PART 2 ruclips.net/video/uasFw2a1x-4/видео.html PART 3-ruclips.net/video/-C42QNLmejo/видео.html MAKESHIP PLUSH-www.makeship.com/petitions/choopo For every person who asks for a Pirate101 video, I will delay it by a day. We’re at July 2025 already!
@@BulmaatthemeccaI remember as a child trying to swipe some wizard 101 cards from the store (in my childish naïveté I didn’t realize they were activated at checkout) 😭
Such an awesome video, choopo! Many on our team have already watched it and found it super nostalgic to relearn the lore from your perspective. We're glad you had fun with creating this video! If it's alright, we'll be spotlighting it on our social channels and upcoming Wizard101 newsletter.
"Merle Ambrose, since Wizard City, I've had a Kroktopoton of problems with this evil man. I felt as though I had a Marlybone to pick with him. I Mooshure you, this needed to be taken care of before any Dragonspyraled out of control. And I'm glad the Spiral is safe.... Grizzleheim." That statement alone deserves a like and subscribe.
Wow I'm glad you took care of that Malistaire guy after completing Arc 1. I'm sure he'll go off and live peacefully in the afterlife, never to be heard from again. Great video btw
i would like wizard101 way better if you could just pay for it outright and own it, instead of having to buy membership, or spend like $200 to buy to own all of the first arc. i think membership should still exist in some capacity, it has a lot of upsides if you're really into the game, but i think if they priced the game at like $30 to own, it would make it easier to get into the game whenever you feel like it. whereas right now, if you pay for membership, you feel forced to constantly play it until your month expires otherwise it feels like you're wasting money. i'm sure the only reason they keep the membership feature, is because a bunch of people forget about having it on recurring payments, and randomly get the membership fees taken out. i wouldn't be surprised if they made most of their money of those people.
@@devonesq.7533 first arc funny enough is only 47,850 crowns not counting side quest worlds which about $80 which gives you 60k crowns which is enough to let you buy them and a little more or buy them and the 2 side worlds. i get what your saying but it isnt as expensive as you think, thou 80 dollars is a bloody alot for just the first arc which is under par compared to the rest of the game. also theres no way i could see them selling the game on its own for $30 like the game is way way to big for that its 170+ levels with a new world added every year which is roughly 30 dollars worth of crowns each year they cost to buy outright so it would be hard to fund all the new content if the whole game sold for that much. honestly think the first arc should have a price reduction since 80 dollars for it all is alot of money for something so dated these days.
I started playing Wizard 101 freshman year of Highschool because it seemed fun and said it was free to play, and then literally the first day i ran into that paywall and stopped. It really does feel like you start the game, have like one quest, and then immediately your next quest takes you to a paywall.
@@gottesurteil3201 And to be fair, that's like, barely an hour into the game too I remember playing a lot back in like2011 when I was little, so many of my characters would ram head first into the Firecat Ally/Cyclops Lane paywall on the months I didn't have gametime.
You can do certain things up to a certain point. I think I got to three different worlds without paying. You just can only do specific quests and stuff. It's definitely a little frustrating.
I played it when i was in elementary, came back in high school freshman year and spent ten dollars on the membership...went from level 8 to 91 in that month because i needed to get my money's worth.
The reason there isn't a balance school in ravenwood is because balance magic is actually from krokotopia and krokotopia was isolated in contact from the rest of the spiral until the events that unfold when Marley bone starts excavating it. He's basically teaching an old ancient magic that was newly discovered
@noonoolink6822 it hasnt though, time doesnt pass as the game ages, but as you quest through the game. Every character starts the game just when krokotopia is discovered, you actually need to find the balance school just like you need to find the death one during your questline
Amazing content, this is truly the hero’s journey to kill a middle aged necromancer of all time. Something I’d like to mention though- Grizzleheim starts at lvl20 and runs through your 40’s. you’re supposed to work on it whenever you get stuck on the main line. Also you get the trade quest at lvl15. Wintertusk opens at lvl50 parallel to Celestia. That’s why it was like that for you.
33:44 Prospector Zeke has become somewhat of a meme in the Wizard101 community for his uncanny ability to appear at impossible places before the main character player. Many players would joke that he would eventually be the final boss when the game eventually ended.
Wizard 101 is the one video game I always wanted to play growing up, the commercials made if feel like the best game ever created. To this day I still never played but the memories of the commercials will always hold a special place in my heart.
I played it as a child and it's the ONLY game that made me like and not get bored by card mechanics, too bad it's a micro transaction p2w fiilled hellhole now
oh man, I remember playing this back in 2010. i was too broke for a subscription and there was no way my parents would pay for one, so i just unlocked the zones in wizard city over the course of months and did the same for crocotopia, but i ended up never finishing the first arc cause my sister snitched on me playing, so i had to stop. this feels like closure now, thanks!
There is always something special about a RUclipsr who normally makes 10-20 minute videos making one that's an hour long. That's how you know it's gonna be good.
18:31 The reason the balance school didn't have a school in ravenwood is because the balance school is a newer school of magic and so isn't fully accepted by the other schools as "real magic"
You missed the good ole days where to get crowns, you had to do quizzes and watch questionable ads that took weeks to get through (there was a limit) to get to cyclops lane for free. Also applied to pirate 101
You can still do quizzes and watch ads for crowns, though the rate could definitely stand to be a little higher than 10 crowns per quiz given world costs.
i remember the good old days when the free-limit on pirate 101 was after like 4 or 5 party members, after you rob the monkey's of their spices of whatever that plot was, right before you get your parents boat, BAM! you're blocked! once i move out, get a better laptop (I have a chromebook RN) or a desktop i might actually put $ into pirate 101 cause i wanna see more of that game, i watched a LP of it through the end of the treasure-hunt stuff back in like high school and i vagually remember some cool crew mates you get
@ there was one that was like súper tower Defence. You would choose different spell Defenses to stop the enemies from getting through. Like skeletons and goblins
27:27 - One thing I enjoyed about Wizard101 were the references that no kid in the target audience would get. Zeke's exploration quests include Searching for Smiths, Beetles, Stray Cats, Blue Oysters, Stone Roses, Yardbirds... all names (or close) of bands that would be 'classic rock' to a GenX parent. There are more obscure references too. 'Malistaire' is a reference to Aleister Crowley an occultist from the late 1800s to early 1900s. Alhazred is a reference to the author of the Necronomicon in HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. You might get these references if you grew up in the 'satanic panic' era of the 1980s to early 1990s. There are likely many more references than I encountered or remember.
In actuality, Malistaire did not get mad about that. It's never even stated. He turned into a "villain" due to his bad mental state from losing his wife, he did bad things only to get her back
It took me way to long to realize grizzleheim is just a Beowulf joke essentially. Beowulf is old English for bee wolf or their word for bear, and grendell is the monster he kills who ransacked the mead hall
The huge stones in grizzleheim all have rune carvings on them that translate to "big bear fort" lmao. When i was super into wizard 101 as a kid I was also hyperfixating on Norse runes and I memorized the futhark alphabet
@@junomonsoonahh it would've been cool if they whent head on with the Beowulf theme and used the Futhorc (English) runic alphabet I mean they could've there isn't much structural difference between the alphabets just a few different characters
Seeing Choopo's deck multiple times throughout this video. It boggles my mind that nobody tried to teach him any strategy, deck building, or what to spend his training points on.
Tbh. Until you get up to farming like Waterworks. There is literally no reason to learn strategy or interact with literally any other player especially playing death. You can easily get carried through most final dungeons. Waterworks is like a big turning point where you actually need to know strategies and it kind of comes out of no where It's a lot the time the first piece of content people seriously grind out gear.
@@TNTspaz Yeah you don't *need* to know strategy in the earlier parts on the game. But you save hours of time if your deck has no more than 20 cards so you immediately pull only what you need.
Yeah, learning the #1 rule of deckbuilding is crucial: keep it small enough to always draw what you need. Your hand is only 7 cards so your deck is best kept to 7-9 cards. Fighting major bosses in a dungeon solo instead of with a group may change this but generally you want to keep it small.
it's pretty interesting how "kids" mmos (toontown, wizard/pirates/etc 101, club penguin, etc) with subscriptions are typically seen as a bad thing, whereas with most "adult" mmos (wow, ffxiv, etc) it's pretty normal/expected
There is almost no quality content on Pirate101, but if you make a banger video on it. Every remaining player will watch it. They just added additional content which is supposed to "finish" the storyline again. BUT you will 100% have to play through the entire thing to get the content you need. So good luck - at least us Pirates are surprisingly friendly.
Almost no quality content? Heavily disagree lol. I love Wizard101 more and have played it far more, but Pirate101 does so much better than Wiz. Though small correction, the new content isn't meant to finish the storyline. It's the start of Pirate101's second story arc. They're going back to regular full sized updates.
Hey, a short correction- Triton avenue is actually completely free! That makes the ‘tutorial’ significantly longer. Also, most of the wizard city main story beats happen in triton avenue anyways
Thank you for saying this. I haven’t played in a few years so I wasn’t sure if they had changed it. I also think they’ve updated the story lines and taken some content out because when I first started forever ago. I felt like unicorn way and triton avenue took more than 15 minutes.
@@LunairiumTriton Avenue definitely used to have more to it for free players, I swear you used to fight Lord Nightshade there But with the reworks it seems you have to go to the other paywalled streets before you can even do that now
@@BassBanj0 I can confirm you used to be able to. I remember the first time I fought him as a kid, MANY a year ago. Bless the stranger who noticed me constantly wiping and deciding to go in with me.
Have fun playing pirates 101. Never got past triton way because my mom refused to pay for wizard 101 AND a club penguin membership during the 08 recession and I cannot justify paying for it when I’ve got 20 games on my steam wishlist. Thanks for showing me the end game :)
Iv watched this whole series a total of 14 times not counting the times that I turned it on while doing homework or going to sleep….and still laugh when he says “you gotta wait hehe” i can basically quote all 4 1/2 hours of these videos
Wizard101 was my favourite childhood game man ! Literally no game today comes close to the nostalgic magic this game has, the community is also just as amazing. I'm so happy you did a video on it😭
My fiancé has been playing this game since 2008. This video has made more sense than anything he's ever tried to explain to me. In case anyone wanted an update: we watched it together; it took about 4 hours to watch because we had to keep pausing to discuss. His favourite place is Marleybone. Really changed how I look at him :/
The fact you said the first 15min of the game are free is absolutely wild. It was designed to get to level 10, but as a kid during the recession, I settled with the free trial and grinded the starter zone all the way to lvl 15 to get the new spell. Must have been dozens of hours
Hey choopo, it would be cool if for a big milestone or as an April Fools video you would do a "The Bizarre Lore of Choopo" where you do a break down of the weird throwaway gags you do in your videos as if they are cannon to a cinnematic multiverse! I also recommend adding some of the more fun fan theories about your lore; like the one where the reason you don't see your pyschiatrist is because his wife is an Italian and the Italian people are still hunting you down after the pasta breaking incident.
As a life main, I just plowed through MSQ with no effort, and I crafted a specific pvp deck that consists of me bashing my head against the opponent and healing whatever damage I tank. I beat so many players above my level this way because they were so concerned about effect nullification that they forgot to account for regular damage.
Along with Nick Jonas, Selena Gomez was also featured in the game a long time ago. She used to be part of the story in Crab Alley and when you beat it you would get a Selena statue. She got removed years ago but my brother still has the statue 💪🏻
she was also there live playing the game for a special event. i remember because while i wasn't actively interested in her playing the game, she was in the commons as i was passing by and she was trying to talk with a bunch of wizards but she kept getting censored and said "I can't say what I want" or something along those lines. it was rather amusing
The fact that Selena Gomez only existed in the game for about a month before they scrubbed her clean from the game, while Nick Jonas has been sitting in Grizzleheim for the past 15 years is really funny
One fun tidbit is that the dean of the dragonspyre academy, Vladimir, actually isn't a spirit. If you look at his model, he is perfectly opaque like any other living person outside of dragonspyre and not transparent like literally every single humanoid in dragonspyre. There are literally spirit humans in the same dungeon so him being alive was intentional. Homeboy legit revived the dragon titan, got everyone in his world murdered, and was chilling alive in a jail cell the entire time and we just let him walk free for some reason lol.
I may be wrong, but I think his dialogue after the battle implies that he attacked you so he'd either escape alive or die by your hand, as either option would grant him release from his endless sentence.
Oh man, I actually remember when Grizzleheim got implemented, and they had that little freebie as a preview for players of all levels to visit. I was so surprised to discover they just... kept that, until today, long after Grizzleheim was a fresh new thing to explore.
As a child (and well before I was diagnosed) I spent many tens of thousands of dollars over the course several years, and focused around manic episodes. Kings Isle* holds a grip over my soul. Let me know if you need anything king 😭
I love the initial naivety from someone who isn’t really a part of the wiz community. Thinking it will be done in about a month, wanting to use zen master blues walkthroughs for finding lore, thinking you *might* want to do the pirate story as well as this (which I think might be easier I didn’t get that far in) I love it so much and I’m only 9 minutes in I’m really hoping I see you in full dragoon gear just to see how far you’ll go
Hey, fun fact about the later worlds, people actually do help you solve their problems, they will “go into battle” with you (give you buffs in battle) but not actually be fighting
I wasn't allowed to play online games when I was the intended age for them, so I started to play W101 when I was 16 and almost definitely older than 90% of the player base. I became obsessed and played through all the free content. Now that I have my own money I sort of want to revisit it even though I'm now probably older than 99% of the player base.
Yeah nowadays I feel like the game is actually largely played by adults who played it as a kid who are revisiting it, as opposed to kids! (speaking as a 24 year old who is currently going through Zafaria lol)
14:40 death school being gone as a f2p player was definitely a canon “im broke” moment. Got to lvl 23 never actually visiting my school just having dumb kid fun. 15:33 So cool my childhood had specific events and lore. Shoutout the Dee’s Mirror gameplay
20:17 speaking of the free to play aspect. It is possible to play Wizard101 or at least it was as a kid I got to level 25 without ever leaving wizard city, but that was with monthly events and doing the home owned expansion dungeons with people who werent f2p
I’m gonna stop watching and replay Wizard101 myself. Then I’m gonna come back after completing the campaign and see how much of the lore I can remember.
Did you know that the starting quiz doesn't actually matter, and the gem you choose at the end is what picks your school? Onyx will always be death, jade will always be life etc. The preceding questions actually don't matter at all but I guess it feels kinda fun
The questions before do actually have an effect, as you will only get offered a small selection of gems to choose from. But the gems are ultimately what picks your school
Earned my like by telling a veteran player some lore that I didn't know. Secured my sub with "the history of the grizzle hizzle for shizzle my comprizzle" ( 49:54 ). Great video man
I’ve had a small burning flame of curiosity for this ever since I played through all the free content when I was 11, I will always remember being locked out of Firecat Alley Thanks a ton for making this video
Thank you so much for taking the time to play the game and do a deep dive! As a long time 101 player I've been waiting for a good lore video for a while, and your humor makes this worth the watch!!
"The entire Saga of Wizard101 starts up with little no prologue, one Tuesday afternoon, I was chosen and taken from my lovely little home of Earth and plopt down to the spiral to become a powerful wizard." Oh so wizard 101 is an isekai 😂
Mooshu is strange to me because they obviously just took a bunch of East Asian names and concepts (mostly Japanese it seems but also quite a bit of Chinese and from what I’ve seen some Korean) and just…smooshed them together and it keeps giving me whiplash. ….and the cherry on top is that real life Buddhism was started in India.
This was absolutely fantastic. First video of yours that I've watched and hope the rest of your videos are just as funny and that your channel continues to grow
26:08 Fuuuuuuunny story: First time you enter Krokotopia via the door, the oranger Mander says "Are you with Malistair? Oh, you are not. So you can help us. Malistair comes here more and more often, raising more Kroks every time to ask them stuff" (or similar...). Soooooo, yes, you are right, the "British Dogs" sometimes say, that it is their fault, the Kroks wake up, but the very first Mander says, it has been Malistair. I guess the story is ... a bit inconsistant here. Or Malistair startet it and the Maleybones made it worse. Who knows...
dawg i remember playing wizard 101 when i was a kid and being so pissed because everything was locked behind the membership bs and my mom never got it for me 😭😭
do you ever just listen back to your recorded audio and think how insane you sound? cuz even for me, a diehard wizard101 fan, this sounds absolutely mental like some fever dream! I dont even remember most of the lore but hearing it again sounds insane
Me at the start of the video: “Wow! I can’t wait to see the wacky lore in the game made for children!” Me at the end of the video: “The selfish policies that drove the British Empire’s thirst for colonialism has doomed the planet and its people.”
love this bc even though i have a collective almost 3000 hours on this game over the course of 16 years, ive never actually paid attention to a single line of dialogue.
Very good video. Its rare I watch a long video like this one all the way through, but your comedic visuals and interesting way you talked about a kids game lore was awesome. Can't wait for part 2!
I love that there’s finally some good videos about wiz lore and other stuff going around in RUclips 😭 also please make a video about pirate 101 it has a big fan base but kingsisle barely works on the game and I think it needs more attention to finally get worked on! Slay tho
Definitely need parts 2-4! Fantastic video, I was really unsure how the heck you were gonna fit the whole game in an hour, and by the time we hit Krok I realized there’s no chance it’s gonna all be here lol
this is the first video I've been recommended from you. which is incredible timing bc I've recently gotten back into W101 after years of not playing, and like 2 weeks ago i was looking for a long video talking about the lore 😂. im also here to tell you that 10 days later you've passed 50k likes soooooo time for that Pirate101 videooooo (i also love that game)
I love the fact that recently I got back into this game a bit recently & all of a sudden a burst of videos are being made for this game opening it up to more people
This was an incredible video, I’ve been playing Wizard101 on and off since 2010/11 and it was so cool to hear someone’s current experience with it. Can’t wait to see the rest of the series!
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MAKESHIP PLUSH-www.makeship.com/petitions/choopo
For every person who asks for a Pirate101 video, I will delay it by a day. We’re at July 2025 already!
YEAHHHHHHHH🎉🎉
O man! I can’t WAIT for seeing more magic man lore!
please curse jacob on part 3
cool
what the fuck
I'm here to remind people to like the video so Choopo has to play through Pirate 101
This is the first time he got recommended to me but I will line the video ASAP because then he has to play pirate 101
I forgot that it was awesome yea do that next please
I've always loved pirate over wizard 101
Funner system imo
Pirate101 just has something about it's story that always kept my attention better than wizard
YES
Fun fact: Selena Gomez was in the game once too. They eventually removed her, but Nick Jonas is still trapped in his Nordic prison.
so is lizzo! I think its just a reference and not a colab like the others though... the vocalist from blue oyster cult is also in it as a VA!
i remember this! it was back in like 2011 as promo for her “year without rain” song. it’s why i know the song lol
i still have the Selena statue
LMAO yes I remembered visiting nick at one of the gardens or some shit
@@jeffythebird3841 My childhood account was stolen and banned im forever salty about losing my Selena statue 😭😭
Wizard101 walked so Genshin Impact could develop a crippling gambling addiction
I think Wizard101 is what started my gambling addiction honestly
@@ripple_2374Jesus saves
Truest truth to ever true
I played at least 100 hours and only spent $15, sounds like a you problem
@@BulmaatthemeccaI remember as a child trying to swipe some wizard 101 cards from the store (in my childish naïveté I didn’t realize they were activated at checkout) 😭
Such an awesome video, choopo! Many on our team have already watched it and found it super nostalgic to relearn the lore from your perspective. We're glad you had fun with creating this video! If it's alright, we'll be spotlighting it on our social channels and upcoming Wizard101 newsletter.
You have my full approval and best wishes! Feel free to contact me whenever you like!
@@therealchoopo I'll come to your wiz house party bro! Your friends bit at 53:48 was too deep to let slide😭
Thanks again for recovering my account that I hadn't played for over 10 years!
Seriously this was incredible. Such a blast from the past. Loved this game as a kid. Those commercials always HIT.
@@gottesurteil3201 You're welcome!
"Merle Ambrose, since Wizard City, I've had a Kroktopoton of problems with this evil man. I felt as though I had a Marlybone to pick with him. I Mooshure you, this needed to be taken care of before any Dragonspyraled out of control. And I'm glad the Spiral is safe.... Grizzleheim." That statement alone deserves a like and subscribe.
1:05:53
Wow I'm glad you took care of that Malistaire guy after completing Arc 1. I'm sure he'll go off and live peacefully in the afterlife, never to be heard from again.
Great video btw
Crazy how he came back after you took him out multiple times over, when's this guy gonna get the memo he can't win...
Imagine he comes back in Pirate101 😂
@@redguard1607 that would be crazy
Is that fricking Blazelifehammer?
bruh
Most people agree with the fact that Wizard City should be 100% free, the current paywall is back from when ONLY arc 1 existed.
i would like wizard101 way better if you could just pay for it outright and own it, instead of having to buy membership, or spend like $200 to buy to own all of the first arc.
i think membership should still exist in some capacity, it has a lot of upsides if you're really into the game, but i think if they priced the game at like $30 to own, it would make it easier to get into the game whenever you feel like it. whereas right now, if you pay for membership, you feel forced to constantly play it until your month expires otherwise it feels like you're wasting money.
i'm sure the only reason they keep the membership feature, is because a bunch of people forget about having it on recurring payments, and randomly get the membership fees taken out. i wouldn't be surprised if they made most of their money of those people.
Hot take: Pull a FF14 and make the entire first arc free (with some restrictions).
@@AeonKnigh432context?
@@devonesq.7533 first arc funny enough is only 47,850 crowns not counting side quest worlds which about $80 which gives you 60k crowns which is enough to let you buy them and a little more or buy them and the 2 side worlds. i get what your saying but it isnt as expensive as you think, thou 80 dollars is a bloody alot for just the first arc which is under par compared to the rest of the game.
also theres no way i could see them selling the game on its own for $30 like the game is way way to big for that its 170+ levels with a new world added every year which is roughly 30 dollars worth of crowns each year they cost to buy outright so it would be hard to fund all the new content if the whole game sold for that much. honestly think the first arc should have a price reduction since 80 dollars for it all is alot of money for something so dated these days.
Even though battle passes and gacha mechanics get the hate they deserve I'd always prefer them over subscriptions
54:06 is such genuine line. "I'm going to end you" doesn't have the same deadpan energy as "You've been alive for too long"
😂 This
I started playing Wizard 101 freshman year of Highschool because it seemed fun and said it was free to play, and then literally the first day i ran into that paywall and stopped. It really does feel like you start the game, have like one quest, and then immediately your next quest takes you to a paywall.
Really? When I first played it let you go to Triton avenue and parts of Grizzleheim before you got hit with the paywall.
@@gottesurteil3201 And to be fair, that's like, barely an hour into the game too
I remember playing a lot back in like2011 when I was little, so many of my characters would ram head first into the Firecat Ally/Cyclops Lane paywall on the months I didn't have gametime.
You can do certain things up to a certain point. I think I got to three different worlds without paying. You just can only do specific quests and stuff. It's definitely a little frustrating.
I played it when i was in elementary, came back in high school freshman year and spent ten dollars on the membership...went from level 8 to 91 in that month because i needed to get my money's worth.
I hyper focused on gardening and pets towards the end of my years playing this game and you didn’t even dip your toes into that, thank god.
The reason there isn't a balance school in ravenwood is because balance magic is actually from krokotopia and krokotopia was isolated in contact from the rest of the spiral until the events that unfold when Marley bone starts excavating it. He's basically teaching an old ancient magic that was newly discovered
Yeah but its been like 20 years he should have a pop-uorshop or something other then an icon above his head and a suitcase.
@noonoolink6822 it hasnt though, time doesnt pass as the game ages, but as you quest through the game. Every character starts the game just when krokotopia is discovered, you actually need to find the balance school just like you need to find the death one during your questline
Merle Ambrose has been embezzling Ravenwood tuition for years to fund his black market pet trafficking business
He's also getting that ointment.
I’m pretending Choopo made this video specifically for me for my birthday
Happy birthday
Yo happy birthday whatever9097
Happy Birthday 🎉🎉🎉
Happy birthday!🎉
Kol sana wenta tayab yasta
Amazing content, this is truly the hero’s journey to kill a middle aged necromancer of all time.
Something I’d like to mention though- Grizzleheim starts at lvl20 and runs through your 40’s. you’re supposed to work on it whenever you get stuck on the main line. Also you get the trade quest at lvl15. Wintertusk opens at lvl50 parallel to Celestia. That’s why it was like that for you.
33:44 Prospector Zeke has become somewhat of a meme in the Wizard101 community for his uncanny ability to appear at impossible places before the main character player. Many players would joke that he would eventually be the final boss when the game eventually ended.
He also somehow appears in Pirate 101 XD
Malistaire's entire motivation can basically be summed up with "I miss my wife, Tails. I miss her a lot."
Snapcube sonic voicedub parody lmao
Honestly the entire quote works, yeah. "I miss my wife, Tails. I miss her a lot. I'll be back."
and every time they brought him back is "i'm BACK IN THE BUILDING AGAIN!"
I can’t wait to see Choopo inevitably be forced by wizard wand to make a video on pirates 101! 8:40
We need to get him those 50k likes people.
Tell your mom, tell little Billy from down the street, tell the president, tell everyone you know to like this video cause we need pirates 101.
If it's that low a number he asked for, then he was planning to do it anyways @@GrantGraff
The time is nigh
64k likes and 700k views he has to
Wizard 101 is the one video game I always wanted to play growing up, the commercials made if feel like the best game ever created. To this day I still never played but the memories of the commercials will always hold a special place in my heart.
same here always wanted to
I have played this game before. Not enough to recognize the lore.
I tried to play, but the membership thing makes it feel impossible to really enjoy ;(( I so badly want to play this game properly
I played it as a child and it's the ONLY game that made me like and not get bored by card mechanics, too bad it's a micro transaction p2w fiilled hellhole now
@@cryforhelp7270 its like 10$ dawg
This game used to be a big part of my childhood, second ONLY to Club Penguin, so this video was an absolute blast to watch.
oh man, I remember playing this back in 2010. i was too broke for a subscription and there was no way my parents would pay for one, so i just unlocked the zones in wizard city over the course of months and did the same for crocotopia, but i ended up never finishing the first arc cause my sister snitched on me playing, so i had to stop. this feels like closure now, thanks!
You know it’s fire when it starts with “I made a mistake”
There is always something special about a RUclipsr who normally makes 10-20 minute videos making one that's an hour long. That's how you know it's gonna be good.
18:31 The reason the balance school didn't have a school in ravenwood is because the balance school is a newer school of magic and so isn't fully accepted by the other schools as "real magic"
sucks that your comment got hijacked by a bot but at least 100+ ppl agree with you c:
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You missed the good ole days where to get crowns, you had to do quizzes and watch questionable ads that took weeks to get through (there was a limit) to get to cyclops lane for free. Also applied to pirate 101
You can still do quizzes and watch ads for crowns, though the rate could definitely stand to be a little higher than 10 crowns per quiz given world costs.
i remember the good old days when the free-limit on pirate 101 was after like 4 or 5 party members, after you rob the monkey's of their spices of whatever that plot was, right before you get your parents boat, BAM! you're blocked!
once i move out, get a better laptop (I have a chromebook RN) or a desktop i might actually put $ into pirate 101
cause i wanna see more of that game, i watched a LP of it through the end of the treasure-hunt stuff back in like high school and i vagually remember some cool crew mates you get
Remember when you did mini games online too!?
@@danielabaroni4020 why do i vagually recall this?
@ there was one that was like súper tower Defence. You would choose different spell Defenses to stop the enemies from getting through. Like skeletons and goblins
27:27 - One thing I enjoyed about Wizard101 were the references that no kid in the target audience would get. Zeke's exploration quests include Searching for Smiths, Beetles, Stray Cats, Blue Oysters, Stone Roses, Yardbirds... all names (or close) of bands that would be 'classic rock' to a GenX parent. There are more obscure references too. 'Malistaire' is a reference to Aleister Crowley an occultist from the late 1800s to early 1900s. Alhazred is a reference to the author of the Necronomicon in HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. You might get these references if you grew up in the 'satanic panic' era of the 1980s to early 1990s.
There are likely many more references than I encountered or remember.
imagine a character turning into a villain because they hired a cow as a teacher.
Sounds like a Doofinshmirtz flashback 🤣
@@nicholasaugello2534
You see, Perry the Platypus, it all started when they replaced my Home EC with a cow...
@@davidhong1934I can see that bit playing out like elmo hating rocco
In actuality, Malistaire did not get mad about that. It's never even stated. He turned into a "villain" due to his bad mental state from losing his wife, he did bad things only to get her back
Wait really?😂 I thought he became evil after his wife passed
It took me way to long to realize grizzleheim is just a Beowulf joke essentially. Beowulf is old English for bee wolf or their word for bear, and grendell is the monster he kills who ransacked the mead hall
The winterbane gauntlet is even more on the nose
The huge stones in grizzleheim all have rune carvings on them that translate to "big bear fort" lmao. When i was super into wizard 101 as a kid I was also hyperfixating on Norse runes and I memorized the futhark alphabet
@@junomonsoonahh it would've been cool if they whent head on with the Beowulf theme and used the Futhorc (English) runic alphabet
I mean they could've there isn't much structural difference between the alphabets just a few different characters
Seeing Choopo's deck multiple times throughout this video. It boggles my mind that nobody tried to teach him any strategy, deck building, or what to spend his training points on.
Tbh. Until you get up to farming like Waterworks. There is literally no reason to learn strategy or interact with literally any other player especially playing death. You can easily get carried through most final dungeons. Waterworks is like a big turning point where you actually need to know strategies and it kind of comes out of no where
It's a lot the time the first piece of content people seriously grind out gear.
@@TNTspaz Yeah you don't *need* to know strategy in the earlier parts on the game. But you save hours of time if your deck has no more than 20 cards so you immediately pull only what you need.
Yeah, learning the #1 rule of deckbuilding is crucial: keep it small enough to always draw what you need. Your hand is only 7 cards so your deck is best kept to 7-9 cards. Fighting major bosses in a dungeon solo instead of with a group may change this but generally you want to keep it small.
it's pretty interesting how "kids" mmos (toontown, wizard/pirates/etc 101, club penguin, etc) with subscriptions are typically seen as a bad thing, whereas with most "adult" mmos (wow, ffxiv, etc) it's pretty normal/expected
There is almost no quality content on Pirate101, but if you make a banger video on it. Every remaining player will watch it. They just added additional content which is supposed to "finish" the storyline again. BUT you will 100% have to play through the entire thing to get the content you need. So good luck - at least us Pirates are surprisingly friendly.
Are you serious, they actually added story content???
Unlike Wizard101, Pirate101 has only 1 arc Avatar-style. Except we don’t get any closure.
Almost no quality content? Heavily disagree lol. I love Wizard101 more and have played it far more, but Pirate101 does so much better than Wiz. Though small correction, the new content isn't meant to finish the storyline. It's the start of Pirate101's second story arc. They're going back to regular full sized updates.
you guys really pay monthly for this stuff?
@@zachedelic1293 you pay for food?
Hey, a short correction- Triton avenue is actually completely free! That makes the ‘tutorial’ significantly longer. Also, most of the wizard city main story beats happen in triton avenue anyways
Thank you for saying this. I haven’t played in a few years so I wasn’t sure if they had changed it. I also think they’ve updated the story lines and taken some content out because when I first started forever ago. I felt like unicorn way and triton avenue took more than 15 minutes.
@@LunairiumTriton Avenue definitely used to have more to it for free players, I swear you used to fight Lord Nightshade there
But with the reworks it seems you have to go to the other paywalled streets before you can even do that now
@@BassBanj0 I can confirm you used to be able to. I remember the first time I fought him as a kid, MANY a year ago.
Bless the stranger who noticed me constantly wiping and deciding to go in with me.
The “right after this ad” bit actually worked, I thought it’d me a sponsor but it actually played a youtube ad, you bastard…
same lol
Have fun playing pirates 101. Never got past triton way because my mom refused to pay for wizard 101 AND a club penguin membership during the 08 recession and I cannot justify paying for it when I’ve got 20 games on my steam wishlist. Thanks for showing me the end game :)
Iv watched this whole series a total of 14 times not counting the times that I turned it on while doing homework or going to sleep….and still laugh when he says “you gotta wait hehe” i can basically quote all 4 1/2 hours of these videos
Back again ✌🏼😬 “you gotta wait”
I cameoed in this video! You can find me helping in Big Ben at 37:40. Glad I could help, even if only briefly.
That’s awesome 👍🏻 forever immortalized in RUclips
Wizard101 was my favourite childhood game man ! Literally no game today comes close to the nostalgic magic this game has, the community is also just as amazing. I'm so happy you did a video on it😭
My fiancé has been playing this game since 2008. This video has made more sense than anything he's ever tried to explain to me.
In case anyone wanted an update: we watched it together; it took about 4 hours to watch because we had to keep pausing to discuss. His favourite place is Marleybone. Really changed how I look at him :/
this comment gave me a good laugh, i'm wondering how badly he explained the lore to you 😂😂
Hit em by surprise with questions about specifics in the lore, and his eyes will light up on you, -t another man
Now u gotta go tell him a random tidbit u liked. Like the comment above said watch him light up
He might have Autism
Marleybone is OP. Hated mooshu so much.
The fact you said the first 15min of the game are free is absolutely wild. It was designed to get to level 10, but as a kid during the recession, I settled with the free trial and grinded the starter zone all the way to lvl 15 to get the new spell. Must have been dozens of hours
omg same i somehow got all the way to level 16 when i was a kid 😭 i would keep fighting the kraken over and over
I am so thankful you covered the history of dragonspire because when I played through it I did not understand a single thing lol
Hey choopo, it would be cool if for a big milestone or as an April Fools video you would do a "The Bizarre Lore of Choopo" where you do a break down of the weird throwaway gags you do in your videos as if they are cannon to a cinnematic multiverse! I also recommend adding some of the more fun fan theories about your lore; like the one where the reason you don't see your pyschiatrist is because his wife is an Italian and the Italian people are still hunting you down after the pasta breaking incident.
Choopo hate multiverse. But it would be fun it he have one.
Big brain
The recurring bit of everyone posing over Sylvia Drake's grave gets funnier every single time
0:06 AYYYYYY CHOOPO IS NOW ANIMATED AND IT LOOKS SO AMAZING AND INCREDIBLE!
Imagine playing this game for 5 years just to finally understand the lore 5 years later
As a life main, I just plowed through MSQ with no effort, and I crafted a specific pvp deck that consists of me bashing my head against the opponent and healing whatever damage I tank. I beat so many players above my level this way because they were so concerned about effect nullification that they forgot to account for regular damage.
Along with Nick Jonas, Selena Gomez was also featured in the game a long time ago. She used to be part of the story in Crab Alley and when you beat it you would get a Selena statue. She got removed years ago but my brother still has the statue 💪🏻
There was also a portrait I think :0
she was also there live playing the game for a special event. i remember because while i wasn't actively interested in her playing the game, she was in the commons as i was passing by and she was trying to talk with a bunch of wizards but she kept getting censored and said "I can't say what I want" or something along those lines. it was rather amusing
The fact that Selena Gomez only existed in the game for about a month before they scrubbed her clean from the game, while Nick Jonas has been sitting in Grizzleheim for the past 15 years is really funny
@@xRaiofSunshine you’re right I forgot about that. The good old days.
@@ggletv she forgot to turn off parental controls 🙂↔️
One fun tidbit is that the dean of the dragonspyre academy, Vladimir, actually isn't a spirit. If you look at his model, he is perfectly opaque like any other living person outside of dragonspyre and not transparent like literally every single humanoid in dragonspyre. There are literally spirit humans in the same dungeon so him being alive was intentional. Homeboy legit revived the dragon titan, got everyone in his world murdered, and was chilling alive in a jail cell the entire time and we just let him walk free for some reason lol.
I may be wrong, but I think his dialogue after the battle implies that he attacked you so he'd either escape alive or die by your hand, as either option would grant him release from his endless sentence.
I’ve played since 09, and the way Choo explained the first arc only scratches the surface of how bizarre the entire storyline is. 😂
I remember trying to wake up early every weekend so I could beat my sister to play Wizard 101 on the family computer.
Same! My sister and I had to take turns after school too.
@@claudiapawlak3971 The real PvP opponents were our siblings all along 🫡
Part of the ship part of the crew...
Pilk
Part of the polar bowler, part of the crew...
Kumquat
The bizarre lore of Polar Bowler.
Pilk
Oh man, I actually remember when Grizzleheim got implemented, and they had that little freebie as a preview for players of all levels to visit. I was so surprised to discover they just... kept that, until today, long after Grizzleheim was a fresh new thing to explore.
As a child (and well before I was diagnosed) I spent many tens of thousands of dollars over the course several years, and focused around manic episodes. Kings Isle* holds a grip over my soul. Let me know if you need anything king 😭
I never played this game but remember it getting advertised to me CONSTANTLY as a kid. Decided to randomly look into it and found thie
I love the initial naivety from someone who isn’t really a part of the wiz community. Thinking it will be done in about a month, wanting to use zen master blues walkthroughs for finding lore, thinking you *might* want to do the pirate story as well as this (which I think might be easier I didn’t get that far in) I love it so much and I’m only 9 minutes in I’m really hoping I see you in full dragoon gear just to see how far you’ll go
The zenmasterblue walkthrough is such a legendary piece of media. I hope it stays as long as I'm alive.
dragoon? msm reference🤯
Hey, fun fact about the later worlds, people actually do help you solve their problems, they will “go into battle” with you (give you buffs in battle) but not actually be fighting
48:00 As a life wizard, I can confirm that the death school isn't the only one to make you face Freddy Nine Lives.
this is one of the best games I’ve ever played. not graphic wise & story wise it’s just a calming game for me.
Well, bud, it looks like a pirate 101 is a must know son
I wasn't allowed to play online games when I was the intended age for them, so I started to play W101 when I was 16 and almost definitely older than 90% of the player base. I became obsessed and played through all the free content. Now that I have my own money I sort of want to revisit it even though I'm now probably older than 99% of the player base.
you'd be surprised! ik that at least for animal jam (my childhood game of choice) most of the playerbase is at least 16+
the average player is in their early 20s
lol most of the players, the overwhelming majority of them are over 21 now. Its all adults, id say very few kids nowadays.
Yeah nowadays I feel like the game is actually largely played by adults who played it as a kid who are revisiting it, as opposed to kids! (speaking as a 24 year old who is currently going through Zafaria lol)
I'm 25, been playing since I was 12 and still play lol. A lot of the player base grew up with the game! I don't meet too many younger kids anymore lol
14:40 death school being gone as a f2p player was definitely a canon “im broke” moment. Got to lvl 23 never actually visiting my school just having dumb kid fun. 15:33 So cool my childhood had specific events and lore. Shoutout the Dee’s Mirror gameplay
20:17 speaking of the free to play aspect. It is possible to play Wizard101 or at least it was as a kid I got to level 25 without ever leaving wizard city, but that was with monthly events and doing the home owned expansion dungeons with people who werent f2p
Treasure Cards are missed in this and honestly will kill alot of tedious fights
45:52 top tier one shot 😭😭
I’m gonna stop watching and replay Wizard101 myself. Then I’m gonna come back after completing the campaign and see how much of the lore I can remember.
Good luck
See ya in a few months 🎉
i wish i had this type of time
Did you know that the starting quiz doesn't actually matter, and the gem you choose at the end is what picks your school? Onyx will always be death, jade will always be life etc. The preceding questions actually don't matter at all but I guess it feels kinda fun
If I actually played this game, that fact would upset me lmao
The questions before do actually have an effect, as you will only get offered a small selection of gems to choose from. But the gems are ultimately what picks your school
Earned my like by telling a veteran player some lore that I didn't know. Secured my sub with "the history of the grizzle hizzle for shizzle my comprizzle" ( 49:54 ). Great video man
Idk if anyone else who played wizards feels this way, but the music in this game is top tier
It's even better when you already have the lore scarred in your brain. Watching this recap of it is hilarious.
This is clearly your current magnum opus. I hope to see the contact continue to grow as it has over the past year.
Why does the lore sound so much cooler when u describe it than when playing the game? Also it sounds like this lore could be a sick tv show or movie
I’ve had a small burning flame of curiosity for this ever since I played through all the free content when I was 11, I will always remember being locked out of Firecat Alley
Thanks a ton for making this video
Thank you so much for taking the time to play the game and do a deep dive! As a long time 101 player I've been waiting for a good lore video for a while, and your humor makes this worth the watch!!
Never clicked on a video faster. 1 hour of wizard 101 lore? A four course meal for me, thank you sir
This is just part 1. More will come later
"The entire Saga of Wizard101 starts up with little no prologue, one Tuesday afternoon, I was chosen and taken from my lovely little home of Earth and plopt down to the spiral to become a powerful wizard."
Oh so wizard 101 is an isekai 😂
They also completely ignore the fact that you got Isekaid until someone brings it up as a major plot point 130ish levels later lol
Mooshu is strange to me because they obviously just took a bunch of East Asian names and concepts (mostly Japanese it seems but also quite a bit of Chinese and from what I’ve seen some Korean) and just…smooshed them together and it keeps giving me whiplash.
….and the cherry on top is that real life Buddhism was started in India.
You disgrace the Moodha.
This was absolutely fantastic. First video of yours that I've watched and hope the rest of your videos are just as funny and that your channel continues to grow
26:08 Fuuuuuuunny story: First time you enter Krokotopia via the door, the oranger Mander says "Are you with Malistair? Oh, you are not. So you can help us. Malistair comes here more and more often, raising more Kroks every time to ask them stuff" (or similar...). Soooooo, yes, you are right, the "British Dogs" sometimes say, that it is their fault, the Kroks wake up, but the very first Mander says, it has been Malistair. I guess the story is ... a bit inconsistant here. Or Malistair startet it and the Maleybones made it worse. Who knows...
dawg i remember playing wizard 101 when i was a kid and being so pissed because everything was locked behind the membership bs and my mom never got it for me 😭😭
do you ever just listen back to your recorded audio and think how insane you sound? cuz even for me, a diehard wizard101 fan, this sounds absolutely mental like some fever dream! I dont even remember most of the lore but hearing it again sounds insane
The complete lack of knowledge regarding Sherlock Bones, Watson, and Meowiarty (Meow-ee-arty, not Meow-ee-arity) just hurts.
I thought he ignored it purposely lmao
Me at the start of the video: “Wow! I can’t wait to see the wacky lore in the game made for children!”
Me at the end of the video: “The selfish policies that drove the British Empire’s thirst for colonialism has doomed the planet and its people.”
The Real World reason Balance doesn't have a Building is that Balance wasn't a School you could Be until a bit after Kroktopia came out.
We, the people of choopopolis, DEMAND pirate 101 coverage
Also this is already at 100k after a day. If KI plays their cards right they could see a huge influx of new players
Crazy cause i literally got back on last month after like 10 years😂
Coincidentally, they just announced Wiz city and Krokotopia as free to play for a limited time.
love this bc even though i have a collective almost 3000 hours on this game over the course of 16 years, ive never actually paid attention to a single line of dialogue.
Very good video. Its rare I watch a long video like this one all the way through, but your comedic visuals and interesting way you talked about a kids game lore was awesome. Can't wait for part 2!
I love that there’s finally some good videos about wiz lore and other stuff going around in RUclips 😭 also please make a video about pirate 101 it has a big fan base but kingsisle barely works on the game and I think it needs more attention to finally get worked on! Slay tho
The animation? And the topic being such a big part of my childhood 😭 love it
Finally, lore that I have little to no knowledge about, thank you newly-appointed Wizard Choopo
This game was such a massively important part of my childhood, I loved it so much. my mother paid for that subscription for so damn long lol
Definitely need parts 2-4!
Fantastic video, I was really unsure how the heck you were gonna fit the whole game in an hour, and by the time we hit Krok I realized there’s no chance it’s gonna all be here lol
this is the first video I've been recommended from you. which is incredible timing bc I've recently gotten back into W101 after years of not playing, and like 2 weeks ago i was looking for a long video talking about the lore 😂. im also here to tell you that 10 days later you've passed 50k likes soooooo time for that Pirate101 videooooo (i also love that game)
I love the fact that recently I got back into this game a bit recently & all of a sudden a burst of videos are being made for this game opening it up to more people
As someone who just spent the last 4 hours pulling seaweed out of a river, thank you for giving me something good to watch
Why were you pulling seaweed out of a river for 4 hours? 😮
@@xRaiofSunshine money
I wasn't expecting for this game about wizards to tackle British colonialism
He didn’t even get to the world that talks about the intricacies of religion and blind faith
Colonialism is actually the main plot point of one of the later worlds lol
Colonization is extremely prevalent in W101 lore for some reason , even after the Malistaire arc. Wizards and their colonization amirite.
This was an incredible video, I’ve been playing Wizard101 on and off since 2010/11 and it was so cool to hear someone’s current experience with it. Can’t wait to see the rest of the series!
26:57 You’re wild for keeping this burp in
Dude seeing wizard 101 specially in this format of a video randomly on my feed when was playing that game 14 years ago is crazy. Made my day fr
Pirate101's lore is more simple and is still going into a new arc, currently arc 2. Hope that'll be covered in the future.
My addiction to this game is insane
Sammmeee lmaoo
the pvz2 ZOYL at around 8:50 in the bg made me bolt up in my seat like a sleeper agent
thank you for making this and taking the time, I never bought the membership so I only was chilling in free areas lol good to know there is an ending
Screw the movie theaters, popping some corn and putting this on the TV