I just downloaded this game to the Nintendo switch in the airport before a 6 hour flight. It was very addictive & I played it for nearly the whole flight.
I was a couple of hours in before I started to get this game but I could so easily have just dropped it and lost interest if I hadn't given it the time, so you guys thinking of giving it a try should bear that in mind. Once I started getting the hang of it, and racking up scores, then it just clicked into place and I found the game's like digital crack. I'm over 100 hours in now, and I've only just beaten my first challenge, after finally unlocking the ability to play them. I've unlocked maybe 8 decks, won maybe 15 games out of like 500, and I can't leave the game alone. Best value per pound spent on a game in years.
Start by matching the cards of the same category. All club cards together, all spades together, all hearts together, all diamonds together. Discard cards you don't wanna play, to get more of diamonds or hearts, to get a stronger hand. @@TomLally
Hey I just got the game for the Nintendo switch. Thanks for this guide! Unfortunately your video cut off at the end and I wasn’t able to get the best tip. Could you post a follow up video with just the big tip?
I still have a question: when I use a planet card(it can be in the middle of a hand or via shop) it deploys but never use the cards in deck. Not clear at all in those planet cards😂
The planet cards don't change your deck cards directly. They affect the base score and multiplier for a particular hand type. See the screen he shows here: 0:20. All the rows show lvl.1 (Level 1) so we can tell that he hasn't played any planet cards in this run yet. If he deployed the planet card for a pair, the pair row would increase to lvl.2 and the base chip amount (blue) and multiplier (red) numbers would both increase leading to a higher score for all pairs played in the future. Each planet card increases the level +1 and the base chip amount are increased per the text on the planet. E.g. "+1 mult and +15 chips". You can get to this screen by clicking the red "run info" button during gameplay. The yellow number on the right of each row shows the number of times you've played the hand in this run.
What do you mean when you say that you can move the jokers around? Don't they score the same way no matter what order they're in? I'm a week into the game, so sorry for the rookie question. And for spinning the card around 50 times to no effect. :/
Click and drag the jokers. They resolve from one side to the other. So order matters a lot, you want to maximize their effects by having them in an order that benefits you the most. As for spinning the card, you might just have to do it 51 times
This game has so much hype behind it and i wanna enjoy it too but i just can't get in the groove of it. It feels so complicated, especially the chips and multiplier mechanic
I lierally bought this an hour or 2 ago. It was intended for my Legion GO but I pld it, I then installed on my PC as well. I think/hope I'll want it on both!😁 I skipped the 'secret sauce' bit at the end of the vid, is it a game breaker or ?? What does it do?
After sts i couldn't find a game and always skipped balatro cause i thought it was just poker or something like that. But wow i'm going to play right now. They really should make it more clear that this is not a poker game somehow.
It is. But you can understand a lot by just playing. I just dove in and learned that way. Watching a video explaining the whole thing all at once is a really overwhelming.
I feel like its gonna have a hard boss i will need many tries and will loose close to me winning all the time :/ while it is cool and challenging i dont want another game to rage on
the very last boss made me crashout bro thr chip requirements are 300000 and i only got like 20000 per hand, but if you play frequently tho you'll eventually beat it, i bought the game just 12 hours ago and i already beat it 2 times
All they need to do is update the game to preview show you how much you're going to make if you play a certain hand... If they did that it would bring SO many more players! Maybe even have the option to enable it on/off.
Please do research before making points. The game had score preview in very early in development and was removed. This is a intentional decision. Not knowing exactly if you're gonna win or not.
@@RichardLofty I suspected this and I think it's a brilliant gameplay decision. Half the fun in hitting play on those last-gasp desperate hands, where you've done everything you can to maximize your score, is waiting for the score to come up. If you know whether your hand is going to rack up enough points or not, then you're losing a huge chunk of the game appeal.
Kids these days don't want to dive into anything that takes time to learn. I love showing kids amazing old school rpgs just for them to say, "Oh, you have to read..." What's going on with the world!? I mean, it blows my mind that kids can't even tell time on an analog watch! Not to mention not knowing how to write cursive!? Good lordy.
I got this game because everyone said how great it is I can’t even past the first card deck thing. I never played poker but played hearthstone / tes legends / mtg etc and this sucks what am I doing matching cards when I do it doesn’t even do anything and I lose 🤷🏻♂️
Im not sure how your playing but you're not supposed to be matching cards, you're supposed to be building poker hands. Matching card will just give you pairs which is the second worst hand possible behind high card. I'd suggest getting an image of poker hands to reference when playing and trying to learn them, honestly it's not much to learn, there's only like 8-10 hands to learn but it's important to know the important ones like flush, straight, full house and straight flush.
Played it for about 4 hrs. Was really enjoying it until I hit a boss that had a "you can't see your own cards until you play them" gimmick and that's where I dropped the game. I VERY strongly despise heavy rng mechanics like that so yeah a thumbs down game for me.
Yeah I don’t get it reminds me of something on my parents windows 98 pc that I couldn’t figure out 🤷🏻♂️I don’t get it I’m so mad I wasted money on the switch which I got it on steam for a refund
@@LostHorizons0 some games aren’t for everyone, I just got it and having a blast. Despite never playing poker, got my second win in 3 hours. Maybe just try dive in on your own? Beginners guide are always pretty complicated to a newcomer.
In my opinion there are games that you won't "Get it" if you just watch the gameplay but when you play it in person it's so much fun. But to me there are also games that no matter what the hype and is greatly well received by the masses, if you don't like, you just don't like it. This is that game. You just need to play it and experience it first hand if it's for you.
The best games are the ones you don’t even expect but they blow you away. This is one of them.
Purchased this game yesterday I was overwhelmed and confused. Thanks for this video!
It's actually straight forward if you understand poker. I love it
@@magicalgores3416 k
That final tip at the end was incredible! I'm never gonna play Cilantro the same way again!!!
Thank you sooooo much!
Lol great video, man!
Same been playing cilantro for a few days now
I just downloaded this game to the Nintendo switch in the airport before a 6 hour flight.
It was very addictive & I played it for nearly the whole flight.
I was a couple of hours in before I started to get this game but I could so easily have just dropped it and lost interest if I hadn't given it the time, so you guys thinking of giving it a try should bear that in mind. Once I started getting the hang of it, and racking up scores, then it just clicked into place and I found the game's like digital crack. I'm over 100 hours in now, and I've only just beaten my first challenge, after finally unlocking the ability to play them. I've unlocked maybe 8 decks, won maybe 15 games out of like 500, and I can't leave the game alone. Best value per pound spent on a game in years.
I haven’t any clue how to play this! 😅
Start by matching the cards of the same category.
All club cards together, all spades together, all hearts together, all diamonds together.
Discard cards you don't wanna play, to get more of diamonds or hearts, to get a stronger hand.
@@TomLally
I've played for 2 or so hours and im hooked!
good video! been debating on getting the game and pulled the trigger because of it
Cheers, enjoy!
If you turn on vsync in the game's video settings menu it limits your frame rate to the monitor's refresh rate.
Ye, I didn't mention it since for some people vsync can be funky sometimes. But it definitely saves a couple of clicks.
You can discard if that hand don’t match the hand. Like 2 pairs and pick another card you get rid of that card
Orders of magnitude specifically refers to increase in base 10. Ie, 1 order of magnitude is 10x, 2 orders of magnitude is 100x, 3 orders is 1000x.
This game also teaches u poker hands really well and if u wanted to play poker in the future all u would need to learn is the rules
Don't poke player.
Player don't poke
Poke player dont.
Don't player poke.
Hey I just got the game for the Nintendo switch. Thanks for this guide! Unfortunately your video cut off at the end and I wasn’t able to get the best tip. Could you post a follow up video with just the big tip?
Hi Jeff, sorry but that was just a cliffhanger joke. Hope you enjoy the game!
I still have a question: when I use a planet card(it can be in the middle of a hand or via shop) it deploys but never use the cards in deck. Not clear at all in those planet cards😂
The planet cards don't change your deck cards directly. They affect the base score and multiplier for a particular hand type. See the screen he shows here: 0:20. All the rows show lvl.1 (Level 1) so we can tell that he hasn't played any planet cards in this run yet. If he deployed the planet card for a pair, the pair row would increase to lvl.2 and the base chip amount (blue) and multiplier (red) numbers would both increase leading to a higher score for all pairs played in the future. Each planet card increases the level +1 and the base chip amount are increased per the text on the planet. E.g. "+1 mult and +15 chips". You can get to this screen by clicking the red "run info" button during gameplay. The yellow number on the right of each row shows the number of times you've played the hand in this run.
Amazing explanation, will try it later. Haven’t won a run yet😢
@@PecheLeBlue I've been playing 12 hours and still not won
@@davestar4718 I thought I was the only one
This game is so fun, i seriously cant stop playing 😂
What do you mean when you say that you can move the jokers around? Don't they score the same way no matter what order they're in? I'm a week into the game, so sorry for the rookie question. And for spinning the card around 50 times to no effect. :/
Click and drag the jokers. They resolve from one side to the other. So order matters a lot, you want to maximize their effects by having them in an order that benefits you the most. As for spinning the card, you might just have to do it 51 times
@@poplovegaming I see, so the multipliers can be used more effectively in the best orders. Wow, this game has a lot of layers! BRB, gonna try 51.
@@chipbridges8345 PEMDAS BABYY
This is so hard for non gamblers
This game has so much hype behind it and i wanna enjoy it too but i just can't get in the groove of it. It feels so complicated, especially the chips and multiplier mechanic
First rogue like that i can't put down. 😭
Thanks for posting this, decent guide to get started and the pacing is good. Any plans on making future videos that discuss tactics?
Thanks, yeah there's a few I'd like to do when time allows.
I lierally bought this an hour or 2 ago.
It was intended for my Legion GO but I pld it, I then installed on my PC as well. I think/hope I'll want it on both!😁
I skipped the 'secret sauce' bit at the end of the vid, is it a game breaker or ?? What does it do?
It's just a cliffhanger meme sorry 😂
@@poplovegaming OK, OK. 😆
Coriander 😂
It's delicious
Melange.
Awesome tips and hell of a cliffhangers the end lol. Good stuff.
Pretty helpful! Thanks for the video
Great ending lmao
After sts i couldn't find a game and always skipped balatro cause i thought it was just poker or something like that. But wow i'm going to play right now. They really should make it more clear that this is not a poker game somehow.
This looks so complicated and confusing
its mad shrimple
It is. But you can understand a lot by just playing. I just dove in and learned that way. Watching a video explaining the whole thing all at once is a really overwhelming.
i absolutely hate you people omg POKER IS EASY AND FUN! FFS ! my god if u say about urself i cant play poker u r just stupid thats common knowledge
@@HatoBumpkinbro what get well soon
It really is
I feel like its gonna have a hard boss i will need many tries and will loose close to me winning all the time :/ while it is cool and challenging i dont want another game to rage on
We need Cilantro. When Poker meets Bridge. A multiplayer game.
I cant find the comment that talked about a hard boss they got later in the game , but thats really important to my buy decision aaah
the very last boss made me crashout bro thr chip requirements are 300000 and i only got like 20000 per hand, but if you play frequently tho you'll eventually beat it, i bought the game just 12 hours ago and i already beat it 2 times
Lmao the end makes me wanna dislike😂😂 but fair play my friend you have earned a like today😂👍
I'm sorry but you can play and discard cards. It'll play the highest suit and discard the rest. You should absolutely use this strategy.
All they need to do is update the game to preview show you how much you're going to make if you play a certain hand... If they did that it would bring SO many more players! Maybe even have the option to enable it on/off.
Please do research before making points.
The game had score preview in very early in development and was removed.
This is a intentional decision.
Not knowing exactly if you're gonna win or not.
@@RichardLofty I suspected this and I think it's a brilliant gameplay decision. Half the fun in hitting play on those last-gasp desperate hands, where you've done everything you can to maximize your score, is waiting for the score to come up. If you know whether your hand is going to rack up enough points or not, then you're losing a huge chunk of the game appeal.
Is this game competitive? aka multiplayer
@@Jonah-h8r no
I love baccarat
Becalyte
amazing art
This is super helpful! You should do one for pocket card jockey too! 😅
Omg this is so easy
Kids these days don't want to dive into anything that takes time to learn. I love showing kids amazing old school rpgs just for them to say, "Oh, you have to read..." What's going on with the world!? I mean, it blows my mind that kids can't even tell time on an analog watch! Not to mention not knowing how to write cursive!? Good lordy.
@@shawnnyp5686 huh?
@@poplovegaming The comments dude. Nothing to do with the video. Great video.
Coriander 😂😂😂
Cant believe i got baited 😢
I'm sorry that I'm not sorry ❤️
You're playing video poker but with things that mix it up.
I got this game because everyone said how great it is I can’t even past the first card deck thing. I never played poker but played hearthstone / tes legends / mtg etc and this sucks what am I doing matching cards when I do it doesn’t even do anything and I lose 🤷🏻♂️
Im not sure how your playing but you're not supposed to be matching cards, you're supposed to be building poker hands. Matching card will just give you pairs which is the second worst hand possible behind high card. I'd suggest getting an image of poker hands to reference when playing and trying to learn them, honestly it's not much to learn, there's only like 8-10 hands to learn but it's important to know the important ones like flush, straight, full house and straight flush.
Played it for about 4 hrs. Was really enjoying it until I hit a boss that had a "you can't see your own cards until you play them" gimmick and that's where I dropped the game. I VERY strongly despise heavy rng mechanics like that so yeah a thumbs down game for me.
I was able to beat a similar requirement. But only my starting cards were face down. Through sheer dumb luck, I managed to score some pairs
ther is no N in balatro
Ahh wtf wait there's nothing permanent?
RUclipsrs kept saying it's the most fun game,played it for 3 minutes got intimidated, not fun.
Not every game is for every person, I think that's normal
3 minutes is WAY too short imo, not every game is for everyone but please give it a proper chance, give it like 1 hour
@fahadking5553 yeah I figured it out played for like 6 hours straight
This game ruins your free time like crazy
@@qualitysacks4774 there you go 😂 balatro really sucks you in
Same
i don't know why this game nominated for the game of the year award , it is one of the most ridiculous things of this year
I understand that it’s not Fortnite but you must realize that there is more to the gaming industry than competitive shooters & Mario.
You have a marvel pfp you can’t talk
That’s why I got it because everyone said it’s so great it’s literally one of the most complicated and boring things I’ve ever played I hate it
mfs when they realize games other than competitive fps shooting exists
I watched many videos, i try to understand the game and i just cant. I dont understand shit. I play poker but i dont understand this what so ever
Got this. Not for me.
unlike because last bait
Another stoopid game to destroy my social life...🙄
Eh, it's not as fun to socialize as play Balatro anyway.
Game is booooring . And u make it more complicated
😢
Yeah I don’t get it reminds me of something on my parents windows 98 pc that I couldn’t figure out 🤷🏻♂️I don’t get it I’m so mad I wasted money on the switch which I got it on steam for a refund
@@LostHorizons0 some games aren’t for everyone, I just got it and having a blast. Despite never playing poker, got my second win in 3 hours. Maybe just try dive in on your own? Beginners guide are always pretty complicated to a newcomer.
Yeah, it sucks, but that's the hand you're played.
Hand you're played... Ah, forget it.
This looks so bad and so ugly and sounds so complicated even after watching your video I cant bring myself to buy it.
Not every game is for everyone, don't sweat it.
In my opinion there are games that you won't "Get it" if you just watch the gameplay but when you play it in person it's so much fun.
But to me there are also games that no matter what the hype and is greatly well received by the masses, if you don't like, you just don't like it. This is that game. You just need to play it and experience it first hand if it's for you.
is there like a group made of balatro haters lmao? i keep seeing those comments like balatro is "the worst card game" type shi