Where's My Water franchise was killed when Disney made it "free to play" in an attempt to chase higher profits. That's why we added power-ups, hints, and Facebook integration. After WMW2 failed to monetize to Disnry expectations they laid off the majority of our team ending the franchise. I really enjoyed making the games, the Turfinator and Ooze/purple icicles and music note challenges being my creations.
This is the only person I go to whenever I want to see videos talking about nostalgic mobile games. Your voice is honestly really soothing, and I've learned about the lore of all the mobile games I have played before.
Hi! Love the video. Just wanted to give an answer for the "why did they choose Phineas and Ferb in 2012?" : it just was that popular. The show aired from 2007 to 2015, 8 years and 129 episodes which is crazy for an animated show. It even had a Marvel and a Star Wars crossover special and was the only TV franchise to be added to the game Disney Infinity alongside their big movie characters. In 2011, Disney even created a national platypus day, and had Michelle Obama do "the platypus dance" to celebrate the event in 2012. The choice for a spin off choice may seem odd today, but back then Phineas and Ferb was an absolute phenomenon
Genuinely I was wondering why he even bothered explaining what Phineas and Ferb is, anyone born before 2012 almost certainly knows the show because it played on loop on TV every summer from 2010 to... Well they still play it every summer now but kids don't watch TV anymore.
There's a WMW nodding server where you can get all the spin-offs with cracked IAPs, also I don't have the time to watch the full vid rn but for the most part I enjoyed you talking about the first game, when I have the time I might do a full-on review
I remember playing the original Where's My Water, Where's My Perry, Where's My Mick Mack, Where's My Water 2 and some of the spin-offs. In other words: I played (pretty much) every Where's My Water game. This video give me memories. EDIT: What, Kindle Fire HD? Home to some many early 2010's mobile games? I NEED IT!!!
Now this is a game I haven't heard of in years. It was the time when Mobile Games was at its peak. This game was up there as one of my most favorite games together with Geometry Dash, Shadow Fight 2, Hungry Shark, Smash Hit, Temple Run, Zombie Tsunami. When I realize it was made by disney, I always wondered why they didn''t continue to make more shorts of this simple yet fun and memorable game. Words can't express how much I've missed this game, I might just come back to it and play again one more time for the fun times and memories.
You can still find Swampy at DIsney's Typhoon Lagoon as he became the mascot of that park during the release of these games. it was later changed to another gator named Lagoona after 2014 but the sand sculpture of the gator still resembles Swampy
It would be interesting in my opinion to see a tier list of FNAF games. Similar in type, but each has different mechanics, and the lore behind them is interesting if you dig deeper.
The main one of these that I remember is where's my mickey for some reason, and I especially remembered it because of the goofey levels which I guess my parents bought me as a kid
Have you ever turned algae into stone using ooze? Since we never got an ooze-based character, I once had a concept for one: an "artist" alligator who needed that particular mechanic to get stone so he could make stone sculptures.
also my sister once said near when the first game came out that every time you win a level, a donation is made to a water saving organization. i didn't believe her
I am actually pretty big in the wmw community, specifically the modding community (which I made...), I feel like I have had a pretty good feel for all the ganes, or most of them anyway. As much as I am in the wmw community, the little games I've actually played thoroughly. I grew up with the original wmw, specifically the T-Mobile edition (that also had exclusive levels), played perry's story in wmp, a tiny bit of wmm, more of wmw2, and a tiny tiny bit of wmxyy. The only 2 games I've played as a kid were wmw, and wmw2, the others I played after I got into mmthe community. I have even speedran all of swampy's story in wmw (it takes around 2 hours). Through all that, I do have opinions on all the games, and I could rank them pretty well. As I'm a modder, I am going to mention some things about modding the gane, as well as some hidden things that you may not know about. Where's My Water? S I love the original game, and I feel like it's the best in the series. It had very well designed levels that I enjoyed playing (some tedious levels, but very few of those), the graphics hold up very well to this day, and the character animations are very well made. I actually put this in S tier because I just love this game so much. Plus, the game is actually pretty easy to mod. That's why they were able to crank out updates so quickly. Fun fact, there was actually an in-game level editor that was used to make the levels, but unfortunately, it was only in developer builds, so we do not have access to it. Where's My Perry?: High A This is honestly what I consider a proper sequal to the game, all because it adds so much. There are all the new mechanics that you mentioned, the voice over, which I do find fun, but I'd rather play them off, The levels were actually pretty fun to play. Where's My Holiday?: B I actually like this game, as I feel that the levels are pretty fun. I honestly haven't played much of it, but I do like it a lot. Plus, having wmp levels with wmw levels is also awesome. One thing I want to mention, the reason why the game specific mechanics stay in that game mode, is because it literally switches games. Yup, when you select perry mode, it takes a while to load, because it's loading all the files again, but for wmp. Plus, it even switches the game code to run the perry specific mechanics. Where's My Valentine?: C This is actually an update to wmh, they just changed all the levels, and images (and layouts). I like this game, but not as much as the christmas theme. Where's My Summer?: C This one is special, as far as we know, it was exclusive to ios. The promotional material (and the ad you showed in the video) did suggest an android version, but that never came to be. The only version released was on ios. The big problem with it, is that it's stuck on older devices, the devices that can still run 32-bit apps. Fortunately I have an old ipad that I used as a kid, and I was able to get it installed and play it. I actually liked the idea of the levels, and I absolutely understand why they chose perry. Phineas and Ferb is all about summer, so it's very fitting. Where's My Water? free: A Trust me, this is worth ranking. I love the free version, and all the updates it got. It had exclusive levels that you could only play in the free version. Meet swampy actually had different levels for a while. A bunch of the level packs in lost levels are actually from the free version updates. The best update is probably the Frankenweenie update. They made 10 wmw levels to promote the Frankenweenie movie, and they were awesome. They applied a grey filter over the level, and the levels were fun. Unfortunately, the filter is green in the full game (you can get it through modding), so the best way to play those levels is by downloading the version of wmwf with those levels. The latest update made the game not as fun, as they took out the exclusive levels, and put in levels from the full game. I have to put this in A tier. It would be higher if they didn't remove the exclusive levels. Where's My Mickey?: C I'm not a huge fan of this game, as it only has 2 liquids, and I just generally didn't think it was very fun. The cutscenes are prerendered, which already makes them better than the last few games (wmp uses puppet animation for the cutscenes. That's why they look off). The best part that I actually liked about the games, was that in the level packs, where you select a level, you can play a mini level, showing the new gimmick for that pack. Where's My XiYangYang?: B I have not played very much of this game, specifically because it doesn't work well on my phone. But from what I've seen, it genuinely looks fun, to play. There was actually an international version of this game, Where's My Water? Featuring XiYanYang (such a long title). Pretty sure this was basically the same game, but had fewer levels, and swampy was on the title screen. Where's My Water? 2: D I hate this game. The graphics are not very good, I very much prefer the original, the ads, powerups (which you usually have to pay for), the keys (which you used to have to pay for, or do some facebook thing), the map, the pacing, and the ads. The pacing of all the other games is great. After you beat a level, you can immediately go to the next level, and that's it. In wmw2, after you beat a level, you have to go back to the map, maybe watch an ad, wait for a long animation to play, unlocking the next level and the challenges, then when you play the next level, a thing pops up letting you choose powerups, and forcing you to press another button to actually play the level. This takes around 30 seconds, whereas the other games take 2. I hate the powerups, because they just feel like cheating. The challenges are a cool concept, and they actually probably could've done more with them, but they are fine as they currently are. I've never finished the game, but from what I've heard some levels get absurdly hard. I do actually also like playing the levels for the different characters in the same location (or level pack). But other then that, there's not really anything noteworthy. Something very interesting has also been happening recently. The gane has been getting some updates. Sure, they;re not content updates, and usually are just bug fixes, or adding chromebook support (yes, you can play it on chromebook now), but there is one very noteworthy update that was very recent. Version 1.9.21, which is currently only on ios right now (ios is on 1.9.22, and android is on 1.9.20), actually removed the second level. I have no clue why they removed it, but they did, and I'm kind of annoyed. Yeah, I hate the game, and I never really like the second level (it's a duck rush level), but it's still not cool to straight up, remove a level after over 10 years. For all of that, I have to put it in D tier. It's not in F, because I do have some fun playing the game, not a lot, but there are some good things about it (I forgot to mention all the duck costumes. Man, those are awesome). That is my overall ranking of the games.
I do want to talk about the many many versions of the games on different devices. There's just so many of them. First there's the original, wmw on ios, android, and kindle fire. Then there was a T-Mobile edition, that I'm pretty sure was preinstalled on some T-Mobile phones (this is the version I played as a kid). It also had exclusive levels, in a level pack that you needed 200 ducks to unlock. There was also a windows version, specifically for the windows phone, but it does kind of work on windows 10 (and 11). I only say kind of, because there's a weird mouse offset that I don't know how to fix. A more recent find, is that there was apparently an LG TV version. There's not much known about this, and we don't have the actual app right now, but we know it exists, as there are some videos about it. Interestingly, there was also a mac version, which did have some missing LOTW levels, so that was a great find. The free version also had some interesting versions. There's obviously the ios, android, and kindle fire versions, but did you know they also ported it to adobe flash? Yeah, you can play it in the flashpoint archive, albeit very laggy, but it exists. There's also the windows version, which does not have the mouse offset issue. Where's My Perry? had a free version, and free and full windows versions. Not much to say here though. Where's My Mickey? had a full, XL, and free versions. The XL version was large tablet (ipad) only though, which had exclusive levels. Fun fact, you can actually install the XL version on an android phone, you just need to get the apk (which we have, complete with all the DLC). There was also a windows version of this. I don't know if there was a free version though. Where's My XiYangYang had the regular version on android and ios, but it also had an international version Where's My Water Featuring XiYangYang. This version was available to everyone. There was also a windows version of wmwfxyy. I have actually also found leaked source code to an early version of this game, although it doesn't include everything. The source code has literally been up publicly on github for over 10 years, and it's still up. Unfortunately since it's not the full source code, we can't build it (but we could try to recreate the missing parts with the wmw flash version decompilation). This code does seem like it's in the transition from wmm to xyy though. This github repository also suggests that there was supposed to be a mac version, but none has been found yet. Another cool find in this repo, is that there are some internal documents that are in chinese about the design of the game. Where's My Water 2? is probably the least significant, as there's only the ios, android (and I guess you could include chromebook, as it's supported there too), and kindle fire versions. There is also a windows version. We have actually also managed to find a wmw2 windows beta version, it's specifically titled Beta 3. Now, I mentioned LOTW earlier. What is that? It's Level Of The Week. During some time, there was a feature where the devs would put out a new level each week, for each of the characters. They also had a photo finish feature, which would take a picture of the level after you beat it, and also show you all your touches. These levels have not been well preserved, so there is an active hunt to find, and / or recreate them, based off videos about them. It's a preservation project that some users in the wmw community are working on. There are many chinese modders actively trying to recreate the levels. You can find more about the levels on the wiki. About modding the game. The game is pretty easy to mod, all of the games share a similar format, and is kind of fun to mod. I have spent a long time, pretty much reverse engineering how the game reads the data, so I could create a full level editor, that uses the data from the game to display the objects. This level editor was actually very big for the modding community, as everyone has been creating levels by editing the level files by hand, which can take a very long time. When it comes to the modding community, there was, and still is a relatively large chinese modding community. Apparently there was a chinese modding group, back when the game was still getting updates, and during the LOTW era. To this day, you can find tons of custom levels on bilibili (the chinese youtube), and even a channel on youtube that has been creating, and showing tons of custom levels for years. It wasn't until a couple years ago when I started modding the game, and decided to create a modding discord server, specifically a more western community, as not everyone can use QQ, or knows chinese (I for one, don't know chinese). We actually got some people fron the chinese modding community to join the more western modding server. Apparently wmw was very huge in china, and maybe still is. I feel like the wmw community got more active, and larger due to modding the game. There have also been some great western modders. As much as I'd like to call myself a big modder, I haven't really made many mods. I'm way more interested in creating tools for modding the game (such as a level editor). Because of that, I feel like I know the internals of the game more than most (there are some people that know more about the internals than me, especially in other areas not revolving around levels). Another modder, campbellsonic, has made some restoration mods for wmp and wmm, which include the dlcs, and the wmp restoration mod fixes the broken custscenes. These are definitive versions to play, as they include everything unlocked (or at least, not under a nonfunctional paywall). Anyway, loved the video, and hope you liked my very long comment about the wmw games. If you read all of it, reply "swampyhacker". By the way, swampyhacker was the name of that chinese modding group from during the wmw days.
Wow, a very thorough and detailed explanation of the games - better than I did, probably! You should make your own video (if you haven’t already haha). Other than the holiday titles it sounds like we mostly agreed as well, which is always nice to see. I’d love for more of the community to join you here in the video and share their takes! Maybe you could share it with them? I find it very fascinating to see an active community for this series. Anyways thank you very much for such a well-made comment/review here!
Wheres my water is one of the first mobile games i ever played. It really shows what a good mobile game is, with a small but funny storyline, simplistic yet addictive gameplay, and a bunch of great game variations that don’t decline in quality over time! (i’m looking at you angry birds)
my ranking: 1: Where is my Water? 2: Where is my Perry? 3: Where is my Water XXY? (Normal version) 4: Where is my Mickey? 5: Where is my Water? 2 Never played: Where is my water XXY (Chinese version) Where is my summer/vallentine/holiday?
The mickey and goofy spin offs were probably my favorite as a kid, i loved the whole concept with the stars, cranky like goofy concept and rainclouds. Sadly i didn’t have acess to much of the levels at all and mostly just demos but i replayed them so much. I cant ever forget those lemons.
I have extremely fond memories of playing these games as a child, i remember having where's my water free, the perry and mickey spinoff, the valentines spinoff, and wheres my water 2 which i never got far in due to the keys. I thought the valentines spinoff was peak, looking back its really not 😭
Swampy, Perry, Water 2, and Mickey were nostalgic, all 4 games I played, yes even the holiday ones. But there’s one that was left out. Frankenweenie pack. It was a “The 10 days of Frankenweenie” a Halloween special on the free version of Where’s my water for a limited time. It was neat to play.
Wow you’re an expert! I did read about the Frankenweenie stuff and almost mentioned it in the video but felt the video was long enough as is haha. Plus I couldn’t play them anyways
As someone from the Eastern side of the world, I can assure you that's our childhood and is indeed one of our "mickey" over there. Other ones includes doraemon, some monkey King show. Also damn you murdered that pronunciation of xi yang yang (sea young young)
Imagine a Where’s My Water? level editor where you could switch sort of texture packs that would just be the other games. Then you could remake the entire series. Maybe that’s why there were so many…
Im not 100% sure on this, but they mightve chose Perry for the nexf installment because Swampy was the nickname of the co creator of Phineas and Ferb, Jeff Marsh. Im pretty sure Jeff and Dan (the other creator of P&F) also worked on the Where's my Water franchise
Oh my, XiYangYang is insane with 2700 episodes in 20 years lol. I guess it could be mini episodes like Sazaesan (7500 mini episodes compiled into 2500 full length weekly episodes, it's been running since the 50s). If it's mini episodes I could understand, otherwise it would be crazy lol
One thing I think could be cool is a ranking video on all the Phineas and Ferb games that were on the Disney website, I remember there being a decent amount and kid me thinking they were fun
@@Jake.MillerIf they're flash games, then they might be in the flashpoint archive. If not, you could try asking in the phineas and ferb game community server.
@@ego-lay_atman-baynot sure about the p+f games in particular but actually *most* Disney flash games are missing because a lot of them were taken down a few years before the death of flash so Flashpoint has far less than you'd expect.
This made me replay the entirety of Where’s My Water (first game), and the fact that I even remember that the lil carvings in the collection menu give you secret levels was insane to me. I remember the first time getting a 100% when I was a kid. I spent so damn long playing this game lmao
i don't like that where's my perry used to have more voice dialogues that randomly played during a level. i forgot most of them, but i do remember carl said "i can't find the manual anywhere!" at the end of one
Such a great video! The writing, critiques, and humor is excellent! I knew of this series growing up but never tried it. If the first game is just an actual buy-once game, not a microtransaction-y type thing like most games are, then I think I'll give it a go at some point! One suggestion for the future: maybe think about an upgrade to your microphone? You've gotten so much right with this video, a more clear mic is really just the last piece to put it all in place! Looking forward to whatever you make next
There are so many games that have been lost to time. One of my favorites is Clay Jam which I still play now because I found an APK for it. Games disappearing off the face of the earth used to be normal. I think the death of flash is what really normalized archiving everything.
I searched "where’s my perry ipa" and the first result was an internet archive link of someone who archived the iphone app. A lot of these probably still exist
Fun fact, wheres my perry was actually made to tie into a special going on at the time with the show. There was a huge cliff hanger finale where perry disappeared once he was shot with all of doofs -inators. There was all kinds of perry games on the Disney website at the time, and i remember this game being heavily advertised for the wait between the finale and the next seasons premiere
The first time I played Where's My Water? was on Windows 8.1. I remember that The first game, the sequel, Mickey and Perry were in the Windows Store. For some reason, they made the whole first game free, so that's cool. Unfortunately, these don't work anymore (even on Windows 10) cause it can't verify if the apps are owned ig due to the Windows 8.1 store servers shutting down
I know it isn't made by Disney but Kingdom Hearts is a game with mostly Disney characters. Only ones that aren't is from Final Fantasy. Sora is very popular, he had the most hype out of any guest character in Smash and was the most requested for years.
I remember this game called called burn it all: journey to the sun, where you are little flames that you burn stuff to reach the sun! Unfortunately I can’t download it, as it’s too old… I wonder if you’d like It
Another horrible thing about 2: they didn't let you earn keys with ads back in the day. No, no, no, you had to either buy them with real money or beg your facebook friends (yeah, you needed Facebook) to gift them to you. Their old facebook is filled with "Please gift keys", "I need keys", "Remove the keys!", etc. And when they did let you earn keys with ads, you had a cooldown of 1 day between ads. Meaning you had to wait at least 3 days between worlds!
I remember as a kid how after an update near the end of its lifetime the final DLC for _Where’s My Perry?_ got f*cked up and Doof’s layering got scrambled and they broke all of his f*cking limbs. Also, on modern devices, the DLCs for _Where’s My Perry?_ specifically sometimes just don’t download at all. Also, I remember starting shortly after launch that one level of _Where’s My Mickey?_ (one of the ones with the wind and the clouds and the vines) just straight up broke on the XL version (because this was back when games had seperate iPad versions, with _Where’s My Mickey? XL_ being literally the only game I know of to use the larger screen size as a mechanic for a world, with the XL version having theses massive levels that are super cool in a space-themed world)
Good memories! And on Apple those games are not available, I did check. If they’re available on anything I wasn’t able to find them, not even through emulators. I think you’re wrong about that though
@@Jake.Miller Huh, that’s odd, I have them downloaded though. Maybe it’s just a location thing? I know a lot of old apps just get blocked in certain regions for some reason, so maybe it’s that?
Well if you have them downloaded you can still play them. You just can’t download them unless you already owned them, if that makes sense. They were taken off of stores
@@Jake.Miller Also, unrelated, but did you play some of the hidden levels in WMW? I don’t mean the bonus levels, I mean the hidden ones. The ones unlocked by clicking things like scratches, graffiti, props from the animated series (which, by the way, existed. It was really cool and it’s a shame they didn’t ever tell people about it), Swampy’s smile on specifically the first level selection page during a specific part of his idel animation, and *inputting the Konami Code on the menu ducks* (yes, seriously)
I constantly reference this game and no one knows what I mean. I played all the games I could get to, finished the OG and second one fully on every new phone I got.
Where's my valentine was an update to where's my holiday, so tou could be thinking of that. There is actually also a level pack in tje lost levels in where's my water called hearts and crafts, which is also valrntines day themed.
0:21club penguin was bought by disney in 2007 for around 350 million dollars, which meant that they didn't steal it, they stole it from US now doubt about that but they didn't steal it
Where's My Water franchise was killed when Disney made it "free to play" in an attempt to chase higher profits. That's why we added power-ups, hints, and Facebook integration. After WMW2 failed to monetize to Disnry expectations they laid off the majority of our team ending the franchise. I really enjoyed making the games, the Turfinator and Ooze/purple icicles and music note challenges being my creations.
Wait you were part of the dev team? Well thank you for making such an amazing game, it's sad that corporate greed ruined it but what can you do...
@@TotherKoalaI was
@@goodrichgames1308We definitely need a remaster of the games
In the first game, you bathe swampy about 350 times, which is not a lifetime so I don’t know how much you shower.
OH NO IVE BEEN FOUND OUT
Yeah that's like a year if you do it daily
It'll be a lifetime if you die after 1 year
Its a very short life time
That isn’t even a year
As a kid I thought Swampy, Allie and Cranky were siblings
Bro, same...
Same
Wait they aren’t ????
@@The_viruskiller no they aren’t💀
Well if they ARE siblings disneys got some explaining to do…
11:31 I have a feeling I know why they chose perry. In each episode, someone says "Where's Perry?" And Where's My Perry? is a very similar phrase.
14:11
Maybe this series would still be active if they made Where's My Chicken Little? like we all desperately needed
Haha such an OBVIOUS game can’t believe they never did it
You have to fill his jet pack with soda
I miss that time when where's my water, angry birds, cut the rope were the big 3 of mobile gaming.
I always thought as a kid that Swampys parents were Allie and Cranky (while not watching the cutscenes)
There’s actually a ton of people saying that, common misconception it sounds like
This is the only person I go to whenever I want to see videos talking about nostalgic mobile games. Your voice is honestly really soothing, and I've learned about the lore of all the mobile games I have played before.
I really appreciate you saying so! That really means a lot. I hope to keep making videos you enjoy
Need a kindle fire tour, the nostalgia contained in that must be insane
I still don’t know how I could screen record on it, I really wanna do something with it
Hi! Love the video. Just wanted to give an answer for the "why did they choose Phineas and Ferb in 2012?" : it just was that popular. The show aired from 2007 to 2015, 8 years and 129 episodes which is crazy for an animated show. It even had a Marvel and a Star Wars crossover special and was the only TV franchise to be added to the game Disney Infinity alongside their big movie characters. In 2011, Disney even created a national platypus day, and had Michelle Obama do "the platypus dance" to celebrate the event in 2012. The choice for a spin off choice may seem odd today, but back then Phineas and Ferb was an absolute phenomenon
Genuinely I was wondering why he even bothered explaining what Phineas and Ferb is, anyone born before 2012 almost certainly knows the show because it played on loop on TV every summer from 2010 to... Well they still play it every summer now but kids don't watch TV anymore.
There's a WMW nodding server where you can get all the spin-offs with cracked IAPs, also I don't have the time to watch the full vid rn but for the most part I enjoyed you talking about the first game, when I have the time I might do a full-on review
Yeah wish I knew about it before making the video, oh well
@@Jake.Miller You could do an update video and people would be fine with that
@@djangel3108Or he could just leave it at that. You made the point, no need for an update video.
Change your fire alarm battery please for the love of God.
*CHANGE YOUR FIRE ALARM BATTERY!!!*
Hold on can’t talk right now my house just burned down
I remember playing the original Where's My Water, Where's My Perry, Where's My Mick Mack, Where's My Water 2 and some of the spin-offs. In other words: I played (pretty much) every Where's My Water game. This video give me memories.
EDIT: What, Kindle Fire HD? Home to some many early 2010's mobile games? I NEED IT!!!
Nice! And it’s MY kindle, all MINE
Did you play the xyy one lol
It's actually Mickey
@@TheLiteBluYoshi Yeah, I played the XL version of Where's My Mick Mack?
@@hubertchannel4556 Yes, I know. I just called him Mick Mack
Why were these delisted? Disney doesn’t need to license its own property.
0:10 is very relevant now, lol
What a coincidence
(Epic Mickey remake was announced recently, so there is MOST DEFINITELY talk around it)
Yeah it’s crazy that epic Mickey just RUINED my intro
@@Jake.Millerlol that made my day 😂😂😂
i was about to say that xD
Now this is a game I haven't heard of in years. It was the time when Mobile Games was at its peak. This game was up there as one of my most favorite games together with Geometry Dash, Shadow Fight 2, Hungry Shark, Smash Hit, Temple Run, Zombie Tsunami. When I realize it was made by disney, I always wondered why they didn''t continue to make more shorts of this simple yet fun and memorable game. Words can't express how much I've missed this game, I might just come back to it and play again one more time for the fun times and memories.
Yeah it’s definitely classic, I would’ve loved to see Swampy in more media!
You can still find Swampy at DIsney's Typhoon Lagoon as he became the mascot of that park during the release of these games. it was later changed to another gator named Lagoona after 2014 but the sand sculpture of the gator still resembles Swampy
It would be interesting in my opinion to see a tier list of FNAF games. Similar in type, but each has different mechanics, and the lore behind them is interesting if you dig deeper.
Yeah I think it would be fun too. It’s a LOT of games though…
The main one of these that I remember is where's my mickey for some reason, and I especially remembered it because of the goofey levels which I guess my parents bought me as a kid
Have you ever turned algae into stone using ooze? Since we never got an ooze-based character, I once had a concept for one: an "artist" alligator who needed that particular mechanic to get stone so he could make stone sculptures.
Where’s my water suit?
WHERE. IS. MY. WATER SUIT??
_“Uhh… I've put it over there”_
It’s interesting that the scroll bar still exists, it shows how we still thought at the time that stuff like that was needed
also my sister once said near when the first game came out that every time you win a level, a donation is made to a water saving organization. i didn't believe her
I am actually pretty big in the wmw community, specifically the modding community (which I made...), I feel like I have had a pretty good feel for all the ganes, or most of them anyway. As much as I am in the wmw community, the little games I've actually played thoroughly. I grew up with the original wmw, specifically the T-Mobile edition (that also had exclusive levels), played perry's story in wmp, a tiny bit of wmm, more of wmw2, and a tiny tiny bit of wmxyy. The only 2 games I've played as a kid were wmw, and wmw2, the others I played after I got into mmthe community. I have even speedran all of swampy's story in wmw (it takes around 2 hours). Through all that, I do have opinions on all the games, and I could rank them pretty well. As I'm a modder, I am going to mention some things about modding the gane, as well as some hidden things that you may not know about.
Where's My Water? S
I love the original game, and I feel like it's the best in the series. It had very well designed levels that I enjoyed playing (some tedious levels, but very few of those), the graphics hold up very well to this day, and the character animations are very well made. I actually put this in S tier because I just love this game so much. Plus, the game is actually pretty easy to mod. That's why they were able to crank out updates so quickly. Fun fact, there was actually an in-game level editor that was used to make the levels, but unfortunately, it was only in developer builds, so we do not have access to it.
Where's My Perry?: High A
This is honestly what I consider a proper sequal to the game, all because it adds so much. There are all the new mechanics that you mentioned, the voice over, which I do find fun, but I'd rather play them off, The levels were actually pretty fun to play.
Where's My Holiday?: B
I actually like this game, as I feel that the levels are pretty fun. I honestly haven't played much of it, but I do like it a lot. Plus, having wmp levels with wmw levels is also awesome. One thing I want to mention, the reason why the game specific mechanics stay in that game mode, is because it literally switches games. Yup, when you select perry mode, it takes a while to load, because it's loading all the files again, but for wmp. Plus, it even switches the game code to run the perry specific mechanics.
Where's My Valentine?: C
This is actually an update to wmh, they just changed all the levels, and images (and layouts). I like this game, but not as much as the christmas theme.
Where's My Summer?: C
This one is special, as far as we know, it was exclusive to ios. The promotional material (and the ad you showed in the video) did suggest an android version, but that never came to be. The only version released was on ios. The big problem with it, is that it's stuck on older devices, the devices that can still run 32-bit apps. Fortunately I have an old ipad that I used as a kid, and I was able to get it installed and play it. I actually liked the idea of the levels, and I absolutely understand why they chose perry. Phineas and Ferb is all about summer, so it's very fitting.
Where's My Water? free: A
Trust me, this is worth ranking. I love the free version, and all the updates it got. It had exclusive levels that you could only play in the free version. Meet swampy actually had different levels for a while. A bunch of the level packs in lost levels are actually from the free version updates. The best update is probably the Frankenweenie update. They made 10 wmw levels to promote the Frankenweenie movie, and they were awesome. They applied a grey filter over the level, and the levels were fun. Unfortunately, the filter is green in the full game (you can get it through modding), so the best way to play those levels is by downloading the version of wmwf with those levels. The latest update made the game not as fun, as they took out the exclusive levels, and put in levels from the full game. I have to put this in A tier. It would be higher if they didn't remove the exclusive levels.
Where's My Mickey?: C
I'm not a huge fan of this game, as it only has 2 liquids, and I just generally didn't think it was very fun. The cutscenes are prerendered, which already makes them better than the last few games (wmp uses puppet animation for the cutscenes. That's why they look off). The best part that I actually liked about the games, was that in the level packs, where you select a level, you can play a mini level, showing the new gimmick for that pack.
Where's My XiYangYang?: B
I have not played very much of this game, specifically because it doesn't work well on my phone. But from what I've seen, it genuinely looks fun, to play. There was actually an international version of this game, Where's My Water? Featuring XiYanYang (such a long title). Pretty sure this was basically the same game, but had fewer levels, and swampy was on the title screen.
Where's My Water? 2: D
I hate this game. The graphics are not very good, I very much prefer the original, the ads, powerups (which you usually have to pay for), the keys (which you used to have to pay for, or do some facebook thing), the map, the pacing, and the ads. The pacing of all the other games is great. After you beat a level, you can immediately go to the next level, and that's it. In wmw2, after you beat a level, you have to go back to the map, maybe watch an ad, wait for a long animation to play, unlocking the next level and the challenges, then when you play the next level, a thing pops up letting you choose powerups, and forcing you to press another button to actually play the level. This takes around 30 seconds, whereas the other games take 2. I hate the powerups, because they just feel like cheating. The challenges are a cool concept, and they actually probably could've done more with them, but they are fine as they currently are. I've never finished the game, but from what I've heard some levels get absurdly hard. I do actually also like playing the levels for the different characters in the same location (or level pack). But other then that, there's not really anything noteworthy. Something very interesting has also been happening recently. The gane has been getting some updates. Sure, they;re not content updates, and usually are just bug fixes, or adding chromebook support (yes, you can play it on chromebook now), but there is one very noteworthy update that was very recent. Version 1.9.21, which is currently only on ios right now (ios is on 1.9.22, and android is on 1.9.20), actually removed the second level. I have no clue why they removed it, but they did, and I'm kind of annoyed. Yeah, I hate the game, and I never really like the second level (it's a duck rush level), but it's still not cool to straight up, remove a level after over 10 years. For all of that, I have to put it in D tier. It's not in F, because I do have some fun playing the game, not a lot, but there are some good things about it (I forgot to mention all the duck costumes. Man, those are awesome).
That is my overall ranking of the games.
I do want to talk about the many many versions of the games on different devices. There's just so many of them.
First there's the original, wmw on ios, android, and kindle fire. Then there was a T-Mobile edition, that I'm pretty sure was preinstalled on some T-Mobile phones (this is the version I played as a kid). It also had exclusive levels, in a level pack that you needed 200 ducks to unlock. There was also a windows version, specifically for the windows phone, but it does kind of work on windows 10 (and 11). I only say kind of, because there's a weird mouse offset that I don't know how to fix. A more recent find, is that there was apparently an LG TV version. There's not much known about this, and we don't have the actual app right now, but we know it exists, as there are some videos about it. Interestingly, there was also a mac version, which did have some missing LOTW levels, so that was a great find.
The free version also had some interesting versions. There's obviously the ios, android, and kindle fire versions, but did you know they also ported it to adobe flash? Yeah, you can play it in the flashpoint archive, albeit very laggy, but it exists. There's also the windows version, which does not have the mouse offset issue.
Where's My Perry? had a free version, and free and full windows versions. Not much to say here though.
Where's My Mickey? had a full, XL, and free versions. The XL version was large tablet (ipad) only though, which had exclusive levels. Fun fact, you can actually install the XL version on an android phone, you just need to get the apk (which we have, complete with all the DLC). There was also a windows version of this. I don't know if there was a free version though.
Where's My XiYangYang had the regular version on android and ios, but it also had an international version Where's My Water Featuring XiYangYang. This version was available to everyone. There was also a windows version of wmwfxyy. I have actually also found leaked source code to an early version of this game, although it doesn't include everything. The source code has literally been up publicly on github for over 10 years, and it's still up. Unfortunately since it's not the full source code, we can't build it (but we could try to recreate the missing parts with the wmw flash version decompilation). This code does seem like it's in the transition from wmm to xyy though. This github repository also suggests that there was supposed to be a mac version, but none has been found yet. Another cool find in this repo, is that there are some internal documents that are in chinese about the design of the game.
Where's My Water 2? is probably the least significant, as there's only the ios, android (and I guess you could include chromebook, as it's supported there too), and kindle fire versions. There is also a windows version. We have actually also managed to find a wmw2 windows beta version, it's specifically titled Beta 3.
Now, I mentioned LOTW earlier. What is that? It's Level Of The Week. During some time, there was a feature where the devs would put out a new level each week, for each of the characters. They also had a photo finish feature, which would take a picture of the level after you beat it, and also show you all your touches. These levels have not been well preserved, so there is an active hunt to find, and / or recreate them, based off videos about them. It's a preservation project that some users in the wmw community are working on. There are many chinese modders actively trying to recreate the levels. You can find more about the levels on the wiki.
About modding the game. The game is pretty easy to mod, all of the games share a similar format, and is kind of fun to mod. I have spent a long time, pretty much reverse engineering how the game reads the data, so I could create a full level editor, that uses the data from the game to display the objects. This level editor was actually very big for the modding community, as everyone has been creating levels by editing the level files by hand, which can take a very long time. When it comes to the modding community, there was, and still is a relatively large chinese modding community. Apparently there was a chinese modding group, back when the game was still getting updates, and during the LOTW era. To this day, you can find tons of custom levels on bilibili (the chinese youtube), and even a channel on youtube that has been creating, and showing tons of custom levels for years. It wasn't until a couple years ago when I started modding the game, and decided to create a modding discord server, specifically a more western community, as not everyone can use QQ, or knows chinese (I for one, don't know chinese). We actually got some people fron the chinese modding community to join the more western modding server. Apparently wmw was very huge in china, and maybe still is. I feel like the wmw community got more active, and larger due to modding the game. There have also been some great western modders. As much as I'd like to call myself a big modder, I haven't really made many mods. I'm way more interested in creating tools for modding the game (such as a level editor). Because of that, I feel like I know the internals of the game more than most (there are some people that know more about the internals than me, especially in other areas not revolving around levels). Another modder, campbellsonic, has made some restoration mods for wmp and wmm, which include the dlcs, and the wmp restoration mod fixes the broken custscenes. These are definitive versions to play, as they include everything unlocked (or at least, not under a nonfunctional paywall).
Anyway, loved the video, and hope you liked my very long comment about the wmw games. If you read all of it, reply "swampyhacker".
By the way, swampyhacker was the name of that chinese modding group from during the wmw days.
Wow, a very thorough and detailed explanation of the games - better than I did, probably! You should make your own video (if you haven’t already haha). Other than the holiday titles it sounds like we mostly agreed as well, which is always nice to see. I’d love for more of the community to join you here in the video and share their takes! Maybe you could share it with them? I find it very fascinating to see an active community for this series. Anyways thank you very much for such a well-made comment/review here!
@@Jake.Miller I actually found this video because it was shared in the wmw community.
@@Jake.Miller You could make a followup video going into the many different versions of the games, like the ones I talked about.
The difficulty spike in the 2nd game is wild
Yea they REALLY wanted people buying those powerups
Wheres my water is one of the first mobile games i ever played. It really shows what a good mobile game is, with a small but funny storyline, simplistic yet addictive gameplay, and a bunch of great game variations that don’t decline in quality over time! (i’m looking at you angry birds)
Yeah no kidding. Keep things SIMPLE
Yee! I’ve known this game since I was like 3 or smth
I’ll be honest, as a kid that grew up without cable Where’s my Perry was the only thing I knew about that show.
my ranking:
1: Where is my Water?
2: Where is my Perry?
3: Where is my Water XXY? (Normal version)
4: Where is my Mickey?
5: Where is my Water? 2
Never played:
Where is my water XXY (Chinese version)
Where is my summer/vallentine/holiday?
Where’s my Perry? Was my favorite as a kid and I miss it
The mickey and goofy spin offs were probably my favorite as a kid, i loved the whole concept with the stars, cranky like goofy concept and rainclouds. Sadly i didn’t have acess to much of the levels at all and mostly just demos but i replayed them so much. I cant ever forget those lemons.
Haha the lemons are engrained in my memory too
You just got a new sub i love the *mostly* family friendly content combined with the random adult humor! 10/10 bro
Haha every once in awhile there’s a little surprise. Thanks! I appreciate it
Defo never expected to hear any Pleasant Sheep discussion today..
1:57 Fun fact water was the driving force of the creation of all living things, too
5:55 - 6:02 That joke was insane. 😂
Haha a lot of people probably didn’t even catch it
21:18 Also, you're in love with a allegator and you can't deny that.
Cranky tries to cope with a sex doll is probably the last thing I thought id hear
I have extremely fond memories of playing these games as a child, i remember having where's my water free, the perry and mickey spinoff, the valentines spinoff, and wheres my water 2 which i never got far in due to the keys. I thought the valentines spinoff was peak, looking back its really not 😭
Swampy, Perry, Water 2, and Mickey were nostalgic, all 4 games I played, yes even the holiday ones. But there’s one that was left out. Frankenweenie pack. It was a “The 10 days of Frankenweenie” a Halloween special on the free version of Where’s my water for a limited time. It was neat to play.
Wow you’re an expert! I did read about the Frankenweenie stuff and almost mentioned it in the video but felt the video was long enough as is haha. Plus I couldn’t play them anyways
This franchise is PEAK (Please help, Jake has me locked in his basement eating dog food)
Agreed! (Shut up and eat the dog food it’s the only food you’re gonna GET)
The last one was crazy and WHERES MY WATA
Haha whe ma WATA
As someone from the Eastern side of the world, I can assure you that's our childhood and is indeed one of our "mickey" over there. Other ones includes doraemon, some monkey King show.
Also damn you murdered that pronunciation of xi yang yang (sea young young)
Bro just unlocked deep memories
The vault has been OPENED
Of course pair would be the only one in who has my summer finish. Some fun takes place mainly in the summer
Where's my summer Being exclusive to the platypus is because theres 104 and days of summer Vacation and School comes along just to end
But the annual problem for our generation is finding a good way to speeeennnd iiiiit
12:45 ahh yes I remember wholly, the game where I threw ice cubes into someone’s toosh
How could you forget haha
This is like the best where’s my (character) video of them all
Imagine a Where’s My Water? level editor where you could switch sort of texture packs that would just be the other games. Then you could remake the entire series.
Maybe that’s why there were so many…
I always wanted this too
19:09 LMAO the shade
Beautiful 😂
Haha I had to get my anger out on it, I’m over it now that I’ve gotten to vent and make jokes about it
I loved the Mickey Mouse 2013 shorts!
I know they’re so gooood
wheres my water and the perry version was a big part of my infance
Same bro same
5:21
Morshu: You want it?
Swampy: No!
Morshu: It's yours, my friend, as long as you have enough rupees.
Swampy: NOOO
I’m proud you acknowledged there being two Swampy’s in this series.
wait I did
OHHHH swampy from phineas
I recently just assumed that Swampy was named after... Swampy, the co writer of Phineas and Ferb
Im not 100% sure on this, but they mightve chose Perry for the nexf installment because Swampy was the nickname of the co creator of Phineas and Ferb, Jeff Marsh. Im pretty sure Jeff and Dan (the other creator of P&F) also worked on the Where's my Water franchise
it be nice if swampy appeared in a phineas & ferb appearance like in the background of OWCA
Yeah he could be an agent!
Oh my, XiYangYang is insane with 2700 episodes in 20 years lol. I guess it could be mini episodes like Sazaesan (7500 mini episodes compiled into 2500 full length weekly episodes, it's been running since the 50s). If it's mini episodes I could understand, otherwise it would be crazy lol
As Bloons ranking would be amazing
Alright guess I gotta do it then!
One thing I think could be cool is a ranking video on all the Phineas and Ferb games that were on the Disney website, I remember there being a decent amount and kid me thinking they were fun
I wonder if there’s a way to play them these days?
@@Jake.MillerIf they're flash games, then they might be in the flashpoint archive. If not, you could try asking in the phineas and ferb game community server.
@@ego-lay_atman-baynot sure about the p+f games in particular but actually *most* Disney flash games are missing because a lot of them were taken down a few years before the death of flash so Flashpoint has far less than you'd expect.
I remember there being a Where’s My Water game for the movie FrankenWeenie
I felt like the video was long enough so I didn’t mention it but you’re right! It was just an event in the first game though, not it’s own thing
This made me replay the entirety of Where’s My Water (first game), and the fact that I even remember that the lil carvings in the collection menu give you secret levels was insane to me. I remember the first time getting a 100% when I was a kid. I spent so damn long playing this game lmao
I haven't watched the video yet, but I bet it's gonna be awesome
Can’t believe you bet correctly!!! You win!!!
i don't like that where's my perry used to have more voice dialogues that randomly played during a level. i forgot most of them, but i do remember carl said "i can't find the manual anywhere!" at the end of one
Such a great video! The writing, critiques, and humor is excellent! I knew of this series growing up but never tried it. If the first game is just an actual buy-once game, not a microtransaction-y type thing like most games are, then I think I'll give it a go at some point! One suggestion for the future: maybe think about an upgrade to your microphone? You've gotten so much right with this video, a more clear mic is really just the last piece to put it all in place! Looking forward to whatever you make next
Even though Jake isn't pregnant he always delivers
Haha this genuinely made me laugh, I love that
Who said he wasn’t pregnant?
Epic mickey was my goddamn childhood, I must've spent at least 200 hours on that game, getting all of the pins in NG+ as a stupid little kid.
perry probably was choosen due to the "where's perry" gag from the show
I don't know why Disney took these down.
Yeah who knows. Especially the Perry one, makes no sense
There are so many games that have been lost to time. One of my favorites is Clay Jam which I still play now because I found an APK for it. Games disappearing off the face of the earth used to be normal. I think the death of flash is what really normalized archiving everything.
I searched "where’s my perry ipa" and the first result was an internet archive link of someone who archived the iphone app. A lot of these probably still exist
I found where’s my Mickey pretty easily too
I played this really much, when I was young. Thank you so much😄
You’re welcome! Glad to remind you of your childhood games
13:33 was that clay jam in one of these game
Probably yeah I had everything
@@Jake.Miller I loved that game can you do a video about those old games
I wish they could put Swampy, Allie, Cranky and Xyy in Disney Emoji Blitz
I would love that!
I gotta admit the even a bear actually got me
You legally HAD to admit it was funny haha
@Jake.Miller oh so that's why the FBI came over and made me laugh at it
They’re gonna visit every Sunday now so you better get freaking used to it
@@Jake.Miller yes ill make sure to watch your videos and comment on how funny they are (please dont break my knee caps)
This took me back, thank you!!!
No problemo
12:43 MY MUPPETS SHOW MENTIONED‼️‼️
UPDATE 13:34: BURN THE ROPE‼️‼️‼️
Lmao, imagine if Swampy should up in Kingdom Hearts.
Haha my mind would explode
Omg as a summon would be sick. He would drown the heartless with these pipes
I WAS CLOSE TO BEING DELUDED INTO BELIEVING WHERES MY WATER WAS FAKE AND A FIGMENT OF MY TERRIBLE MEMORY
Fun fact, wheres my perry was actually made to tie into a special going on at the time with the show. There was a huge cliff hanger finale where perry disappeared once he was shot with all of doofs -inators. There was all kinds of perry games on the Disney website at the time, and i remember this game being heavily advertised for the wait between the finale and the next seasons premiere
THATS IT I HAVE HAD IT WITH THESE FUN FACT COMMENTS!!! ITS GETTING OUT OF HAND! JUST STOP WITH IT! AND ALSO HOW IN THE WORLD DO YOU KNOW THESE!
AJDBJSSBHS I can't tell you how frequently I say "Where's My Water: Perry the Platypus Edition!???" when I'm looking for something
The first time I played Where's My Water? was on Windows 8.1. I remember that The first game, the sequel, Mickey and Perry were in the Windows Store. For some reason, they made the whole first game free, so that's cool. Unfortunately, these don't work anymore (even on Windows 10) cause it can't verify if the apps are owned ig due to the Windows 8.1 store servers shutting down
0:31 best game ever since in steam version you can remake EVERY SINGLE SOUND EFFECT IN THE GAME. its fun
Haha that’s cool
0:17 R.I.P Spectrobes franchise
I love the cutscene arts in the first game
Yeah super detailed drawings, I love them too
Honestly I find that making the overflow bonus infinite in where’s my Perry a good change cause you gotta go for that high score
I honestly didn’t know it was infinite, but I did notice it was capped in Mickey. I wonder if there are scoreboards out there for the best scores
I know it isn't made by Disney but Kingdom Hearts is a game with mostly Disney characters. Only ones that aren't is from Final Fantasy. Sora is very popular, he had the most hype out of any guest character in Smash and was the most requested for years.
They are currently recording season 5 of Phineas and pherb by the way
A Bloons tier list video sounds like a great idea! That series has a ton of different games that vary wildly in quality.
Very true. I feel like I gotta do it
I remember this game called called burn it all: journey to the sun, where you are little flames that you burn stuff to reach the sun! Unfortunately I can’t download it, as it’s too old… I wonder if you’d like It
I feel like I had that on my kindle
Where’s my Perry? Is the king of all where’s my water? Games
Another horrible thing about 2: they didn't let you earn keys with ads back in the day. No, no, no, you had to either buy them with real money or beg your facebook friends (yeah, you needed Facebook) to gift them to you. Their old facebook is filled with "Please gift keys", "I need keys", "Remove the keys!", etc. And when they did let you earn keys with ads, you had a cooldown of 1 day between ads. Meaning you had to wait at least 3 days between worlds!
I did not know that. Makes me hate the game even more
I had a soap dispenser of Swampy!
That’s genius merch! I want one!
I remember as a kid how after an update near the end of its lifetime the final DLC for _Where’s My Perry?_ got f*cked up and Doof’s layering got scrambled and they broke all of his f*cking limbs. Also, on modern devices, the DLCs for _Where’s My Perry?_ specifically sometimes just don’t download at all.
Also, I remember starting shortly after launch that one level of _Where’s My Mickey?_ (one of the ones with the wind and the clouds and the vines) just straight up broke on the XL version (because this was back when games had seperate iPad versions, with _Where’s My Mickey? XL_ being literally the only game I know of to use the larger screen size as a mechanic for a world, with the XL version having theses massive levels that are super cool in a space-themed world)
Good memories! And on Apple those games are not available, I did check. If they’re available on anything I wasn’t able to find them, not even through emulators. I think you’re wrong about that though
@@Jake.Miller Huh, that’s odd, I have them downloaded though. Maybe it’s just a location thing? I know a lot of old apps just get blocked in certain regions for some reason, so maybe it’s that?
Well if you have them downloaded you can still play them. You just can’t download them unless you already owned them, if that makes sense. They were taken off of stores
@@Jake.Miller Huh, it should be a different account though since I would’ve been using my parents’ Apple account back then instead of my own.
@@Jake.Miller Also, unrelated, but did you play some of the hidden levels in WMW? I don’t mean the bonus levels, I mean the hidden ones. The ones unlocked by clicking things like scratches, graffiti, props from the animated series (which, by the way, existed. It was really cool and it’s a shame they didn’t ever tell people about it), Swampy’s smile on specifically the first level selection page during a specific part of his idel animation, and *inputting the Konami Code on the menu ducks* (yes, seriously)
Alongside Angry Birds, Where’s my Water was my most played childhood game!
Wheres my holiday turned into wheres my Valentine then was delisted
I constantly reference this game and no one knows what I mean. I played all the games I could get to, finished the OG and second one fully on every new phone I got.
Clearly you’re referencing it to the wrong people haha
YESSS FNAF AND BLOONS TIERLIST PLEASEEE JAKE
Omg i thought I remembered a muppet mobile game and you made me realize I wasn’t having a Mandela effect type thing
Yep it’s real, don’t forget that now
I’ve actually remember watching XYY before
I had genuinely never heard of it
@@Jake.Miller I live in Asia so yeah
Makes sense haha
"the games don't exist anymore" I searched them up five mins after hearing that. and FOUND them.
Awwwww NOOOO
Where?!
The weird thing is that I don't remember having to download Where's my valentine separately because it was available as a chapter in the regular game
Where's my valentine was an update to where's my holiday, so tou could be thinking of that. There is actually also a level pack in tje lost levels in where's my water called hearts and crafts, which is also valrntines day themed.
Yeah the original game weirdly had a valentines level pack but they are different levels from the separate game. Did mention that in the video
2:21 Jake Miller a Wendigoon fan? Nice.
I am a man of culture what can I say
0:21club penguin was bought by disney in 2007 for around 350 million dollars, which meant that they didn't steal it, they stole it from US now doubt about that but they didn't steal it
I didn’t mean “steal” literally
@@Jake.Miller eh still
I first played Where's My Water 2 so I thought Allie and Cranky we're Swampy's parents
Haha I can see that. They don’t get much of an intro in that game