Is Defender's Troll Guide Good?

[@CarlSagan42]

By law, in Minneapolis, you can't buy a soft drink over 10 oz. I hope you enjoy mini soda! (If you don't know US geography, it's a pun on Minnesota) Bonus pun: See, everyone always talks about NYC and where the Big Apple is, however nowhere near as many people know where the Minneapolis

[@Qril]

Happy MAR10 Day, Carl!

[@WyattW_]

@@Qril Wahoo

[@Xsor.]

I was never good at Geography. I don't even live in the US!

[@traingirl3234]

I hate you so much; I live in Minneapolis and DESPISE both of those puns with all of my heart; they're awful; I never want to hear them again

[@Shyuki_the_Snep]

Yooo I live in Minnesota Winter sucks but it’s nice

[@th0rn3]

carl: “five softlocks before cp1?” the clear condition: “am i a joke to you?”

[@jamesmcdavid1673]

Carl turns his brain off for troll levels.

[@JohanniklasLp]

Nah, it's CarlScam

[@nathanflinchum1153]

I just wanna know how many people actually got scammed by this lol

[@Che6t6nDe6th]

CarlScam ?

[@JohanniklasLp]

@@Che6t6nDe6th I don't know how exactly it works since I am not there during the streams, but sometimes Carl makes a prediction with two outcomes (Like "5 Softlocks before CP1" - it either happenes or it doesn't). You can bet coins on the outcome - Whoever bets on the winning outcome gets more coins, whoever bets on the losing outcome loses their coins. However, Carl does 3 types of predictions: 1. Purely based on his skill or luck, he either cannot or doesn't want to scam 2. Based on his skill or luck, but he can influence it if he feels like it (and thus pretty much scam the group that would have normally won out of their coins) (He tends to do this when there is way more bets on one outcome than the other) (He also tends to reinterpret some things a different way, like, after finishing a level, "Can I beat this level, start to finish, in one try?" and after the votes are in, asks "so which level are we playing?" - though sometimes the reinterpretion is him actually not knowing if something should count or not and maybe even questioning chat, which I, if it's genuine, count as "didn't intend to scam") 3. One of the outcomes is impossible (like the one in this case - since there is a winning condition, there won't be a CP1, so there won't be 5 softlocks before CP1), and the people who fall for it (get scammed) and choose the impossible outcome will obviously lose their coins (sometimes he does this unintentionally either because he doesn't know the layout of the level, or because he himself didn't think it through) People in Twitch Chat have named the act of him scamming "CarlScam" (or something like that, it's similar to how the words CarlBox, CarlLate (Larl),... were created)

[@JohanniklasLp]

Toad didn't read Defender's Guide to follow it He read it to despise it. To antagonise it. To make the perfect anti troll guide level.

[@Ccat06]

13:15 What a subtle change by the editor lol that one made me double take

[@C4andWaffles]

Lol. Didnt see that the first time

[@ryanweedwacker7905]

saw that too

[@SmashTom]

Not sure what you mean? I went back and checked like 3 times?

[@Arc_TheAirPirate]

@@SmashTom Give it a few seconds. ;P

[@Ccat06]

@@SmashTom the hills where the 30 coin is

[@raisukrusa]

4:50 wasn't an unnecessary soft lock, it was a redundant one. A soft lock within a soft lock just because the level creator could. It is asserting the dominance of the soft locks.

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

Narrator: *It was a necessary softlock.*

[@nibyafternight1983]

13:20 that subtle edit at the mountains with the shiny. I did notice that editor I did see you

[@Luukskywalker]

I saw it, but thought it was just in the game XD. Now i noticed that it's indeed a edit

[@kudanez2085]

if not this comment, i'd never saw it and even then it took me minute to figure it out. 🤔

[@WyattW_]

@@Luukskywalker Same

[@The_mario_fan]

@@Luukskywalker I was wondering how Carl hadn't noticed it/commented on it, didn't realize it was an in-post edit that Carl didn't see

[@Luukskywalker]

@@The_mario_fan 🤣

[@PotofGlue]

They never said toad listened to the troll guide, just that he read it

[@ShenHibiki]

Exactly what I scrolled down to comment. Not to mention TOAD read it, but Toad is not the level maker! XD

[@SukiminYakumo]

Actually he did read the troll guide…. during the level after the KCP. Prior to it, there’s a ton of softlocks and afterwards there are none.

[@bendystrawz2832]

"Sorry Mario! Your troll guide is in another castle!"

[@Dosino_]

Obviously it means "Unless someone finds another softlock to put in the level"

[@JonathanRiverafrickinnice555]

Haha

[@RedYDG]

Toad reads Defender's troll guide. Toad does not, however, follow the guide.

[@violetasuklevska9074]

"5 softlocks before CP1, yes or no?" Level: has a clear condition and no CP Is this another one of those where Carl scams chat?

[@abdi212]

Accidental scam 🥰

[@mickgorro]

I thought it was "And when Carl scared, Carl run. And when Carl run, Carl blind. And when Carl blind, Carl dead", but apparently it's "When Carl blind, Carl scam" :).

[@PtylerBeats]

I’m glad someone pointed out that he didn’t need to break the block. He died to the ending part like 4 times after he had enough information to beat it lol it was driving me nuts

[@Skye_pls]

29:50 The goomba immediately to the right of the door is mood

[@mylatahiri2572]

Thanks for the upload, much love and joy to you Mr. 42!

[@squeektheweek6949]

The editor making it a yeenis at the end is great.

[@CilantroGamer]

Yoooo I love Final Fantasy Tactics! You mentioned it was scary, I definitely agree it had some good atmosphere but funnily enough the most scared I got playing it was after putting in tens of hours I stumbled upon a hidden mechanic. For some groundwork, each character had two stats amongst others that were fairly unique to the series - "brave" and "faith". Basically brave was for physical combat stuff, and faith was for magic. The numbers had impact not only on how good you were at that thing, but how good that thing was on you (for better or worse.) Example - high faith characters would both receive more healing from healing magic, but also more damage from damaging magic. Abilities could slowly shift these numbers over time so you could min/max your characters with them. Anyway, the hidden mechanic - if a character ends up with too little brave, or too high faith, they have a risk of deserting your party. Either because they're literally too scared to fight, or because they are too devout to be violent. Well for whatever reason, and I may be misremembering, the first time I ran into this mechanic a popup happened at a time I did not expect at all, and I vaguely remember it being not formatted like the rest of the information that would be shown during gameplay. I just remember it catching me so off-guard it legitimately scared the hell out of me. It's silly. I think it shows up in the post-battle sequence, which had a very nice and pleasing, consistent flow as it presented the battle report and did all its wishy wooshy animation stuff. It'd be like a popup stylized like the game Persona showing up in the end sequence of a Mario Maker level that said "You stomped too many goombas!" or something. It was really jarring. tl;dr final fantasy tactic good but weird scare

[@whynotanyting]

27:40 I thought there was some Tolkein lore that I needed to know, but as I was looking up the joke it hit me.

[@Bashamo257]

You misunderstand, by "final version until someone finds another soft lock" means that once someone finds a 'fun' new way to force a soft lock, the level will be updated to include it.

[@froggie488]

Tactics was so amazingly dark despite it's art style. the scenes of wounded knights breaking into rooms and leaving blood trails behind them as they drag themselves to safety while a massacre happen off screen were so well done. that game needs a true re-release, not the broken ones they have been releasing for mobile. (and while advanced was also lots of fun it was not the same at all)

[@eliasdex1236]

13:20 I saw what you did there with the hills, Carl. You sneaky troll! XD

[@eliasdex1236]

It could have been the editor idea tho. idk

[@Mizufluffy]

Me at 0:57 "Oh, so there's the exit. This should be quick.", then looks at length of the video, "Wait what, it's 35:55???"

[@Balgus4]

I knew Carl was man of culture, but now that I know he played FF tactics and Chronotrigger, he truly is a gentleman and a scholar!

[@kennyshade4598]

Final Fantasy Tactics was one of my favorite games RPGs so I'm super geeked for that music level. It's a special battle theme for special situations, sometimes in forests and mountainous regions.

[@SolstaceWinters]

Desperately trying to remember the name of the song. I know the game by heart, but the name of the song is escaping me the moment I call my neurons to action. [EDIT] Never mind, I'm incredibly stupid, and didn't realize it was Apoplexy.... y'know... that thing in the title. Hoo boy, it's been a long day.

[@Slothery]

Holy cow I played Final Fantasy Tactics so much too. I remember saving up combo attacks on my whole team and absolutely obliterating something. Such a satisfying game.

[@kirbwarriork3371]

Combo attacks were introduced in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, also a solid game.

[@Slothery]

@@kirbwarriork3371 Ah whoops, yeah that's the one I meant.

[@harryh536]

Carl is the master of making things more complicated

[@Birdmaster92]

Toad treating the troll guide like Rogues treat the Geneva convention.

[@nicholaspoling9691]

I am actually working on a project that this level reminds me of: Unreal Engine Working on a Proceduraly generated maze, what rules need to be coded in for no soft locks

[@ilonachan]

unless there are one-way gates, solvable mazes don't really have softlocks? if you don't know how to generate those, Wikipedia has a page on maze generation algorithms

[@nicholaspoling9691]

@@ilonachan a soft lock in this context is a part of the maze is blocked off from the rest of it via how it creates itself, I'm building it via a grid, it goes via collums, I can't have a section of the grid unreachable.

[@mironhunia300]

@@nicholaspoling9691 Run a spanning tree algorithm, and then add some more edges if you feel like it to add cycles to the maze.

[@nicholaspoling9691]

@@mironhunia300 how I'm going about it right now is the cell/grid block above and next to it limits what it can be. If the one next to it is X take certain options out of the list, if the one above it is Y take more options out of the list, shuffle new list, make current cell the first option.

[@ilonachan]

@@nicholaspoling9691 So you need your maze to be connected? No worries, the Wikipedia article has got you covered 👍

[@doctordoctor7469]

This is a really clever level. You should make a compilation of the most clever levels with little outros. I remember there was one that was a knowledge-gated auto-scroller.

[@woodenspider]

13:23 Bet you didn’t think I noticed, but I did.

[@minuspi8372]

5:23 I like the hill peeking out from the bottom

[@xexat]

I haven't laughed this hard on a troll video in a while

[@IkomaTanomori]

Carl plays chrono trigger would be everything to me

[@kay_sou]

I appreciate the subtle edit at 13:19

[@billyjohnson199027]

Oh Carl stop it you're just the gift that keeps on giving 😍

[@billyjohnson199027]

Actual first btw ☺️

[@jeezuhskriste5759]

@@billyjohnson199027 5th actually

[@whutitdew]

@@jeezuhskriste5759 why does everyone care if they are first?

[@jeezuhskriste5759]

@@whutitdewpeople can get a sense of accomplishment from anything

[@whutitdew]

@@jeezuhskriste5759 derp

[@inoriaizawa]

I want to see an evil level dedicated to the frog suit

[@le_gus001]

13:19 good job dave 🤣🤣 it blew my mind

[@RibomRibom]

I like how Carl says "5 softlocks before CP1" when it's a clear-cond level

[@foxbear60]

Tactics is my favorite FF game of all time. If the Remake rumors are true, I'll be a happy little Tonberry! 🔪

[@SolstaceWinters]

Remake rumors? What remake rumors? Deeetails, perhaps? Would make me a happy little bomb if true.

[@foxbear60]

@@SolstaceWinters - Hahaha! And this little Red Chocobo would be proud to fling new meteors! There was a series of rumors earlier this year that Square was working on "some new projects" related to FF9 and FF Tactics. Neither has been officially confirmed - and some sites are now trying to dismiss them - but there's definitely "something" brewing in the RPG world. When I saw that news, my heart started pounding! FFT stole my heart & time more nights than is probably healthy to admit. 💗

[@BaldorfBaldorf]

11:06 might be the best troll I've ever seen

[@Jimako112]

27:40 when I got it I died from laughter 🤣

[@MalloryS5523]

Super excited to watch this when I get off work 🙃

[@tysonfontanez]

The hints in this level remind me of "no mushroom yoshi mushroom"

[@marklonergan3898]

I know this may have just been a spur-of-the-moment comment but i'd love to see you doing an FF stream, just because it's so far outside of what i associate you with, it would be an interesting watch.

[@nikosetyris]

13:21 clever, editor. Clever...

[@theopoldthegamer4284]

I loled when the helmets. I was half-expecting THE SKELETON Koopa to APPEAR.

[@theopoldthegamer4284]

Wait, when did I type this

[@dunsparce4prez560]

It cracks me up that Carl is one of the smartest men i know and he can never decipher the block letters

[@ItzYeetus]

Wow, great video, carl! You're an awesome person when it comes to mario. You just jumped right into my heart!

[@matthiasplatz5919]

I loved old-school RPGs. I grew up with FF, Dragon Warrior 1&4, Bard's tale, Chrono Trigger...

[@kaemonbonet4931]

I'm here for it, I love thos games and it'd be cool to see them played in new context with this silly community

[@stenfilg]

Isn't the glitch just a form of the "grounded glitch"? The one that makes stars stop bouncing and fixes movement of certain enemies?

[@sharkeep4269]

those frog puns are making me croak

[@PatLund]

If everyone followed the troll guide all the time troll levels would get boring. I like to think of it as more of a suggestion than a rule.

[@wubzt3r]

I still don't understand why they won't just add a troll tag and remove levels with the troll tag from challenge modes.

[@TeamUnpro]

Dude what The genius behind this level

[@ShadowmancerLord]

The only thing I remember about FF Tactics is cheating and then my Gameshark breaking, but all the boss enemies scale to your level, so I softlocked myself at the Cuchulainn fight

[@solamanhuq7780]

That tactics level hit me right in the nastalgia feels

[@BlinkyLass]

Tactics Ogre and Final Fantasy Tactics were my favourite games of all time. A playthrough would be nifty.

[@monkeibusiness]

"Just go" must be Carls biggest enemy.

[@childoftheconsole]

FFT victory theme is my ring tone. Boy do I love that game.

[@MowseChao]

Final Fantasy Tactics was my first Final Fantasy game. Played the heck out of it in high school! :D

[@esquiro_cody]

The most masterful masterpiece that's ever been mastered.

[@LilZombieFooFoo]

Hell yes, Final Fantasy Tactics. What a man of culture.

[@Uberwulf]

Hearing Apoplexy in Mario Maker is so weird, but I absolutely love it. I just wish that stage was longer. Also, the enemy shown was a skeleton mage.

[@shadowridley]

Please, PLEASE SEND THIS TO GEEK! SHE DESERVES THIS AFTER THE LARLSINO

[@composters]

Cool i got into the video at 29:48 lol

[@keilaalijaii8401]

I love this video amazing work!!

[@crimsonshinobi5281]

25:45 Can't spell careful without Carl and efu. Not sure where I was going with that one.

[@PhazonOmega]

Wait...Toad reads the troll guide revolves around the frog/toad suit? COINCIDENCE?

[@kh3752]

Speaking of RPGs, Golden Sun 1 and 2 are some of my all time favorite games. Highly recommend

[@mrEbraheem]

That Bowser made me spit my tea The way looks is like wait a second I’m not a shell 😂😂😂💔

[@xTigerx777]

tactics was my fav game back in the day. every solo mission I would spam first aid to level up my main a caglion levels ahead so he was op XD

[@EmersonJ_]

I also loved FFTactics as a kid, and like Carl, I remember next to nothing about it

[@charliechimento852]

13:20 WOW THAT EDIT

[@dowingba]

Damn. You just reminded me that my PS3 died, and it had Final Fantasy Tactics on it.

[@taylordiamond]

I thought floating was peaches thing but Toad has her beat on that music level!

[@therealpono8828]

Chrono trigger and FF tactics were my shit. Love it

[@rohanfoxe9000]

So much march carl content already :D

[@Mr_Spaghetti]

17:40 What would Carl have preferred happen there? would it be better if it just auto-killed him?

[@michaelmerrick6275]

21:40 Stopping here for a moment to say Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyy FFT, FFTA, and FFTA2 are amazing games. ... Back to the regularly scheduled program.

[@TheFirstRamenKamen]

I never noticed that the frog suits eyes open and close when u crouch and jump

[@PhoenixGod717]

Final Fantasy Tactics A2 on Nintendo DS was THE ****!!! O-M-G The hours rightfully wasted on his gem!!!

[@iTZBLaSToFFTiMe]

May God bless your innocent soul, Carl. Spends at least 6 times going in and out the last door, SEES the shellmet come out of the canon, still goes for that lil' softlock area at the end thinking there'd be a hidden block. Per usual, Carl learns nothing. :)

[@iTZBLaSToFFTiMe]

Left my comment too early, at 19:19, wouldn't you have gotten the shellmet AGAIN if you'd just have moved left?

[@iTZBLaSToFFTiMe]

Left my second comment too early also since Chat let you know. I'm as good at commenting as Carl is seeing. :D

[@etherraichu]

I loved final fantasy tactics. You don't get games like that anymore. IT gives you three perfectly fine levels. And after that its all "Okay, tutorial's over, go fuck yourself." and Slums in Dorter happens.

[@halolasomaster3900]

How did more helmets and a bowser show up at the end?

[@Tobeh]

In FF tactics advance I found that combining red mage with ninja gave me a single unit that could solo the game

[@wypmangames]

The level is not lying, but luigi was making the level while toad (with barely any reading skills) was reading the troll guide :) either that or youre playing a alpha/beta instead of the final version

[@BehemothMIMP]

Ooooooh what a feeling! Galoooombas on the ceiling!

[@dooper511]

“final version unless someone finds a softlock again” isn’t necessarily bullshit if they’re planning on making a new version

[@swordguy8]

What did the Italian deli owner say before bed? . . . . Gouda night.

[@that_tikosh]

It is not lying. Toad reads the troll guide, it doesn't state that Toad follows the troll guide

[@daltontv_smm2]

Hey Carl, I have recently been working on an SMM2 SuperWorld called LKL (Luigi’s Kaizo Land is the full name). And I was wondering if you would like to play it! I have already got two other KZbinrs to agree to play it their names are Shoujo and Kirr12!

[@smilintarget]

Final Fantasy tactics for the advamce and DS were super fun I still keep my wii u around so I can play it off it

[@cassandrajohnson61]

Today is national Mario day! Time to make sure haven't missed any new Mario content from my fav larl and others defender dgr and I'm tired of typing xD if you see me elsewhere you'll know who else :3

[@Aventrixmusic]

bro I love chrono trigger and the old final fantasy games

[@FuzzhyFoo]

Nice edit at 13:20 :D

[@tasherratt]

This level is pure jneenius.

[@dragonspight]

The comment actually means that they've added every single softlock in Mario. If someone finds a new softlock, they'll need to add it.

[@rebeldx]

here's one for final fantasy tactics, one of my top 3

[@Rammkard]

Excited for rpg vids (you should look into the chrono trigger speed run)

[@GenjiG]

Played and still have all those amazing SNES RPG's! 😊

[@RayRhino1]

Happy Yester-Birfday A.D. ! be well