I don't make mazes, I make tunnels (Emberward)

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  • Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
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Комментарии • 161

  • @bord2heck
    @bord2heck Месяц назад +409

    As we all know, the longest distance between two points is a straight line

    • @vario6492
      @vario6492 Месяц назад +4

      Unless you create a portal

  • @eamonntee
    @eamonntee Месяц назад +443

    This man still cant comprehend how shapes work. Im scrambling to think of a heuristic he can follow to figure it out.

    • @joeblowgoes
      @joeblowgoes Месяц назад +26

      Writing out steps when he just doesnt have a good brain cad software is a daunting task

    • @sligmasta1
      @sligmasta1 Месяц назад +25

      try to make the minions walk as far left or right as you can before you let them make any forward progress, repeat

    • @myspicyclips6402
      @myspicyclips6402 Месяц назад +4

      you apparently can’t comprehend how winning works

    • @JB-xl2jc
      @JB-xl2jc Месяц назад +15

      "This one is shaped like an apple that is in an L shape. If you place them like this, you can make it kind of like a squiggly apple. If you keep doing it like you did it's kind of mangoesque."

    • @bobbob679
      @bobbob679 Месяц назад

      In your head you draw a line around the map when you start the game. You draw the line so that it swirls and switches back and forth around the maze. Then you just build and block off paths that don't take that route.

  • @ratbaby3107
    @ratbaby3107 Месяц назад +70

    "Id like to force you down an even longer hallway" he says, while placing a block that doesnt change the enemy path a single inch

  • @jacksonsimpson344
    @jacksonsimpson344 Месяц назад +278

    I love NL and he plays well with towers but watching him put down the tetrominoes gives me the same feeling as watching those bad mobile game ads where they keep losing on purpose.
    It’s the best ad for the game I’ve ever seen.

    • @rene3924
      @rene3924 Месяц назад +14

      I‘ve bought about 20 games over the years thanks to NL because of this reason…

    • @idsappples
      @idsappples Месяц назад +9

      Usually he far surpasses my smarts on every way but this particular kind of game is just not it, he places down so many useless tetrominoes when the pathing is OBVIOUSLY not going to be effected at all it’s wild I love him

    • @hoebare
      @hoebare Месяц назад

      It's even more effective than those mobile ads because I _know_ he's a real person and I'm _pretty sure_ he's not ignoring the obvious on purpose.

  • @lapp
    @lapp Месяц назад +78

    This is the greatest ad for the game ever. Show potential for how good it can be + mobile game ad gameplay from NL to intice you to do better yourself.

  • @Wicked_Toast
    @Wicked_Toast Месяц назад +397

    NL being so bad at making mazes is making me wanna play this game just to show that it's so easy

    • @ChristmasPterodactyl
      @ChristmasPterodactyl Месяц назад +138

      Egg is a living mobile game advertisment

    • @ClockworkGFX
      @ClockworkGFX Месяц назад +81

      I've bought a few too many games to just get my Type A chatter out

    • @riveenwickenham8392
      @riveenwickenham8392 Месяц назад +2

      I was just about to type this hahahaha

    • @rafaelmingau8334
      @rafaelmingau8334 Месяц назад +17

      I bought this game and beat it hard mode in under 2 hours, very fun but easy game

    • @PickUps
      @PickUps Месяц назад

      @@rafaelmingau8334 i 100 percent believe it. Seems great for first timers, but anyone with TD experience could mow through it

  • @littlej211
    @littlej211 Месяц назад +18

    Me reading the comments: "How bad can he really be at making mazes?"
    NL in the first 5 minutes: "We want them to walk in a straight line as long as possible"

  • @klh_io
    @klh_io Месяц назад +17

    The whole video has a "it goes in the square hole" energy. He has to do it on purpose

  • @DeathByRabbit
    @DeathByRabbit Месяц назад +163

    Me at NL's Halloween Corn Maze: That's just a field of corn, sir.

    • @KingKobra98
      @KingKobra98 Месяц назад +16

      More like that’s just a straight line with corn on either side

  • @VakarianWrex
    @VakarianWrex Месяц назад +59

    NL: We're making mazes here
    My brother in christ, that's an alleyway

  • @PickUps
    @PickUps Месяц назад +32

    Im gonna have to come back in a month once he understands how to make a maze, because this is hard to watch

  • @kevinwilde8246
    @kevinwilde8246 Месяц назад +17

    When NL learns to make the enemies zigzag, it's all over for them

  • @echechman6301
    @echechman6301 Месяц назад +119

    Tetris meets slay the spire meets bloons meets the best game you've ever played (not clickbait)

  • @seansmith1287
    @seansmith1287 Месяц назад +29

    NL doesnt understand working at a bluecoller job with a young employee who cant stop saying the hawktuah meme

    • @JD-wu5pf
      @JD-wu5pf Месяц назад +15

      The problem isn't the hawk tuah meme, the problem is your coworker.

    • @seansmith1287
      @seansmith1287 Месяц назад +4

      @@JD-wu5pf your right but it didnt help it was awful the first time he said it

  • @orioncoats
    @orioncoats Месяц назад +16

    Once you let go of the definition of a maze: truly goat'd gaming.

  • @Ikatik
    @Ikatik Месяц назад +14

    I can’t believe I had hope when he said after a nights rest tower defense games made sense 😂😂😂

  • @william14able
    @william14able Месяц назад +20

    World’s Slowest player picks + gold if fast

  • @rocknu55
    @rocknu55 Месяц назад +31

    Please tell me this gets better after the first round, watching this man build a hallway thinking it's a maze is going to give me an aneurysm.

    • @Issidro
      @Issidro Месяц назад +3

      Re-read the title

    • @JD2jr.
      @JD2jr. Месяц назад

      It somehow gets worse.

  • @alexzephyris1455
    @alexzephyris1455 Месяц назад +33

    Start mazing from near the fire, the games makes mazing super easy because it literally shows you the paths enemies follow.
    For tower placement, stage power ups are a trap, they will make you place your starting maze blocks awkwardly and make the first waves needlessly tougher.
    Towers should be placed so they cover two lanes, so they shoot at any enemies that make it through the killzone.
    A killzone a specified area where you concentrate the majority of your firepower, like you did with the ball lighting towers, but applicable to all towers. You can have multiple killzones when you get more resources, but for beginning waves, focus on one.
    Slows and any immoblization are extremely effective in all tower defence games, slower enemies means more time in the killzone so easier to kill.
    Forgot, mazing just means zig-zag pattern, forcing the enemies to move the longest distance possible. Preferably only 1 square to move and your blocks should be2, maybe 3, squares wide so you place the towers to maximize coverage.
    Cheap towers in this game can be just as good if not better than more expensive towers, since a 15 gold tower can be placed 5 times on 75 gold and you get only 1 big 80 gold tower.
    Tl;dr Universal tower defence principles

  • @smerhawk
    @smerhawk Месяц назад +86

    I really hope that NL's strategy is to be so bad, he forces his audience to buy the game. Otherwise, I just don’t understand.

    • @RealCrawfish
      @RealCrawfish Месяц назад +19

      It’s working on me.

    • @KingKobra98
      @KingKobra98 Месяц назад +5

      I looked it up and almost bought it for this reason

    • @miscast8180
      @miscast8180 Месяц назад +7

      Half the tiles he puts down does nothing.. But this I gotta try 😂

  • @houligan5254
    @houligan5254 Месяц назад +6

    When placing tiles, you are trying to make Lombard St, not an interstate highway.

  • @Enaiarr
    @Enaiarr Месяц назад +5

    Don't think corridors: think stanchions. if you want to fit as many creatures in as small a space as possible so your turrets are in range of them for longer - snake the path back and forth to make it a nightmare for them. More turns means more better.

  • @espanadorada7962
    @espanadorada7962 Месяц назад +11

    Watching this guy problem solve like a 12 year old while talking like he’s Einstein… truly an experience

  • @hjge1012
    @hjge1012 Месяц назад +100

    Didn't know there were people who were this bad at mazing.
    You learn something new every day I guess...

    • @scratchknudsen1
      @scratchknudsen1 Месяц назад +16

      Not everyone put in dozens and dozens and dozens of hours mazing in WC3 where you had to be near perfect or else you let the whole team down and would get blasted by a roommate or random teammates… But I assume you and I did🫡

    • @Zaxomio
      @Zaxomio Месяц назад +11

      I'm gonna be honest I watched the last video and thought the exact same thing, I got the game and played it... the perspective honestly makes it kinda rough to see how thick different segments are... I fucked up multiple times. I think the game could benefit from a top down toggle or just the ability to shift the perspective to be a bit higher.

    • @simp3204
      @simp3204 Месяц назад +4

      Wintermaul and other maze custom maps veterans checking in. Always amazed (dad jokes) by people that don’t know how to maze

    • @scratchknudsen1
      @scratchknudsen1 Месяц назад +3

      @@simp3204 Dude wintermaul was it! "Guys, I might leak this round I'm trying to do a circle maze" Just not allowed to leak if you are gray…

    • @simp3204
      @simp3204 Месяц назад

      @@scratchknudsen1 I'd always take some free leaks for the extra gold!

  • @mogelemichhierdurch5413
    @mogelemichhierdurch5413 Месяц назад +30

    Damn no apple discourse? sad day for a fruit lover

  • @andregoncalves5963
    @andregoncalves5963 Месяц назад +3

    1:14:49 I screamed. I'm type A now. I've accepted it and so should all of you.

  • @DumBernie
    @DumBernie Месяц назад +2

    42:06 no axe on the range tile hurts my soul

  • @Shines.22
    @Shines.22 Месяц назад +21

    Do my eyes deceive me or Is this THE eSports professional Northern?

  • @crazypyro777
    @crazypyro777 Месяц назад +28

    Not saying that NL is the greatest Emberward player of all time, but I mean there hasn't been a tournament, so.... Just thinking aloud.

    • @cirocamoletto03
      @cirocamoletto03 Месяц назад +6

      He might stand a chance if the other competitors are banned from placing tetrominoes

  • @kennethwilson1321
    @kennethwilson1321 Месяц назад +2

    one hour nineteen in he realizes how the long pieces can maze very well

  • @EddyRome562
    @EddyRome562 Месяц назад +1

    1 hour into the vod, no one has yet to tell him to set his decimators to attack highest hp mobs

  • @Arsenov92
    @Arsenov92 Месяц назад +1

    Years and years of playing Warcraft 3 TD's have prepared me for this roguelike

  • @jg1080
    @jg1080 19 дней назад

    1:25:45 Puts ice turrents on literally every space BUT the buffed one. Never change Enelle.

  • @victorolosaurus
    @victorolosaurus Месяц назад +2

    as a German my one rule for foreigners is: everything that's weird has to do with insurance/liability.. so yeah, that 100% is an accurate stereotype

  • @Danzey120
    @Danzey120 Месяц назад +2

    Ok, but when it was literally just a straight line directly to the end...

  • @Drewski1234
    @Drewski1234 Месяц назад +7

    Now you just gotta learn to change target priority on the decimators and you are going to the moon :)

  • @AGray21
    @AGray21 Месяц назад +18

    Less than 5 minutes in and his build is already completely nonsensical holy shit bro sign me up for more of this

    • @judjudson4399
      @judjudson4399 Месяц назад +6

      Im a huge roguelikes and TD fan and this game doesnt feel super high in synergy tbh. My number one ask is more relics with more substantial effects, and my runner up request is permanent buffs/modifiers for towers just like the nodifiers on blocks.

  • @Silkentwilight
    @Silkentwilight Месяц назад

    36:42 The financial terminology had me going. That was 🔥

  • @paytonrichardson9760
    @paytonrichardson9760 Месяц назад +16

    payton wants more

    • @HarrisonKC
      @HarrisonKC Месяц назад +4

      Harrison wants more

    • @wilsmif
      @wilsmif Месяц назад +2

      Wil wants more

  • @Wiggywoo1977
    @Wiggywoo1977 Месяц назад +5

    Love the music as well as many other things about this game.

    • @OctavianRex08
      @OctavianRex08 28 дней назад

      Reminds me of Glorious Morning from that old flash game, Age of War.

  • @KDoodleNoodle99
    @KDoodleNoodle99 Месяц назад +1

    That’s it. Im buying this game just to prove to myself I can make mazes better. Good job NL.

  • @abramturner3269
    @abramturner3269 Месяц назад +4

    draw a long zig zag or spiral challenge (impossible)

  • @Kongclusionva
    @Kongclusionva Месяц назад +1

    ur genuinelly funny, i chuckled merrily at dlguega getting excommunicated from Chicago

  • @misterprofessor5038
    @misterprofessor5038 Месяц назад

    NL if you're reading this you don't need to think about the paths or the exits so much as moving back and controlling the point at which the paths converge. Think from the fire outward and not the exits inward.

  • @danser_theplayer01
    @danser_theplayer01 Месяц назад

    24:40 there are at least 4 prime spots for axe towers and he just doesn't see them... I guess isometric perspective isn't his thing, right after shapes.
    P.s. a U turn is 3-4 axes, a corner is 2 axes, if you actually place them.

  • @gdfish3532
    @gdfish3532 Месяц назад +1

    dude is destroying the shape rotator allegations

  • @findcongwang
    @findcongwang Месяц назад

    Librarian lehtal'd dcastle is my head cannon nothing will change it.

  • @eddsoto4233
    @eddsoto4233 29 дней назад

    He doesn’t lose once and yet every comment is like “I could do better”

  • @sylkegaming
    @sylkegaming Месяц назад +1

    1:25:46 I can't get over him putting down an ice tower on every space in the area except the one that is a buffed space

  • @Smurrei
    @Smurrei Месяц назад +1

    He really isn't a shape-rotator huh

  • @allenhelmuth2214
    @allenhelmuth2214 Месяц назад

    I suggested the golden statue tower on his discord months and months ago, so to see it made it in the game was absolute whiplash

  • @MrChocolateDinosaur
    @MrChocolateDinosaur Месяц назад

    We're Emberward guys, of course we pog up for a car-wash

  • @purplelotus531
    @purplelotus531 Месяц назад

    46:35 could have horizontally blocked the left part and make them go around
    Or just build a highway for them

  • @borgar1765
    @borgar1765 Месяц назад

    may this series be long and prosperous

  • @ammaraffendi2174
    @ammaraffendi2174 Месяц назад

    me when he cant build a maze:
    me when mr lion says hes not gonna talk about apples: 😔😔😔

  • @purplelotus531
    @purplelotus531 Месяц назад

    Bro actually building highways for the enemies

  • @jg1080
    @jg1080 19 дней назад

    I wish he would change the decimators' target prioritization

  • @danser_theplayer01
    @danser_theplayer01 Месяц назад +1

    18:46 average boomer on the internet moment:

  • @PokiDraco
    @PokiDraco Месяц назад

    Dudes making videos in the back rooms

  • @Hex...
    @Hex... Месяц назад

    44:10 NL says Minecraft but tell me that isn’t the Terraria ice mining sound

  • @MrHard2beet
    @MrHard2beet Месяц назад +1

    heres a huge tip for ya
    start by making one entrance to the campfire, then SPIRAL / ZIG ZAG
    easy wins in two simple steps lil bro, dont start building from the edges of the map

  • @jakemoore5064
    @jakemoore5064 Месяц назад +1

    So the decimator is awful right? Lmfao

  • @MrFireInTheDisco
    @MrFireInTheDisco Месяц назад

    The mind is a maze

  • @INinja55
    @INinja55 Месяц назад

    Been loving this game, could watch for hours. Love ya egg daddy

  • @thismightbeyou
    @thismightbeyou Месяц назад

    This man cannot make an 'S' maze path with literally the best blocks to do so, and I'm loving every minute of it Jerry!

  • @niknak2150
    @niknak2150 Месяц назад +1

    Killbox? Rimworld reference? NL softlaunching Rimworld playthrough with no backseaters? Are we cooking guys?

  • @Phoenix0F8
    @Phoenix0F8 Месяц назад +2

    I write mazes not tragedies
    -flout boi

  • @raozspaz
    @raozspaz Месяц назад +1

    Icicle tower does more damage to enemies with low health. *proceeds to put tower at the very front* . . . . *le sigh*

  • @TomCarnivore
    @TomCarnivore Месяц назад +1

    This game pogs dude

  • @NotQuietRight
    @NotQuietRight Месяц назад

    the video title is giving "I write sins not tragedies" vibes

  • @jjsimon6138
    @jjsimon6138 Месяц назад

    More emberward we love to seee it

  • @UselessPresent49
    @UselessPresent49 Месяц назад +1

    Wow I actually cannot watch this, it’s mind boggling. This man is not a shape rotator.

  • @Fatlessmilk
    @Fatlessmilk Месяц назад

    NL never played warcraft 3 TD custom games and it shows

  • @Ravi-oli710
    @Ravi-oli710 Месяц назад

    Being a type A.5 viewer is tough in this game, what the egg does “works” but man is it tough to watch sometimes

  • @Foods08
    @Foods08 Месяц назад +3

    apples

  • @sharalightfelt91
    @sharalightfelt91 Месяц назад

    7:26 as a nonbinary person, this comment's got me pogged, but as someone who's bad at carving out time to exercise, I'm reminded that I really need to get on that xP

  • @user-xk2xc6rh9y
    @user-xk2xc6rh9y Месяц назад

    Says he mazing places block down not changing the path of the minions at all

  • @BIGpony777
    @BIGpony777 Месяц назад

    no finishing crypt master?

  • @bryantjuarez4632
    @bryantjuarez4632 Месяц назад +1

    I bought this game because of how bad NL is at building mazes, now I realize I also cannot build mazes

  • @thecorporation1996
    @thecorporation1996 Месяц назад +1

    Hey NL, how are you doing?

  • @Choshinable
    @Choshinable Месяц назад

    First wave and I already can't

  • @Barge221
    @Barge221 Месяц назад

    Whats the librarian video he mentions at 1:15:45

  • @austingoldinger7943
    @austingoldinger7943 Месяц назад

    Mama lizs mobile ad oil

  • @thechatter7102
    @thechatter7102 Месяц назад

    clout you don't want is infamy??? that's such a wild bar to just drop that casually what the hell

  • @Spotifist
    @Spotifist Месяц назад

    This can’t be real

  • @RapNu
    @RapNu Месяц назад

    Im back, this game seams fun👍🏻

  • @wellox8856
    @wellox8856 Месяц назад +1

    18:38 is he farming reactions from chat?

  • @Butchiejj
    @Butchiejj 20 дней назад

    Is the game actually difficult? I hate tower defence that are just WAY too easy

  • @Benetheburrito
    @Benetheburrito Месяц назад

    nother lion

  • @Lavoye
    @Lavoye Месяц назад +2

    This is the kind of video that sells games, bacause he's so bad at it that you want to buy it for youself to make it right!

  • @zaaxi7424
    @zaaxi7424 Месяц назад

    Apple lovers in disbelief

  • @nanoleopard201
    @nanoleopard201 Месяц назад +2

    I will not become a type a chatter I will not become a type a chatter I will not become a type a chatter I will not become a type a chatter

  • @true8816
    @true8816 Месяц назад +1

    couldnt watch when he said he wouldnt talk about apples the whole time :(
    bring back the apple banter or I will buy oranges or something idk its not like you care

  • @Oliverinspace
    @Oliverinspace Месяц назад

    How are you doing?

  • @dfbndslv
    @dfbndslv Месяц назад

    it takes real skill to get worse the more you play a game

  • @catpictures
    @catpictures Месяц назад +1

    this dude is so bad with shapes hed call an MC esher painting symmetric

  • @iphatbass
    @iphatbass Месяц назад

    ez purchase!

  • @VertFirstQuestion
    @VertFirstQuestion Месяц назад

    It's genuinely impressive how a grown man can be so bad at simple concept of mazes yet be so good at games at the same time.

  • @DrGodzirra
    @DrGodzirra Месяц назад

    this man really struggles with geometry huh...

  • @Dukegroundflyer
    @Dukegroundflyer Месяц назад +1

    Algorithm pleasing comment