Fun fact: The creator of this game directly wrote it into HIS WILL that the mechanics of this game is barred from being utilized for any kind of gambling. He did so, so that it can be enforced even after he dies. Why? Because it's literally JUST THAT ADDICTIVE.
Honestly, even if there is a good moral reason for him to write that in his will, someone shouldn't be allowed to utilize their will in such a way. Same logic with the practice of patenting video game mechanics.
@@Zanaki113 I said patenting _video game mechanics_ and not patenting in general, plus the amount of video games made nowadays require game devs to get creative with mechanics in order for their games to stand out as unique enough in order to get sales (Unless you have a recognizable I.P. on board.).
@FusionCyborg I mean, I get where you're coming from. But also, he genuinely felt it was either that, or run the genuine risk of gambling companies taking the predatory exploitation of people's gambling addictions to a whole new level of fucked up. Take your pick of moral quandary I guess 🤷♂️
mark is the kinda man to take the path of most resistance just to see if his body can take it. every neglected power up and skipped tutorial affirms this more and more.
Mark, you'll probably hear this a lot, but the biggest things to look for in Jokers are multiplier multipliers, as they straight up exponentially increase your mult rather than just adding to it. Glad you like the game, it's a real fun one!
You need a combination of chips, flat mult, and xmult to get consistent wins, but Jokers are the most consistent way to get xmult while planets are a bit better for chips and flat mult. Doesn't mean there aren't good flat mult jokers though! Almost every single seed is winnable if you play well enough.
He would have had to sell his jokers to afford it, to a new player that doesn't seem worth it. Hell, I remember I had a vampire, pareidolia, midas combo on one of my first runs(might have legit been my first) and sold pareidolia because I thought Ride The Bus would carry me further and didn't quite understand how mult worked just yet. I thought Vampire was adding mult rather than multiplying mult, and to add insult to injury I figured that out just shortly after selling pareidolia.
Tbf as an experienced player this feels wrong yeah, but he also made tons of right plays. He knows poker hands, he analyzes what certain joker/tarot does, he's doing experiments with things that "does nothing"
@@shawncarney9657wrong, it's a word now, we just made it and we can come up with a definition. You understood what they meant, so it's just semantics right? Or rather you didn't, because "non" and "un" function differently as prefixes; non means "not" while un can mean both "not" and "reverse"; so "nonexistent" is not a suitable synonym for the new word "unexisting". As well, existing can be used as a verb, existent is just an adjective. Given the prefix "un", and the root word "existing", unexisting would appear to be a verb. I would suggest vanishing to be a better synonym, though "unexisting" in this context seems to suggest lost /potential/ rather than the disappearing of something that already exists. To paraphrase linguistic philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein "language is use, nerds" Your correction has been corrected by an even bigger language nerd. The scales of the universe balance themselves.
Remember, you need to place your jokers in a specific order to maximize their abilities. They're basically like a math equation. Any joker that gives extra chips, go to the left, jokers that add to the multiplyer stay in the middle, jokers that multiply to the multipyer stay to the right. E.g. +5 chips, +30chips, +4mult, +8 mult, x2mult (5+30)x(4+8)x2. Also, if you run out of discards and need to get rid of more, try adding them to your played hand if you hand is less than the maximum of 5. E.g. you're playing a pair, take the opportunity to trash 3 (or less) unwanted cards, or if you're playing a 2 pair, trash one card.
Balatro kept me sane when I was reviewing for my board exams (I’m a licensed professional teacher now!) and I love that Mark is now making a series out of this game. Good luck with the decks, the stakes, and the challenges!
That initial encounter with Blank is so relatable. Despite all evidence of the contrary and the game's assumption of your better judgement, the gamer instinct in you clamors of the existence of a hidden effect and salivates at the challenge of discovering it. The adamant pickup, the awkward pause after, the slow realization, it's all there. I'll say this: just as how using the Sun to turn your cards into hearts may have consequences, good or bad, that are not yet apparent, so too does buying the Blank. Indeed, even though Blank itself truly does nothing.
@@TheDevilockedzombieyou gotta buy blank 10 times (each unique vouvher can only be bought once per game) to unlock a pretty good secret voucher to potentially pull in your games
@@TheDevilockedzombiehe spent $10 on the blank voucher (bottom left part of shop) that literally does nothing but serve as an unlock function for a very good voucher later on.
Coming here after watching RT's playthroughs was some wild tonal whiplash, and I am so looking forward to Mark spiraling in the same way RT did. This game is nuts, can't wait to see more!
i can easily see Multiplier - i mean Markiplier- making a series bit where each episode he slowly goes more and more insane with Lixian editing more insanity effects.
Fitz did say something along the lines of 'This does something special to a specific type of neurodivergent man'. Glad to see his point is being proven.
I actually didn't understand this game when I saw someone else play it. While I still kind of don't, Mark playing this made me understand it more. Keep playing!
26:30 it actually does nothing for that run specifically. But if you buy it 10 times throughout the game (not just that run). You permanently unlock one of the best vouchers in the game.
Buying the Blank voucher during a run makes it possible for Antimatter (+1 joker slot) to show up in that run. So while blank does *almost* nothing, the one thing it does is potentially quite valuable. But usually, Antimatter only appears after you've entered endless.
"Hi My Name is Multiplier" in Marks voice was our running gag when my friends and I had our big balatro binge a few months ago. Mark acknowledging that his name sounds like multiplier was vindicating.
me and my sister were talking about watching markiplier because we always do when shes over, and she said “i watched all his recent videos, maybe he’ll upload again” exactly 30 seconds later you upload, absolutely crazy.
not saying astro bot is better than this, but how are we still going on about it? goty is 90% journos 10% audience, and a lot more journos own a ps than the general gamer audience just get past it, my personal goty are this game and metaphor what's yours?
The fact that this is already cut down footage and it’s still an hour long AND it’s ALREADY labeled part 1…. I think is proof that Mark couldn’t stop and is still playing to this day😔☝️
I don't really know anything about Poker so I have no idea what is going on this entire video, but Mark seems to be having fun so I might watch another video of him playing this.
Watching this gameplay gives me severe anxiety because of my 435 hours in total playtime of this game. I wanted to help him so many times and also make the game speed x2. But I do love the game and support you on your Balatro journey.
34:35 "But rank, that means these are probably numbers, because there are way more numbers than there are faces" 34:56 "These don't move, so that means these are of the same suit" 35:33 "This should be a flush" Now those were big brain moments 🧠
Couple things: >you can also customize your deck! there’s some collaborations that change the look of the face cards, if you’d like! >blank voucher really does nothing, lol. If you’d buy it a total of ten times though, something might happen :)
@goob-cr6yq after buying it 10 times, it unlocks a new voucher, You can get this new voucher on future runs, only after first buying the blank voucher on that run again, So, get it 10 times total, and then any future runs where you buy it, you may now find a VERY strong voucher, as in, you want to buy it every time, no matter what
I managed to break my Balatro addiction back in June and the music alone in this is giving me the itch to buy it on mobile and have it with me everywhere I go
The mobile version is easily the best bc you can ‘pick’ up your cards and wave them around on your screen before playing them. So satisfying selling or using any card. 10/10 worth it every time! Do it >:3c
And just like that, he abandons Distractible, GMFST!, and never finishes the rest of Iron Lung. Now we just get to watch as he slowly progresses into madness as his hair and beard get longer. Both dogs are gone and Amy left him. All that remains... is Balatro.
Honestly I fully believe it's an ADHD or neuro divergent thing because it's like you read it but you just didn't really comprehend it until you actually do that thing.. Because I totally do the same thing 😂
You did pretty well for the tutorial level and having nothing unlocked. Just a reminder there is a difference between ADDING mult and MULTIPLYING mult. In terms of which one to focus on, either the blue chips or the red mult, its usually better to focus on the mult since either one results in the same amount, but the red is the only one that can increase via multiplication
with five joker slots you want to work towards at least 1 good chip generator, preferably one that scales over the course of a game. it does depend on the deck but you can pretty much clear white and red stake on most decks by getting a decent chip generating joker early, stuntman is essentially a guaranteed clear on most pre-green stake runs.
They really should’ve colour coded it something different to show it’s a different multiplier for new players. I know a lot of people when they first start see red and “mult” and assume it’s the same. I thought the same thing the first time I played. Make it cyan, or purple or smth.
@@jira6423it's white on a red background instead of red. making it something totally different would just be confusing because it isn't some different stat like the green probabilities
Yeah, figuring this out and the joker trigger pattern, and that you can adjust it mid run really helped me. Discovering the power of the stone/steel combo too.
Mark stumbling onto Bus, one of the better scaling Jokers in the game, and thinking it's bad is hilarious Also another falls victim to the +Mult vs X Mult difference
Bus is actually a pretty awful joker but I can see it being a pretty good carry if all your other jokers are complete ass. His problem is that he didn't have any good chip and x mult jokers. You can keep simply adding mult but the increasing Antes are gonna screw you without any good x multipliers to increase that mult
@@samanthacarpenter9332 Welp, time to defend the GOAT… If you see Bus early, you have no reason not to take them. That is +4 Mult a round. That is a $1 to +1 conversion rate of money to Mult, which is only matched by Dagger. If you play 10 rounds with it, putting you in Ante 5 if you get it in 1 or 2, that is almost always +40 Mult. Mark played non-optimally and got over 50 on it. That is busted. With any X Mult, that just wins. Downsides? You can’t play face cards? Who cares? Play pairs with three throwaway face cards to discard em, or Ace high cards, then play the hand you need to win. You can easily remove face cards, and having more chips doesn’t make them that much better because planets and jokers exist for that. Bus easily carries any run if you find it pre-Ante 3, and still does good work if you find it pre-Ante 4 boss. Solid A tier joker
My favorite part about watching Mark is, he plays so dumb, that I genuinely learn better how the game works because he's testing things I never would have thought to try.
This game is soo damn addicting! Props for Mark's first run, despite all the mistakes made, which I know we've all made playing this, he made all the way to the final ante boss!
That was shockingly more fun, and more addicting, than I expected going into this video. At first I was like 'Meh, a silly card game? This is boring, why watch this?' but I gave it a chance anyway, and...yeah, there's just something extremely fun about it. Mark isn't wrong! I'd love to see more.
Few tips: 1. -1 ante, -1 hand is good for when you are struggling. You can essentially give yourself more time to prep for the late game since the amount of chips you need to score will be lower in the lower antes. 2. When you buy vouchers it unlocks the possibility for an upgraded version of the voucher to show up in the store. So maybe the blank voucher does nothing? how do you upgrade nothing? 3. If you have a bad hand, play your best option but still make sure to play 5 cards. You might only score with 2 of the cards you played but you'll discard all 5 meaning you get to draw 5 new cards.
1. yeah youre basically going back in time to have more time to buy stuff, which is useful unless you have a lot of leeway in scoring (like scoring 400,000 in a 10,000 ante, then its debatable)
4. There are 3 card effect types, but you really only need to remember, "any card change that a Tarot card applies does not stack." If you're applying an effect via a tarot card, remember it will overwrite any other effect that comes from tarot cards (Bonus, Multi, Lucky, Wild, Stone, Glass, Steel, Gold...). Sometimes you want to do this, but usually you don't.
i wouldn't be opposed to this bein a mini series. It's kinda fascinatin to see someone learn this game first hand, from a person who is heavily addicted and has broken the game multiple times. The only thing i was genuinely bothered by you figured out half way through the video, and that was the game speed. XD whether you do it for yourself or for content, i'm glad you like that game.
Mark, just a tip for this game as I’ve played it, DONT get careless about your cards or the blinds, that can backfire on you, also make sure to read all the joker descriptions when you see them in the shop because a lot of them can benefit you by a landslide
That was very entertaining! I love Balatro already and I would 100% watch a series of it. Although YES, it is extremely addictive, Mark might not survive. It's fine, as long as no one tells him that it's on mobile.
@@nefariou5I don’t think so. Mark doesn’t seem like the person to pre film videos like that. He’s never wearing the same clothes In similar series divided in parts. I think he just films a decent portion until he’s ready to be done.
36:45 The Ankh voucher's function (and it IS a good one) is to send you back one layer of the run in return for knocking you down -1 hand. That's often worth it because playing an entire extra low-risk Ante (since the score minimums to win go back down too) is a HUGE chance to get money and upgrades before Ante 8. Basically you'd be cashing in the +1 Hand you bought so long ago in return for 3 more guaranteed-win fights worth of cash, shops, hands played (for enhancing Ride The Bus), etc.
Passing that directly into a negative joker and skipping would definitely haunt me. I’m surprised he didn’t notice the negative effect since he was actually paying attention and reading everything else.
It's so vindicating watching others make all the same newbie mistakes that you did. Who amongst us has not been fooled by the dreaded "consecutive" qualifier :') And the way I gasped in despair when he passed over that negative blue joker, and hologram... It's so tempting to offer a bunch of advice, but this is the type of game that's by far the most fun when you play it "trial by error" style. Figuring out what works and what will instantly kill a run is the addictive secret sauce. If you're out there and considering getting Balatro, this is your sign: give yourself over to the temptation of Jimbo.
I got this on switch recently and I played at least 2 hours on my first open of the game. And I’ve purposefully been avoiding it due to knowing I may fall into an addiction. But now it’s Christmas break and honestly who cares now if I waste my time playing a card game, finals are over. Hopefully my addiction will subside by the time the next semester starts. So thanks mark for reminding of this game!
it’s honestly scary how easy it is to get addicted to it. i also got it on my switch, and when i first played it i felt like “huh, why is this game so popular?” then, like, 5 hours passed by and it only felt like 5 minutes.
i nearly broke the addiction the first time because i got so many unlucky runs that i refunded the game initially lol but i returned, for better and for worse lmao
What I recommend for these videos, drop the webcam down into the space between the deck and the consumables (next to your displayed hand) That space is never used (to my knowledge) throughout runs, whereas having it in the corner obscures your consumables from view Edit: Actually that space is just used for achievement notifications and deck unlocks, which are rarely seen anyway
This was one of the best games of the year for sure. Honestly the simplest idea but done so so well. The fact a game like this was even up for GOTY says it all.
Mark, my guy - add the cards you don't want to your hands. It's like a free discard. For example, if you're playing a pair of 6s, you can add a K, Q and J to them. The face cards don't count, because pair is stronger, so they just do nothing but get thrown away. And yes, they would not reset your Ride the Bus. This works even if you're playing High Card, as long as the cards you're ditching are lower than your high card. In this case, you could just play Ace high and add K, Q and J and they wouldn't have counted. Just don't add a 10 to that, because you'll get a Straight and that would count all the face cards.
Mark unknowingly passing on one of the top 3 non legendary cards thinking its useless hurts my brain but also i've played 100 hours so my brain is already broken
When my roommates first showed me this game, I thought it was stupid. It seems like it's a luck-based one-step-above-idle game that sucks all your time away without anything relevant happening. I now have almost 50 hours on this thing. It's definitely much more overrated than it should be, but it is definitely much more underrated than I thought it would be. Good game. But all I can picture is me lying on my deathbed, playing Balatro, but still not able to come close to my roommates record of Two-point-something e+32 (2 nonillion) chips in a single hand. As in two followed by THIRTY TWO ZEROS. IN A SINGLE HAND. Frankly, I'm not sure he's totally human. My very best hand of any of my games barely got to 2e+12. Simon, if you're reading this, I haven't forgiven you. One day, I WILL eclipse your high score Balatro hand of 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 chips, or my name isn't Mark. You just wait and see.
Having lost almost half a year to this game, it brings me unsurmountable joy to see markiplier playing it. Hopefully he has a greater will than I, otherwise this may be the only series he plays for all of next year.
Red Seal cards are some extremely good cards, they retrigger every single bonus that affects them, meaning a 10 of hearts with a red seal would get affected by the walkie talkie, the red joker, and its own 10 chip boost twice.
@OMGItzSlickerz try it yourself. The only similarities this game has to Poker is hand strengths. That's it. Everything else, you would not find in a poker game.
It's actually so funny that my first time seeing a Mark video in my feed in years is right after finally dipping my toes into the Balatro ecosystem. That's a good sign. Nature is healing. Glad to see Mark is still doing well
26:01 Blanks don't have any _immediate_ value, but redeeming 5 of them unlocks a new voucher that gives you an extra Joker slot - however, said voucher also requires you buy a blank voucher earlier in the run first, so keep that in mind
I love that for a video that may possibly be in a series, this is considered an incredibly long video and I am 100% for it and hope they're all equally as long.
Ive been wanting to watch letsplays of this game.. but i dont know anything about poker and i suck at math 💀 but you mark made it easy for me to understand whats going on. The fact that you started with only numbers made me understand more about the terminology. And you took it slow, which also helped not be overwhelmed with information. So really appreciate it 🙏 def want more if tis
How dare you! I Stopped Playing after a 5-Hour-long Session, just to get on UA-cam to see This Video??? This game haunts my dreams! I need help... and i love it!
Before that he even could have had a combo with the two jokers. If he first plays a six, it's desroyed for a spectral card, but the other joker would have made a copy of the six and put it in his deck (If arranged right) so his first hand every game could be a spectral card generator
As someone who loves poker, gambling, rogue-likes , and card games in general... this game scratches all the itches. I don't think I have ever loaded up Balatro and played for anywhere less than 2+ hours.
And just like that, millions more will fall for the Balatro addiction. Another huge win for Big Balatro.
Shayy undertale in welcomes comment section???
Hi Shayy
balato prog
What are you doing here?
Shayy, it's late, go play Balatro
That “Part 1” scares me… it’s like he’s already accepted he’s going to be addicted…
You might wanna read the video description lol
It’s too late
he’s one of us now
He was looking for a new hyper-fixation in a recent Distractible episode. Looks like he found it.
part 300 and 59 season 87!
Remember that monster clicker game he made a video on litterly explaining how that game was ruining his life.
Oh god, this can't turn into a series. You won't ever stop
finally. infinite content
YESSSSS😊🤩🤩🤩🤩@@atytheangel
Omg😂
yes please make this a series but please please please put the game speed to ultra
the 'Part 1' in the title makes me so happy for this reason
Fun fact: The creator of this game directly wrote it into HIS WILL that the mechanics of this game is barred from being utilized for any kind of gambling. He did so, so that it can be enforced even after he dies. Why? Because it's literally JUST THAT ADDICTIVE.
Hahaha that sounds like a UA-cam title; “I Made A Game SO Addicting I Had To CHANGE My Will!?”
Honestly, even if there is a good moral reason for him to write that in his will, someone shouldn't be allowed to utilize their will in such a way. Same logic with the practice of patenting video game mechanics.
@@FusionCyborg nah patents need to exists or everyone would copy everything and make it cheaper/worse, we'd lost out on a lot of creativity.
@@Zanaki113 I said patenting _video game mechanics_ and not patenting in general, plus the amount of video games made nowadays require game devs to get creative with mechanics in order for their games to stand out as unique enough in order to get sales (Unless you have a recognizable I.P. on board.).
@FusionCyborg I mean, I get where you're coming from. But also, he genuinely felt it was either that, or run the genuine risk of gambling companies taking the predatory exploitation of people's gambling addictions to a whole new level of fucked up.
Take your pick of moral quandary I guess 🤷♂️
mark is the kinda man to take the path of most resistance just to see if his body can take it. every neglected power up and skipped tutorial affirms this more and more.
But hes not a masochist
@@darcidious99so this masochist joke is still going 3 years later?
@@rockycuro7737
Yet no matter how many times the joke is used, no matter how old it gets, it still manages to fit mark somehow.
@rockycuro7737 no because he isn't a masochist
Anti-lightning
banging on the glass screaming "MARK! MARK ACES AREN'T FACE CARDS! MAAARK"
It even specifically tells him which ones are face cards right on the Ride The Bus art.
Me but with all the boosters and powered up Jokers he could've used. I know you hate reading these instructions, Mark, but please 🥺
@@SuperPetitprincess seeing him skip that negative joker he could've gotten was pain
@@freakysquirrel7218also skipping DNA is diabolical
And with reading xmult as +mult like PLEASE MARK
Can’t wait to hear about this on Distractible for the next two weeks.
Your Uncle's favorite podcast Distractible?!
@@Joecraft02actually my sisters cousins fiancé’s twice removed best friends podcast
I can already hear Bob laughing hysterically.
@@Joecraft02 The top podcast on my neighborhood
Mark is definitely gonna steal this game somehow like he did with Buckshot Roulette
Mark, you'll probably hear this a lot, but the biggest things to look for in Jokers are multiplier multipliers, as they straight up exponentially increase your mult rather than just adding to it. Glad you like the game, it's a real fun one!
but only if he has a way to reach like 50 or something mults first, multiplying a 2 mult to 4 would be wasteful
@oof5732it's a delicate balance of switching like halfway through
Markiplier must make multiple multipliers because multiplying his mult will make him a multi-millionaire
You need a combination of chips, flat mult, and xmult to get consistent wins, but Jokers are the most consistent way to get xmult while planets are a bit better for chips and flat mult. Doesn't mean there aren't good flat mult jokers though! Almost every single seed is winnable if you play well enough.
@csconnor5160 True! I'd love to see him play the checkered deck (my personal favorite) since he loved going for flushes so much
Blank voucher: "does nothing"
Mark: "I don't believe it"
Blank voucher: *proceeds to do nothing*
Mark: Surprised Pikachu face
I mean technically if you buy it enough times it does...
@@BullofCreteYeah but does he KNOW that? I believe he’ll get the next reward from buying it multiple times purely by accident because he’s insane lol.
I mean, yeah, I was expecting it to have hidden value too lol
Or rather hidden value sooner than it actually does
When the game itself backseats you who are you gonna believe? The backseaters in the comments clearly trolling or the game trollng you?
Hey, there was a question mark.
mark drawing the most broken combo of 6th sense and dna and the re rolling shattered my heart into a billion pieces
And the skipped negative joker 😢
He would have had to sell his jokers to afford it, to a new player that doesn't seem worth it. Hell, I remember I had a vampire, pareidolia, midas combo on one of my first runs(might have legit been my first) and sold pareidolia because I thought Ride The Bus would carry me further and didn't quite understand how mult worked just yet. I thought Vampire was adding mult rather than multiplying mult, and to add insult to injury I figured that out just shortly after selling pareidolia.
Tbf as an experienced player this feels wrong yeah, but he also made tons of right plays. He knows poker hands, he analyzes what certain joker/tarot does, he's doing experiments with things that "does nothing"
It's the tutorial seed. You probably skipped that as well. We all did.
@@Happy_doggoi have never played balatro what is a 6th sense what is a dna WHAT THE HELL IS A NEGATIVE JOKER????
OMG I never knew I need a one hour video of mark playing the equivalent of digital crack. My condolences to his already unexisting free time
Unexisting isn't a word, nonexistent is the one your looking for
@@shawncarney9657 the unexistent word
I always thought Vampire Survivors was digital crack myself.
@@shawncarney9657 it is a word.❤
@@shawncarney9657wrong, it's a word now, we just made it and we can come up with a definition. You understood what they meant, so it's just semantics right? Or rather you didn't, because "non" and "un" function differently as prefixes; non means "not" while un can mean both "not" and "reverse"; so "nonexistent" is not a suitable synonym for the new word "unexisting". As well, existing can be used as a verb, existent is just an adjective. Given the prefix "un", and the root word "existing", unexisting would appear to be a verb. I would suggest vanishing to be a better synonym, though "unexisting" in this context seems to suggest lost /potential/ rather than the disappearing of something that already exists.
To paraphrase linguistic philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein "language is use, nerds"
Your correction has been corrected by an even bigger language nerd. The scales of the universe balance themselves.
Remember, you need to place your jokers in a specific order to maximize their abilities. They're basically like a math equation. Any joker that gives extra chips, go to the left, jokers that add to the multiplyer stay in the middle, jokers that multiply to the multipyer stay to the right. E.g. +5 chips, +30chips, +4mult, +8 mult, x2mult (5+30)x(4+8)x2. Also, if you run out of discards and need to get rid of more, try adding them to your played hand if you hand is less than the maximum of 5. E.g. you're playing a pair, take the opportunity to trash 3 (or less) unwanted cards, or if you're playing a 2 pair, trash one card.
12:38 Getting a negative joker in the tutorial run is CRAZY
Skipping it is even crazier
Watching him skip it when he could have sold turtle bean hurt my soul lol
I gasped when I saw the negative card
And the red card just to sell it immediately
It physically pained me
Balatro kept me sane when I was reviewing for my board exams (I’m a licensed professional teacher now!) and I love that Mark is now making a series out of this game.
Good luck with the decks, the stakes, and the challenges!
bravo enjoy your teaching license
balatro player, markiplier watcher, and loona stan? excellent combo my friend
That initial encounter with Blank is so relatable. Despite all evidence of the contrary and the game's assumption of your better judgement, the gamer instinct in you clamors of the existence of a hidden effect and salivates at the challenge of discovering it. The adamant pickup, the awkward pause after, the slow realization, it's all there.
I'll say this: just as how using the Sun to turn your cards into hearts may have consequences, good or bad, that are not yet apparent, so too does buying the Blank. Indeed, even though Blank itself truly does nothing.
In his defense, if you buy it 10 times, you unlock a new voucher
Dark Souls Pendant moment
WtF does any of this even mean
@@TheDevilockedzombieyou gotta buy blank 10 times (each unique vouvher can only be bought once per game) to unlock a pretty good secret voucher to potentially pull in your games
@@TheDevilockedzombiehe spent $10 on the blank voucher (bottom left part of shop) that literally does nothing but serve as an unlock function for a very good voucher later on.
Coming here after watching RT's playthroughs was some wild tonal whiplash, and I am so looking forward to Mark spiraling in the same way RT did. This game is nuts, can't wait to see more!
i can easily see Multiplier - i mean Markiplier- making a series bit where each episode he slowly goes more and more insane with Lixian editing more insanity effects.
i cracked up when Mark said 24 was gigantic on the multiplier
Fitz did say something along the lines of 'This does something special to a specific type of neurodivergent man'. Glad to see his point is being proven.
tell me he saw this 😂😂😂
Seeing number go up did something to my monkey brain
Now we need him to play Vampire Survivors.
it's just gambling stacked on top of more gambling (and strategy). but i agree lmao, it gets both the men and the women!
I actually didn't understand this game when I saw someone else play it.
While I still kind of don't, Mark playing this made me understand it more. Keep playing!
Then play it! It's on everything from pc to consoles to mobile. It's unbelievable once it clicks.
Same to me till I played it. It actually WAS the reason why I played it. So that I would unsterstand these vids xD
@@enderspider5001 omg omg rainworld pfp!
SAME! I saw Cjya play it and my reaction was💀❓️
I didnt know how Poker works until i played this game
26:30 it actually does nothing for that run specifically. But if you buy it 10 times throughout the game (not just that run). You permanently unlock one of the best vouchers in the game.
thanks for the tip
im pretty sure it has to be 10 times in the same run and then it unlocks forever
@@rafaelamendoim
It's 10 purchases over all your runs, buy it in your current run and hope for RNG to cycle in the Voucher.
@@rafaelamendoim10 times in the same run is crazy lol
Buying the Blank voucher during a run makes it possible for Antimatter (+1 joker slot) to show up in that run. So while blank does *almost* nothing, the one thing it does is potentially quite valuable. But usually, Antimatter only appears after you've entered endless.
"Hi My Name is Multiplier" in Marks voice was our running gag when my friends and I had our big balatro binge a few months ago.
Mark acknowledging that his name sounds like multiplier was vindicating.
Markiplier chose that account name because it was a combination of Mark and multiplier actually.
me and my sister were talking about watching markiplier because we always do when shes over, and she said “i watched all his recent videos, maybe he’ll upload again” exactly 30 seconds later you upload, absolutely crazy.
Eyyy
You summoned it like a wizard bro
Wait, she summoned it like a witch, read it wrong
@RogueZ-734 she could be a wizard toi
1 hour video, too. What a jackpot!
I love how ever since the Game Awards literally everyone i know of is playing Balatro right now and i love it
The house always wins...eventually
Now if only Metaphor got the same treatment…
I still dunno how Astrobot won, but i guess the CEO got to feel some ego boost from losing $800M and having no buyers for the new console
@@Nothinglikeagoodnut Astrobot is better than this.
not saying astro bot is better than this, but how are we still going on about it? goty is 90% journos 10% audience, and a lot more journos own a ps than the general gamer audience
just get past it, my personal goty are this game and metaphor
what's yours?
Huge news, another one of my favorites playing balatro
Yes
+1 Victim of Jimbo
yees
@souperchicken9395 did you cross post this to r/Markiplier too?? See you on the balatro one made me check here haha
The fact that this is already cut down footage and it’s still an hour long AND it’s ALREADY labeled part 1…. I think is proof that Mark couldn’t stop and is still playing to this day😔☝️
Mad props to Mark for doing so good on his first run, like damn. Really hoping for this as a short series, omg
???? I'm hoping this is his longest series ever
Short and Balatro don't belong in the same sentence.
hello everybody, my name is markiplier and welcome back to balatro episode 56. in todays run, we'll be trying an all stone card deck run.
I don't really know anything about Poker so I have no idea what is going on this entire video, but Mark seems to be having fun so I might watch another video of him playing this.
@@slackolantern Learn and play this game, you won’t be disappointed.
Watching this gameplay gives me severe anxiety because of my 435 hours in total playtime of this game. I wanted to help him so many times and also make the game speed x2. But I do love the game and support you on your Balatro journey.
I have to watch it in 2x lol it's too slow for me
435 WHAT?!
Im too used to 4 times speed. Because yeah this feels so slow. Atleast 2 time speed
The slow card counting really stresses me out
me and Mark thank you
Gotta love a good ol round of Balatro. And getting all the way to Ante 8 on your first run is insane! Good run!
Tell that to a certain Irish drift king who just straight up won in their first run-through
@@bilingualistic8514RTGame lmao
34:35 "But rank, that means these are probably numbers, because there are way more numbers than there are faces"
34:56 "These don't move, so that means these are of the same suit"
35:33 "This should be a flush"
Now those were big brain moments 🧠
Except he didn't realize discarding the face down cards was an option to get face up cards. lmao
you're doing the Lord's work. 👍
Couple things:
>you can also customize your deck! there’s some collaborations that change the look of the face cards, if you’d like!
>blank voucher really does nothing, lol. If you’d buy it a total of ten times though, something might happen :)
What happens?? :D
@goob-cr6yq It unlocks Blank's upgrade, a VERY strong voucher.
@goob-cr6yq after buying it 10 times, it unlocks a new voucher,
You can get this new voucher on future runs, only after first buying the blank voucher on that run again,
So, get it 10 times total, and then any future runs where you buy it, you may now find a VERY strong voucher, as in, you want to buy it every time, no matter what
A voucher that says: gain 1 joker slot,
Holy shit, that flush with half blind cards was seriously a pro gamer move, well done!
Yeah, that was amazing to watch him figure out
I managed to break my Balatro addiction back in June and the music alone in this is giving me the itch to buy it on mobile and have it with me everywhere I go
Its the full version and now Im addicted to mobile port
Bought it in my phone. I have no regrets of my purchase! 😂
depends how productive do you like to be? because this is all i spend my breaks at work doing lol
The only thing that broke my balatro addiction was a slay the spire addiction. But lately it’s been an equal addiction to both
The mobile version is easily the best bc you can ‘pick’ up your cards and wave them around on your screen before playing them. So satisfying selling or using any card. 10/10 worth it every time!
Do it >:3c
And just like that, he abandons Distractible, GMFST!, and never finishes the rest of Iron Lung. Now we just get to watch as he slowly progresses into madness as his hair and beard get longer. Both dogs are gone and Amy left him.
All that remains... is Balatro.
*cackles maniacally*
I love Marks inability to read something, before he uses it and then instantly regretting it xD
Honestly I fully believe it's an ADHD or neuro divergent thing because it's like you read it but you just didn't really comprehend it until you actually do that thing..
Because I totally do the same thing 😂
You did pretty well for the tutorial level and having nothing unlocked. Just a reminder there is a difference between ADDING mult and MULTIPLYING mult.
In terms of which one to focus on, either the blue chips or the red mult, its usually better to focus on the mult since either one results in the same amount, but the red is the only one that can increase via multiplication
with five joker slots you want to work towards at least 1 good chip generator, preferably one that scales over the course of a game. it does depend on the deck but you can pretty much clear white and red stake on most decks by getting a decent chip generating joker early, stuntman is essentially a guaranteed clear on most pre-green stake runs.
They really should’ve colour coded it something different to show it’s a different multiplier for new players. I know a lot of people when they first start see red and “mult” and assume it’s the same. I thought the same thing the first time I played. Make it cyan, or purple or smth.
@@jira6423it's white on a red background instead of red. making it something totally different would just be confusing because it isn't some different stat like the green probabilities
Yeah, figuring this out and the joker trigger pattern, and that you can adjust it mid run really helped me. Discovering the power of the stone/steel combo too.
@@Cruxin it essentially is something different. It’s basically another multiplier like chips and mult. Chips x (Mult x White red Mult)
Mark stumbling onto Bus, one of the better scaling Jokers in the game, and thinking it's bad is hilarious
Also another falls victim to the +Mult vs X Mult difference
He realises it's true potential later on when its kinda the only thing carrying his deck to victory lol
I think his problem is understanding "consecutive".
You played a face card, Mark. You went to zero consecutive times not playing them XD
Bus sucks i said it
Bus is actually a pretty awful joker but I can see it being a pretty good carry if all your other jokers are complete ass. His problem is that he didn't have any good chip and x mult jokers. You can keep simply adding mult but the increasing Antes are gonna screw you without any good x multipliers to increase that mult
@@samanthacarpenter9332 Welp, time to defend the GOAT…
If you see Bus early, you have no reason not to take them. That is +4 Mult a round. That is a $1 to +1 conversion rate of money to Mult, which is only matched by Dagger. If you play 10 rounds with it, putting you in Ante 5 if you get it in 1 or 2, that is almost always +40 Mult. Mark played non-optimally and got over 50 on it. That is busted. With any X Mult, that just wins.
Downsides? You can’t play face cards? Who cares? Play pairs with three throwaway face cards to discard em, or Ace high cards, then play the hand you need to win. You can easily remove face cards, and having more chips doesn’t make them that much better because planets and jokers exist for that.
Bus easily carries any run if you find it pre-Ante 3, and still does good work if you find it pre-Ante 4 boss. Solid A tier joker
My favorite part about watching Mark is, he plays so dumb, that I genuinely learn better how the game works because he's testing things I never would have thought to try.
Even markiplier is playing Balatro now. I still cannot believe how Balatro has come this far, absolutely astonishing. Incredible Performance, Bravo
thanks!
I hope this becomes the new Powerwashing Simulator for Mark. There can never be enough Balatro.
This game is soo damn addicting! Props for Mark's first run, despite all the mistakes made, which I know we've all made playing this, he made all the way to the final ante boss!
HE DID SO WELL THE ENTIRE RUN. esp for a first time dude holy moly
“I Know it can become kinda crazy” 2:51 RTGame’s Infinity score is evidence of this.
Left into Right 😌
RTGame being the 1573rd player to ever achieve an Infinity score, truly one of the hardest achievements of all time.
Left card into the right card 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
Turn the left card into the right card.
Turn the LEFT card into the RIGHT card
That was shockingly more fun, and more addicting, than I expected going into this video. At first I was like 'Meh, a silly card game? This is boring, why watch this?' but I gave it a chance anyway, and...yeah, there's just something extremely fun about it. Mark isn't wrong! I'd love to see more.
Balatro is awesome :)
There's a reason it was nominated for Game of the Year at this year's Game Awards (and probably should have won too)
bro i cant ubderstand anything lmao
Card games are fun! People generally dismiss them but they're some of the best and more in-depth games around (the good ones, at least).
i hate your comment
Few tips:
1. -1 ante, -1 hand is good for when you are struggling. You can essentially give yourself more time to prep for the late game since the amount of chips you need to score will be lower in the lower antes.
2. When you buy vouchers it unlocks the possibility for an upgraded version of the voucher to show up in the store. So maybe the blank voucher does nothing? how do you upgrade nothing?
3. If you have a bad hand, play your best option but still make sure to play 5 cards. You might only score with 2 of the cards you played but you'll discard all 5 meaning you get to draw 5 new cards.
1. yeah youre basically going back in time to have more time to buy stuff, which is useful unless you have a lot of leeway in scoring (like scoring 400,000 in a 10,000 ante, then its debatable)
4. There are 3 card effect types, but you really only need to remember, "any card change that a Tarot card applies does not stack." If you're applying an effect via a tarot card, remember it will overwrite any other effect that comes from tarot cards (Bonus, Multi, Lucky, Wild, Stone, Glass, Steel, Gold...). Sometimes you want to do this, but usually you don't.
keep in mind that this is a fresh save so he hasnt unlocked any upgraded vouchers
2: This is if you buy that 10 times.
6. Don't play Golden Needle Challenge
Does anyone remember when Mark said he didn't trust Honey "that one browing extentions" back in like 2022 and now he was right
i wouldn't be opposed to this bein a mini series. It's kinda fascinatin to see someone learn this game first hand, from a person who is heavily addicted and has broken the game multiple times. The only thing i was genuinely bothered by you figured out half way through the video, and that was the game speed. XD whether you do it for yourself or for content, i'm glad you like that game.
Rt?
35:43 ok that was actually insane. Nice job😮
This is where it starts. The Balatro addiction.
[[ applause ]]
Mark, just a tip for this game as I’ve played it, DONT get careless about your cards or the blinds, that can backfire on you, also make sure to read all the joker descriptions when you see them in the shop because a lot of them can benefit you by a landslide
That was very entertaining! I love Balatro already and I would 100% watch a series of it. Although YES, it is extremely addictive, Mark might not survive. It's fine, as long as no one tells him that it's on mobile.
I love how he has already put part 1 because he knows he’s gonna play more
more like, he probably played another hour or two of it already so there's videos pending upload
@@nefariou5I don’t think so. Mark doesn’t seem like the person to pre film videos like that. He’s never wearing the same clothes In similar series divided in parts. I think he just films a decent portion until he’s ready to be done.
@stellamariss3335 you don't know when this was recorded, though. It could have been weeks ago and he could've played more since then
literally just read the description lol
@@stellamariss3335 -He did it during rust, phasmophobia and Uno.
36:45 The Ankh voucher's function (and it IS a good one) is to send you back one layer of the run in return for knocking you down -1 hand. That's often worth it because playing an entire extra low-risk Ante (since the score minimums to win go back down too) is a HUGE chance to get money and upgrades before Ante 8. Basically you'd be cashing in the +1 Hand you bought so long ago in return for 3 more guaranteed-win fights worth of cash, shops, hands played (for enhancing Ride The Bus), etc.
Cowards weapon real balatro players go all in and fold right after
Watching mark go past a DNA and Spectral 6 in the same shop roll physically hurt me. That has such good potential for a build.
Don't worry, when he learns more about this game it'll destroy him, too
Passing that directly into a negative joker and skipping would definitely haunt me. I’m surprised he didn’t notice the negative effect since he was actually paying attention and reading everything else.
"Part 1"... Markiplier about to enter his Northernlion arc
It's so vindicating watching others make all the same newbie mistakes that you did. Who amongst us has not been fooled by the dreaded "consecutive" qualifier :') And the way I gasped in despair when he passed over that negative blue joker, and hologram...
It's so tempting to offer a bunch of advice, but this is the type of game that's by far the most fun when you play it "trial by error" style. Figuring out what works and what will instantly kill a run is the addictive secret sauce. If you're out there and considering getting Balatro, this is your sign: give yourself over to the temptation of Jimbo.
Nah game looks boring. I love card games and thats why i was expecting something interesting from this given the hype, but its just so basic.
@TeenPerspektivayou should play it
@@yahkimicki236 yeah no. Im good with the likes of yugioh, inscryption and slay the spire
@TeenPerspektiva fair enough, all great games too
@@yahkimicki236 🤝
seeing [PART 1] makes me so happy, you have no clue how deep the rabbit hole goes and I'm exited to see how it goes!
Glad that Mark is finally checking out this completly underrated and overlooked game that didn't win any awards what so ever.
Completely flew under the radar. Surprised anyone has heard of it.
Yar harr
@@lydellbI actually heard of it from a UA-cam video discussing underrated switch games.
I don't know if this was sarcasm, but the game did win the best indie game award.
@Venomous-Smirk it was. That's why I mentioned awards in the first place.
I did not think clicking on an innocent little video from my favorite youtuber would start a crippling addiction
I got this on switch recently and I played at least 2 hours on my first open of the game. And I’ve purposefully been avoiding it due to knowing I may fall into an addiction. But now it’s Christmas break and honestly who cares now if I waste my time playing a card game, finals are over. Hopefully my addiction will subside by the time the next semester starts. So thanks mark for reminding of this game!
just replace by getting a new addiction to a different game
no worries just have to unlock all the dexks and cjips and break the score cap no biggie just a hundred hours
it’s honestly scary how easy it is to get addicted to it. i also got it on my switch, and when i first played it i felt like “huh, why is this game so popular?” then, like, 5 hours passed by and it only felt like 5 minutes.
i nearly broke the addiction the first time because i got so many unlucky runs that i refunded the game initially lol
but i returned, for better and for worse lmao
Have fun Balatro-ing
Mark: "That's great, That's great"
BALATRO: "That's Great" 19:03
that was edited
What I recommend for these videos, drop the webcam down into the space between the deck and the consumables (next to your displayed hand)
That space is never used (to my knowledge) throughout runs, whereas having it in the corner obscures your consumables from view
Edit: Actually that space is just used for achievement notifications and deck unlocks, which are rarely seen anyway
Agreed
Mark hunting desperately for a Straight Flush without realizing that a normal Flush is just better.
The intro alone gives me a “A date with Markiplier” flashback
This was one of the best games of the year for sure. Honestly the simplest idea but done so so well. The fact a game like this was even up for GOTY says it all.
as a huge fan of the inscryption videos,, I absolutely love this game, please make it a series...... PLEASE
the face down flush play was top tier!
Mark, my guy - add the cards you don't want to your hands. It's like a free discard. For example, if you're playing a pair of 6s, you can add a K, Q and J to them. The face cards don't count, because pair is stronger, so they just do nothing but get thrown away. And yes, they would not reset your Ride the Bus.
This works even if you're playing High Card, as long as the cards you're ditching are lower than your high card. In this case, you could just play Ace high and add K, Q and J and they wouldn't have counted. Just don't add a 10 to that, because you'll get a Straight and that would count all the face cards.
Just got the game yesterday and this helped me out too😂
The blank voucher does nothing, but if you buy 10 of them over the course of your runs, you unlock a very good voucher. Great vid ❤
37:19 I love the moment Mark realized his new joker fixed the exact problem he was having with number cards not being worth enough
this game has taken over my life and I am beyond happy to see such a big face on YT covering this game because it deserves its flowers 🧡🧡
44:28 "I don't even know why, but it's really fun" Here's why: multipliers go brrrr 📈
Mark unknowingly passing on one of the top 3 non legendary cards thinking its useless hurts my brain but also i've played 100 hours so my brain is already broken
YES MARK! BALATRO IS GOATED!!! THE ADDICTION WILL NEVER END!!!
When my roommates first showed me this game, I thought it was stupid. It seems like it's a luck-based one-step-above-idle game that sucks all your time away without anything relevant happening. I now have almost 50 hours on this thing. It's definitely much more overrated than it should be, but it is definitely much more underrated than I thought it would be. Good game. But all I can picture is me lying on my deathbed, playing Balatro, but still not able to come close to my roommates record of Two-point-something e+32 (2 nonillion) chips in a single hand. As in two followed by THIRTY TWO ZEROS. IN A SINGLE HAND. Frankly, I'm not sure he's totally human. My very best hand of any of my games barely got to 2e+12. Simon, if you're reading this, I haven't forgiven you. One day, I WILL eclipse your high score Balatro hand of 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 chips, or my name isn't Mark. You just wait and see.
A whole hour! Plus "Part 1"! Caught me off guard. Long videos on a quality game! Love to see it
Having lost almost half a year to this game, it brings me unsurmountable joy to see markiplier playing it. Hopefully he has a greater will than I, otherwise this may be the only series he plays for all of next year.
Red Seal cards are some extremely good cards, they retrigger every single bonus that affects them, meaning a 10 of hearts with a red seal would get affected by the walkie talkie, the red joker, and its own 10 chip boost twice.
i have never played poker in my life, i dont even know how it works but watching Mark play this was so incredibly fun :D we need more
This has been my addiction for months now, it’s just too good
Bro just go play poker 😂
@ yeah but this game doesn’t require me to gamble real money so why would I do that
@OMGItzSlickerz try it yourself. The only similarities this game has to Poker is hand strengths. That's it. Everything else, you would not find in a poker game.
@@OMGItzSlickerzPoker is not as addicting as Balatro
@@OMGItzSlickerzI got banned from Vegas for playing a five of a kind
9:58 That "c'mon is right there" oh no Jimbo got to him 😞🙏
Markiplier about to make balatro sell 5 more million copies.
Mods make they game even funner
Recently saw RT with the cryptid mode. Absolute insanity
It's actually so funny that my first time seeing a Mark video in my feed in years is right after finally dipping my toes into the Balatro ecosystem.
That's a good sign. Nature is healing. Glad to see Mark is still doing well
This game has been my addiction for a while now! PLEASE play more for the channel Mark!
As someone who has put *Checks playtime* over 200 hours into this game, this excites me.
7:45... Mark... Aces aren't face cards...
15:10 FINALLY!!!!
26:01 Blanks don't have any _immediate_ value, but redeeming 5 of them unlocks a new voucher that gives you an extra Joker slot - however, said voucher also requires you buy a blank voucher earlier in the run first, so keep that in mind
Correction: You need to redeem 10 Blanks.
@@Ocsttiac Isn't 10 required for a joker that can become a copy of another joker or am I remembering wrong?
@@damian4144you unlock that one for completing a run (beat ante 8 boss)
@@damian4144 All upgrades to vouchers require buying the original 10 times to unlock.
No it's just 10 and does the whole extra slot thing
I love that for a video that may possibly be in a series, this is considered an incredibly long video and I am 100% for it and hope they're all equally as long.
Thank you Mr. President
Bro give it up
2028 baby
Jimbo got another one. His power grows.
Got Balatro a week ago and can't stop playing! Haven't even beaten the red deck yet.
I highly recommend increasing your play speed in the settings
He's learning so much. I'm so glad he's having fun
I think it's funny that years ago Markiplier said he didn't trust Honey, and 5 years later he was 100% right.
Who cares about honey
I was looking for this comment, thanks
Ive been wanting to watch letsplays of this game.. but i dont know anything about poker and i suck at math 💀 but you mark made it easy for me to understand whats going on. The fact that you started with only numbers made me understand more about the terminology. And you took it slow, which also helped not be overwhelmed with information. So really appreciate it 🙏 def want more if tis
Watching every one of my favorite youtubers getting addicted to this game is the real deal
How dare you! I Stopped Playing after a 5-Hour-long Session, just to get on UA-cam to see This Video??? This game haunts my dreams! I need help... and i love it!
Such an amazing game. It doesn’t even really start until you get into the different color chip levels. It gets truly insane.
Balatro is my 2024 Game of the Year. Astro Bot and Metaphor are my two runner ups but no other game has captured me like Balatro did.
I just finished cleaning and now I'm gonna relax and watch this. THANK YOU MARK!
Every Balatro player:
+Chips "ok, lets go"
+Mult "nice, love that"
xMult "OHHH BABYYYY"
Can't wait to see you play more of this Mark!! Wanted to point out that you can increase the game speed to 4x, which you should absolutely do!
It's fine for the first bit of him getting used to the game tbh, but he'll likely do it later
Gonna be honest, him skipping the negative joker at 12:40 really hurt my soul....
It probably wasnt worth it, skipping the booster packs hurt his run more to be honest
he couldn't afford it anyway 😔
The negative chip joker definitely hurt lol. Almost Vader Nooooo!
Before that he even could have had a combo with the two jokers. If he first plays a six, it's desroyed for a spectral card, but the other joker would have made a copy of the six and put it in his deck (If arranged right) so his first hand every game could be a spectral card generator
@@KynElwynn he couldn't afford both tho
25:02 - That's the look of a man who's hating all of his life decisions.
As someone who loves poker, gambling, rogue-likes , and card games in general... this game scratches all the itches. I don't think I have ever loaded up Balatro and played for anywhere less than 2+ hours.