lmao Kingdom rush was a vital part of my childhood summers Originally found it off of random websites as a flash game, it was interesting to find a flash game with so much effort and detail put into its art and gameplay. Even if the story was rather small and simple, they made it work, and overall, it was pretty fun
and I have 0 doubts in my mind that that's a reason on why they're the titans. they are such goofy premises of "monkey pop bloon" and "plant kill zombie" that people are too intrigued by it to not check it out
@@murmunster1761 Yeah but battle cats isn't trying to be cool, they make their game deliberately ridiculous and they love it. Both PvZ and Bloons geniunely feel like it would be normal in a different universe, as odd as it is here. Also everything in PvZ and Bloons fits the theme within the continuinty, whereas in battle cats they just put in loads of crazy stuff as long as its cool
@@Connie_TinuityError not anymore, they updated it to look at auto captions and the real captions whenever you choose to auto-sync and it sees what words match up and lines it up that way.
Saw the og UA-cam app design and got blasted with 80 psychic damage. Always been a fan of video essays, if you keep up this particular series I look forward to it!
Fun fact: A Wallnut’s nervous system is so numb that they don’t really feel any of the “getting eaten” part. It’s really more of a light tickling sensation. So yes, the Wallnuts in PVZ are ok with being eaten alive. I mean, they only start frowning when their insides are literally exposed. Meanwhile, us humans would burst into tears immediately after a single bite to the scalp. Are we just inferior to PVZ Wallnuts? Or do we just have a better fight or flight response?
Don't forget that Kingdom Rush exists! The original can be played for free, while Origins and Frontiers only cost $4.99 on mobile. Vengeance was a bit rocky, but they got a new game designer to balance the most recent expansion, and graphically the game's just as great!
@@genetheminemanit's more like an rts because the main format of td games is your tower shoots / damage the enemies and they rather doesn't move very often unlike a rts would with its units
@@genethemineman i dont think it counts, it is more of an rts. But there is some examples of tower defense and rts combined too, like mindustry, its a combination of factory building, rts and tower defence
Editing is good, writing is good, I would like to touch on some stuff with PvZ First, I feel it should have been stated that PvZ was originally released for the PC, and how great it was that a PC game was moved to mobile devices. Secondly, I feel it should have been mentioned that PvZ2 is still a live service game, and is, in fact, still being updated, which shows that PopCap didn't completely move away from Tower Defense. That's all I wanted to say. Great job, I look forward to your career with great interest!
Also saying that the garden warfare games had no staying power is just false. They stopped making them because BFN was way worse the GW2 and EA instead thought of it as people don't like the pvz shooters anymore instead of we made a bad game lets try again to improve. Also GW2 has a decent player count still you can even get full or almost full lobbies consistently.
My first ever video game was PvZ. Had it on my gramps old pc. I used to play it every day after school. Its been so long since I've played the OG though, which is a shame.
sadly not as replayable as the other two and the series peaked at Frontiers (I'm still hopeful tht Ironhide didn't go to shit and that they can still make good games)
@Shadow first one is good Secound one was really good it made the the game popular Third is not bad but alr Vengeance is good Last one is literally dogshit
@@AbdelkrimElfaouz there's no last one, Kingdom Rush Heroes or whatever it's called isn't a tower defense, neither is Iron Marines, so I don't know what game you're talking about
Monkey pop balloon. Monkies and Balloons have been at war since the dawn of time, but the question I've always wondered: What are the balloons running from? Where are they running to? WHY R U RUNNIN?!
You are confusing balloons and bloons One is a harmless decoration that can even be found in parties for children, and the other is a deadly thing that knows only how to kill and destroy.
well actually the lore is that the monkeys popped the at the time, innocent bloons in the bloons puzzle game which is seperate from the td games. after this the bloons had no choice but to attack the monkeys to defend their land.
6:02 it's literally in the first game's almanac. They literally have asked. It's the first thing PopCap thought of with the character is "how does he feel about it" and the almanac explains it away by having Wall-nut with really insensitive nerves so it just feels like a backrub to him edit: 7:57 GW2 is literally still active lmao it literally DOES have staying power
Yeah the reason the stopped making shooters is because they took the negative reception from BFN as people don't like the shooters anymore instead of we made a bad game lets go back to the GW formula.
bro GW2 is so good. sadly the PC version is pretty much dead. last time I tried during peak gaming time in the evening on the EU servers there where barely enough people to play. and if you did get into a match there where always one or two others who are always there with you again and again. but man did I have a lot of fun playing that game
Underrated AF. Only thing that bothered me was your shift in tone with the GW games because they're amazing, but I understand the complaints weren't with the games themselves, more-so with the change of style. For me, They should have been either just a spin-off, or a secondary game series, with both being developed. But, after GW1's massive success, PopCap abandoned tower defense for a while, until they brought it back. There's also PVZ heroes, but it's the most mid game ever, and like, I don't mean mid as in bad, I mean actually mid, average, neither amazing nor terrible. It's just kinda there.
@@tpfoxCastro Yes, but every update made it worse. I wish I could go back to the old versions where there was no P2W, gameplay was interesting, and far future was still being worked on.
@@trickygamer555 Uhhh, no? The most recent updates have been very good, there is new zombies and new plants coming, with some of them being plants from the original PVZ1. My man, you are a little trapped in the past, just a little
Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten is sooooo good, honestly my favorite tower defense game of all time. I also remember the Gemcraft series pretty fondly.
2 absolutely ICONIC franchises, the bloons games are constantly getting better and NK seems to be intent on providing content and listening to community reception on balance and changes to improve the active bloons games
My first tower defense was Plants vs. Zombies as I use to play it with my Grandpa and we beat the game on a few occasions . and it literally made me click and is what got me into gaming, going into minecraft, then left 4 dead, bloons tower defense all those huge titles only because of one little game.
Honestly I'd argue that the PvZ 2 community isn't nearly as active as the Garden Warfare and just shootet side of the franchise in general, and even then, most of the stuff going on in the actual community of PvZ 2 is happening on the modding side with stuff like Eclise, Reflourished and Altverz just to name a few. I'm not saying that the GW side of the franchise is bigger... that would be impossible but they definitely have a lot more going on, not only thanks to people hosting tournaments and whatnot, but also problems like big names in the community doxxing eachother like toddlers throwing all the swear words they learned from their parents the night before.
@@shalvei_ the grind is pretty simple once ur at mid game, u just play for a couple of hours, lose your sanity (energy meter), then u wait until tomorrow. It's not as complicated as you think bud. Plus 3 star characters are op and they're pretty common to get by anyways hell they're even better than the 5 to 6 star operators
@@faustus_tatacher9035 As Arknights addict 3* are not even close in power to even 4*, 5* and especially 6* that have such fun and balanced characters like Surtr,Texas and Młynar. However getting 4* ops is pretty easy.
great video! The only detail i would add to this is that the second pvz game ever made is, as far as i know, pvz adventures, which is completely fine if you missed that lol, it was available on facebook a long time ago and only lasted a couple of years i believe, but still, great job!
Yeah it's pretty odd is I'm somewhat of a member of the community of this point, not a whole lot of videos and I even joined the fandom discord it's definitely one of my favorite games after all over a year and a half I've already sunk over 600 into the game and I've caught up with the latest content
well uhh before plants vs zombies 2 released in 2013 there was a facebook pvz game called pvz adventures (it got discontinued in 2014) then after pvz gw2 there was pvz heroes, a card game and there were two different versions of pvz3, the 2019-2020 soft launch which was the portrait mode thing you showed in the video, then since 2021 every 6 months there is a new beta of a new version of pvz3 which is *slightly* better than the previous one
This was a great video! I know it may not be as well known as the shooter, but Plants vs Zombies also released another really fun mobile app in the form of Plants vs Zombies Heroes! It is a really impressive deck builder game that has a lot of depth and a ton of creativity. It is still not a tower defense game, but it also is another form that PvZ has taken besides the shooters. This is not a critique on the video for not mentioning this; I just felt compelled to add this to the comments since I still love PvZ Heroes and believe it is a worthy addition to the PvZ brand.
I would say there’s another tower defense game who in my opinion are worthy successor of the genre: Arknights It may be a gacha game but holy cow the developers went Doritos with the tower defense aspects and mechanics (I never thought the anime girl equivalent of a chomper could solo a Russian version of Darth Vader lol)
I feel Ninja Kiwi is basically keeping tower defense alive, but basically killing chance for any other game not owned by them to succeed. With their main 2 games right now, Btd6 and Btd Battles 2, they basically made top notch games very hard to beat. Whether you talk about the simplistic gameplay, complicated gameplay, intense gameplay, competitive gameplay, Ninja Kiwi just wins all of those and gives other tower defenses nothing to grow on besides niche gimmicks Edit: Also, with their constant flow of balance changes, updates, exciting content, and weekly events, nothing can really be that consistent but also high quality at the same time
The garden warfare games were actually really good. Its one of the only 3 multiplayer shooter series that i actually enjoy. After garden warfare 2 the entire series started to fumble. Battle for neighborville was kinda mid and at least for the time being, killed the pvz shooters, and the 3rd tower defense game was widely hated during every open beta it ever had and is now canceled. Pvz 2 and merchandise are the only things keeping the franchise alive, wich is pretty sad to see
Great video, but i completely disagree on your take on the garden warfare games. They definitely had staying power if they kept developing them or released a garden warfare 3. The reason the garden warfare series died is because they released battle for neighborville, which was a big mistake. (this is not so much the developers fault, theres a story behind it). They changed up the formula with this game too much, which caused it to not recieve as much attention as the previous games, resulting in it getting cancelled later on. This is evident by the fact that pvz 3 also got cancelled a while ago, since this also completely changed a lot of core elements of the game, causing it to flop as well.
7:14 Since you said "Bloons" not "Bloons TD", then you are masively mistaken, The original Bloons was like those cannon shooting games, You aim a dart and charge it and pop as much as Bloons as you can, and Bloons had a LOT of spinoffs, and Bloons TD was one of them and ultimately the one that carried the franches, Bloons had several versions and sequels, but since Bloons TD became the prominent one, even Bloons TD itself had several spinoffs, like Super Monkey, which functions nothing like the tower defense games, and then a sequel to Bloons, Bloons Pop! (Not Bloons Pop 3) and pretty much every character in the game from Bloons TD 6. There are much more to talk about but I wouldn't be putting it all here.
@@knyt0 Kingdom rush was one of the most played flash games, Gemcraft is a tower defense where you fuse gems together to create higher tiers, and Creeper World is a tower defense where you fight off liquids
About people saying, that Warcraft, Starcraft and other rts leading to the creation of tower defense genre. I think they talk more about user created content and not the games themselves. You can just check custom maps made for them and there will be a tonn of td maps
ok, so popcap has canned PVZ3. though apparently they're going to continue to develop PVZ2 International. incase your wondering yes, there are 2 main versions of PVZ2, INT. And CHI. Int. has less content but is Much more Polished. the Chinese version has some different content, more overall, but is a lot more buggy and not very polished (EX. most of the new worlds' flag zombies' arms don't fall off correctly, and a few of the new worlds don't have zomboss fights).
@@SuperDungeon mm. I'm going to have to disagree. Alot of the hard mode memory lane levels don't get play tested before hand (Check flag zombie's channel for them). Jester is redundant with how many of the exclusive plants ignore his spin when they are clearly straight shooters. Pvp is just unbalanced. (Well same goes for - *gets obliterated by pea vine and mega gatlings boosted by torchwood*)
Comment here if you want to talk about Kingdom Rush
lmao Kingdom rush was a vital part of my childhood summers
Originally found it off of random websites as a flash game, it was interesting to find a flash game with so much effort and detail put into its art and gameplay. Even if the story was rather small and simple, they made it work, and overall, it was pretty fun
Used to play it a lot and recently just got into it. It’s pretty fun.
more monke and bloon
w game please talk about it
Good damn memories playing since i was 4 or 5 years old so ye i would enjoy this getting talked about 😊
Fun fact: if you read the plant/zombie book in PvZ 1, you find out the Wallnut actually doesn't mind and often finds it to be therapeutic.
I remember it said something about walnut saying that getting eaten feels like a back massage.
I was wondering if anyone would mention this
"Tingling sensation"
@@fishygaming2554 damn that's the best way to insult your enemies
the book is called the suburban almanac, and as a person who has only played pvz 1 for a million years, can confirm this comment is fax
I love how the titan’s of the TD genre have the most ridiculous premises
and I have 0 doubts in my mind that that's a reason on why they're the titans. they are such goofy premises of "monkey pop bloon" and "plant kill zombie" that people are too intrigued by it to not check it out
haha funni monke throw dart at balloon go brrr
bro is going to marvel at battle cats
hehe monke pop baloon
@@murmunster1761 Yeah but battle cats isn't trying to be cool, they make their game deliberately ridiculous and they love it. Both PvZ and Bloons geniunely feel like it would be normal in a different universe, as odd as it is here. Also everything in PvZ and Bloons fits the theme within the continuinty, whereas in battle cats they just put in loads of crazy stuff as long as its cool
You can copy & paste your script into the Captions settings and they'll auto-sync to the video for you! 🙂
Did not know that, sahweet thank you
Woah!!! Thank you 💚
no they don't, it's all out of sync and you have to adjust it manually
@@Connie_TinuityError not anymore, they updated it to look at auto captions and the real captions whenever you choose to auto-sync and it sees what words match up and lines it up that way.
@@toobin_ that’s pretty cool, I didn’t know that.
Saw the og UA-cam app design and got blasted with 80 psychic damage.
Always been a fan of video essays, if you keep up this particular series I look forward to it!
Was it super effective
You should have been a Dark type fr
Two classics I still play to this very day. BTD6 and PvZ1 will remain staples in my heart, and to many others.
Same, wanna ve friends in BTD 6?
Fun fact: A Wallnut’s nervous system is so numb that they don’t really feel any of the “getting eaten” part. It’s really more of a light tickling sensation. So yes, the Wallnuts in PVZ are ok with being eaten alive. I mean, they only start frowning when their insides are literally exposed. Meanwhile, us humans would burst into tears immediately after a single bite to the scalp. Are we just inferior to PVZ Wallnuts? Or do we just have a better fight or flight response?
people: AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH IM BLEEEEDDDDIIINNNGGGGG
wallnut: awww my organs are exposed again
Definitely humans are inferior. My squishy meat form is too vulnerable to dare compare to the wallnut and tallnut beautiful and graceful forms.
It's more of a tingling than tickling
Don't forget that Kingdom Rush exists! The original can be played for free, while Origins and Frontiers only cost $4.99 on mobile.
Vengeance was a bit rocky, but they got a new game designer to balance the most recent expansion, and graphically the game's just as great!
also stick war legacy if it counts, well you hve to defend a statue
@@genetheminemanit's more like an rts because the main format of td games is your tower shoots / damage the enemies and they rather doesn't move very often unlike a rts would with its units
Dude this is feel like add
@@genethemineman i dont think it counts, it is more of an rts.
But there is some examples of tower defense and rts combined too, like mindustry, its a combination of factory building, rts and tower defence
"Origins" and "Frontiers"
_Where have i seen this name before...?_
literally Sonic The Hedgehog on 2022 lmao
Editing is good, writing is good, I would like to touch on some stuff with PvZ
First, I feel it should have been stated that PvZ was originally released for the PC, and how great it was that a PC game was moved to mobile devices.
Secondly, I feel it should have been mentioned that PvZ2 is still a live service game, and is, in fact, still being updated, which shows that PopCap didn't completely move away from Tower Defense.
That's all I wanted to say. Great job, I look forward to your career with great interest!
I agree, this video gives to much attention to Pvz 1, I want to see PVZ2!
Also saying that the garden warfare games had no staying power is just false. They stopped making them because BFN was way worse the GW2 and EA instead thought of it as people don't like the pvz shooters anymore instead of we made a bad game lets try again to improve. Also GW2 has a decent player count still you can even get full or almost full lobbies consistently.
My first ever video game was PvZ. Had it on my gramps old pc. I used to play it every day after school. Its been so long since I've played the OG though, which is a shame.
Their animation and creativity budget ran out lol
@@Tired_Tortilla True, GW was much better than BFN.
Honorable mention: The entire Kingdom Rush series
sadly not as replayable as the other two and the series peaked at Frontiers (I'm still hopeful tht Ironhide didn't go to shit and that they can still make good games)
@Shadow first one is good
Secound one was really good it made the the game popular
Third is not bad but alr
Vengeance is good
Last one is literally dogshit
@@AbdelkrimElfaouz there's no last one, Kingdom Rush Heroes or whatever it's called isn't a tower defense, neither is Iron Marines, so I don't know what game you're talking about
Monkey pop balloon.
Monkies and Balloons have been at war since the dawn of time, but the question I've always wondered:
What are the balloons running from?
Where are they running to?
WHY R U RUNNIN?!
Good meme, meme generator
You are confusing balloons and bloons
One is a harmless decoration that can even be found in parties for children, and the other is a deadly thing that knows only how to kill and destroy.
Well that bloons was a spy baloons
well actually the lore is that the monkeys popped the at the time, innocent bloons in the bloons puzzle game which is seperate from the td games. after this the bloons had no choice but to attack the monkeys to defend their land.
@@dungeonlord1 wait...so we are the evil guys?
finally, some PvZ content!
idk why people don't know PvZ or didn't heard it or even Bloons.
they are my childhod, especially PvZ
Maybe you Just, yk *never searched it up*
There is a lot of pvz and btd
@@CaulolProductions spittin' fax, there are a LOT of people that know both the games
PvZ forever
PvZ is very well known, its even overrated in my opinion, BTD isn't as popular
@@bluemariogangsta2 YOU TAKE THAT BACK YOU BOMBASTIC REDDITOR
6:02 it's literally in the first game's almanac. They literally have asked. It's the first thing PopCap thought of with the character is "how does he feel about it" and the almanac explains it away by having Wall-nut with really insensitive nerves so it just feels like a backrub to him
edit: 7:57 GW2 is literally still active lmao it literally DOES have staying power
Was about to say the Wall-Nut part myself.
Yeah the reason the stopped making shooters is because they took the negative reception from BFN as people don't like the shooters anymore instead of we made a bad game lets go back to the GW formula.
bro GW2 is so good. sadly the PC version is pretty much dead. last time I tried during peak gaming time in the evening on the EU servers there where barely enough people to play. and if you did get into a match there where always one or two others who are always there with you again and again. but man did I have a lot of fun playing that game
Bro never opened the almanac in pvz for sure. Walnut says he doesn't feel like he's being eaten by zombies.
They still never asked him if he was cool with it
@@Jaavis_ He's a chill guy.
@@zantos4853 He's my hero
This man is definitely heavily underrated. I just couldn't get my eyes of the video, it's so freaking well done
If you read his almanac entry, Wallnut actually did have a choice in the matter
Underrated AF. Only thing that bothered me was your shift in tone with the GW games because they're amazing, but I understand the complaints weren't with the games themselves, more-so with the change of style. For me, They should have been either just a spin-off, or a secondary game series, with both being developed. But, after GW1's massive success, PopCap abandoned tower defense for a while, until they brought it back. There's also PVZ heroes, but it's the most mid game ever, and like, I don't mean mid as in bad, I mean actually mid, average, neither amazing nor terrible. It's just kinda there.
PVZ2 always received updates, PopCap never abandoned tower defense
@@tpfoxCastro Yes, but every update made it worse. I wish I could go back to the old versions where there was no P2W, gameplay was interesting, and far future was still being worked on.
@@trickygamer555 Uhhh, no? The most recent updates have been very good, there is new zombies and new plants coming, with some of them being plants from the original PVZ1. My man, you are a little trapped in the past, just a little
@@tpfoxCastro Ever since levels were added to the game (for plants) it's been killed for me, I can't take the game serious any more.
@@trickygamer555 you can win the game without upgrading any plants or using any premiums. Also, it's mostly a songle player game
Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten is sooooo good, honestly my favorite tower defense game of all time. I also remember the Gemcraft series pretty fondly.
2 absolutely ICONIC franchises, the bloons games are constantly getting better and NK seems to be intent on providing content and listening to community reception on balance and changes to improve the active bloons games
If not for those two, every tower defense enthusiast would talk about kingdom rush instead... Not that it's not talked about but y'know
My first tower defense was Plants vs. Zombies as I use to play it with my Grandpa and we beat the game on a few occasions . and it literally made me click and is what got me into gaming, going into minecraft, then left 4 dead, bloons tower defense all those huge titles only because of one little game.
BTD and PVZ are my all time favorites
I played both for a long time during my childhood and still now. They are both very fun and they are the most popular of all td games
Honestly I'd argue that the PvZ 2 community isn't nearly as active as the Garden Warfare and just shootet side of the franchise in general, and even then, most of the stuff going on in the actual community of PvZ 2 is happening on the modding side with stuff like Eclise, Reflourished and Altverz just to name a few.
I'm not saying that the GW side of the franchise is bigger... that would be impossible but they definitely have a lot more going on, not only thanks to people hosting tournaments and whatnot, but also problems like big names in the community doxxing eachother like toddlers throwing all the swear words they learned from their parents the night before.
Finally some f-ing good commentary about PVZ. Really tired of people saying pvz ded.Good first video man
This is basically a Duopoly at this point
Arknights would definitely be my favorite tower defense game although it’s sort of an RTS hybrid as well.
too bad it's a gacha and a really grindy one at that
@@shalvei_ the grind is pretty simple once ur at mid game, u just play for a couple of hours, lose your sanity (energy meter), then u wait until tomorrow. It's not as complicated as you think bud. Plus 3 star characters are op and they're pretty common to get by anyways hell they're even better than the 5 to 6 star operators
@@faustus_tatacher9035 don't call me a bud please also I've never played the game
@@faustus_tatacher9035 As Arknights addict 3* are not even close in power to even 4*, 5* and especially 6* that have such fun and balanced characters like Surtr,Texas and Młynar. However getting 4* ops is pretty easy.
@@shalvei_
“Grindy gacha meh”
“I’ve also never played the game”
Lol
Wow this is very good quality! I wonder why you have little amount of subs u deserve some more!
BTD is such an amazing series and i really think the existence of Battles is an underrated element
Absolutely, I'm always amazed how they are able to make a pvp tower defend game that is actually intense
And the PVZ 1 versus mode, which was really fun, but only kept to local play.
This was such a great video, I wanna see this channel grow
great video! The only detail i would add to this is that the second pvz game ever made is, as far as i know, pvz adventures, which is completely fine if you missed that lol, it was available on facebook a long time ago and only lasted a couple of years i believe, but still, great job!
7:22
Sad pvz heroes noises
Monkeys Vs. Balloons is so amazing
And Plants vs Zombies
Both are the best
Monke versus bloon funnier though@@helheim58
To answer your question at 6:02, yes. according to the suburban almanac, the walnut only feels a slight tingle when being bitten.
Battle cats community being isolated from the world moment
Yeah it's pretty odd is I'm somewhat of a member of the community of this point, not a whole lot of videos and I even joined the fandom discord it's definitely one of my favorite games after all over a year and a half I've already sunk over 600 into the game and I've caught up with the latest content
they are absolutely the pinnacle of tower defense games
it is my favorite genre
Also the MUSIC!! I think it adds to how good these games are
1. ur underrated as hell
2. tower defense games are fun
I love Plants vs Zombies, I remember playing garden warfare to BITS...Just me, the coach, the xbox, a pizza, and a Cola zero
underrated content
2:59 god dammit I fell for it, and not only I was not in fullscreen, I am also charging this, damn
I was literally talking to people about this earlier today and then i found this video
well uhh
before plants vs zombies 2 released in 2013 there was a facebook pvz game called pvz adventures (it got discontinued in 2014)
then after pvz gw2 there was pvz heroes, a card game
and there were two different versions of pvz3, the 2019-2020 soft launch which was the portrait mode thing you showed in the video, then since 2021 every 6 months there is a new beta of a new version of pvz3 which is *slightly* better than the previous one
When it says tower defense i remember my favorite game on NES, a game called TANK 1990.
3:00 i really thought my phone was on low battery 😂
Took me more than half of the video to notice the music in the background was zen garden
The Battle Cats is another amazing tower defense game!! Definitely recommend.
Finally thank you I have played it's so much I feel like the game if iconic but no one talks about it at all not even be amazing music
Me playing battle cats just before watching this UA-cam video
I don’t think it has been mentioned just because it gained its popularity very recently from what I see
PVZ WAS MY CHILDHOOD ITS A HUGE W!
2:59 I actually though it was a real one for a second
Yeah bro it got me good💀
This was a great video!
I know it may not be as well known as the shooter, but Plants vs Zombies also released another really fun mobile app in the form of Plants vs Zombies Heroes! It is a really impressive deck builder game that has a lot of depth and a ton of creativity. It is still not a tower defense game, but it also is another form that PvZ has taken besides the shooters. This is not a critique on the video for not mentioning this; I just felt compelled to add this to the comments since I still love PvZ Heroes and believe it is a worthy addition to the PvZ brand.
3:00 that actually got me. 😭
Indeed, we saved the genre, but what we couldn’t save is the pool in GW1.
you saved the genre and then you died
Can confirm, the monke made the bloons go pop
this guy is so fucking underrated
Thanks Pēnis
What kind of name is that lol
6:00 the wall nut confirms that he is okay with being a wall in the almanac.
not even 30 seconds in and this guy is underrated AF
I think it’s his first video, so that would make sense
@@utopes yeah
Randomly found this
I needed this in my life
One is still a great series of games
& one is a fallen giant
ea really did their work on pvz, especially after firing the original creator of the 1st entry in the franchise
I would say there’s another tower defense game who in my opinion are worthy successor of the genre: Arknights
It may be a gacha game but holy cow the developers went Doritos with the tower defense aspects and mechanics (I never thought the anime girl equivalent of a chomper could solo a Russian version of Darth Vader lol)
Now it's only Bloons
I feel Ninja Kiwi is basically keeping tower defense alive, but basically killing chance for any other game not owned by them to succeed.
With their main 2 games right now, Btd6 and Btd Battles 2, they basically made top notch games very hard to beat.
Whether you talk about the simplistic gameplay, complicated gameplay, intense gameplay, competitive gameplay, Ninja Kiwi just wins all of those and gives other tower defenses nothing to grow on besides niche gimmicks
Edit: Also, with their constant flow of balance changes, updates, exciting content, and weekly events, nothing can really be that consistent but also high quality at the same time
Also better place in arknights as well. Kept the genre going possibly forever at this point
i love both fucking games so this made me cry (in a good way) over this little documentary
On the first bloons all you have to do is spam dart monkeys
You are underrated
I don’t think I’m rated in general
Kingdom Rush: *did you forget about me?!*
Garden warfare and GW2 are amazing games
I miss pvz I can't believe pvz is coming to an end after pvz3
rip to the 38 other bloons games that never get mentioned outside of that one 2 and a half hour long video
3:00 i pressed the low power mode button lol
The good bloons and plants vs The evil zombies
6:06 yes, it was asked, and the gist of the answer was yes because wallnut doesn't feel it
Rift bound summoner's path looks very much like the classic plants vs zombies.
The garden warfare games were actually really good. Its one of the only 3 multiplayer shooter series that i actually enjoy. After garden warfare 2 the entire series started to fumble. Battle for neighborville was kinda mid and at least for the time being, killed the pvz shooters, and the 3rd tower defense game was widely hated during every open beta it ever had and is now canceled. Pvz 2 and merchandise are the only things keeping the franchise alive, wich is pretty sad to see
Both is childhood games
Well when i saw the video i was originally gonna say "What about teh kingdom rush games?" But you beat me to it
Favourite tower defence games are PvZ, BTD, and Monster Train. So much so that im trying to work on a card game that includes them
holy this is my first video of you I watched and I thought you would have around 500k subs, damn
seeing sunflowers in the back hurts so much. i wish they would teach newer players than offensive plants are in the back, sun producers in the middle
Great video, but i completely disagree on your take on the garden warfare games. They definitely had staying power if they kept developing them or released a garden warfare 3. The reason the garden warfare series died is because they released battle for neighborville, which was a big mistake. (this is not so much the developers fault, theres a story behind it). They changed up the formula with this game too much, which caused it to not recieve as much attention as the previous games, resulting in it getting cancelled later on. This is evident by the fact that pvz 3 also got cancelled a while ago, since this also completely changed a lot of core elements of the game, causing it to flop as well.
You actually tricked me with the 20% battery at the beginning
7:14
Since you said "Bloons" not "Bloons TD", then you are masively mistaken, The original Bloons was like those cannon shooting games, You aim a dart and charge it and pop as much as Bloons as you can, and Bloons had a LOT of spinoffs, and Bloons TD was one of them and ultimately the one that carried the franches, Bloons had several versions and sequels, but since Bloons TD became the prominent one, even Bloons TD itself had several spinoffs, like Super Monkey, which functions nothing like the tower defense games, and then a sequel to Bloons, Bloons Pop! (Not Bloons Pop 3) and pretty much every character in the game from Bloons TD 6. There are much more to talk about but I wouldn't be putting it all here.
There's one underrated tower defense game called Radiant Defense
yooooooo radiant defense is so good
Anyone heard about Enigmata Stellar war? Flash game turned mobile?
UNDERATED CHANNEL ALERT
I would also say Kingdom Rush, Gemcraft, and Creeper World kept this genre around
Ah yes, Creeper World.
never heard of them
@@knyt0 Kingdom rush was one of the most played flash games, Gemcraft is a tower defense where you fuse gems together to create higher tiers, and Creeper World is a tower defense where you fight off liquids
About people saying, that Warcraft, Starcraft and other rts leading to the creation of tower defense genre. I think they talk more about user created content and not the games themselves. You can just check custom maps made for them and there will be a tonn of td maps
They're actually 11 balloons game
"Too big to fail"
Meanwhile overwatch: 💀
I used to almost play every game of pvz & btd back then.
3:28 as someone who lost both their grandpas, I will never know the answer
ok, so popcap has canned PVZ3.
though apparently they're going to continue to develop PVZ2 International.
incase your wondering yes, there are 2 main versions of PVZ2, INT. And CHI.
Int. has less content but is Much more Polished.
the Chinese version has some different content, more overall, but is a lot more buggy and not very polished (EX. most of the new worlds' flag zombies' arms don't fall off correctly, and a few of the new worlds don't have zomboss fights).
They canned the beta, there is still hope!
at this point pvz2c (pvz2 chinese) is higher quality then int at this point, if you want proof just look at the newer updates
@@SuperDungeon mm.
I'm going to have to disagree.
Alot of the hard mode memory lane levels don't get play tested before hand (Check flag zombie's channel for them).
Jester is redundant with how many of the exclusive plants ignore his spin when they are clearly straight shooters.
Pvp is just unbalanced. (Well same goes for - *gets obliterated by pea vine and mega gatlings boosted by torchwood*)
cant believe bird vs camel was the first tower defense game
Wall-nut enjoys the back rub, don't worry.
literally 2 sec in video and i heard the beautiful One Piece OST ( To the Grand Line )
Wow great video
You deserve more views
That moment when you suddenly find yourself with 200+ hours in btd6 just to never play it again within a month. 10/10 game
2:58 THAT GOT ME
i can tell this guy will go viral
i remember once playing btd6 at a restaurant and then one of the waiters recommended PvZ to me.
we need to start a petition for a PVZ GW3