work and passion put into it. I’ve never been interested in bloons but this video kept me interested all the way through and I never thought of closing it. This video truly deserved its place in the best videos playlist.
46:05 Actually I don't think we are waiting for him to melt. I think the snowman is using its own body to throw snowballs at you, so it eventually reduces itself to nothing.
I casually loved btd 3 and 4 when they came out. Missed others and got into 6 recently. I can’t believe I just watched HOURS on the game though. You did a great job on the video and are a joy to watch, you were naturally hilarious so many times! Sub’d
This was honestly the best video ive seen, i started watching this video thinking its just a 20min vid with a brief recap of every game, but here i am 2 hours 46 minutes and 32 seconds later knowing every single game and all of its mechanics and perks of the bloons franchise. Great video man
30:32 so I actually know this one, on release the Spike Factory and Dartling weren't in the game, they were added in updates later. I guess they never added shortcut keys when they were added in
Wait yea this was 9 months ago. I decided to get into it like one month ago maybe. And i did not need xp to get through the tiers i get all 4/4/4 for the initial monies and then 1,500 for the 5th tiers
I stopped at 1:45:33 just to write this, this guy is crazy. He took lots of time to make this video about a game he liked in the childhood but is still up to date. And got 7 milion views but he deserve every single one of them. Good job, if you are making a new video I recomand Swords and Sandals and all the games from that creator. Keep it up king, make 3 hours videos about any game and I will watch it.
Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room A rubber room A rubber room with rats Rats makes me Crazy Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room A rubber room A rubber room with rats Rats makes me Crazy Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room A rubber room A rubber room with rats Rats makes me Crazy Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room A rubber room A rubber room with rats Rats makes me Crazy Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room A rubber room A rubber room with rats Rats makes me Crazy
ENCRYPTED ACTUALLY HAS SOMETHING you need to 1. put a sun avatar on the center platform 2. put 50k worth of each tower type on their respective platforms 3. put a monkey from each type on the graves corresponding to the symbols on the platforms in the center 4. upgrade the avatar into a temple i dont want to spoil what this reveals but it is kinda cool
I'm in absolute shock and disbelief that I was around almost at the start of Bloons! I was 8 years old back in 2007 using school computers to play BTD1 shortly after it came out. Still keeping up with the modern Bloons games ever since!
HOT AIR BLOON MOBILE HAS BEEN FOUND. You can watch the ending and monkey baron fight here th-cam.com/video/PUuXvFfrKfM/w-d-xo.html
That's so awesome omg
WATCHED THE WHOLE VIDEO AND IT TOOK 9 DAYS
@@firemikieedition2429 5 to 6 days for me.
Real!
WE DID IT WE FOUND THE FUNNY MONKEY GAME!!!!!!!!
Bro made a 3 hour lecture about goofy cartoon monkey's, it doesn't get better than this.
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holy crap foekoe on funny OrangE man!?
No i dont want to yere bloons lo- Helloe everyone
The snowman wasn't melting he was using his own body as snowballs to throw at you until there was none of him left. Truly genius writing and a metaphor for the cost of success 🙏
Who knew kiwis could have such wisdom🙏
Brave warrior... );
Truly a commentary about the socioeconomic state of Bulgaria and the consequences of capitalism
Most sane 2023 TH-cam comment🗿🗿
Oh wow! That almost tops the intro's dramatic, fully fleshed out character study. But nothing beats perfection ig 😔
I love how Ninja Kiwi is heavily involved with their community, to the point they knew that one half of their game was a hellscape full of escaped mental asylum patients and the other half was a bunch of 5 year olds, that they made two more games based off of the respective sides.
Glad they did
BTD was like full of autism kids,
While BTDB was like full of psycho
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What are the games your reference?
@@BioshockDrill The bloons insanity pack and the baby pack
wish they cared more about fixing their games when they have major gamebreaking issues that go unremarked upon for weeks or months while the game's community never lets the discord/reddit moderators (who are not affiliated with nor work for NK) hear the end of it
2:39:24
The secret is found, it was added in update 42 and found an update later:
If you sacrifice 5 Tiers of each category to a temple, and place a 000 tower of the same category on specific places; the middle will vanish and Everseer, a non-atacking Navarch will appear, it will hook in any Blimp what’s not a BAD. And also Dreadbloon's Rockbloons.
So pretty cool.
Chat is this real?
Ok It is
@@Queen_PerfectHeart_S2 test it
His name is Everseer
in update 42*
Absolutely loved the history of BTD Battles, brought back some great memories. Thanks for doing this!
hello checkmarked person
@@stom2410 dude this is the guy in the video
@@dropfish3109 yeah i know i've been watching him for years, he plays competitive bloons sometimes
Yo its Tyler the puzzle guy
I remember watching your youtube videos of your streams
I love how Aliensrock and ISAB both cemented themselves so much in Bloons culture to the point they appear in literal essays about the Bloons Franchise trajectory
Lmai wow yeah ig so
Lmao
Lmoa
I've seen that pfp before but what is it again?
@@mihailmilev9909 It's the EVA-01 from Neon Genesis Evangelion
The “sorry for the low quality, my sister broke the good camera” callback at 2:23:16 kills me. Incredible video
ikr
The best part about btd 6 is you dont have to play the previous 43 games to understand it
I managed to play ~30/44 but this is far deeper than I expected 😮
Bruh
The best part of bt6 is that i bough it on sale, thinking it will be silly stupid game, and now i sit for hours trying to beat elite boss
Sure
Marvel be like
The fact that he made an entire 3 hour essay about monkeys that throw darts at bloons is insanity
And not to mention that there's actual editing just is amazing.
It's a documentary, not an essay.
The blooms lore is literally just:
There are these Balloons, spelled Bloon(s). These Bloons cause the monkeys to die, so they throw darts, boomerangs, bombs, lasers, God’s fire, and fricking mortars at them. Meanwhile the blooms are sending progressively stronger blooms, camouflaged blooms, blooms immune to magic that the monkeys have somehow, bloons immune to explosions and cold, and blimps just to get to the end of a path to somewhere.
@@ChrisHinners008 Blooms 🤨
You could add him to bloons insanity pack
@@UPGAX STOPP XDD
Good video. I'll watch it later.
Ok Pilot Spelunky 2
I might watch it
I ain't watchin allthat 😂
Yes, I will do the same
How do you know it’s good if you didn’t watch it?
1:54:08 "Really cant tell how much my unstable coc is doing" -ISAB from whatever year he said it in
2018 (at least I would assume so considering that was the year BTD6 came out)
I am 88% convinced orange has gone insane making this video
level 25 looks cool
@Mathias Dragonslayer true
thats fair
@@Or-ang-Ethis is my first time watching you, I have only 100 hrs in btd6 and none in the others, I watched all the video and did laugh at a good couple of parts. I watch yt in a regular basis, this particular video is so good i cant begin to describe how perfect it is, congrats on making the video, actual crazy good in depth full length all inclusive history video (I dont like history at all) wp
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1:10:08 I'd just like to address that setting the flash version of battles to "Low Quality" was necessary in competitive gameplay as it actually allowed you to compact towers closer together. It also reduced lag so that's why the quality was so poor. Sick video btw
My mind is blown. I thought the footage was just dated or something but no that actually gave people a competitive advantage
Smef I love you
Hi lol
@@Or-ang-E Believe it or not but once out of sheer luck I beat level four after only 3 tries
@@Or-ang-E that snowman died becuse he is trowing himself at you until he kills himself
I haven't watched it all yet, but this brings back some crazy memories. Specifically early BTD4 and BTD5 release :D! Great video!
Battles koth is mind blowing
bitch i remember when btd2 came out
The Waffle House found it's new host
You and me both, pal!
the goat
I used to play the original Bloons back in computer lab in college instead of doing homework. Now 20 years later my son plays Bloons TB6 on his tablet.
Ninja Kiwi seems to me a perfect example of "he's a little confused but he's got the spirit".
I've been trying to think of a way to describe NK in a nutshell and I think this is one of the best ways to put it
They legit made a ton of updates to BTDB2 after this video, and now there's a bunch of people playing it after being dead for so long.
And they learn from the mistakes they make too, always nice to see
*"B I K E R B O N E S , R I D E S A G A I N"* - NK employee
Still waiting on the Cobra being added in BTD6 as either a support unit or Hero unit, but otherwise, yeah, this is a company that learns from what they did wrong, and listen to the community surrounding their games. Hell yeah,
I lost it at 29:59. Not only did the song get claimed, not only did that exact same song get claimed _multiple times,_ it got claimed *29 times,* which is such a specific number. I can imagine that after the 29th claim, they were like "Nah, that's enough. 30 would be overkill." And there's also the fact that an image site apparently has music. Great job, man.
And it was at 29 minutes
I have been needing a video like this in my life, excited to watch it later!
First
no way nathaniel b
mr scuttlebug himself
👎 stole my award winning comment
@@OfficialThatOneGuy simply a difference in skill
Excellent video, and thank you for the nice comments about the music, I love writing for the Bloons games, and I look forward to bringing you more music in the future. For the fans reading this - To keep up to date with what I am up to you can follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/haywoodtim - you can find me on TH-cam, Spotify, and Bandcamp - I also have Facebook group thing. I occasionally lurk on the Ninja Kiwi Discord too. Thanks for the support!
@@Jack_Saint_Archive Thanks!! I really hope so, a little later in the year, fingers crossed 🤞
@@TimHaywoodProductions That's great to hear. 👍 Looking forward to it. ♥
Hi Tim!
Your Bloons Monkey City Music was incredible. I can’t imagine how long it took to have that much talent.
It was so good they even added it to BTD 6 in the store
You have made me reconsider my thoughts on listening to video game OST's
"Youre given the option to fry eggs on your overheating computer" this got me
Yknow, I liked Ninja Kiwi for their games, but never really looked passed that. Now, after knowing just how well they actually respond and how community driven they are, genuinely makes me love the games even more. A ton of games don't even have half the community interaction NK has with it's fans, it's actually quite amazing
"hey look at this clearly joke ma-"
**Ronaldo soccer 64 intro**
"Hahaha"
"funneh secret map"
I'm always impressed when game devs go above and beyond. Most won't even respond to an important question, let alone provide this level of fan service.
I feel like that's somewhat common with studios that started as Flash game developers.
They literally took 94 days to fix their completely broken game
Ah yes 3 months to fix broken game
battles 2 has got to be the biggest case of a poor release killing a game, nowadays everyone acts like every game can pull a no man's sky, but their rebound was impressive because it was an exception to the rule
Survived By was an early-access game teased at the Game awards. It was in development for years, but its launch into early access was so bad it died and the game has been shut down completely.
There's plenty of other games that endured similar fates.
I wouldn't say it's the biggest case of a poor release killing a game, because it's still technically alive on mobile and PC. Several hundred active players is more than like 99% of all fighting games.
maybe part of the reason is that they deliberately lied about microtransactions
I know I'm a year late, but this is both true and sad. If BTD battles 2 had released in the state it's in today, it would have been much better received. Unfortunately, it was so incredibly grindy upon launch that it lost the majority of it's playerbase in a couple weeks flat.
Yeah, like titanfall2, it's one of my favorite games, but its release was in-between a cod game and a battlefield game, and if it had a better release, it probably could've got the attention it deserved also we need a sequel for it
Battles 2 isn't bad these days, however I do NOT condone the "release now, finish later" mentality that's become so prevalent in gaming recently, so I still think NK needs to be criticized for it even if the game is playable now
BDT5 actually got a major update in November 2022 that added a shit ton of new stuff. A new Special Agent, a new map, a new gamemode, and 10 premium skins meant to recreate the retro art-style of the older towers. Finally, an actual update besides a new map every few months.
be grateful for even those map updates
i mean the games 10 years old and barely has any players left yet nks still pouring in resources to maintain the game one has to appreciate that
that is quite considerate of the developer considering he had already released BTD6 and BTD battles 2. Most developers now days abandon their games before they even release a new one
You might be the only person who said "finally new BTD5 content" when it came out, but I have to respect you for it.
THATS MY FUCKING PFP
🗿
This video doesn't feel long, it just feels like a really fun regular video that magically goes for 2 hours.
I love that in BTD6 they added the callback to N.A.P.S.F.R.I.L.L.S through C.H.I.M.P.S mode, even if its easier in BTD6 it's amazing that they stayed so involved with the community.
2:01:04 2:01:13
2:03:24
I think my favourite part about BTD and ninja kiwi is how connected to their community they are. They're basically founded off community contributions and they've remembered that by very clearly listening to their contributions
We are brothers
it's just a shame the community is mostly comprised of idiots
i doubt paragons will ever be fixed functionally, and especially visually (the entire idea is combining the 3 paths, why the fuck are people letting missing paths slide)
Pretty sure 'Bloons Pop Three' is just indicating that it's part of the 'match three' genre of puzzle games like Bejeweled, though you never hear them called 'match three' games nowadays which is probably where the confusion stems from
Just watched the finale to Hot Air Bloon, it ends in an epic chase after the Monkey Baron while Flight of The Valkyries plays in the background. You then save your wife, while Monkey Baron vows revenge and is revealed to be your evil brother.
Bro, people have died spoiling stuff like this. (Someone literally killed someone for spoiling Force Awakens in a movie theater bathroom back when it first released in theaters)
@@LeoCat2291 no that game is literally the most popular game of all time you fool
@@MDLuffy1234YT wait seriously
@@balls_gaming yes
@@MDLuffy1234YT no way lmao
I can't believe the creator came up with bloons while wearing a btd 6 shirt. What a coincidence!
Probaly time traveled to get the shirt
Give this man a oscar. Bro made a friking 3 hour video about bloons. What a legend
No
I’m watching it maybe I’ve already watched a 8 hour video not in my sleep
@@adolfo777nicayes
"hehe oscar wait why's no one laughing"
@@weirdooftheyear336 likes disagree bud
hey guy :-) i know most likely you are not reading these comments due to how many there are and how old this video is, but i wanted to tell you that this is one of my favourite videos on youtube- and that’s coming from someone who has watched youtube every single day for years and years! i am an autistic person and i’ve previously hyperfocused on this video because it is so well made and entertaining, it has become very comforting to me! i was focused on it a while ago now but it recently popped back into my head and i am back to enjoying this amazing video again. thank you for this amazing content, i can’t wait to see you hit it big with another awesome banger in the near future! much love :-)
1:04:45 "Someone should make a tower defense game where your towers dying is a core mechanic"
Technically, you got the Plants vs Zombies Wall-nuts, and instant use plants. You also have Inscryption where sacrificing some of your "towers" lets you get better, stronger towers.
People keep mentioning pvz and its kind of my fault I didn't go into it. The type of game I meant was one where your towers die of old age, as in they expire after a certain number of turns. Rather than just a game where they can die
@@Or-ang-E that would be cool af.
@@Or-ang-E plantz vs zombies puffshroom has that mechanic
@@Or-ang-E plantz vs zombies 2 puffshroom has that mechanic
@@Or-ang-E I'm pretty sure there's a BTD5 challenge based of that mechanic
Edit: Literally this 1:04:26
Edit 2: wait I'm actually stupid this is what you're talking about
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Man i love ChatGPT XD.
Man i sure love chatGPT
Interacting with ChatGPT brings me immense joy and admiration.
I sure do love [AI model name]
bro what💀
Good news everyone!!! Battles 2 is getting one of its biggest updates yet soon, with changes to basically everything still wrong with the game! I think this will finally be the update that gets the back into shape and hopefully will help it regain its player base.
Btw I wasn’t expecting you to see this comment so soon. I want to mention that this was honestly one of the best videos I watched on bloons, and was extremely well made. Can’t wait for the sequel in 5 years lol. I’m really excited for everything else ninja kiwi has to offer in the coming years!
@@joelplays3032 yeah good lord I was rewatching this because orange videos slap and I have nothing better to do with my time, seeing the heart on this comment from 12 days ago, that's huge
@@joelplays3032 FR
Is BTD2 worth it?
@@haseebbarya8294 no
I cant imagine how much effort was put into this video, I get distracted in a 30 mins lesson but was so dedicated to watxg a 3hr lecture about monkeys popping balloons😂😂
The fact "You lose as many lives as the bloon had bloons inside it plus 1" is correct.
If a blue bloon escapes, it has 1 bloon inside (a red one) so u lose 2 lives, 1 for the red one and one for the blue one. But it only has 1 bloon inside itself.
The plus 1 comes from the phrasing that it only counts the ones INSIDE so the bloon itself is missing in the counting there.
No it is not its an errr
@@davemurphy1278 Red bloon has no bloon in it. you lose one life when red bloon escape 0+1=1
@@davemurphy1278
Who would Win?
A well researched argument backed by facts and logic
nuh uh
@@cewla3348 Ratio
@@legendarytronic7774Bro got 0 likes on the ratio 💀 ☠️ 💀 ☠️
The dedication it takes to make a three hour video while trying every game is a whole nother level that I don’t have the patience to do. Thanks for the history!
Can't belive I watched it to the end. Did u?
@@mihailmilev9909 I’m half way there, still got some to go lol
Imagine one day Sam appears in a video addressing random questions by community, and at Encrypted's secret he goes: "What do you mean 《Doesn't do anything》? Look, I have a game of Encrypted on mine phone here right now... - he pulls phone out of his pocket and BTD6 soundtrack overlayed with popping bloons can be heard, - ... and if I place correct towers here..."
A few seconds of jolly music pass as Sam stares at his phone, his expression rapidly growing extremely concerned, before he drops his phone and points to person behind the camera, shouting "Cut the records! It's gone!!!", before video ends abruptly, BTD soundtrack on the last few moments being drown out by blaring sounds of emergency alarms...
That would be awesome! Especially if they First Striked his exact location to neutralise him, therefore stopping him from making Encrypted into Decrypted!! :D
Well it actually makes sense…the secret has been released and it is strong-ish, but looks very intimidating.
Bro I used this video to fall asleep for over 2 weeks now and always started at the point where I fell asleep last night. I'm still not halfway done. Never slept so good tho
Doesn't matter if it's don't starve or not Orange is always entertaining to watch
Ok
True true
Yqa
Bl0ns
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I was born in 1997, my entire childhood aligned perfectly with the entire Golden age of flash browser games. I have such a strong nostalgic feeling for the tens of thousands of random forgotten flash games I played growing up; I didn't have a good enough PC to play actual pc games and I didn't get new console games very often because we were kinda poor. Bloons is one of those few flash games that became so successful it broke out of the status of silly flash game into being an actual legitimate full videogame, and for that it'll always be close to my heart.
Nice
Cool story
You are 26 years old
@@dbdmountainlion9459 nice work detective
But I agree with you furball, (,: bloons is forever special
I actually loved city. I thought the limited amount of towers and town building aspect were pretty unique and made the game feel fresh. Aswell as the others blooms added.
City was fun for abit, Never really played for long though. Mad grindy and took a long time r eally did feel like the COC of bloons
I like the idea. Never heard of it befor tho
@@Wishy. the what lol
@@mihailmilev9909 coc is clash of clans
I love monkey city
I played during the "bloon snipe r13 rush team tower stun" meta, i dont think you did enough to explain how hell it actually was.
The Sand snowman in the Christmas Edition of Bloons 2 might be because Ninja Kiwi is an NZ company, and in NZ, Christmas happens at the same time as the rest of the world, but its seasons are the opposite of northern countries seasons due to hemisphere differences. So it might be a nod that in NZ, if you wanna make a snowman during Christmas you'd probably have to settle for using sand instead of snow
Yeah, Summer in the southern hemisphere. no Winter Christmas here.
Sand 'snow'men are somewhat common on NZ beaches in December but I'm not sure about other southern hemisphere countries.
This is awesome! I was not expecting all this detail. This must have taken a long time!
I'm happy to see an awesome guy like dabloon acknowledge this awesome video
Love your vids👍 and please don't pop me
The waffle house had found it's new host
@@bloonbrawler9872 wait what? They did? Who is it? Dabloon? Is dabloon the new host? Why? Why is it dabloon? What did the waffle house do to him? What did he do to deserve this?
I hate waffles
@@Pal_EX it's a trend, they comment those on anywhere.
It's so awesome how a game I remember being integral to 7 year old me, that I had all but forgotten about, has a thriving community, consistent updates and an unbelievably high amount of easter eggs
Same
Yeah I remember playing Bloons as a little kid when I got my first personal computer ... graduated from all the base windows game like Space Pinball and Spider Solitaire to flash games and exploring all the flash games on the internet. Bloons tower defense was one of my favorite flash games to play with siblings, we even liked the other non tower defense Bloons games & stalked newgrounds for more unique games to try
12:13 The tip actually is true! "If a bloon escapes, you lose as many lives as the bloon had bloons *inside* it plus 1" where the plus 1 is for the bloon itself.
Bloons TD3 started a very weird obsession when I was a child.
I played around with it, until my 45 year old father decided to try it out.
He still plays Bloons games to this day when he gets the chance, It warms my heart and really makes me smile when I see it.
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Hope he gets better soon
@@Iugeershut it, loser
A bit of an addendum: The beekeeper originated in BTD5 before being added to BTD4 mobile, and the dartling gunner and spike factory were BTD4 expansion pack towers that were added into the BTD4 base game afterward.
I want to say, this is the first long form video I ever watched. And rewatching it now I realized why I got into long formed content, and it now makes sense this is genuinely a really good video
It took me waaaay to long to realize that the 'three' in 'Bloons Pop three' refers just refers to having to align 3 bloons to pop them
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Holy shit what a brilliantly unintended troll
@@coldbluebrownieexactly my thought when reading this comment
Yeah, pre candy crush those games were just called "match-three" games or bejewelled clones.
The lore expands...
Man, I always wanted a 2 hour 46 minute and 32 second long video about a funny balloon popping monkey game explaining all the story and history of a small video game, thanks for making it!
Too bad! This video is 2 hours 46 minutes and 33 seconds long 😈😈😈😈😈
It's bloon, not balloon
The way you mix in completely unexpected jokes and random edits into videos and have them be consistently funny is genuinely amazing and it only gets better over time. Also I never knew that I needed an extensive video going over the entire history of the Bloons franchise until now especially since I was wholly unaware of half of these.
This is a awesome walkdown memory lane. Thank you for this.
I remember that I played a ton of Flash games on my moms laptop during this time. I didn't knew it back then, but I really was there when a new BTD Game was released. And I really started the series, when there was only the first game.
It is insane hot hard the first game is compared to the later ones.
Ninjakiwi seems to be always working to serve the community which is awesome to see, adding in so many fan made maps and features in btd6, constantly keeping really old games updated and even recognizing the community divide in the original bloons player base and making unique games for both sides
By far one of the best videos I've seen in a long time. This movie was genuinely a roller-coaster of nostalgia, laughs, and confusion.
And yes, I watched the ENTIRE thing. 10/10.
Same, it’s sooo good
Yes
I feel like re watching it again
Glad to be apart of the history of Bloons! Great video!
Hey Boltrix.
ayo yes
Goofy
YOOOO ITS THE MAN HIMSELF
is it ever strange to you that a large source of income for you is making videos about a game that was intended for children?
Oh god, the amount of time I spent playing this game series on Cool Math Games in school instead of doing classwork!
The Evil Monkey Baron needs more screentime tbh.
Fr
This has been in my recommended for the past couple days and i got around to watching it finally and i can say that it was well worth the watch. Insanely impressive video with the amount of research that went into it, can't wait for you to do an updated version of this video in 5 years going over all of the btd 6 updates :D! I also think you capture just how good BTD6 is as a game, I got back into it a couple of months ago after not playing it for a while and the updates always seem to add something wildly impressive and content that can keep you playing for ages. I also think that the community interaction is probably ninja kiwi's biggest strength with the implementation of maps and other such things.
I can’t believe that they made a Dont Starve x BTD6 crossover. Thank you OrangE for this showcase.
Wonkey Gaming
Yes
What next? The Five Nights at Freddy’s Song, based by the hit video game horror series, Five Nights at Freddy’s, composed by the artists, The Living Tombstone?
@@raihanvarghese8553 your grammar is outstandingly bad.
but i sure would love to see the song Five Nights at Freddy's based on the hit video game horror series of the same name, composed by The Living Tombstone.
and maybe a few years after the last song for FNaF, somewhere in like 2022 The Living Tombstone will release a mediocre song that uses the same voice editing as the first song. that'd be so cool, i'd strangle myself to fdetah.
Ridicule
autoplay has once again brought me back here 1 year later, still a good watch.
oh hey I did the graphics and animation for BTD 3 , POP3 and a few othe rolder ninja kiwi games, this was a fun blast from the past thank you! Hehe to be fair there was only 3 of us in the company and we were learning as we went so it was a bit experimental :P
Thank you for the memories.
Cool, are you still working in ninja kiwi?
you singlehandedly created my fucking childhood
@@pg13snipez I left after a while , but they grew a lot more now and there’s lots of amazing artists there now!
And daww thanks all
@@deltagotgroceries8155 I think there were two other guys too
I dont know why, but I CONSTANTLY find myself rewatching this over and over. Whether invested or just kinda in the background.
Maybe the video is just THAT good to me
Same
Same X2
I’ve watched this video from start to finish atleast 5 times
I'm literally re-watching this for like the 5th time. Love this video so much
I'd watch this 8 times
The random CoC references, the jokes he makes, his voice, everything about this video I loved. A well spent 2 hours, 46 minutes and 32 seconds.
edit, 33 seconds, thank you Obiwan.
33 seconds* (I counted it)
@@Obiwan_Kenobi_The_First cheers
@@Obiwan_Kenobi_The_First you owe me my limbs.
Color of Conquerors?
@@KanyeGlazer96942 you honestly deserved it
This video played in my recommended auto-play, and I just kept listening to it while doing something else and then two hours later I was like "How long has this guy been on about Bloons?"
absolutely immaculate. finally another episode of full history of a flash puzzle game released 15 years ago
Simply WOW.
I didnt believe that this video was THAT interesting. I delayed watching it for 1 month and i regret it.
The script was splendid. All the story was wonderful.
I respect you so much, you just made my childhood 10 times better. Thank you.
Hi
idk if someone mentioned it, but the 2 secret Christmas levels being "sand" themes is most likely a reference to Ociana having Christmas during their summer.
I JUST REALIZED
it’s not “bloons pop” “3”
it’s “bloons” “pop 3”
Usually I don’t comment twice but dude this video is so insanely good. I had never heard of BTD before and now I feel like my brain is 5x heavier. The editing is timed perfectly and it makes this such a funny video that I have sat through half of it at this point and it probably will be one of my favourite niche essay videos ever. Fantastic job. I hope this video gets the recognition it deserves.
you missed out, bloons is epic
I think It's getting recognised fast
How did you manage to not hear about BTD in any way? Some of the biggest youtubers play or have played it. I would have to TRY to not hear about it.
True bloons is epic
@@devinmessmer9632 i have no idea. does watching exclusively jerma count? this is strange to me too.
Having grown up with the entire Bloons series myself it’s always a shame seeing people who don’t know most of the games outside of the td series so finally having a video like this confirming is not alone and educating others is really nice
This video single-handedly kickstarted my BTD6 addiction...
This video single-handedly triggered my relapse back into my BTD6 addiction, I'm there with you
@@colonelsouffle3042 same
Same
Why tf now im intrigued to play it back especially the New community map
💀
Same almost
why do i keep rewatching this? good video dude.
I do that too...
I’m glad this video blew up and became your most viewed video in less than a week, the dedication here is deserving of this attention
It took me 4 days to get through this entire show, but I really enjoyed it. Thank you for making it! I hope in 10 years you make another!
I somehow read that as "I hope you make it" and was very concerned about what was coming further into the video. I think I might need to finish this in the morning lol.
@@jordanfry5138 there's a deadly jumpscare at the end that has so far killed 7 people
İm watching it for 3rd time its so fun to watch for some reason
@@prendor5243 yea
@@Or-ang-E 💀
1:31:17
"The answer, is a gun"
"But if that dont work, use more gun"
ENGINEER GAMING 😮😮😮😮
"Buildin' a dispenser!"
*_Doo do Doo do do do Doo do do doh_*
"Guess that'll do!"
fun fact:
they actually found the easter egg in encrypted.
you need a supermonkey in the middle and one T5 of each category in the other pedestals
when you sacrifice the the T5s to the sun temple, all the pedestals will collapse and a portal will appear.
it deals constant damage to bloons and pulls moabs, bfbs and zomgs like the pirate lord.
Nope not bads
Oops
I meant bfbs
@@Blackfedoraowner also nice Fedora.
I have a straw fedora.
@@Minosprime69420 also good, also thanks for the compliment, the picture is a bit outdated and I might change it soon but I appreciate the compliment 😄
Almost three hours of video and i was hooked every single second, this video is simply a masterpiece AND a masterclass in editing, research and comedy, deserves every single view it has and oh so many more, this video should be in a museum
47:25 ok so fun fact: Ninja Kiwi is based in New Zealand and in that part of the world, the summer season is over December - February so Christmas happens during that kind of weather
Also amazing video, can't believe this is such an underrated channel
Bloons Monkey City 2 is what I hope for, since the first one was actually my favorite for a handful of reasons. City building is quite fun for me, and I didn't mind the waiting all that much. I loved the tile capture system that changes the tracks and minor rulesets based on the terrain of the tile, plus the fact that each tile's bloons were not set in stone; memorizing the bloons would only work for one tile at a time. The feeling of progression was a cool change of pace, and limiting tower spam until your city got bigger promoted diversifying what strategies you used. Every tile was its own challenge, that is what I loved about it. The PC version adding a second city to work on at the same time with new terrain, music, and the engineer, was a good way to extend play sessions between needing to wait for things to finish building. The mobile features like the Monkey Knowledge crates and Bloonstones were technically microtransactions, but were plentiful enough just by playing well that it was never necessary to buy more. They actually handled it the best possible way IMO.
I didn't like the MvM mode though, it just wasn't for me, so the fact that they had a Pacifist option that prevented you from being attacked and let you focus solely on city growth was a great feature. The Contested Territory was the better way to implement competitive to BMC.
I love pretty much everything about BMC, so seeing a sequel that gave it BTD6's towers and upgrades with the city building progression and tile system would be a dream come true--AS LONG AS they don't get scummy with the microtransactions. First game did it perfectly, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I mean BTD games are always felt the same
Same wave, same enemies for most of the time
Usually its only new tower and map, but basic stuff isnt changed
HOWEVER, monkey city shift it drastically. Same with adventure time.
Sadly as this video said, ppl love BTD not as tower defense but as a sandbox game. So, new twist and invention to gameplay are mostly abandoned. Battles are taking unique new rules on top of sandbox gameplay, so its still survive (he explains battles player is like "could the enemies defend this rush?, how far stages we could get?" Etc. )
Not that i hate it but it gets boring after a while.
I'm not reading that but ye mc is good
You put so much effort into the video man. It took me all day to finish the vid since I took breaks every once in a while and the vid was so good I fr thought it was only 30 mins, I was completely shocked to see I spent hours watching monke pop balloon lore
36:44 the implication that the bloons vs monkeys rivalry in the BTD games all came from blatant cruetly of the ancestors of the protagonists almost EXACTLY like Donkey Kong Circus with the original Donkey Kong just pleases me to no end for some weird reason.
Reject bloon
Return to monke
As someone who played nearly all of these back in the day, I seriously appreciate this video. seeing bloons world again unlocked memories for me
40:09 - I remember making custom levels for Bloons 2 and was genuinely rather sad when I saw that it was gone, it even said it would be coming back for a while but it never did.
If you're curious in the first Battles there are still files left over for a map editor. At this point an editor isn't needed anymore since we can basically maps without an editor it's just very time consuming
Btdb1 has a track editor?
ive been obsessed with btd 6 for a couple weeks after reigniting my old btd battles mobile mania and buying it. thank all the gods for this perfect video getting recommended to me.
Ever since I first watched this I can only ever think about the one game with an actual storyline about the Baron monkey 😭
Great video, one of if not the best you’ve made, you can really tell the hard work and passion put into it. I’ve never been interested in bloons but this video kept me interested all the way through and I never thought of closing it. This video truly deserved its place in the best videos playlist.
46:05 Actually I don't think we are waiting for him to melt. I think the snowman is using its own body to throw snowballs at you, so it eventually reduces itself to nothing.
I casually loved btd 3 and 4 when they came out. Missed others and got into 6 recently. I can’t believe I just watched HOURS on the game though. You did a great job on the video and are a joy to watch, you were naturally hilarious so many times!
Sub’d
This was honestly the best video ive seen, i started watching this video thinking its just a 20min vid with a brief recap of every game, but here i am 2 hours 46 minutes and 32 seconds later knowing every single game and all of its mechanics and perks of the bloons franchise. Great video man
30:32 so I actually know this one, on release the Spike Factory and Dartling weren't in the game, they were added in updates later. I guess they never added shortcut keys when they were added in
This video actually got me back into BTDB2, i can safely say that it’s wayyyyyyy better now
Wait yea this was 9 months ago. I decided to get into it like one month ago maybe. And i did not need xp to get through the tiers i get all 4/4/4 for the initial monies and then 1,500 for the 5th tiers
same
@@naserchowdhury4032 tf
I thought the normal BTD4 looked ugly enough, but at least charming and easy on the eyes. Then I saw the mobile version.
How did I watch this 3 hour video
WITHOUT Questioning it
These type of channels are the one I like most and this is basically a compilation
it was simply nodding in agreement or laughing
47:31-47:48 Ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes on the greatest moment of Bloons history
I stopped at 1:45:33 just to write this, this guy is crazy. He took lots of time to make this video about a game he liked in the childhood but is still up to date. And got 7 milion views but he deserve every single one of them. Good job, if you are making a new video I recomand Swords and Sandals and all the games from that creator. Keep it up king, make 3 hours videos about any game and I will watch it.
Hi
Hihu
Crazy?
I was crazy once.
They locked me in a room
A rubber room
A rubber room with rats
Rats makes me Crazy
Crazy?
I was crazy once.
They locked me in a room
A rubber room
A rubber room with rats
Rats makes me Crazy
Crazy?
I was crazy once.
They locked me in a room
A rubber room
A rubber room with rats
Rats makes me Crazy
Crazy?
I was crazy once.
They locked me in a room
A rubber room
A rubber room with rats
Rats makes me Crazy
Crazy?
I was crazy once.
They locked me in a room
A rubber room
A rubber room with rats
Rats makes me Crazy
ENCRYPTED ACTUALLY HAS SOMETHING you need to
1. put a sun avatar on the center platform
2. put 50k worth of each tower type on their respective platforms
3. put a monkey from each type on the graves corresponding to the symbols on the platforms in the center
4. upgrade the avatar into a temple
i dont want to spoil what this reveals but it is kinda cool
I'm in absolute shock and disbelief that I was around almost at the start of Bloons! I was 8 years old back in 2007 using school computers to play BTD1 shortly after it came out. Still keeping up with the modern Bloons games ever since!