It's so sad that the original creators and team absolutely loved this game and put so much time and heart into it, but then Disney got hold of it and everyone started quitting because they lost all creative freedom, and Disney ran the game head first into the ground (Edit so people stop commenting the exact same thing over and over again. If you read the first few comments, you can see that all of these points have already been made. I understand that Disney owned Club Penguin while it was still popular, but Disney still ultimately caused it's downfall. Their decisions and treatment of the game are the things that eventually ruined it. I stopped playing because their ad campaigns and events go so ingrained into everything it didn't feel the same, and most of the new content had to be paid for so I was getting bullied by members for being poor. They restricted the creator's creative freedom, which led to them leaving and to the events being less thought out. Disney owned it for years, but their actions also slowly ruined it. I stand by my statement that Disney ruined Club Penguin.)
I love how the club penguin creators did everything in their power to encourage children's imagination and curiosity about the world. Making previous "theories" turn into the reality of the game instead of simply doing something else. They looked at the club penguin audience and said "ok we can roll with this" and really stepped up to make a lot of kids childhoods by simply acknowledging their ideas that ultimately brought the entire fanbase and creators together. Sadly later club penguin got taken over by disney crossover events rather than cool original stories lines.
Completely agree. There was always an aura of joyous mystic being able to travel wherever on the island and discover and interpret the little secrets and sights areas had to offer to your minds content
1:01:20 I like to think that, lore wise, Sensei's original plan WAS to have card jitsu snow introduced the same way the other two elements were (snow disaster, fixing the island, new chamber in the ninja room, new fun snowball minigame), but Tusk's resurface forced him to.... change his plans a little
@Azurethewolf168the video itself says that they wanted to make shadow real and they threw some concepts around after snow Its just that they could never strike a concept, they had other ideas that took their time and then the game died
I remember one time where I was playing the Tusk boss fight and all the players went offline before the battle started except for me. I was the snow ninja, the one with the lowest damage output. Me and sensei alone almost defeated Tusk by a sliver and it's the best achievement I did while playing Club Penguin.
I won the battle as snow with a water ninja! It was such a long battle but we did it. I wish I could've known who that person was and congratulate them.
Best one I was a moderator going to my igloo, I was a kid so I didn't understand much but my brother was super excited, ultimately I just stood by the side "selling hotdogs" since I just saw a lot of people at my igloo
“My sister was now in middle school so she was too cool for club Penguin” Me who played up until high school when it shut down with millions of coins on my account 💀
Literally me!!!! I didn't care I was in high school and the game wasn't that interesting anymore, in 2016 to 2017 I still cared to play at least once every two months (too busy) and in the final day I had to do everything until the shutdown hour
I remember I somehow got so much coins I could buy anything. If my kid brain was correct, I apparently grinded out 100 000 coins to buy an igloo because apparently they cost that much? but then when I went to buy it and it said it was premium, I went "ah :(" and bought every single thing I hadn't bought yet.
Narratively speaking, I think Tusk specializing in Snow is a clever story choice. Snow is only powerful when used in tandem with others, as explained by the whole "One snowflake / Many snowflakes" thing and by the interviewed developer. So having Tusk, the solitary villain, devote his life to mastering Snow is incredible as he is destined to fail. Which makes the players and Sensei defeating Tusk as a team a good narrative finale to the story.
In the announcement post for the original 2017 Reddit /r/place which was a blank canvas and invited people to make pixel art, the last two lines were "Individually you can create something. Together you can create something more."
The moral of the story isn't about having friends or being social, it's about the power of teamwork which parallels the teamwork of the game devs for one. You don't need to necessarily be friends with your teammates but you still need to cooperate to get the best results, with everyone contributing their own unique skills to whatever you're trying to achieve and making up for that what others maybe can't do but you are exceptional at. Which is a really good moral for kids tbh, just like Rome wasn't built in one day it wasn't built by one guy, and rarely is anything grand just solely a one person contribution.
same, i started out as a snow-main, but i actually eventually switched to water. i like heavy-hitting tank characters whos job was basically "kill thing good". id occasionally play as snow in card jitsu snow, but water was more of my vibe. it was also a lot easier getting in lobbies as water since not many people mained it
The "absurdly long and deep dive essay about a '00 and '10 thing that doesn't really matter" is my favorite youtube category, witch I've only seen Keyan, Quinton Reviews and Lisa Fevral do
When you said "Our penguins are still waddling on and making new friends," I literally got chills and a smile beamed up on my face. 'Club Penguin' is always going to have a special place in all of our hearts.
The Card-Jitsu Shadow and Elemental themes are actually fire. I wish Club Penguin had never fallen into Disney’s clutches, so that the creators would actually have creative freedom. Who knows what we could’ve had.
We wouldn't have had Club Penguin. Disney bought the game in 2007, and the game needed it. It was growing too big for itself, hence why they sold themselves.
Realistically the best scenario was for Disney to be mostly hands off so the creators and work on it with little to no risk. Maybe they can direct the creators what to do with them giving some of their ips to the creators but that's about it. Club penguin would've still been around to this day maybe even thrive if Disney didn't force their restrictions
@AzureWolf168Eh. I'd say it has a retro beauty. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if, had the original not been shut down by Bisney, it would have had a resurgence. Or multiple. There's a "timelessness" to Club Penguin that I haven't encountered with many other games. Especially not free ones. I played Moshi Monsters and Bin Weevils when I was younger and it just wasn't the same as Club Penguin. It was a huge, monumental project. Fortnite.. Eh personally I don't care for it but I recognise it's unprecedented popularity when it was launched. Everyone was doing it, it was a serious trend in the game community. I agree Club Penguin may not have competed well with these games, but I reckon it would still have its loyal players. After all, several renditions of the game have been made by many developers since its devastating shut down in 2019. And these new games, using the copied Code from old data files of Club Penguin, STILL gained sufficient traction. It's that traction that had Bisney bring down the big, bad "ban" hammer on several. Although with one I think there was a Major data breach, leaking millions of players information. And some of them didn't have sufficient moderation at all. But even now as I say this, there's "New Club Penguin" and "Club Penguin Legacy" which each have their own pros and cons. A big one being no membership so it's completely free. Honestly in my opinion Bisney really ruined it. And then launched a subpar project of "Club Penguin Waddle" for the tablet/iPad which you had to pay for and was no where near as wonderful as Club Penguin. In conclusion, I think the original Club Penguin would have held a timelessness that would have many loyal fans revisit the game over the years. I wouldn't be surprised if there were brief growth spurts of popularity either. And whilst it may not have competed with today's games, it would have sustained a loyal fanbase. 🤍
I had NO idea that the three founders left when they did. The new management explains the weird creative decisions like the introduction of time travel to the lore (Which was a terrible idea in my opinion), overabundance of puffle types and puffle related stuff, and the newer art style that just makes the penguins look wrong. However, the story around Card-Jitsu Snow was one thing that I really liked, along with the newer EPF (Although the downplaying of the original purpose of Secret Agents, to act as young community moderator-alikes.) events like Blackout and the addition of Voice Acting.
If the Jurassic Parties are what you mean with the time-travel, I didn't have a problem with that. I also liked the new art style, but after the Puffle Hotel the constant new Puffle types got really repetitive.
Bro I lost these memories and when I saw the thumbnail it brought back a little bit of something so I clicked and the first 10 seconds brought it all back
I can’t stop laughing over the petty “Thank you Kayla” over your sister being 12 and too cool & old for Club Penguin, leading to you getting a membership. Real sibling stuff.
I loved Cardjitzu Snow, but whenever I played, I was always the Ice Ninja. Because anyone who ever played knows that when someone else played the Ice Ninja, he/she always had no idea what they were doing and refused to heal you.
Fellow snow ninja main here, and can confirm, the best suport is always yourself, i also used to get extremely angry when i signalized in everyway possible i had a power card ready, and they still couldn't manage to combo
I love the way these game developers speak about the game. I owe a big part of my childhood to them and I didn't even know it! Also, Chris Hendrick's music still lives in my head rent free to this day. It was so nice listening to those two unofficial themes, I feel obliged to listen to them until they're stuck in my head too lol.
Thinking about it now, if club Penguin had gone on longer and they had put more time into fleshing out Tusk as the main ninja villain, it would have been cool to have gotten, possibly, a villain team up between Herbert and Tusk, where the ninjas and spies had to team up to defeat the bigger threat. Would have been a lot of opportunity for Tusk and Herbert to interact, with their personalities clashing, and bringing the two biggest parts of club Penguin together for one big team up. I could see Tusk and Herbert constantly arguing, with Herbert wanting a future where all the snow has been melted and he could live in his warm paradise, while Tusk obviously would have problems with that as a master of Snow. The two villains could team up to accomplish their mutual goal of destroying Penguin-kind, but ultimately bring their own downfall when they realize they have opposite intentions. Idk it would have been fun, a similar vibe to the fire vs water party only this time it’s ninjas vs spies and ultimately you have to work together to save the day. It also would have lifted up Tusk to be a greater staple in the club Penguin lore, as it is I remember playing the snow ninja game all the time, it was my favorite one, but I don’t remember Tusk AT ALL despite beating the game
Alternatively, have Tusk and Herbert start the event as bitter enemies and the spies and ninjas have to team up to stop their respective enemies before they tear the island apart in their war on each other.
52:15 I remember that, I REMEMBER THAT! OH MY GOD, DO I REMEMBER THAT! I was one of those who NEVER had a membership, and thus never got to wear the cool exclusive clothes, play the exclusive games or enter the exclusive. So when this event came along, that turned card jitsu fire and water free for everyone, and allowed me to do all 3, even for a limited time, BOY did I grind the hell out of both games. I think I stayed a water ninja until snow came about because I was afraid I couldn't rewear them afterwards
Your fears were justified: you couldn't put members clothes back on if you lost your membership. Source: now-grown adult who lost membership many times
Idk what prompted it, but a few years later (maybe 2015?) they made all 3 elements permanently free. I hadn't played the game in years at that point but as soon as I learned that I logged back in to get my ninja powers Edit: just got to the point in the video where he mentions it .
I literally kept the water outfit on for so long for this EXACT reason, and took it off out of nostalgia for my old non member look, and was dejected to learn I was correct, and never got to re-equip the water suit
Developer insight on Club Penguin is so fun to listen to. It really shows how their thought process shaped the final result of the product, and the obstacles they had to get by.
There's no one on the planet quite like a RUclipsr making a documentary about some niche topic. Like, Kevin Perjurer pulls off absolutely incredible twists, Izzzyzzz records various internet topics/legends in detail, and Keyan Carlile gets us these awesome perspectives!
Man, I wish I was part of the community when the ninjas were first being teased. The dojo and sensei were both incredibly well known by the time I had started playing. Sensei and the ninjas were always my favorite, but I never knew how important they really were.
11:23 That moment the yellow belt is trying to take senseis students away from him This is such a well formatted video, I'm so glad you made this! Thank you!
While I enjoyed some of the disney parties because I was and am still a huge fan of the content disney produces (because fuck the company) I think they also dove all the original ideas for parties into the ground, the ones that made it so damn unique... and gave no creative control to the original creators. It's tragic, the death of online MMOs always makes me sad
Heading how passionate and excited the developers were about making these games, even a decade later, makes me so happy. I hope they realize how important this important was to so many kids childhoods! All of their work really did not go without appreciation for sure, even if it was mainly appreciated by kids
Club Penguin is such a special thing to me, hearing the developers talk about the game so passionately and even the composer coming back and making music for both shadow AND elemental is so amazing and touching. Thank you for this video, it made me incredibly happy to watch :D
They shouldve made the thing with Fire-Water-Snow as a prelude to a villain. That Sensei was recruiting strong penguins who could master the elements so they could fight a Shadow-based villain, named Akuma. And that Sensei had spent his life trying to stop Akuma. If Card Jitsu had more villains, it would do way better. Tusk was a good idea to have. I think the Snow combat couldve been a shadow where your allies are trusted to know how to wield the Elements. Unpopular opinion, they could have tried like some forbidden elements like Lightning or Wind, and maybe Darkness/Shadow. So you had to stop Penguins or Villains that used those forbidden elements.
I really liked the idea of a cooperative Card Jitsu game against a common enemy, but it did always feel a bit arbitrary that this happened with Snow, while Fire and Water were closer to the original Card Jitsu. I definitely think that a better option would've been a more traditional Card Jitsu Snow game, with a cooperative game only after players mastered all three elements, perhaps against a villain wielding Shadow. I think that would've made the most sense, as well as providing an opportunity for that Elemental dojo and perhaps Elemental gear
When I heard the idea of the Shadow Ninjas, I thought that they were going with the forbidden element idea with the Shadow Ninja being villains wielding shadow.
Dude the line at the end about the island still being out there somewhere and our penguins still waddling around and making new friends made me genuinely sentimental lol
9:50 Dojo music 11:55 Dojo fighting music 28:10 Fire Dojo music 29:50 Card Jitsu Fire theme 30:10 Card Jitsu Fire theme (extended) 39:35 Water Dojo music 40:35 Water Dojo fighting music 1:03:02 Snow Dojo music 1:04:04 Snow Dojo fighting music 1:10:43 Den of Tusk music 1:21:59 Shadow music 1:25:41 Elemental music
I can tell this is gonna be a BANGER of a video, I loved Card-Jitsu so much as a kid. This is gonna be nostalgic Edit: Holy shit, the fact that you got the original composer to make 2 BRAND NEW TRACKS is amazing! That talk about Card-Jitsu Shadow was fascinating, and I didn't knew that Shadow set existed at all! I thought it was fan-art or something haha. And the original idea of Card-Jitsu's 4th game being Elemental instead of Shadow... it just makes me sad that we never saw that realized in the actual game at all
man you don't understand how nostalgic 26:47 that card-jitsu fire trailer was for me, I remember just watching it over and over again being so hyped for it back in 2009, I literally remember everything the announcer saids in the trailer even though I haven't seen the trailer in like 11 years wow
Seeing all these love letters to club penguin in the comments really make my heart melt 🥺. The creators LOVED Easter eggs which is why I loved this game. You can tell how much fun they had putting secret things. I remember every month I’d click around for secret things. I stopped playing once Disney took over because I knew I’d dislike it. I knew they’d ruin it. To some extent they didn’t (more funding) but to another extent they did 😅
Card-jitsu was all I ever cared about in Club Penguin. I remember I finished fire and snow, but my computer was always too slow to get very far in water (I made it to the shirt I think). Watching this now is so interesting, as I am now almost 10 years older. Learning all this about the development and what could have been is both intriguing and heart wrenching. This game was such a huge part of my childhood, and I know I'll never forget it. I'll always have a soft spot for card-jitsu fire though. And getting the original composer to compose new music for what could have been is absolutely incredible. I watched your Blackout video (which I didn't know about at all as a kid), and I'm really glad you tackled this topic as well. Also props for editing an hour and a half long video because wow that sounds like hell XD All in all a fantastic documentary. Great work!
I hit my ‘too cool for club penguin’ phase just before snow came out. Very interesting to reflect on all this and see what I missed as an adult now. A bit nostalgic too!
I started playing Club Penguin within the first year or so of creation and immediately fell in love with it! I’m 24 and honestly still deeply saddened it’s gone.. It was my whole childhood and like many as I got older I continued to play right up until the end I had a club Penguin boyfriend and we “dated” about 3 years and during this time met up on the site regularly and he would send me a post card every single week consistently for those 3 years (often he would send more but I knew at the end of every week he would send me one) Honestly I still think about it because the commitment was so precious and took actual effort to send me one every week like that plus all the other stuff lol
club penguin was literally my life as a child edit: hey man, thanks for making this content, its incredible quality and great vids keep it up, youll blow up huge doing this stuff...
This was such a fun game I wish there was a way I could play again. I was so into card jitsu that I would make my dad buy me the decks to add extra cards lol and he grudgingly did even though he didn’t understand the game. (My parents are boomers 💀) I kinda feel cheated that I can’t access the game I spent money on anymore 😔
@@TayePurks no I think if you still havethe account and username+password you can login and still have your old account sorry if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure u can
Man this brings me back to the times in Club Penguin where I would sit and just look at the stuff you could get with a Membership. I never had one, but I would always sit there and wonder "What if" Also Card Jitsu Snow was absolutely fire I loved it. I was a Water Hammer Main
I absolutely LOVE that they put in lore and a backstory for Senei Wu and his friend turned nemesis Tusk. Ninjas were always my thing. It made me happy that they decided to make a story out of it.
YES! Finally someone is talking about the best game of Club Penguin! OMG, I loved card-jitsu sooo much as a kid, and when the element-specific jitsus came? A true master piece! Edit: The more of the video I watch, the more nostalgia I feel. Oh man, I miss club penguin and playing card-jitsu so much right now.
I personally though card-jitsu Shadow was the Classic Card-jitsu since it always matched the format of the dojo (the 3 elements surrounding the Classic card-jitsu)
Same. I thought the idea of it existing was just a baseless rumor, because the black gem (which was associated to it) was unlocked once you became a regular ninja.
Card Jitsu was my childhood, knowing this story 12 years later and getting answers to what happened to card jitsu shadow was nice, and knowing that there was gonna be even another card jitsu game post snow makes me really sad! But knowing the full story and even getting soundtracks for what could have been is amazing and makes me really nostalgic. This video was amazing and I was entertained every second, good work dude
I’d love to see you go over the spy lore in club penguin too! That’s what I got into as a kid, I remember being so upset when they made it less secret and dumbed didn’t the missions :(
I always loved the idea of becoming a ninja in Club Penguin, and the Card-jitsu was a complete blessing (as someone that never got a membership) I remember I managed to get the complete fire and water suits and gems in one day, which felt pretty amazing for a kid. Regarding the gameplay mechanics, I really enjoyed each one of them, Card-jitsu fire really felt a little messy, but I was able to comprehend the mechanics after playing it many times. For Card-jitsu water, I have to be thankful for the resolution controls which made the game run as good as possible, and I remember that this one of the three get me the most stressed of them all due to the rush of to not fall into the waterfall. As for Card-jitsu snow, I have sorta like an opposite experience with it as I always picked the ice shuriken and for some reason it felt like I was the only one player that actually care for the other players as I was always concerned about their health level while the others only managed to poorly timed their attacks. Which finally translated in that I never got to defeat Tusk, somehow all the achievable items in Card-jitsu snow made the game a little tedious for me, as I always faced some issues to successfully complete any round, whether lag, players going AFK or whatever. Having said this, as a kid that didn't know about the actual struggles for this game to be, I was always happy for playing.
Why am I getting chills hearing this dojo music 😭😭😭. This was my literal favorite game and the only online game I played until I was around 11 years old. My favorite mini game though was the one where you type along with the storybooks to practice your typing, and I was devastated when they removed it lol. Spies/Ninjas tied for my second
Love this I was not expecting developer interviews when I clicked it, and I certainly wasn't expecting 2 new compositions from Screenhog himself. I do want to ask if there's any chance of those themes being released in their entirety anywhere.
The way I was nodding along to this video like "omg I remember all of this!! My childhood!!" and then you got to Card Jitsu Fire and the rest of the member-only content and my broke ass completely checked out. Love this vid a lot!
This is like one of the best and most unique and thorough RUclips vids out there. Loved it. Thanks for the nostalgia trip, lore, background info specifically with the workers, ANDDD THE BANGER UNOFFICIAL OFFICIAL SOUNDTRACKS
The creation of the ninja experience and dojo in club penguin was so perfect to younger me. It’s like a potion, so perfectly concoted and stimulating to a 7 year old
Ngl I think a better option would make Snow more similar to the other 2 elements, instead of co-op its a different style game against other ninjas, and mixing the idea of Shadow been the OG CJ with the first concept of Shadow talked in the video, with making Elemental the Snow we known. Making all four elements a Player VS Player games and the final one finally been the CO-OP mode, finishing the entire saga. But god dammit Im so happy Shadow is finally been revealed after so MANY YEARS. Its trully a big moment in the history for the fandom
Something about hearing him say that Shadow was the first one / original just makes SO much sense. And it might be an unpopular opinion, but I think I prefer that than having a whole separate game and concept
I think the “gem” in the center of the amulet was just meant to indicate being a normal ninja, and it was only invariant since you had to be a ninja to get it before the Card-Jitsu Party 2011, and they didn’t update it after that party
I feel that it would could work as an original but since it was introduced later as a final reward for a party where there was a takeover with Tusk hell maybe even a team up with Herbert.
I reckon Disney should give Card jitsu another chance as a stand alone game on something like Steam, would be a good way to gauge interest in the Club Penguin IP
As a kid Card-Jitsu was probably the coolest part of Club Penguin to me. I got the Card Jitsu Handbook at a book fair when I was in kindergarten but didn’t actually join Club Penguin until a few years later. How involved the games got fascinated me, and I would spend hours battling. I would make up stories about who my ninja character was and how they got to be a master of all the elements. Card Jitsu Snow was easily my favorite since it was the most involved of all and I remember spending HOURS playing the Water Ninja trying to get every unlockable. I do remember a lot of time spent in the loading area but I found that it was easier to get matched if you played water since it was probably the least popular ninja (worked out for me bc water is my fav element!). Water was laggy on my computer but not devastatingly so, and I didn’t understand Fire either. I hope that one of the CPPS servers revives the elemental games because I would LOVE to revisit them. They’ve recently begun to fascinate me again like they did when I was a kid. Thanks for the video - the interviews were very insightful of how it was to develop these games we all know and love!! (also the fact that CJ Shadow was developed a little blew my 9 year old mind haha)
I remember playing one CPPS where you could play all the elemental games (even CJ-Snow) The name is "New Club Penguin", the last time I played, I was trying to get all the Snow items and prizes.
Damn watching this makes me really miss this site. The songs were all bangers, the games were actually fun, it was so *chock full of charm.* These people actually cared. RIP Club Penguin 😔
I was on a big nostalgia trip this whole time, unlocking memories. I thought I had quit before snow came out, but when you showed the waiting screen and mentioned never getting to play because no one was joining, that’s when I remembered that I had still been playing. Crazy
I remember the day Card-Jitsu Snow was released. I was in third grade. I'd heard rumors about it for so long, so when it finally dropped, I was ecstatic. I happened to break my wrist that same day, so when I was at my mom's work, being all sad about having to wear a sling, I logged onto Club Penguin with her computer and my day just got so much better. I played the fire ninja and was defeated immediately, but I didn't know the other ninjas could revive you so I just left the game like a stupidhead =,)
As someone who, for a while, would log onto CP only to play Snow, specifically as a healer main, I'm surprised nobody else was able to find a competent healer. I always found support roles to be popular as a kid. It especially surprises me you were never able to find teammates. Maybe the is issue is nobody else wanted to play as a healer so I was able to easily find two fighter teammates while fighters struggled to get a healer.
Loved the snow element game when that dojo came out. I was able to complete the fire dojo but when it came to the water dojo it was difficult because of the lag at the time but once I got to face off sensei I couldn't beat him, after a lot of months I finally beat sensei.
Fun fact!, the “den of tusk” theme at 1:10:42 was used in a pretty popular Roblox game called “Bear (ALPHA).” This track was used in a Christmas themed boss battle against a teddy bear called “Sam” who was in a Santa costume. This boss fight took place in the map called “arctic valley.” The boss was pretty easy, but is now gone.
This game literally was my childhood, I remember hearing rumors about the shadow in the dojo and when I saw it for the first time I was really excited, I akready grew up but man do I miss this game
I came up with a few ideas regarding Fire and Water, since I always disliked how you couldn't play any of the variants with just the cards IRL. I tried to think up of a Snow alternative, but I couldn't think of a fun idea for it, but I hope my ideas inspire some input. For Fire, I came up with Card Jitsu Blitz. The rules are the same as normal, but with the following changes. Instead of playing on card from your hand, you play two. The first card dictates how you attack, and the second dictates how you defend. If the attacking card defeats a defending card, the number of the attacking card will tick up a counter on whoever you attack. Once that counter reaches 100, you are out of the game. When played with more than two people, you must direct who the attacking card is aimed at and who the defending card is blocking. The aim is to be the last to be eliminated. For Water, I came up with Card Jitsu Flow. The rules are the same as normal, with the following changes. Every time you win or lose a battle, a counter labeled "position" ticks up or down accordingly, with the starting number being 3. If you reach 6, you win. If you reach 0, you lose. Play two cards, one directed at an enemy player and another at the "waterfall". If the player you are aiming at is not aiming back at you, you automatically win that battle. The "waterfall" consists of enemy decks, where you must target an enemy player's deck directly. For Snow my first idea was to mix in Chess with the Prisoner's Dilemma, but the problem is I couldn't find a way to make the combination fun.
This was my entire childhood. The most fun I’ve had in my life really… it was all so simple back then. Thanks for taking the time to make this video. God this game was so good. I can’t imagine the amount of money my mom spent on Club Penguin 😂
Watching this makes me so happy I was here for most of it, and seeing the effort the team went through to make all our childhoods this much fun makes me so grateful for them!
I remember I had bought some irl card packs every now and then as a kid. I once even got a super rare gold card with a code that, when entered in the game, either gave you (I think) 5 power cards or let you level up your belt/suit by 1 level. This was during when there was only fire so what I could do was automatically get the fire head, since I already had the shoes and shirt, but it wouldn’t give me the outer helmet since it was only 1 level. I obviously chose the cards since leveling was easy. I’ve still got some of the irl cards and toys but idk where my cold card is.
I miss club penguin, that game was such a large part of mine and so many others childhood. At least there are some sites (Club Penguin Rewritten) working on bringing back this masterpiece. I know they would probably not be able to introduce shadow and elemental, but it is still a cool concept.
I remember those times before Card Jitsu, where the dojo had no music and was empty. And I remember being enthralled once they started building the lore. I'm a HUGE lore nerd! World building, characters, and their stories, all of it! This will be a great summary of the experience I had so long ago! And, unpopular opinion, I really liked Card Jitsu: Snow! I usually chose the water ninja. It was a strategy game that I could understand better than most others, and would refer my sister to play instead. I've played New CP a bit, but the lag was too much for my potato of a laptop to handle.
Card Jutsu Fire is the one I played the most and remember most fondly, I remember thinking about my turn and choosing cards that would actually let me win. It was the one where I got the amulet the fast.
I got chills hearing Card-Jitsu Shadow's theme. Its so awesome to see a part of my childhood be resurrected. Really glad they decided not to make it a mobile exclusive thing, i can imagine it'd sour the strange and mystical feel that Shadow had built up. Hearing Russ felt OG Card-Jitsu was Card-Jitsu Shadow wasn't something I expected! Incredible work and research Keyan.
I wish more people on the old club penguin team would talk about their experiences and how it they worked and stuff it's inspiring and interesting i think
This brought back so many memories and was an interesting watch. Young me would have loved the original game to be rebranded as Shadow and Elementals, to be a hybrid of both Slay the Spire and a tile defense game, featuring both songs made for this video. Although that isn't the timeline we live in, I still wouldn't mind seeing that gameplay idea as its own original IP.
Friggin amazing video! Even tho Im a Club Penguin fanatic I was still surprised to learn quite a lot of thisng from this video. And man, hearing actual themes for shadow and even so for Elemental felt so bizarre, hwaring newer songs in this same style sent a shiver of nostialgia down my spine and actually made me tear up.
Fuck it, I'm gonna watch a 1 hour and 30 minute video of the Club Penguin Card Jitsu lore (where I was there to witness and experience it all) just to feed my cravings for Club Penguin nostalgia content.
Christ, the Dojo music got me all in tears, I can safely say, I had a good childhood and I miss club penguin more than anything god bless those who made the blessed game.
Card-Jitsu was one of my favorite things to do in club penguin. I loved the flashy animations and the battling system and spend hours playing it. Good memories.
OH MAN. When my twin siblings were babies my brother and I would watch over them. I remember explaining them the rules of card-jitsu in an 40 minute long essay while they were trying to stand up with the help of their crib's holding thingy (they didn't understand shit but would laugh at me still). This gave me flashbacks, thank you.
dude im only 7 minutes in and i can already seen your hard work in researching and passion for this game, good to know i have more than an hour left for this video. I loved this game back in the day and see content like this after all this years melts my hearth. Thank You and amazing job
Seeing this on my feed smacked me hard with nostalgia! I remember sparring in order to earn my belts, ninja suits, the forehead bandana, getting to see the backstory cutscenes, and more. It was like having my own warrior arc with a training montage
I don’t know what to say, other than thanks for bringing back so many memories! It’s also pretty interesting to see the development side of things, kinda a shame we never saw Cardjitsu Shadow or elemental. I especially find the idea of elemental interesting, it sounds kinda like the board game Risk, but with a Cardjitsu spin on it!
i really hope there will be another club penguin. i would honestly pay money for it. i currently play club penguin rewritten but that made me remember what is truly missing… the parties, and cool add ons like the elements with card jitsu, adding new locations. i miss the halloween party of 2009. there was a haunted house, the whole map was creepy. man i really miss it. felt like i was living in another world.
It's so sad that the original creators and team absolutely loved this game and put so much time and heart into it, but then Disney got hold of it and everyone started quitting because they lost all creative freedom, and Disney ran the game head first into the ground
(Edit so people stop commenting the exact same thing over and over again. If you read the first few comments, you can see that all of these points have already been made. I understand that Disney owned Club Penguin while it was still popular, but Disney still ultimately caused it's downfall. Their decisions and treatment of the game are the things that eventually ruined it. I stopped playing because their ad campaigns and events go so ingrained into everything it didn't feel the same, and most of the new content had to be paid for so I was getting bullied by members for being poor. They restricted the creator's creative freedom, which led to them leaving and to the events being less thought out. Disney owned it for years, but their actions also slowly ruined it. I stand by my statement that Disney ruined Club Penguin.)
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this comment is exactly what I said on the last video, i'm sure if you look at the analytics once Disney got a hold the numbers started going down
Never forgiving Disney
Yeah, no one is better at running someone else’s creation into the ground than Disney
The amount of TIMES I tried to defeat sensei before getting a black belt, only to now find out it was impossible? THE HOURS IVE SPENT
LITERALLY SAME 😂😂
One must imagine Samantha happy.
How did you not realize that you’d have to be a black belt? What would have happened if you beat him
same dude wth
@@parttimeconstruction2933 I was like 11 lol I thought I just had to be really really good at card-jitsu 😂
MAN, Chris Hendricks is an absolute genius, the Elemental theme is the "Oh yeah, it's all coming together now" that theme sent chills down my spine
Chris never disappoints.
On my screen, there’s literally a comment with the meme below you
That’s some avengers level stuff
Oh man! I never even heard of this guy! If I'm making a soon-to-be popular game, I need his contact information for music like this!
@@unfortunatewitnessX he has a website and he has a RUclips channel where he talks about how he composed the club penguin music, he’s a great gu!
I love how the club penguin creators did everything in their power to encourage children's imagination and curiosity about the world. Making previous "theories" turn into the reality of the game instead of simply doing something else. They looked at the club penguin audience and said "ok we can roll with this" and really stepped up to make a lot of kids childhoods by simply acknowledging their ideas that ultimately brought the entire fanbase and creators together. Sadly later club penguin got taken over by disney crossover events rather than cool original stories lines.
Completely agree. There was always an aura of joyous mystic being able to travel wherever on the island and discover and interpret the little secrets and sights areas had to offer to your minds content
1:01:20 I like to think that, lore wise, Sensei's original plan WAS to have card jitsu snow introduced the same way the other two elements were (snow disaster, fixing the island, new chamber in the ninja room, new fun snowball minigame), but Tusk's resurface forced him to.... change his plans a little
That would make alot of sense lore-wise
And card jitsuu shadow was kind of what the original snow was supposed to be?
That is beautiful
@Azurethewolf168the video itself says that they wanted to make shadow real and they threw some concepts around after snow
Its just that they could never strike a concept, they had other ideas that took their time and then the game died
I remember one time where I was playing the Tusk boss fight and all the players went offline before the battle started except for me. I was the snow ninja, the one with the lowest damage output.
Me and sensei alone almost defeated Tusk by a sliver and it's the best achievement I did while playing Club Penguin.
Haha awesome! I've definitely had a similar thing happen (fire and water going afk at start). However I don't remember if I ever won that way.
I won the battle as snow with a water ninja! It was such a long battle but we did it. I wish I could've known who that person was and congratulate them.
@@kurazagady1248 I remember that feeling!
Best one I was a moderator going to my igloo, I was a kid so I didn't understand much but my brother was super excited, ultimately I just stood by the side "selling hotdogs" since I just saw a lot of people at my igloo
Almost?
“My sister was now in middle school so she was too cool for club Penguin”
Me who played up until high school when it shut down with millions of coins on my account 💀
I feel your pain, bro ;;
Literally me!!!! I didn't care I was in high school and the game wasn't that interesting anymore, in 2016 to 2017 I still cared to play at least once every two months (too busy) and in the final day I had to do everything until the shutdown hour
@@warfu_ saaaame
I remember I somehow got so much coins I could buy anything. If my kid brain was correct, I apparently grinded out 100 000 coins to buy an igloo because apparently they cost that much? but then when I went to buy it and it said it was premium, I went "ah :(" and bought every single thing I hadn't bought yet.
Narratively speaking, I think Tusk specializing in Snow is a clever story choice.
Snow is only powerful when used in tandem with others, as explained by the whole "One snowflake / Many snowflakes" thing and by the interviewed developer. So having Tusk, the solitary villain, devote his life to mastering Snow is incredible as he is destined to fail. Which makes the players and Sensei defeating Tusk as a team a good narrative finale to the story.
In the announcement post for the original 2017 Reddit /r/place which was a blank canvas and invited people to make pixel art, the last two lines were "Individually you can create something. Together you can create something more."
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@@jury76cyberpenguintv63 so, the moral of the story is to have friends and be more social?
The moral of the story isn't about having friends or being social, it's about the power of teamwork which parallels the teamwork of the game devs for one. You don't need to necessarily be friends with your teammates but you still need to cooperate to get the best results, with everyone contributing their own unique skills to whatever you're trying to achieve and making up for that what others maybe can't do but you are exceptional at.
Which is a really good moral for kids tbh, just like Rome wasn't built in one day it wasn't built by one guy, and rarely is anything grand just solely a one person contribution.
club penguin’s lore, myths, and special events, are something truly special. sooo ahead of it’s time and props to the team and everyone involved mann
OMG! BILLLY! slay
Actually, I think it was right on time. Came out at the perfect moment.
wait billy what are you doing here
Dude I Love your videos
What do you like about it so much?
I had a completely different experience with card-jitsu snow. I would sit and play for hours as the snow ninja and remember winning pretty often.
same (except i played fire a lot)
Yeah me too, I remember how epic I thought the whole party was
Same. I always picked snow and made it my main priority to heal. I also found games very easily
same, i started out as a snow-main, but i actually eventually switched to water. i like heavy-hitting tank characters whos job was basically "kill thing good". id occasionally play as snow in card jitsu snow, but water was more of my vibe. it was also a lot easier getting in lobbies as water since not many people mained it
Same, it was one of my favorite games
The "absurdly long and deep dive essay about a '00 and '10 thing that doesn't really matter" is my favorite youtube category, witch I've only seen Keyan, Quinton Reviews and Lisa Fevral do
Izzzy? Oh, she's got a bunch of those videos, and they're all a delight.
@@GumSkyloard What is the name of the winx video
@@GumSkyloard what channel is it
@@Sadqueerguy69 Lisa Fevral
and Jenny Nicholson!
When you said "Our penguins are still waddling on and making new friends," I literally got chills and a smile beamed up on my face. 'Club Penguin' is always going to have a special place in all of our hearts.
Based and digimon pfp pilled
The Card-Jitsu Shadow and Elemental themes are actually fire. I wish Club Penguin had never fallen into Disney’s clutches, so that the creators would actually have creative freedom. Who knows what we could’ve had.
We wouldn't have had Club Penguin. Disney bought the game in 2007, and the game needed it. It was growing too big for itself, hence why they sold themselves.
Realistically the best scenario was for Disney to be mostly hands off so the creators and work on it with little to no risk. Maybe they can direct the creators what to do with them giving some of their ips to the creators but that's about it. Club penguin would've still been around to this day maybe even thrive if Disney didn't force their restrictions
@AzureWolf168Eh. I'd say it has a retro beauty.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if, had the original not been shut down by Bisney, it would have had a resurgence. Or multiple. There's a "timelessness" to Club Penguin that I haven't encountered with many other games. Especially not free ones.
I played Moshi Monsters and Bin Weevils when I was younger and it just wasn't the same as Club Penguin. It was a huge, monumental project.
Fortnite.. Eh personally I don't care for it but I recognise it's unprecedented popularity when it was launched. Everyone was doing it, it was a serious trend in the game community.
I agree Club Penguin may not have competed well with these games, but I reckon it would still have its loyal players.
After all, several renditions of the game have been made by many developers since its devastating shut down in 2019. And these new games, using the copied Code from old data files of Club Penguin, STILL gained sufficient traction. It's that traction that had Bisney bring down the big, bad "ban" hammer on several. Although with one I think there was a Major data breach, leaking millions of players information. And some of them didn't have sufficient moderation at all.
But even now as I say this, there's "New Club Penguin" and "Club Penguin Legacy" which each have their own pros and cons. A big one being no membership so it's completely free.
Honestly in my opinion Bisney really ruined it. And then launched a subpar project of "Club Penguin Waddle" for the tablet/iPad which you had to pay for and was no where near as wonderful as Club Penguin.
In conclusion, I think the original Club Penguin would have held a timelessness that would have many loyal fans revisit the game over the years. I wouldn't be surprised if there were brief growth spurts of popularity either. And whilst it may not have competed with today's games, it would have sustained a loyal fanbase. 🤍
I had NO idea that the three founders left when they did. The new management explains the weird creative decisions like the introduction of time travel to the lore (Which was a terrible idea in my opinion), overabundance of puffle types and puffle related stuff, and the newer art style that just makes the penguins look wrong.
However, the story around Card-Jitsu Snow was one thing that I really liked, along with the newer EPF (Although the downplaying of the original purpose of Secret Agents, to act as young community moderator-alikes.) events like Blackout and the addition of Voice Acting.
If the Jurassic Parties are what you mean with the time-travel, I didn't have a problem with that. I also liked the new art style, but after the Puffle Hotel the constant new Puffle types got really repetitive.
Oh yeah, the only good puffles imo are the original colored ones, the gold one, and the rainbow one.
I literally was such a god at this game when I played. I always baited with the white belt when I was secretly maxed lol.
The level of mind fuckery in that game was insane
Bro I lost these memories and when I saw the thumbnail it brought back a little bit of something so I clicked and the first 10 seconds brought it all back
That's how psychopaths were born
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so you were a god becuase you builled new players
I can’t stop laughing over the petty “Thank you Kayla” over your sister being 12 and too cool & old for Club Penguin, leading to you getting a membership. Real sibling stuff.
It was so hilarious
I loved Cardjitzu Snow, but whenever I played, I was always the Ice Ninja. Because anyone who ever played knows that when someone else played the Ice Ninja, he/she always had no idea what they were doing and refused to heal you.
as a water main, i thank you for your contributions
Yeah that was me too
Fellow snow ninja main here, and can confirm, the best suport is always yourself, i also used to get extremely angry when i signalized in everyway possible i had a power card ready, and they still couldn't manage to combo
I love the way these game developers speak about the game. I owe a big part of my childhood to them and I didn't even know it! Also, Chris Hendrick's music still lives in my head rent free to this day. It was so nice listening to those two unofficial themes, I feel obliged to listen to them until they're stuck in my head too lol.
Same
11:13
Interviewer: Do you just speak in haiku?
Sensei: *with the deep voice of Optimus Prime* No.
Thinking about it now, if club Penguin had gone on longer and they had put more time into fleshing out Tusk as the main ninja villain, it would have been cool to have gotten, possibly, a villain team up between Herbert and Tusk, where the ninjas and spies had to team up to defeat the bigger threat. Would have been a lot of opportunity for Tusk and Herbert to interact, with their personalities clashing, and bringing the two biggest parts of club Penguin together for one big team up. I could see Tusk and Herbert constantly arguing, with Herbert wanting a future where all the snow has been melted and he could live in his warm paradise, while Tusk obviously would have problems with that as a master of Snow. The two villains could team up to accomplish their mutual goal of destroying Penguin-kind, but ultimately bring their own downfall when they realize they have opposite intentions. Idk it would have been fun, a similar vibe to the fire vs water party only this time it’s ninjas vs spies and ultimately you have to work together to save the day. It also would have lifted up Tusk to be a greater staple in the club Penguin lore, as it is I remember playing the snow ninja game all the time, it was my favorite one, but I don’t remember Tusk AT ALL despite beating the game
I always thought of this! I drew this idea even as a kid! It could've been the introduction to Card Jitsu Shadow to make it even more epic
That would have been friggen amazing!!!
That's BRILLIANT !!!!!!
Alternatively, have Tusk and Herbert start the event as bitter enemies and the spies and ninjas have to team up to stop their respective enemies before they tear the island apart in their war on each other.
I LOVE this idea, this would've been soooooo epic
52:15 I remember that, I REMEMBER THAT! OH MY GOD, DO I REMEMBER THAT! I was one of those who NEVER had a membership, and thus never got to wear the cool exclusive clothes, play the exclusive games or enter the exclusive. So when this event came along, that turned card jitsu fire and water free for everyone, and allowed me to do all 3, even for a limited time, BOY did I grind the hell out of both games. I think I stayed a water ninja until snow came about because I was afraid I couldn't rewear them afterwards
Your fears were justified: you couldn't put members clothes back on if you lost your membership.
Source: now-grown adult who lost membership many times
I remember it all too well, even made a video about it hahaha ruclips.net/video/Ot8HwRDhAyI/видео.html
Idk what prompted it, but a few years later (maybe 2015?) they made all 3 elements permanently free. I hadn't played the game in years at that point but as soon as I learned that I logged back in to get my ninja powers
Edit: just got to the point in the video where he mentions it .
I literally kept the water outfit on for so long for this EXACT reason, and took it off out of nostalgia for my old non member look, and was dejected to learn I was correct, and never got to re-equip the water suit
Developer insight on Club Penguin is so fun to listen to. It really shows how their thought process shaped the final result of the product, and the obstacles they had to get by.
There's no one on the planet quite like a RUclipsr making a documentary about some niche topic. Like, Kevin Perjurer pulls off absolutely incredible twists, Izzzyzzz records various internet topics/legends in detail, and Keyan Carlile gets us these awesome perspectives!
Man, I wish I was part of the community when the ninjas were first being teased. The dojo and sensei were both incredibly well known by the time I had started playing. Sensei and the ninjas were always my favorite, but I never knew how important they really were.
Same in every way
I was not ready for that wave of nostalgia. I started playing Club Penguin in 2008 and this brought back so many memories
will the unofficial official themes for shadow and elemental be released individually? love them
God I hope so, they're amazing.
I really want to hear both of them in an infinite loop
I hope Chris releases them on his channel
OMG @Camille Faure im ur biggest fan u are the best
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11:23 That moment the yellow belt is trying to take senseis students away from him
This is such a well formatted video, I'm so glad you made this! Thank you!
While I enjoyed some of the disney parties because I was and am still a huge fan of the content disney produces (because fuck the company) I think they also dove all the original ideas for parties into the ground, the ones that made it so damn unique... and gave no creative control to the original creators. It's tragic, the death of online MMOs always makes me sad
Except if they're Warcraft, they kinda deserved it
Heading how passionate and excited the developers were about making these games, even a decade later, makes me so happy. I hope they realize how important this important was to so many kids childhoods! All of their work really did not go without appreciation for sure, even if it was mainly appreciated by kids
Club Penguin is such a special thing to me, hearing the developers talk about the game so passionately and even the composer coming back and making music for both shadow AND elemental is so amazing and touching. Thank you for this video, it made me incredibly happy to watch :D
They shouldve made the thing with Fire-Water-Snow as a prelude to a villain. That Sensei was recruiting strong penguins who could master the elements so they could fight a Shadow-based villain, named Akuma. And that Sensei had spent his life trying to stop Akuma.
If Card Jitsu had more villains, it would do way better. Tusk was a good idea to have. I think the Snow combat couldve been a shadow where your allies are trusted to know how to wield the Elements.
Unpopular opinion, they could have tried like some forbidden elements like Lightning or Wind, and maybe Darkness/Shadow. So you had to stop Penguins or Villains that used those forbidden elements.
Maybe Tusk could've been that "Akuma". Feeling abandoned, he trains the secret, masterful art of Shadow, willing to engulf the world in his shadow.
if only card jitsu was brought to club penguin island we could have gotten some continuation, or maybe if disney didnt throw away club penguin lol
Having a villain would be a really good idea but a shadow based villain sounds kinda generic
I really liked the idea of a cooperative Card Jitsu game against a common enemy, but it did always feel a bit arbitrary that this happened with Snow, while Fire and Water were closer to the original Card Jitsu. I definitely think that a better option would've been a more traditional Card Jitsu Snow game, with a cooperative game only after players mastered all three elements, perhaps against a villain wielding Shadow. I think that would've made the most sense, as well as providing an opportunity for that Elemental dojo and perhaps Elemental gear
When I heard the idea of the Shadow Ninjas, I thought that they were going with the forbidden element idea with the Shadow Ninja being villains wielding shadow.
Dude the line at the end about the island still being out there somewhere and our penguins still waddling around and making new friends made me genuinely sentimental lol
9:50 Dojo music
11:55 Dojo fighting music
28:10 Fire Dojo music
29:50 Card Jitsu Fire theme
30:10 Card Jitsu Fire theme (extended)
39:35 Water Dojo music
40:35 Water Dojo fighting music
1:03:02 Snow Dojo music
1:04:04 Snow Dojo fighting music
1:10:43 Den of Tusk music
1:21:59 Shadow music
1:25:41 Elemental music
I can tell this is gonna be a BANGER of a video, I loved Card-Jitsu so much as a kid. This is gonna be nostalgic
Edit: Holy shit, the fact that you got the original composer to make 2 BRAND NEW TRACKS is amazing!
That talk about Card-Jitsu Shadow was fascinating, and I didn't knew that Shadow set existed at all! I thought it was fan-art or something haha. And the original idea of Card-Jitsu's 4th game being Elemental instead of Shadow... it just makes me sad that we never saw that realized in the actual game at all
man you don't understand how nostalgic 26:47 that card-jitsu fire trailer was for me, I remember just watching it over and over again being so hyped for it back in 2009, I literally remember everything the announcer saids in the trailer even though I haven't seen the trailer in like 11 years wow
Seeing all these love letters to club penguin in the comments really make my heart melt 🥺. The creators LOVED Easter eggs which is why I loved this game. You can tell how much fun they had putting secret things. I remember every month I’d click around for secret things. I stopped playing once Disney took over because I knew I’d dislike it. I knew they’d ruin it. To some extent they didn’t (more funding) but to another extent they did 😅
watching hour long videos about freaking club penguin lore... what a time to be alive. i love it
Card-jitsu was all I ever cared about in Club Penguin. I remember I finished fire and snow, but my computer was always too slow to get very far in water (I made it to the shirt I think). Watching this now is so interesting, as I am now almost 10 years older. Learning all this about the development and what could have been is both intriguing and heart wrenching. This game was such a huge part of my childhood, and I know I'll never forget it. I'll always have a soft spot for card-jitsu fire though. And getting the original composer to compose new music for what could have been is absolutely incredible. I watched your Blackout video (which I didn't know about at all as a kid), and I'm really glad you tackled this topic as well. Also props for editing an hour and a half long video because wow that sounds like hell XD
All in all a fantastic documentary. Great work!
I hit my ‘too cool for club penguin’ phase just before snow came out. Very interesting to reflect on all this and see what I missed as an adult now. A bit nostalgic too!
I started playing Club Penguin within the first year or so of creation and immediately fell in love with it! I’m 24 and honestly still deeply saddened it’s gone..
It was my whole childhood and like many as I got older I continued to play right up until the end
I had a club Penguin boyfriend and we “dated” about 3 years and during this time met up on the site regularly and he would send me a post card every single week consistently for those 3 years (often he would send more but I knew at the end of every week he would send me one)
Honestly I still think about it because the commitment was so precious and took actual effort to send me one every week like that plus all the other stuff lol
club penguin was literally my life as a child
edit: hey man, thanks for making this content, its incredible quality and great vids keep it up, youll blow up huge doing this stuff...
This was such a fun game I wish there was a way I could play again. I was so into card jitsu that I would make my dad buy me the decks to add extra cards lol and he grudgingly did even though he didn’t understand the game. (My parents are boomers 💀)
I kinda feel cheated that I can’t access the game I spent money on anymore 😔
you can still play it!! new club penguin has all of the card-jitsu minigames :]
@@lockstepped but I won’t have my old account with all my booster cards 😭
@@TayePurks no I think if you still havethe account and username+password you can login and still have your old account sorry if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure u can
It also makes you an auto member so I think you'd be able to buy them with coins or smth. Could be wrong.
What is new club penguin?
Man this brings me back to the times in Club Penguin where I would sit and just look at the stuff you could get with a Membership. I never had one, but I would always sit there and wonder "What if"
Also Card Jitsu Snow was absolutely fire I loved it. I was a Water Hammer Main
It’s always hammer time somewhere!
I absolutely LOVE that they put in lore and a backstory for Senei Wu and his friend turned nemesis Tusk. Ninjas were always my thing. It made me happy that they decided to make a story out of it.
YES! Finally someone is talking about the best game of Club Penguin! OMG, I loved card-jitsu sooo much as a kid, and when the element-specific jitsus came? A true master piece!
Edit: The more of the video I watch, the more nostalgia I feel. Oh man, I miss club penguin and playing card-jitsu so much right now.
I personally though card-jitsu Shadow was the Classic Card-jitsu since it always matched the format of the dojo (the 3 elements surrounding the Classic card-jitsu)
Same. I thought the idea of it existing was just a baseless rumor, because the black gem (which was associated to it) was unlocked once you became a regular ninja.
Card Jitsu was my childhood, knowing this story 12 years later and getting answers to what happened to card jitsu shadow was nice, and knowing that there was gonna be even another card jitsu game post snow makes me really sad! But knowing the full story and even getting soundtracks for what could have been is amazing and makes me really nostalgic. This video was amazing and I was entertained every second, good work dude
I’d love to see you go over the spy lore in club penguin too! That’s what I got into as a kid, I remember being so upset when they made it less secret and dumbed didn’t the missions :(
I always loved the idea of becoming a ninja in Club Penguin, and the Card-jitsu was a complete blessing (as someone that never got a membership) I remember I managed to get the complete fire and water suits and gems in one day, which felt pretty amazing for a kid. Regarding the gameplay mechanics, I really enjoyed each one of them, Card-jitsu fire really felt a little messy, but I was able to comprehend the mechanics after playing it many times. For Card-jitsu water, I have to be thankful for the resolution controls which made the game run as good as possible, and I remember that this one of the three get me the most stressed of them all due to the rush of to not fall into the waterfall. As for Card-jitsu snow, I have sorta like an opposite experience with it as I always picked the ice shuriken and for some reason it felt like I was the only one player that actually care for the other players as I was always concerned about their health level while the others only managed to poorly timed their attacks. Which finally translated in that I never got to defeat Tusk, somehow all the achievable items in Card-jitsu snow made the game a little tedious for me, as I always faced some issues to successfully complete any round, whether lag, players going AFK or whatever. Having said this, as a kid that didn't know about the actual struggles for this game to be, I was always happy for playing.
Why am I getting chills hearing this dojo music 😭😭😭. This was my literal favorite game and the only online game I played until I was around 11 years old.
My favorite mini game though was the one where you type along with the storybooks to practice your typing, and I was devastated when they removed it lol. Spies/Ninjas tied for my second
Love this I was not expecting developer interviews when I clicked it, and I certainly wasn't expecting 2 new compositions from Screenhog himself. I do want to ask if there's any chance of those themes being released in their entirety anywhere.
The way I was nodding along to this video like "omg I remember all of this!! My childhood!!" and then you got to Card Jitsu Fire and the rest of the member-only content and my broke ass completely checked out. Love this vid a lot!
This is like one of the best and most unique and thorough RUclips vids out there. Loved it. Thanks for the nostalgia trip, lore, background info specifically with the workers, ANDDD THE BANGER UNOFFICIAL OFFICIAL SOUNDTRACKS
I have never seen a channel blow up as much as this one it's crazy good job
The creation of the ninja experience and dojo in club penguin was so perfect to younger me. It’s like a potion, so perfectly concoted and stimulating to a 7 year old
Ngl I think a better option would make Snow more similar to the other 2 elements, instead of co-op its a different style game against other ninjas, and mixing the idea of Shadow been the OG CJ with the first concept of Shadow talked in the video, with making Elemental the Snow we known. Making all four elements a Player VS Player games and the final one finally been the CO-OP mode, finishing the entire saga.
But god dammit Im so happy Shadow is finally been revealed after so MANY YEARS. Its trully a big moment in the history for the fandom
Who would have thought that a penguin game would have such an extensive and somewhat complex lore, totally epic
Something about hearing him say that Shadow was the first one / original just makes SO much sense. And it might be an unpopular opinion, but I think I prefer that than having a whole separate game and concept
I think the “gem” in the center of the amulet was just meant to indicate being a normal ninja, and it was only invariant since you had to be a ninja to get it before the Card-Jitsu Party 2011, and they didn’t update it after that party
It was first "teased" in hidden shadows.
I feel that it would could work as an original but since it was introduced later as a final reward for a party where there was a takeover with Tusk hell maybe even a team up with Herbert.
I always thought this and it’s real cool to hear it confirmed. As if being a regular ninja who could turn into shadows wasn’t enough!
I reckon Disney should give Card jitsu another chance as a stand alone game on something like Steam, would be a good way to gauge interest in the Club Penguin IP
Dude, the stuff you had Chris compose is awesome! This video is really great, keep up the good work
As a kid Card-Jitsu was probably the coolest part of Club Penguin to me. I got the Card Jitsu Handbook at a book fair when I was in kindergarten but didn’t actually join Club Penguin until a few years later. How involved the games got fascinated me, and I would spend hours battling. I would make up stories about who my ninja character was and how they got to be a master of all the elements. Card Jitsu Snow was easily my favorite since it was the most involved of all and I remember spending HOURS playing the Water Ninja trying to get every unlockable. I do remember a lot of time spent in the loading area but I found that it was easier to get matched if you played water since it was probably the least popular ninja (worked out for me bc water is my fav element!). Water was laggy on my computer but not devastatingly so, and I didn’t understand Fire either.
I hope that one of the CPPS servers revives the elemental games because I would LOVE to revisit them. They’ve recently begun to fascinate me again like they did when I was a kid. Thanks for the video - the interviews were very insightful of how it was to develop these games we all know and love!! (also the fact that CJ Shadow was developed a little blew my 9 year old mind haha)
I remember playing one CPPS where you could play all the elemental games (even CJ-Snow)
The name is "New Club Penguin", the last time I played, I was trying to get all the Snow items and prizes.
Damn watching this makes me really miss this site. The songs were all bangers, the games were actually fun, it was so *chock full of charm.*
These people actually cared. RIP Club Penguin 😔
I was on a big nostalgia trip this whole time, unlocking memories. I thought I had quit before snow came out, but when you showed the waiting screen and mentioned never getting to play because no one was joining, that’s when I remembered that I had still been playing. Crazy
I remember the day Card-Jitsu Snow was released. I was in third grade. I'd heard rumors about it for so long, so when it finally dropped, I was ecstatic. I happened to break my wrist that same day, so when I was at my mom's work, being all sad about having to wear a sling, I logged onto Club Penguin with her computer and my day just got so much better.
I played the fire ninja and was defeated immediately, but I didn't know the other ninjas could revive you so I just left the game like a stupidhead =,)
I never really got into cardjitsu, but I grinded System Defender so much lmao. IIRC it was a solid 400-600 coins per run.
As someone who, for a while, would log onto CP only to play Snow, specifically as a healer main, I'm surprised nobody else was able to find a competent healer. I always found support roles to be popular as a kid. It especially surprises me you were never able to find teammates. Maybe the is issue is nobody else wanted to play as a healer so I was able to easily find two fighter teammates while fighters struggled to get a healer.
Chris Hendricks is such a legend for creating those songs for the video. I love that guy
and card jitsu elemental wouldve been amazing, i wish they went through with that
Loved the snow element game when that dojo came out. I was able to complete the fire dojo but when it came to the water dojo it was difficult because of the lag at the time but once I got to face off sensei I couldn't beat him, after a lot of months I finally beat sensei.
Card-Jitsu is the ultimate esport confirmed
It’s official. This channel was what I needed in my life.
google new club penguin or newcp for a group of developers remaking the game and adding their own content as well as events :)
Fun fact!, the “den of tusk” theme at 1:10:42 was used in a pretty popular Roblox game called “Bear (ALPHA).” This track was used in a Christmas themed boss battle against a teddy bear called “Sam” who was in a Santa costume. This boss fight took place in the map called “arctic valley.” The boss was pretty easy, but is now gone.
ngl, reaching out to the original composer was really fucking cool.
This game literally was my childhood, I remember hearing rumors about the shadow in the dojo and when I saw it for the first time I was really excited, I akready grew up but man do I miss this game
I came up with a few ideas regarding Fire and Water, since I always disliked how you couldn't play any of the variants with just the cards IRL. I tried to think up of a Snow alternative, but I couldn't think of a fun idea for it, but I hope my ideas inspire some input.
For Fire, I came up with Card Jitsu Blitz.
The rules are the same as normal, but with the following changes.
Instead of playing on card from your hand, you play two. The first card dictates how you attack, and the second dictates how you defend.
If the attacking card defeats a defending card, the number of the attacking card will tick up a counter on whoever you attack. Once that counter reaches 100, you are out of the game.
When played with more than two people, you must direct who the attacking card is aimed at and who the defending card is blocking.
The aim is to be the last to be eliminated.
For Water, I came up with Card Jitsu Flow.
The rules are the same as normal, with the following changes.
Every time you win or lose a battle, a counter labeled "position" ticks up or down accordingly, with the starting number being 3. If you reach 6, you win. If you reach 0, you lose.
Play two cards, one directed at an enemy player and another at the "waterfall". If the player you are aiming at is not aiming back at you, you automatically win that battle. The "waterfall" consists of enemy decks, where you must target an enemy player's deck directly.
For Snow my first idea was to mix in Chess with the Prisoner's Dilemma, but the problem is I couldn't find a way to make the combination fun.
This was my entire childhood. The most fun I’ve had in my life really… it was all so simple back then. Thanks for taking the time to make this video. God this game was so good. I can’t imagine the amount of money my mom spent on Club Penguin 😂
Watching this makes me so happy I was here for most of it, and seeing the effort the team went through to make all our childhoods this much fun makes me so grateful for them!
I cannot believe that guy made every single card what an absolute legend
I remember I had bought some irl card packs every now and then as a kid. I once even got a super rare gold card with a code that, when entered in the game, either gave you (I think) 5 power cards or let you level up your belt/suit by 1 level. This was during when there was only fire so what I could do was automatically get the fire head, since I already had the shoes and shirt, but it wouldn’t give me the outer helmet since it was only 1 level. I obviously chose the cards since leveling was easy. I’ve still got some of the irl cards and toys but idk where my cold card is.
I miss club penguin, that game was such a large part of mine and so many others childhood. At least there are some sites (Club Penguin Rewritten) working on bringing back this masterpiece. I know they would probably not be able to introduce shadow and elemental, but it is still a cool concept.
I remember those times before Card Jitsu, where the dojo had no music and was empty. And I remember being enthralled once they started building the lore. I'm a HUGE lore nerd! World building, characters, and their stories, all of it! This will be a great summary of the experience I had so long ago! And, unpopular opinion, I really liked Card Jitsu: Snow! I usually chose the water ninja. It was a strategy game that I could understand better than most others, and would refer my sister to play instead. I've played New CP a bit, but the lag was too much for my potato of a laptop to handle.
Man, the card-jitsu themes goes HARD
I always loved this game as a kid, but I never realized how DEEP this really was.
Card Jutsu Fire is the one I played the most and remember most fondly, I remember thinking about my turn and choosing cards that would actually let me win. It was the one where I got the amulet the fast.
I got chills hearing Card-Jitsu Shadow's theme. Its so awesome to see a part of my childhood be resurrected. Really glad they decided not to make it a mobile exclusive thing, i can imagine it'd sour the strange and mystical feel that Shadow had built up. Hearing Russ felt OG Card-Jitsu was Card-Jitsu Shadow wasn't something I expected!
Incredible work and research Keyan.
I wish more people on the old club penguin team would talk about their experiences and how it they worked and stuff
it's inspiring and interesting i think
This brought back so many memories and was an interesting watch. Young me would have loved the original game to be rebranded as Shadow and Elementals, to be a hybrid of both Slay the Spire and a tile defense game, featuring both songs made for this video.
Although that isn't the timeline we live in, I still wouldn't mind seeing that gameplay idea as its own original IP.
Friggin amazing video! Even tho Im a Club Penguin fanatic I was still surprised to learn quite a lot of thisng from this video.
And man, hearing actual themes for shadow and even so for Elemental felt so bizarre, hwaring newer songs in this same style sent a shiver of nostialgia down my spine and actually made me tear up.
Fuck it, I'm gonna watch a 1 hour and 30 minute video of the Club Penguin Card Jitsu lore (where I was there to witness and experience it all) just to feed my cravings for Club Penguin nostalgia content.
Christ, the Dojo music got me all in tears, I can safely say, I had a good childhood and I miss club penguin more than anything god bless those who made the blessed game.
Card-Jitsu was one of my favorite things to do in club penguin. I loved the flashy animations and the battling system and spend hours playing it. Good memories.
OH MAN. When my twin siblings were babies my brother and I would watch over them. I remember explaining them the rules of card-jitsu in an 40 minute long essay while they were trying to stand up with the help of their crib's holding thingy (they didn't understand shit but would laugh at me still). This gave me flashbacks, thank you.
Super cool that Jay took a break from lightning fast vcr repair to work on my favoirte childhood game :)
dude im only 7 minutes in and i can already seen your hard work in researching and passion for this game, good to know i have more than an hour left for this video. I loved this game back in the day and see content like this after all this years melts my hearth. Thank You and amazing job
Seeing this on my feed smacked me hard with nostalgia! I remember sparring in order to earn my belts, ninja suits, the forehead bandana, getting to see the backstory cutscenes, and more. It was like having my own warrior arc with a training montage
"this player claimed to be Hannah Montanas cousin" LMFAOOOOO
You actually got unofficial official cardjitsu shadow music to exist I bow to you dude
what a legend
I don’t know what to say, other than thanks for bringing back so many memories!
It’s also pretty interesting to see the development side of things, kinda a shame we never saw Cardjitsu Shadow or elemental. I especially find the idea of elemental interesting, it sounds kinda like the board game Risk, but with a Cardjitsu spin on it!
i really hope there will be another club penguin. i would honestly pay money for it. i currently play club penguin rewritten but that made me remember what is truly missing… the parties, and cool add ons like the elements with card jitsu, adding new locations. i miss the halloween party of 2009. there was a haunted house, the whole map was creepy. man i really miss it. felt like i was living in another world.
go play all of them on new club penguin
Thanks for making Club Penguin something that people can remember.
It's so cool to have face on people who created my childhood.
Keep going !
The way you got interviews and the original composer to do an unofficial shadow theme holy shitttt