I love how Ninja Kiwi is heavily involved with their community, to the point they knew that one half of their game was a hellscape full of escaped mental asylum patients and the other half was a bunch of 5 year olds, that they made two more games based off of the respective sides.
wish they cared more about fixing their games when they have major gamebreaking issues that go unremarked upon for weeks or months while the game's community never lets the discord/reddit moderators (who are not affiliated with nor work for NK) hear the end of it
The snowman wasn't melting he was using his own body as snowballs to throw at you until there was none of him left. Truly genius writing and a metaphor for the cost of success 🙏
I love how Aliensrock and ISAB both cemented themselves so much in Bloons culture to the point they appear in literal essays about the Bloons Franchise trajectory
2:39:24 The secret is found, it was added in update 42 and found an update later: If you sacrifice 5 Tiers of each category to a temple, and place a 000 tower of the same category on specific places; the middle will vanish and Everseer, a non-atacking Navarch will appear, it will hook in any Blimp what’s not a BAD. And also Dreadbloon's Rockbloons. So pretty cool.
@@Or-ang-Ethis is my first time watching you, I have only 100 hrs in btd6 and none in the others, I watched all the video and did laugh at a good couple of parts. I watch yt in a regular basis, this particular video is so good i cant begin to describe how perfect it is, congrats on making the video, actual crazy good in depth full length all inclusive history video (I dont like history at all) wp
The fact that he made an entire 3 hour essay about monkeys that throw darts at bloons is insanity And not to mention that there's actual editing just is amazing.
The blooms lore is literally just: There are these Balloons, spelled Bloon(s). These Bloons cause the monkeys to die, so they throw darts, boomerangs, bombs, lasers, God’s fire, and fricking mortars at them. Meanwhile the blooms are sending progressively stronger blooms, camouflaged blooms, blooms immune to magic that the monkeys have somehow, bloons immune to explosions and cold, and blimps just to get to the end of a path to somewhere.
Still waiting on the Cobra being added in BTD6 as either a support unit or Hero unit, but otherwise, yeah, this is a company that learns from what they did wrong, and listen to the community surrounding their games. Hell yeah,
I used to play the original Bloons back in computer lab in college instead of doing homework. Now 20 years later my son plays Bloons TB6 on his tablet.
Excellent video, and thank you for the nice comments about the music, I love writing for the Bloons games, and I look forward to bringing you more music in the future. For the fans reading this - To keep up to date with what I am up to you can follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/haywoodtim - you can find me on RUclips, Spotify, and Bandcamp - I also have Facebook group thing. I occasionally lurk on the Ninja Kiwi Discord too. Thanks for the support!
Your Bloons Monkey City Music was incredible. I can’t imagine how long it took to have that much talent. It was so good they even added it to BTD 6 in the store
1:10:08 I'd just like to address that setting the flash version of battles to "Low Quality" was necessary in competitive gameplay as it actually allowed you to compact towers closer together. It also reduced lag so that's why the quality was so poor. Sick video btw
BDT5 actually got a major update in November 2022 that added a shit ton of new stuff. A new Special Agent, a new map, a new gamemode, and 10 premium skins meant to recreate the retro art-style of the older towers. Finally, an actual update besides a new map every few months.
be grateful for even those map updates i mean the games 10 years old and barely has any players left yet nks still pouring in resources to maintain the game one has to appreciate that
that is quite considerate of the developer considering he had already released BTD6 and BTD battles 2. Most developers now days abandon their games before they even release a new one
I lost it at 29:59. Not only did the song get claimed, not only did that exact same song get claimed _multiple times,_ it got claimed *29 times,* which is such a specific number. I can imagine that after the 29th claim, they were like "Nah, that's enough. 30 would be overkill." And there's also the fact that an image site apparently has music. Great job, man.
12:13 The tip actually is true! "If a bloon escapes, you lose as many lives as the bloon had bloons *inside* it plus 1" where the plus 1 is for the bloon itself.
Yknow, I liked Ninja Kiwi for their games, but never really looked passed that. Now, after knowing just how well they actually respond and how community driven they are, genuinely makes me love the games even more. A ton of games don't even have half the community interaction NK has with it's fans, it's actually quite amazing
I'm always impressed when game devs go above and beyond. Most won't even respond to an important question, let alone provide this level of fan service.
Just watched the finale to Hot Air Bloon, it ends in an epic chase after the Monkey Baron while Flight of The Valkyries plays in the background. You then save your wife, while Monkey Baron vows revenge and is revealed to be your evil brother.
Bro, people have died spoiling stuff like this. (Someone literally killed someone for spoiling Force Awakens in a movie theater bathroom back when it first released in theaters)
battles 2 has got to be the biggest case of a poor release killing a game, nowadays everyone acts like every game can pull a no man's sky, but their rebound was impressive because it was an exception to the rule
Survived By was an early-access game teased at the Game awards. It was in development for years, but its launch into early access was so bad it died and the game has been shut down completely. There's plenty of other games that endured similar fates. I wouldn't say it's the biggest case of a poor release killing a game, because it's still technically alive on mobile and PC. Several hundred active players is more than like 99% of all fighting games.
I know I'm a year late, but this is both true and sad. If BTD battles 2 had released in the state it's in today, it would have been much better received. Unfortunately, it was so incredibly grindy upon launch that it lost the majority of it's playerbase in a couple weeks flat.
Yeah, like titanfall2, it's one of my favorite games, but its release was in-between a cod game and a battlefield game, and if it had a better release, it probably could've got the attention it deserved also we need a sequel for it
Battles 2 isn't bad these days, however I do NOT condone the "release now, finish later" mentality that's become so prevalent in gaming recently, so I still think NK needs to be criticized for it even if the game is playable now
Bro I used this video to fall asleep for over 2 weeks now and always started at the point where I fell asleep last night. I'm still not halfway done. Never slept so good tho
The dedication it takes to make a three hour video while trying every game is a whole nother level that I don’t have the patience to do. Thanks for the history!
Man, I always wanted a 2 hour 46 minute and 32 second long video about a funny balloon popping monkey game explaining all the story and history of a small video game, thanks for making it!
Imagine one day Sam appears in a video addressing random questions by community, and at Encrypted's secret he goes: "What do you mean 《Doesn't do anything》? Look, I have a game of Encrypted on mine phone here right now... - he pulls phone out of his pocket and BTD6 soundtrack overlayed with popping bloons can be heard, - ... and if I place correct towers here..." A few seconds of jolly music pass as Sam stares at his phone, his expression rapidly growing extremely concerned, before he drops his phone and points to person behind the camera, shouting "Cut the records! It's gone!!!", before video ends abruptly, BTD soundtrack on the last few moments being drown out by blaring sounds of emergency alarms...
That would be awesome! Especially if they First Striked his exact location to neutralise him, therefore stopping him from making Encrypted into Decrypted!! :D
hey guy :-) i know most likely you are not reading these comments due to how many there are and how old this video is, but i wanted to tell you that this is one of my favourite videos on youtube- and that’s coming from someone who has watched youtube every single day for years and years! i am an autistic person and i’ve previously hyperfocused on this video because it is so well made and entertaining, it has become very comforting to me! i was focused on it a while ago now but it recently popped back into my head and i am back to enjoying this amazing video again. thank you for this amazing content, i can’t wait to see you hit it big with another awesome banger in the near future! much love :-)
I love that in BTD6 they added the callback to N.A.P.S.F.R.I.L.L.S through C.H.I.M.P.S mode, even if its easier in BTD6 it's amazing that they stayed so involved with the community.
@@bloonbrawler9872 wait what? They did? Who is it? Dabloon? Is dabloon the new host? Why? Why is it dabloon? What did the waffle house do to him? What did he do to deserve this? I hate waffles
I cant imagine how much effort was put into this video, I get distracted in a 30 mins lesson but was so dedicated to watxg a 3hr lecture about monkeys popping balloons😂😂
I think my favourite part about BTD and ninja kiwi is how connected to their community they are. They're basically founded off community contributions and they've remembered that by very clearly listening to their contributions
it's just a shame the community is mostly comprised of idiots i doubt paragons will ever be fixed functionally, and especially visually (the entire idea is combining the 3 paths, why the fuck are people letting missing paths slide)
1:04:45 "Someone should make a tower defense game where your towers dying is a core mechanic" Technically, you got the Plants vs Zombies Wall-nuts, and instant use plants. You also have Inscryption where sacrificing some of your "towers" lets you get better, stronger towers.
People keep mentioning pvz and its kind of my fault I didn't go into it. The type of game I meant was one where your towers die of old age, as in they expire after a certain number of turns. Rather than just a game where they can die
@@Or-ang-E I'm pretty sure there's a BTD5 challenge based of that mechanic Edit: Literally this 1:04:26 Edit 2: wait I'm actually stupid this is what you're talking about certified commenting before watching moment
I want to say, this is the first long form video I ever watched. And rewatching it now I realized why I got into long formed content, and it now makes sense this is genuinely a really good video
I was born in 1997, my entire childhood aligned perfectly with the entire Golden age of flash browser games. I have such a strong nostalgic feeling for the tens of thousands of random forgotten flash games I played growing up; I didn't have a good enough PC to play actual pc games and I didn't get new console games very often because we were kinda poor. Bloons is one of those few flash games that became so successful it broke out of the status of silly flash game into being an actual legitimate full videogame, and for that it'll always be close to my heart.
The Sand snowman in the Christmas Edition of Bloons 2 might be because Ninja Kiwi is an NZ company, and in NZ, Christmas happens at the same time as the rest of the world, but its seasons are the opposite of northern countries seasons due to hemisphere differences. So it might be a nod that in NZ, if you wanna make a snowman during Christmas you'd probably have to settle for using sand instead of snow
Yeah, Summer in the southern hemisphere. no Winter Christmas here. Sand 'snow'men are somewhat common on NZ beaches in December but I'm not sure about other southern hemisphere countries.
By far one of the best videos I've seen in a long time. This movie was genuinely a roller-coaster of nostalgia, laughs, and confusion. And yes, I watched the ENTIRE thing. 10/10.
Bloons TD3 started a very weird obsession when I was a child. I played around with it, until my 45 year old father decided to try it out. He still plays Bloons games to this day when he gets the chance, It warms my heart and really makes me smile when I see it.
I actually loved city. I thought the limited amount of towers and town building aspect were pretty unique and made the game feel fresh. Aswell as the others blooms added.
What next? The Five Nights at Freddy’s Song, based by the hit video game horror series, Five Nights at Freddy’s, composed by the artists, The Living Tombstone?
@@raihanvarghese8553 your grammar is outstandingly bad. but i sure would love to see the song Five Nights at Freddy's based on the hit video game horror series of the same name, composed by The Living Tombstone. and maybe a few years after the last song for FNaF, somewhere in like 2022 The Living Tombstone will release a mediocre song that uses the same voice editing as the first song. that'd be so cool, i'd strangle myself to fdetah.
It's so awesome how a game I remember being integral to 7 year old me, that I had all but forgotten about, has a thriving community, consistent updates and an unbelievably high amount of easter eggs
Yeah I remember playing Bloons as a little kid when I got my first personal computer ... graduated from all the base windows game like Space Pinball and Spider Solitaire to flash games and exploring all the flash games on the internet. Bloons tower defense was one of my favorite flash games to play with siblings, we even liked the other non tower defense Bloons games & stalked newgrounds for more unique games to try
This is a awesome walkdown memory lane. Thank you for this. I remember that I played a ton of Flash games on my moms laptop during this time. I didn't knew it back then, but I really was there when a new BTD Game was released. And I really started the series, when there was only the first game. It is insane hot hard the first game is compared to the later ones.
The way you mix in completely unexpected jokes and random edits into videos and have them be consistently funny is genuinely amazing and it only gets better over time. Also I never knew that I needed an extensive video going over the entire history of the Bloons franchise until now especially since I was wholly unaware of half of these.
I dont know why, but I CONSTANTLY find myself rewatching this over and over. Whether invested or just kinda in the background. Maybe the video is just THAT good to me
The fact "You lose as many lives as the bloon had bloons inside it plus 1" is correct. If a blue bloon escapes, it has 1 bloon inside (a red one) so u lose 2 lives, 1 for the red one and one for the blue one. But it only has 1 bloon inside itself. The plus 1 comes from the phrasing that it only counts the ones INSIDE so the bloon itself is missing in the counting there.
The random CoC references, the jokes he makes, his voice, everything about this video I loved. A well spent 2 hours, 46 minutes and 32 seconds. edit, 33 seconds, thank you Obiwan.
A bit of an addendum: The beekeeper originated in BTD5 before being added to BTD4 mobile, and the dartling gunner and spike factory were BTD4 expansion pack towers that were added into the BTD4 base game afterward.
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Good news everyone!!! Battles 2 is getting one of its biggest updates yet soon, with changes to basically everything still wrong with the game! I think this will finally be the update that gets the back into shape and hopefully will help it regain its player base.
Btw I wasn’t expecting you to see this comment so soon. I want to mention that this was honestly one of the best videos I watched on bloons, and was extremely well made. Can’t wait for the sequel in 5 years lol. I’m really excited for everything else ninja kiwi has to offer in the coming years!
@@Froscryte yeah good lord I was rewatching this because orange videos slap and I have nothing better to do with my time, seeing the heart on this comment from 12 days ago, that's huge
Ninjakiwi seems to be always working to serve the community which is awesome to see, adding in so many fan made maps and features in btd6, constantly keeping really old games updated and even recognizing the community divide in the original bloons player base and making unique games for both sides
You put so much effort into the video man. It took me all day to finish the vid since I took breaks every once in a while and the vid was so good I fr thought it was only 30 mins, I was completely shocked to see I spent hours watching monke pop balloon lore
Simply WOW. I didnt believe that this video was THAT interesting. I delayed watching it for 1 month and i regret it. The script was splendid. All the story was wonderful. I respect you so much, you just made my childhood 10 times better. Thank you.
oh hey I did the graphics and animation for BTD 3 , POP3 and a few othe rolder ninja kiwi games, this was a fun blast from the past thank you! Hehe to be fair there was only 3 of us in the company and we were learning as we went so it was a bit experimental :P
Usually I don’t comment twice but dude this video is so insanely good. I had never heard of BTD before and now I feel like my brain is 5x heavier. The editing is timed perfectly and it makes this such a funny video that I have sat through half of it at this point and it probably will be one of my favourite niche essay videos ever. Fantastic job. I hope this video gets the recognition it deserves.
This has been in my recommended for the past couple days and i got around to watching it finally and i can say that it was well worth the watch. Insanely impressive video with the amount of research that went into it, can't wait for you to do an updated version of this video in 5 years going over all of the btd 6 updates :D! I also think you capture just how good BTD6 is as a game, I got back into it a couple of months ago after not playing it for a while and the updates always seem to add something wildly impressive and content that can keep you playing for ages. I also think that the community interaction is probably ninja kiwi's biggest strength with the implementation of maps and other such things.
That ending sequence was damn powerful My friend introduced me to btd6 nary a couple years ago while I was in college. Since then, I had No Idea Thank you for showing me this insane and oddly beautiful rabbit hole of a series
Almost three hours of video and i was hooked every single second, this video is simply a masterpiece AND a masterclass in editing, research and comedy, deserves every single view it has and oh so many more, this video should be in a museum
Having grown up with the entire Bloons series myself it’s always a shame seeing people who don’t know most of the games outside of the td series so finally having a video like this confirming is not alone and educating others is really nice
I somehow read that as "I hope you make it" and was very concerned about what was coming further into the video. I think I might need to finish this in the morning lol.
This was honestly the best video ive seen, i started watching this video thinking its just a 20min vid with a brief recap of every game, but here i am 2 hours 46 minutes and 32 seconds later knowing every single game and all of its mechanics and perks of the bloons franchise. Great video man
idk if someone mentioned it, but the 2 secret Christmas levels being "sand" themes is most likely a reference to Ociana having Christmas during their summer.
47:25 ok so fun fact: Ninja Kiwi is based in New Zealand and in that part of the world, the summer season is over December - February so Christmas happens during that kind of weather Also amazing video, can't believe this is such an underrated channel
ive been obsessed with btd 6 for a couple weeks after reigniting my old btd battles mobile mania and buying it. thank all the gods for this perfect video getting recommended to me.
Great video, one of if not the best you’ve made, you can really tell the hard work and passion put into it. I’ve never been interested in bloons but this video kept me interested all the way through and I never thought of closing it. This video truly deserved its place in the best videos playlist.
I watched this video throughout my entire day, and it felt like I was watching 10 different videos, and near the end I felt sad that it was ending because it was just so god damned entertaining like holy shit. Love the content man, keep up the amazing work.
I literally have never played a balloons game, never cared, never even played a tower defense game, but, this video, THIS VIDEO, I can’t stop watching it, in the background, while I sleep, I can’t stop, I have no clue why I just keep watching it over and over, today I finally made a playlist with just this video so I can loop it. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME. IS IT JUST ME OR IS THIS HAPPENING TO OTHERS. I’m considering downloading this video so I can never be without it. (Bare with me now it’s six am and I haven’t slept yet, I’m PROBABLY not actually as addicted as I sound…) Anyways bout to go to sleep with this on my TV blasting into my right ear over and over and over. 🙏🙏🙏
Aw man, I wish I could have watched this for like 5 more hours. This is an amazingly well made video. The amount of work you’ve done on this video alone is something I really have to congratulate you on. Just listening to you talk about bloons for an hour and a half is way too entertaining for my own good. I’m very glad I subbed to you, this is the content I came here to watch.
Wait yea this was 9 months ago. I decided to get into it like one month ago maybe. And i did not need xp to get through the tiers i get all 4/4/4 for the initial monies and then 1,500 for the 5th tiers
I casually loved btd 3 and 4 when they came out. Missed others and got into 6 recently. I can’t believe I just watched HOURS on the game though. You did a great job on the video and are a joy to watch, you were naturally hilarious so many times! Sub’d
Wow, really cool seeing a video from you blow up like this! I’ve always loved your voice, and now a good fraction of the world will see the error of their ways, in that they did not know about this voice earlier.
HOT AIR BLOON MOBILE HAS BEEN FOUND. You can watch the ending and monkey baron fight here ruclips.net/video/PUuXvFfrKfM/видео.html
That's so awesome omg
WATCHED THE WHOLE VIDEO AND IT TOOK 9 DAYS
@@firemikieedition2429 5 to 6 days for me.
Real!
WE DID IT WE FOUND THE FUNNY MONKEY GAME!!!!!!!!
Bro made a 3 hour lecture about goofy cartoon monkey's, it doesn't get better than this.
Hello foekoe from the hit channel foekoe
Hello video creator commenting on another creator I've come to comment about how you are commenting hello!
Cool
holy crap foekoe on funny OrangE man!?
No i dont want to yere bloons lo- Helloe everyone
I love how Ninja Kiwi is heavily involved with their community, to the point they knew that one half of their game was a hellscape full of escaped mental asylum patients and the other half was a bunch of 5 year olds, that they made two more games based off of the respective sides.
Glad they did
BTD was like full of autism kids,
While BTDB was like full of psycho
True
What are the games your reference?
@@BioshockDrill The bloons insanity pack and the baby pack
wish they cared more about fixing their games when they have major gamebreaking issues that go unremarked upon for weeks or months while the game's community never lets the discord/reddit moderators (who are not affiliated with nor work for NK) hear the end of it
The snowman wasn't melting he was using his own body as snowballs to throw at you until there was none of him left. Truly genius writing and a metaphor for the cost of success 🙏
Who knew kiwis could have such wisdom🙏
Brave warrior... );
Truly a commentary about the socioeconomic state of Bulgaria and the consequences of capitalism
Most sane 2023 RUclips comment🗿🗿
Oh wow! That almost tops the intro's dramatic, fully fleshed out character study. But nothing beats perfection ig 😔
The “sorry for the low quality, my sister broke the good camera” callback at 2:23:16 kills me. Incredible video
ikr
I love how Aliensrock and ISAB both cemented themselves so much in Bloons culture to the point they appear in literal essays about the Bloons Franchise trajectory
Lmai wow yeah ig so
Lmao
Lmoa
I've seen that pfp before but what is it again?
@@mihailmilev9909 It's the EVA-01 from Neon Genesis Evangelion
Absolutely loved the history of BTD Battles, brought back some great memories. Thanks for doing this!
hello checkmarked person
@@stom2410 dude this is the guy in the video
@@dropfish3109 yeah i know i've been watching him for years, he plays competitive bloons sometimes
Yo its Tyler the puzzle guy
I remember watching your youtube videos of your streams
2:39:24
The secret is found, it was added in update 42 and found an update later:
If you sacrifice 5 Tiers of each category to a temple, and place a 000 tower of the same category on specific places; the middle will vanish and Everseer, a non-atacking Navarch will appear, it will hook in any Blimp what’s not a BAD. And also Dreadbloon's Rockbloons.
So pretty cool.
Chat is this real?
Ok It is
@@Queen_PerfectHeart_S2 test it
His name is Everseer
in update 42*
Good video. I'll watch it later.
Ok Pilot Spelunky 2
I might watch it
I ain't watchin allthat 😂
Yes, I will do the same
How do you know it’s good if you didn’t watch it?
I am 88% convinced orange has gone insane making this video
level 25 looks cool
@Mathias Dragonslayer true
thats fair
@@Or-ang-Ethis is my first time watching you, I have only 100 hrs in btd6 and none in the others, I watched all the video and did laugh at a good couple of parts. I watch yt in a regular basis, this particular video is so good i cant begin to describe how perfect it is, congrats on making the video, actual crazy good in depth full length all inclusive history video (I dont like history at all) wp
True
The best part about btd 6 is you dont have to play the previous 43 games to understand it
I managed to play ~30/44 but this is far deeper than I expected 😮
Bruh
The best part of bt6 is that i bough it on sale, thinking it will be silly stupid game, and now i sit for hours trying to beat elite boss
Sure
Marvel be like
1:54:08 "Really cant tell how much my unstable coc is doing" -ISAB from whatever year he said it in
2018 (at least I would assume so considering that was the year BTD6 came out)
The fact that he made an entire 3 hour essay about monkeys that throw darts at bloons is insanity
And not to mention that there's actual editing just is amazing.
It's a documentary, not an essay.
The blooms lore is literally just:
There are these Balloons, spelled Bloon(s). These Bloons cause the monkeys to die, so they throw darts, boomerangs, bombs, lasers, God’s fire, and fricking mortars at them. Meanwhile the blooms are sending progressively stronger blooms, camouflaged blooms, blooms immune to magic that the monkeys have somehow, bloons immune to explosions and cold, and blimps just to get to the end of a path to somewhere.
@@ChrisHinners008 Blooms 🤨
You could add him to bloons insanity pack
@@UPGAX STOPP XDD
I haven't watched it all yet, but this brings back some crazy memories. Specifically early BTD4 and BTD5 release :D! Great video!
Battles koth is mind blowing
bitch i remember when btd2 came out
The Waffle House found it's new host
You and me both, pal!
the goat
Ninja Kiwi seems to me a perfect example of "he's a little confused but he's got the spirit".
I've been trying to think of a way to describe NK in a nutshell and I think this is one of the best ways to put it
They legit made a ton of updates to BTDB2 after this video, and now there's a bunch of people playing it after being dead for so long.
And they learn from the mistakes they make too, always nice to see
*"B I K E R B O N E S , R I D E S A G A I N"* - NK employee
Still waiting on the Cobra being added in BTD6 as either a support unit or Hero unit, but otherwise, yeah, this is a company that learns from what they did wrong, and listen to the community surrounding their games. Hell yeah,
I used to play the original Bloons back in computer lab in college instead of doing homework. Now 20 years later my son plays Bloons TB6 on his tablet.
Like father like son
Excellent video, and thank you for the nice comments about the music, I love writing for the Bloons games, and I look forward to bringing you more music in the future. For the fans reading this - To keep up to date with what I am up to you can follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/haywoodtim - you can find me on RUclips, Spotify, and Bandcamp - I also have Facebook group thing. I occasionally lurk on the Ninja Kiwi Discord too. Thanks for the support!
@@Jack_Saint_Archive Thanks!! I really hope so, a little later in the year, fingers crossed 🤞
@@TimHaywoodProductions That's great to hear. 👍 Looking forward to it. ♥
Hi Tim!
Your Bloons Monkey City Music was incredible. I can’t imagine how long it took to have that much talent.
It was so good they even added it to BTD 6 in the store
You have made me reconsider my thoughts on listening to video game OST's
1:10:08 I'd just like to address that setting the flash version of battles to "Low Quality" was necessary in competitive gameplay as it actually allowed you to compact towers closer together. It also reduced lag so that's why the quality was so poor. Sick video btw
My mind is blown. I thought the footage was just dated or something but no that actually gave people a competitive advantage
Smef I love you
Hi lol
@@Or-ang-E Believe it or not but once out of sheer luck I beat level four after only 3 tries
@@Or-ang-E that snowman died becuse he is trowing himself at you until he kills himself
BDT5 actually got a major update in November 2022 that added a shit ton of new stuff. A new Special Agent, a new map, a new gamemode, and 10 premium skins meant to recreate the retro art-style of the older towers. Finally, an actual update besides a new map every few months.
be grateful for even those map updates
i mean the games 10 years old and barely has any players left yet nks still pouring in resources to maintain the game one has to appreciate that
that is quite considerate of the developer considering he had already released BTD6 and BTD battles 2. Most developers now days abandon their games before they even release a new one
You might be the only person who said "finally new BTD5 content" when it came out, but I have to respect you for it.
THATS MY FUCKING PFP
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I lost it at 29:59. Not only did the song get claimed, not only did that exact same song get claimed _multiple times,_ it got claimed *29 times,* which is such a specific number. I can imagine that after the 29th claim, they were like "Nah, that's enough. 30 would be overkill." And there's also the fact that an image site apparently has music. Great job, man.
And it was at 29 minutes
12:13 The tip actually is true! "If a bloon escapes, you lose as many lives as the bloon had bloons *inside* it plus 1" where the plus 1 is for the bloon itself.
Yknow, I liked Ninja Kiwi for their games, but never really looked passed that. Now, after knowing just how well they actually respond and how community driven they are, genuinely makes me love the games even more. A ton of games don't even have half the community interaction NK has with it's fans, it's actually quite amazing
"hey look at this clearly joke ma-"
**Ronaldo soccer 64 intro**
"Hahaha"
"funneh secret map"
I'm always impressed when game devs go above and beyond. Most won't even respond to an important question, let alone provide this level of fan service.
I feel like that's somewhat common with studios that started as Flash game developers.
They literally took 94 days to fix their completely broken game
Ah yes 3 months to fix broken game
Just watched the finale to Hot Air Bloon, it ends in an epic chase after the Monkey Baron while Flight of The Valkyries plays in the background. You then save your wife, while Monkey Baron vows revenge and is revealed to be your evil brother.
Bro, people have died spoiling stuff like this. (Someone literally killed someone for spoiling Force Awakens in a movie theater bathroom back when it first released in theaters)
@@LeoCat2291 no that game is literally the most popular game of all time you fool
@@MDLuffy1234YT wait seriously
@@balls_gaming yes
@@MDLuffy1234YT no way lmao
battles 2 has got to be the biggest case of a poor release killing a game, nowadays everyone acts like every game can pull a no man's sky, but their rebound was impressive because it was an exception to the rule
Survived By was an early-access game teased at the Game awards. It was in development for years, but its launch into early access was so bad it died and the game has been shut down completely.
There's plenty of other games that endured similar fates.
I wouldn't say it's the biggest case of a poor release killing a game, because it's still technically alive on mobile and PC. Several hundred active players is more than like 99% of all fighting games.
maybe part of the reason is that they deliberately lied about microtransactions
I know I'm a year late, but this is both true and sad. If BTD battles 2 had released in the state it's in today, it would have been much better received. Unfortunately, it was so incredibly grindy upon launch that it lost the majority of it's playerbase in a couple weeks flat.
Yeah, like titanfall2, it's one of my favorite games, but its release was in-between a cod game and a battlefield game, and if it had a better release, it probably could've got the attention it deserved also we need a sequel for it
Battles 2 isn't bad these days, however I do NOT condone the "release now, finish later" mentality that's become so prevalent in gaming recently, so I still think NK needs to be criticized for it even if the game is playable now
This video doesn't feel long, it just feels like a really fun regular video that magically goes for 2 hours.
I can't believe the creator came up with bloons while wearing a btd 6 shirt. What a coincidence!
Probaly time traveled to get the shirt
I have been needing a video like this in my life, excited to watch it later!
First
no way nathaniel b
mr scuttlebug himself
👎 stole my award winning comment
@@OfficialThatOneGuy simply a difference in skill
Give this man a oscar. Bro made a friking 3 hour video about bloons. What a legend
No
I’m watching it maybe I’ve already watched a 8 hour video not in my sleep
@@adolfo777nicayes
"hehe oscar wait why's no one laughing"
@@weirdooftheyear336 likes disagree bud
Bro I used this video to fall asleep for over 2 weeks now and always started at the point where I fell asleep last night. I'm still not halfway done. Never slept so good tho
The dedication it takes to make a three hour video while trying every game is a whole nother level that I don’t have the patience to do. Thanks for the history!
Can't belive I watched it to the end. Did u?
@@mihailmilev9909 I’m half way there, still got some to go lol
Man, I always wanted a 2 hour 46 minute and 32 second long video about a funny balloon popping monkey game explaining all the story and history of a small video game, thanks for making it!
Too bad! This video is 2 hours 46 minutes and 33 seconds long 😈😈😈😈😈
It's bloon, not balloon
Imagine one day Sam appears in a video addressing random questions by community, and at Encrypted's secret he goes: "What do you mean 《Doesn't do anything》? Look, I have a game of Encrypted on mine phone here right now... - he pulls phone out of his pocket and BTD6 soundtrack overlayed with popping bloons can be heard, - ... and if I place correct towers here..."
A few seconds of jolly music pass as Sam stares at his phone, his expression rapidly growing extremely concerned, before he drops his phone and points to person behind the camera, shouting "Cut the records! It's gone!!!", before video ends abruptly, BTD soundtrack on the last few moments being drown out by blaring sounds of emergency alarms...
That would be awesome! Especially if they First Striked his exact location to neutralise him, therefore stopping him from making Encrypted into Decrypted!! :D
Well it actually makes sense…the secret has been released and it is strong-ish, but looks very intimidating.
hey guy :-) i know most likely you are not reading these comments due to how many there are and how old this video is, but i wanted to tell you that this is one of my favourite videos on youtube- and that’s coming from someone who has watched youtube every single day for years and years! i am an autistic person and i’ve previously hyperfocused on this video because it is so well made and entertaining, it has become very comforting to me! i was focused on it a while ago now but it recently popped back into my head and i am back to enjoying this amazing video again. thank you for this amazing content, i can’t wait to see you hit it big with another awesome banger in the near future! much love :-)
IM autistc too
Glad to be apart of the history of Bloons! Great video!
Hey Boltrix.
ayo yes
Goofy
YOOOO ITS THE MAN HIMSELF
is it ever strange to you that a large source of income for you is making videos about a game that was intended for children?
I love that in BTD6 they added the callback to N.A.P.S.F.R.I.L.L.S through C.H.I.M.P.S mode, even if its easier in BTD6 it's amazing that they stayed so involved with the community.
2:01:04 2:01:13
2:03:24
This is awesome! I was not expecting all this detail. This must have taken a long time!
I'm happy to see an awesome guy like dabloon acknowledge this awesome video
Love your vids👍 and please don't pop me
The waffle house had found it's new host
@@bloonbrawler9872 wait what? They did? Who is it? Dabloon? Is dabloon the new host? Why? Why is it dabloon? What did the waffle house do to him? What did he do to deserve this?
I hate waffles
@@Pal_EX it's a trend, they comment those on anywhere.
I cant imagine how much effort was put into this video, I get distracted in a 30 mins lesson but was so dedicated to watxg a 3hr lecture about monkeys popping balloons😂😂
I think my favourite part about BTD and ninja kiwi is how connected to their community they are. They're basically founded off community contributions and they've remembered that by very clearly listening to their contributions
We are brothers
it's just a shame the community is mostly comprised of idiots
i doubt paragons will ever be fixed functionally, and especially visually (the entire idea is combining the 3 paths, why the fuck are people letting missing paths slide)
Doesn't matter if it's don't starve or not Orange is always entertaining to watch
Ok
True true
Yqa
Bl0ns
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1:04:45 "Someone should make a tower defense game where your towers dying is a core mechanic"
Technically, you got the Plants vs Zombies Wall-nuts, and instant use plants. You also have Inscryption where sacrificing some of your "towers" lets you get better, stronger towers.
People keep mentioning pvz and its kind of my fault I didn't go into it. The type of game I meant was one where your towers die of old age, as in they expire after a certain number of turns. Rather than just a game where they can die
@@Or-ang-E that would be cool af.
@@Or-ang-E plantz vs zombies puffshroom has that mechanic
@@Or-ang-E plantz vs zombies 2 puffshroom has that mechanic
@@Or-ang-E I'm pretty sure there's a BTD5 challenge based of that mechanic
Edit: Literally this 1:04:26
Edit 2: wait I'm actually stupid this is what you're talking about
certified commenting before watching moment
I want to say, this is the first long form video I ever watched. And rewatching it now I realized why I got into long formed content, and it now makes sense this is genuinely a really good video
I was born in 1997, my entire childhood aligned perfectly with the entire Golden age of flash browser games. I have such a strong nostalgic feeling for the tens of thousands of random forgotten flash games I played growing up; I didn't have a good enough PC to play actual pc games and I didn't get new console games very often because we were kinda poor. Bloons is one of those few flash games that became so successful it broke out of the status of silly flash game into being an actual legitimate full videogame, and for that it'll always be close to my heart.
Nice
Cool story
You are 26 years old
@@dbdmountainlion9459 nice work detective
But I agree with you furball, (,: bloons is forever special
The Sand snowman in the Christmas Edition of Bloons 2 might be because Ninja Kiwi is an NZ company, and in NZ, Christmas happens at the same time as the rest of the world, but its seasons are the opposite of northern countries seasons due to hemisphere differences. So it might be a nod that in NZ, if you wanna make a snowman during Christmas you'd probably have to settle for using sand instead of snow
Yeah, Summer in the southern hemisphere. no Winter Christmas here.
Sand 'snow'men are somewhat common on NZ beaches in December but I'm not sure about other southern hemisphere countries.
By far one of the best videos I've seen in a long time. This movie was genuinely a roller-coaster of nostalgia, laughs, and confusion.
And yes, I watched the ENTIRE thing. 10/10.
Same, it’s sooo good
Yes
I feel like re watching it again
I JUST REALIZED
it’s not “bloons pop” “3”
it’s “bloons” “pop 3”
Bloons TD3 started a very weird obsession when I was a child.
I played around with it, until my 45 year old father decided to try it out.
He still plays Bloons games to this day when he gets the chance, It warms my heart and really makes me smile when I see it.
W
W
W
Hope he gets better soon
@@Iugeershut it, loser
I actually loved city. I thought the limited amount of towers and town building aspect were pretty unique and made the game feel fresh. Aswell as the others blooms added.
City was fun for abit, Never really played for long though. Mad grindy and took a long time r eally did feel like the COC of bloons
I like the idea. Never heard of it befor tho
@@Wishy. the what lol
@@mihailmilev9909 coc is clash of clans
I love monkey city
The Evil Monkey Baron needs more screentime tbh.
Fr
1:06:44 Ah yes, Super Funky Man Club
I’m gonna start saying that
I can’t believe that they made a Dont Starve x BTD6 crossover. Thank you OrangE for this showcase.
Wonkey Gaming
Yes
What next? The Five Nights at Freddy’s Song, based by the hit video game horror series, Five Nights at Freddy’s, composed by the artists, The Living Tombstone?
@@raihanvarghese8553 your grammar is outstandingly bad.
but i sure would love to see the song Five Nights at Freddy's based on the hit video game horror series of the same name, composed by The Living Tombstone.
and maybe a few years after the last song for FNaF, somewhere in like 2022 The Living Tombstone will release a mediocre song that uses the same voice editing as the first song. that'd be so cool, i'd strangle myself to fdetah.
Ridicule
It's so awesome how a game I remember being integral to 7 year old me, that I had all but forgotten about, has a thriving community, consistent updates and an unbelievably high amount of easter eggs
Same
Yeah I remember playing Bloons as a little kid when I got my first personal computer ... graduated from all the base windows game like Space Pinball and Spider Solitaire to flash games and exploring all the flash games on the internet. Bloons tower defense was one of my favorite flash games to play with siblings, we even liked the other non tower defense Bloons games & stalked newgrounds for more unique games to try
This is a awesome walkdown memory lane. Thank you for this.
I remember that I played a ton of Flash games on my moms laptop during this time. I didn't knew it back then, but I really was there when a new BTD Game was released. And I really started the series, when there was only the first game.
It is insane hot hard the first game is compared to the later ones.
The way you mix in completely unexpected jokes and random edits into videos and have them be consistently funny is genuinely amazing and it only gets better over time. Also I never knew that I needed an extensive video going over the entire history of the Bloons franchise until now especially since I was wholly unaware of half of these.
I dont know why, but I CONSTANTLY find myself rewatching this over and over. Whether invested or just kinda in the background.
Maybe the video is just THAT good to me
Same
Same X2
I’ve watched this video from start to finish atleast 5 times
I'm literally re-watching this for like the 5th time. Love this video so much
I'd watch this 8 times
The fact "You lose as many lives as the bloon had bloons inside it plus 1" is correct.
If a blue bloon escapes, it has 1 bloon inside (a red one) so u lose 2 lives, 1 for the red one and one for the blue one. But it only has 1 bloon inside itself.
The plus 1 comes from the phrasing that it only counts the ones INSIDE so the bloon itself is missing in the counting there.
No it is not its an errr
@@davemurphy1278 Red bloon has no bloon in it. you lose one life when red bloon escape 0+1=1
@@davemurphy1278
Who would Win?
A well researched argument backed by facts and logic
nuh uh
@@cewla3348 Ratio
@@legendarytronic7774Bro got 0 likes on the ratio 💀 ☠️ 💀 ☠️
2:39:25 they added a secret very recently
What is it
@@gilthreyblauncesearch it up
The random CoC references, the jokes he makes, his voice, everything about this video I loved. A well spent 2 hours, 46 minutes and 32 seconds.
edit, 33 seconds, thank you Obiwan.
33 seconds* (I counted it)
@@Obiwan_Kenobi_The_First cheers
@@Obiwan_Kenobi_The_First you owe me my limbs.
Color of Conquerors?
@@JaquaviousTavius you honestly deserved it
A bit of an addendum: The beekeeper originated in BTD5 before being added to BTD4 mobile, and the dartling gunner and spike factory were BTD4 expansion pack towers that were added into the BTD4 base game afterward.
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Man i love ChatGPT XD.
Man i sure love chatGPT
Interacting with ChatGPT brings me immense joy and admiration.
I sure do love [AI model name]
bro what💀
autoplay has once again brought me back here 1 year later, still a good watch.
Good news everyone!!! Battles 2 is getting one of its biggest updates yet soon, with changes to basically everything still wrong with the game! I think this will finally be the update that gets the back into shape and hopefully will help it regain its player base.
Btw I wasn’t expecting you to see this comment so soon. I want to mention that this was honestly one of the best videos I watched on bloons, and was extremely well made. Can’t wait for the sequel in 5 years lol. I’m really excited for everything else ninja kiwi has to offer in the coming years!
@@Froscryte yeah good lord I was rewatching this because orange videos slap and I have nothing better to do with my time, seeing the heart on this comment from 12 days ago, that's huge
@@Froscryte FR
Is BTD2 worth it?
@@haseebbarya8294 no
absolutely immaculate. finally another episode of full history of a flash puzzle game released 15 years ago
Ninjakiwi seems to be always working to serve the community which is awesome to see, adding in so many fan made maps and features in btd6, constantly keeping really old games updated and even recognizing the community divide in the original bloons player base and making unique games for both sides
You put so much effort into the video man. It took me all day to finish the vid since I took breaks every once in a while and the vid was so good I fr thought it was only 30 mins, I was completely shocked to see I spent hours watching monke pop balloon lore
Simply WOW.
I didnt believe that this video was THAT interesting. I delayed watching it for 1 month and i regret it.
The script was splendid. All the story was wonderful.
I respect you so much, you just made my childhood 10 times better. Thank you.
Hi
It took me waaaay to long to realize that the 'three' in 'Bloons Pop three' refers just refers to having to align 3 bloons to pop them
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Holy shit what a brilliantly unintended troll
@@coldbluebrownieexactly my thought when reading this comment
Yeah, pre candy crush those games were just called "match-three" games or bejewelled clones.
The lore expands...
This video single-handedly kickstarted my BTD6 addiction...
This video single-handedly triggered my relapse back into my BTD6 addiction, I'm there with you
@@colonelsouffle3042 same
Same
Why tf now im intrigued to play it back especially the New community map
💀
Same almost
2:15:03 why is Quincy in the fireplace?
oh hey I did the graphics and animation for BTD 3 , POP3 and a few othe rolder ninja kiwi games, this was a fun blast from the past thank you! Hehe to be fair there was only 3 of us in the company and we were learning as we went so it was a bit experimental :P
Thank you for the memories.
Cool, are you still working in ninja kiwi?
you singlehandedly created my fucking childhood
@@pg13snipez I left after a while , but they grew a lot more now and there’s lots of amazing artists there now!
And daww thanks all
@@deltagotgroceries8155 I think there were two other guys too
Usually I don’t comment twice but dude this video is so insanely good. I had never heard of BTD before and now I feel like my brain is 5x heavier. The editing is timed perfectly and it makes this such a funny video that I have sat through half of it at this point and it probably will be one of my favourite niche essay videos ever. Fantastic job. I hope this video gets the recognition it deserves.
you missed out, bloons is epic
I think It's getting recognised fast
How did you manage to not hear about BTD in any way? Some of the biggest youtubers play or have played it. I would have to TRY to not hear about it.
True bloons is epic
@@devinmessmer9632 i have no idea. does watching exclusively jerma count? this is strange to me too.
This has been in my recommended for the past couple days and i got around to watching it finally and i can say that it was well worth the watch. Insanely impressive video with the amount of research that went into it, can't wait for you to do an updated version of this video in 5 years going over all of the btd 6 updates :D! I also think you capture just how good BTD6 is as a game, I got back into it a couple of months ago after not playing it for a while and the updates always seem to add something wildly impressive and content that can keep you playing for ages. I also think that the community interaction is probably ninja kiwi's biggest strength with the implementation of maps and other such things.
That ending sequence was damn powerful
My friend introduced me to btd6 nary a couple years ago while I was in college.
Since then, I
had
No
Idea
Thank you for showing me this insane and oddly beautiful rabbit hole of a series
I’m glad this video blew up and became your most viewed video in less than a week, the dedication here is deserving of this attention
Almost three hours of video and i was hooked every single second, this video is simply a masterpiece AND a masterclass in editing, research and comedy, deserves every single view it has and oh so many more, this video should be in a museum
Having grown up with the entire Bloons series myself it’s always a shame seeing people who don’t know most of the games outside of the td series so finally having a video like this confirming is not alone and educating others is really nice
There is no doubt this is the best video of this decade
1:31:17
"The answer, is a gun"
"But if that dont work, use more gun"
ENGINEER GAMING 😮😮😮😮
"Buildin' a dispenser!"
*_Doo do Doo do do do Doo do do doh_*
"Guess that'll do!"
It took me 4 days to get through this entire show, but I really enjoyed it. Thank you for making it! I hope in 10 years you make another!
I somehow read that as "I hope you make it" and was very concerned about what was coming further into the video. I think I might need to finish this in the morning lol.
@@jordanfry5138 there's a deadly jumpscare at the end that has so far killed 7 people
İm watching it for 3rd time its so fun to watch for some reason
@@prendor5243 yea
@@Or-ang-E 💀
"Youre given the option to fry eggs on your overheating computer" this got me
I played during the "bloon snipe r13 rush team tower stun" meta, i dont think you did enough to explain how hell it actually was.
This was honestly the best video ive seen, i started watching this video thinking its just a 20min vid with a brief recap of every game, but here i am 2 hours 46 minutes and 32 seconds later knowing every single game and all of its mechanics and perks of the bloons franchise. Great video man
How did I watch this 3 hour video
WITHOUT Questioning it
These type of channels are the one I like most and this is basically a compilation
it was simply nodding in agreement or laughing
idk if someone mentioned it, but the 2 secret Christmas levels being "sand" themes is most likely a reference to Ociana having Christmas during their summer.
Best ever video to sleep to, used it over 10 times.... great video in terms of general viewing as well, very intriguing and informative!
47:25 ok so fun fact: Ninja Kiwi is based in New Zealand and in that part of the world, the summer season is over December - February so Christmas happens during that kind of weather
Also amazing video, can't believe this is such an underrated channel
As someone who played nearly all of these back in the day, I seriously appreciate this video. seeing bloons world again unlocked memories for me
This man is on a journey to return the attention span of the zoomers
It worked
he returned mine for sure
I watched the entire thing in one sitting, and I have ADHD
ive been obsessed with btd 6 for a couple weeks after reigniting my old btd battles mobile mania and buying it. thank all the gods for this perfect video getting recommended to me.
Great video, one of if not the best you’ve made, you can really tell the hard work and passion put into it. I’ve never been interested in bloons but this video kept me interested all the way through and I never thought of closing it. This video truly deserved its place in the best videos playlist.
I watched this video throughout my entire day, and it felt like I was watching 10 different videos, and near the end I felt sad that it was ending because it was just so god damned entertaining like holy shit. Love the content man, keep up the amazing work.
This is the first time I've watched a RUclips video longer than an hour and still be entertained the entire time. This is absolutely insane!
I literally have never played a balloons game, never cared, never even played a tower defense game, but, this video, THIS VIDEO, I can’t stop watching it, in the background, while I sleep, I can’t stop, I have no clue why I just keep watching it over and over, today I finally made a playlist with just this video so I can loop it. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME. IS IT JUST ME OR IS THIS HAPPENING TO OTHERS. I’m considering downloading this video so I can never be without it. (Bare with me now it’s six am and I haven’t slept yet, I’m PROBABLY not actually as addicted as I sound…) Anyways bout to go to sleep with this on my TV blasting into my right ear over and over and over. 🙏🙏🙏
Aw man, I wish I could have watched this for like 5 more hours. This is an amazingly well made video. The amount of work you’ve done on this video alone is something I really have to congratulate you on. Just listening to you talk about bloons for an hour and a half is way too entertaining for my own good. I’m very glad I subbed to you, this is the content I came here to watch.
Im not impressed, im proud. Proud to learn some guy actually learned and shared the entire history of Bloons.
This video actually got me back into BTDB2, i can safely say that it’s wayyyyyyy better now
Wait yea this was 9 months ago. I decided to get into it like one month ago maybe. And i did not need xp to get through the tiers i get all 4/4/4 for the initial monies and then 1,500 for the 5th tiers
same
@@naserchowdhury4032 tf
I casually loved btd 3 and 4 when they came out. Missed others and got into 6 recently. I can’t believe I just watched HOURS on the game though. You did a great job on the video and are a joy to watch, you were naturally hilarious so many times!
Sub’d
I'd rather watch this 3 hour lecture about monke game than a 30 minute college lecture about science.
Ever since I first watched this I can only ever think about the one game with an actual storyline about the Baron monkey 😭
Wow, really cool seeing a video from you blow up like this! I’ve always loved your voice, and now a good fraction of the world will see the error of their ways, in that they did not know about this voice earlier.
Lol
2:08:46 why is the Star of David a map?