Perfectly Balanced PvZ with No Exploits!

[@thespiffingbrit]

*So are you old enough to have played plants Vs zombies?*

[@myrojyn]

Yes

[@parkersmith8711]

yeah now I feel really old

[@smobasi3367]

God I loved that game as a child

[@dizzydwarf2184]

Too old

[@Pfincess]

I was so hyped for a 2nd one when I was a kid.

[@matthias720]

I have an original copy of version 1.0, with the Michael Jackson Thriller zombie, before it got removed. Definitely one of my favorites, and certainly one of PopCap's best titles.

[@Jordan_C_Wilde]

I had it as well, but i lost the CD...

[@brendanrobertson5966]

same. It requires the CD to be in the drive to play!

[@Grauer1510]

So they removed the Jacko Zombie from the Steam Version?

[@ho8ojoe8]

Wait that guy got removed??

[@TheNamesDitto]

I had it. It was beautiful

[@IamCoalfoot]

I remember reading an article years ago that convinced me to get it: "I scoffed at how simple this game was, until I looked at the clock and realized ten hours had passed."

[@vincentmalasawmkimajongte7489]

Do you happen to remember the article?

[@huhulili9021]

@@vincentmalasawmkimajongte7489 they probably read it everyday since the day they first read it

[@EmCeee411]

@@huhulili9021 they have it printed and framed on their nightstand.

[@mellohi61]

Healthy addition

[@BierBart12]

Old video game magazines are a treasure

[@Blisanr]

7:58 "yes the landmine jumped over the potato" yes your talking is perfectly balanced no joke

[@unfortunatelybritish]

The most evil thing Spiff has ever done is not making the lawn symmetrical

[@Hyprek_]

Yep

[@owoifier4521]

The most eviw thing Spiff has evew done is not making the wawn symmetwicaw

[@ΓιώργοςΣωμαράκης-ξ3ψ]

I almost disliked

[@LulfsBloodbag]

@@owoifier4521 Are you a bot or do you do these yourself?

[@metroidrhyme]

The most evil thing was planting Sunflowers behind his Peashooters.

[@wahooi3y428]

“The landline is able to jump over a potato” -Spiff says as a pole-vaulting zombie jumps over a peashooter

[@thespiffingbrit]

English is a difficult language my friend

[@owoifier4521]

“The wandwine is abwe to jump ovew a potato” -Spiff says as a pole-vauwting zombie jumps ovew a peashootew

[@Bandit2033]

@@thespiffingbrit English is tough, but can be understood through thorough thought though

[@thecheesen]

@@Bandit2033 my brain somehow included thighs in that sentence

[@Vanta_Blue]

@@thespiffingbrit That's why So few are able to speak it at all. =P

[@TFSMF2]

"The landmine is able to jump over a potato" Best quote ever

[@Chud_Bud_Supreme]

Sounds like A.I. Colonel Campbell

[@vukjankovic2446]

It's only too bad that's a walnut and not a potato lol

[@TFSMF2]

@@vukjankovic2446 agreed

[@vitolapinta]

It was like experiencing a stroke. I was seeing a zombie jump over a wall-nut and watching the potato get eaten. Nothing lined up lol

[@thegayestoftime2141]

it was a pole vaulter and peashooter

[@hotlinerichard1986]

Having spiff explain how PVZ works is such a strange feeling

[@profileicon]

Underrated comment

[@greenrena8503]

"It's the potato!" Looks at wallnut: "Confused irish noises"

[@sterbenwarstorm2]

Finally someone who says ir

[@sidequestJil]

Yes finally

[@diehardmrra8985]

Y e s .

[@RealFirmament]

5:38

[@SpicyLemon2x]

Everybody has believed it was the potato

[@Tyler-sy7jo]

Spiff: I'm not mad! Also Spiff (7:57): "You see the land mine is able to jump over a potato" Spiff clearly requires more tea.

[@captainlyons5110]

ITS A WALL-NUT

[@davidpernell6836]

@@captainlyons5110 he was copying him

[@captainlyons5110]

@@davidpernell6836 ik, was just baiting

[@DarthZ01]

@@captainlyons5110 it also wasnt a walnut nor a land mine, it was a pole vault zombie and peashooter. spiff was just going mad.

[@loosegasket]

I remember playing this when it first released. I was like 29, fresh out of the hospital. I finished it legit then immediately broke it into a billion pieces. Still a fun game. Would recommend. Is totally balanced.

[@adammasterx5854]

42 now? Damn you’re like an internet og

[@owoifier4521]

I wemembew pwaying this when it fiwst weweased. I was wike 29, fwesh out of the hospitaw. I finished it wegit then immediatewy broke it into a biwion pieces. Stiww a fun game. Wouwd wecommend. Is totawwy bawanced.

[@pero_kostic]

@@owoifier4521 oh i get it,owo

[@anarchond]

@Charles Thibault i enjoy what you did there

[@Moodoo20]

Well I was 8 and now I am 20 , feel old yet?

[@Willjum]

Wow. i forgot how much i loved this game

[@thytres4376]

Willjum you should make a series on pvz

[@ranger-o2u]

7

[@thytres4376]

@Ismael Efraim Holstvoogd I built an underground garden...

[@Voidi-Void]

@@thytres4376 but not the sequel. *we don't talk about that*

[@1st2nd2]

​@@thytres4376 a _cozy_ underground garden :)

[@rebakedbeans8533]

In reference to the whole "potato" issue, there actually are two potatos in the game, technically, but the "secret plant" is the Imitater, but you dont plant it as a potato, you have to choose one of the other plants. Its usefull for Cherry Bombs, and Jalepenos, stuff like that, that has a long cooldown. I usually use them for defensive plants like wall nuts and tall nuts

[@D.KlWA-aG]

What about these

[@va5780]

@@D.KlWA-aG what these?

[@D.KlWA-aG]

@@va5780 no way you actually fell for it

[@zaclittlejohn2701]

I like using them with pumpkins because the repair usefulness and pumpkin's regularly long cooldown.

[@anotherrandomtexan25]

@@va5780 these NUTZ! HAH GOTEMMMMMMMM

[@holleau5637]

I played this co-op with my dad on the 360 when I was a kid, it was some of the only time I got to spend with him back then. Then when PvZ: Garden Warfare came out, we played that together almost every day and it's honestly some of the best times I've ever had with video games.

[@Furyswipes]

When video games are truly good in life...

[@skyler12snype]

Me too buddy. Garden Warfare days with the lady was some of the best times I've had so far.

[@ChonoRock1198]

@@skyler12snype oh lord my days with my ex playing gw were some amazing days

[@parasatc8183]

Me and my brother enjoyed watching my dad play and discover ways to beat levels that he had a hard time completing. He enjoyed the game so much that on some days we'd find that he had played all night lol

[@nereus4546]

I remember playing it on xbox 2 i would always just sit and butter the closest zombie 💀

[@johnclark926]

1:16 fun fact, enabling 3D acceleration makes the graphics worse by introducing pixelation and jagginess, but it does improve performance. Considering this is a 2009 game running on a PC in 2021, I think you don’t need to worry about performance enough to keep it enable lmao

[@nguyentanphi7421]

Oh I did not know that, thanks I guess

[@Milesprowerthegamer]

Literally the only difference I've ever noticed between enabling or disabling 3d acceleration is that fog looks better with it enabled

[@ian-qo8fq]

@@Milesprowerthegamer for me some effects dont work without 3d acceleration

[@Smilley85]

I've recently started replaying Dawn of War (after another Spiff video) and I did something I haven't done with any game ever: I put every graphics setting to max and it didn't kill my PC.

[@matiasbrule7774]

Calling the walnut a potato is an international war crime

[@omnippowerdgoku410]

69

[@filipkipman3124]

@@matiasbrule7774 It Just looked more like a potato rather than a wallnut in my childhood as well. Feels good not to be the only one haha

[@pebbletail_]

@@filipkipman3124 it's nice to not be the only one, i keep calling it a potato despite knowing what it is

[@articuno3448]

I always thought it was a potato too

[@justalpaca4943]

It is a potato. And no amount of PwZ documentation can change my mind lol .

[@NurseVO]

Wait a second. This isn't Project Zomboid...

[@thespiffingbrit]

It's got zombies that's close enough

[@ThatDevilBrony]

Nurse: “HEYWAITAMINUTE-!”

[@bonezwithaz1402]

wait a minute your not british (says in american)

[@davidmarsh7933]

This is the Project Zomboid Deep Lore.

[@ChanakyanStudent7971]

How do you even mistake this legendary game for any other game in the world

[@LeprechaunZombie]

Ah, Plants Vs Zombies. One of the true classics of the medium. It's a shame that they never made any sequels.

[@jfolz]

Yep. There are no sequels whatsoever. None. Especially no f2p mobile games that are blatantly p2w. Nope. Not here.

[@bananalord6980]

But what abou- (dies)

[@Otto_Von_Beansmarck]

Eh I though PvZ: GW and its sequel was quite fun

[@someguynamedsteve203]

No sequel's none at all but thank God ea never bought them

[@codysoasis8710]

There is no sequel in ba sing se

[@outcast170]

Leave it to Spiff to refer to his unpaid interns as "potatoes" while teaching them how to properly serve their master. Not to mention how long it must have taken him to train those potatoes to roll in a straight line when told! Very impressive.

[@cantasee]

I never noticed how entertaining a plants vs zombie playthrough could be

[@nereus4546]

I dont think it really is unless ur interacting

[@RachelRoseMitchell]

I remember playing PvZ in between classes at uni back in the day. I also remember my Mum evangelising about it to a hapless old couple in a game store who had no idea what was going on. She still plays it to this day. What a good game.

[@jean-francoisquesnel5607]

really brings back memories, played on PC and finished 7 full playthroughs with random plants. was almost at cash cap without the exploit.

[@Person-oq5py]

I used Marigold and coin magnets to farm coins

[@jean-francoisquesnel5607]

@@Person-oq5py I used the plant garden mostly, have well over 500 plants collected from playing, most resold for coins once they matured.

[@barkingwilder]

One of the finest games ever made. Wife played this to death on PS3 back in the day. Still love it now. Daughter plays it now she is getting old enough.

[@night0legend]

ps3 garden warfare?

[@papalincoln7706]

Wait did the game die or did she die 🤔

[@hit6208]

@@night0legend No the game in the video, Plants vs Zombies. It's on the Xbox 360 too

[@night0legend]

@@hit6208 oo i didnt know u could play that on ps3/xbox 360

[@gageadams8864]

I dont know what took me so long to watch this channel but it has been the main thing getting me through the past couple of weeks. I love it so much.

[@jcjourneys4432]

I would actually love to see Spiff play through the whole game. Just a plain stream or 3 hour video of Spiff playing this game.

[@ieatsand6378]

We need this

[@cones914]

If you are a developer and think: "I HAVE FINALLY DONE IT! A PERFECTLY BALANCED GAME WITH NO EXPLOITS!" then you need to wake up and realize that Spiff can find exploits wherever he goes.

[@eeeooh1178]

If Spiff actually can't find a exploit in a game, then he's most likely gonna applaud the dev team

[@spectre8701]

@@eeeooh1178 hed send them 40,000 yorkshire tea bags, the limit on how many he can send at once

[@NoalFarstrider]

Weirdly enough, it's not about the gems; or gold coins, or even beating the game... But instead the struggle we have to endure along the way that makes us remember the strife. And therefor the life we've endured... I don't remember how much money I had in that game, but I remember my flower farm... I remember my beautiful flower farm, color coordinated and everything....

[@thecomposerchanginggames5250]

I want him to try to exploit eve online, it's practically impossible.

[@remito7839]

On the other hand. If you develop a game and want to bug test it, you can just ask Spiff to try and exploit it.

[@jamhough22]

spiff: "i have all the money in the game" also Spiff: "i have no idea what you use it for, but i have all the money and thats what counts"

[@MrGhosta5]

You need $2,487,500 to grow the tree of wisdom to 100ft to unlock cheat codes which means spiff doesn't actually have enough money.

[@whathaveyoubroughtuponthis1226]

@@MrGhosta5 just gotta repeat the process about, two more times

[@wachaelandwilip2286]

I loved this game when it first came out the nostalgia is flowing right now.

[@rustyshackleford5166]

I have a copy of this game from the popcap collection. That was a time when EA hadn't bought popcap up and DRM'd the hell out of it. The Disc let's you install as many times as you like on as many computers and is perfectly balanced, especially when contained in an ISO file

[@Mystikus2]

Back in the day I put this on a USB stick and bring it to the school computers

[@the_splits2360]

I also have a popcap Version of the disk

[@vjbanana5825]

I remembered using a disk containing all popcap games. Thanks for confirming this, too bad I don't have a disk or usb of it... Is it stillavailable though? 🤔

[@runed0s86]

I own bejeweled 3 and Chuzzle. Drm is just a bad idea. I no longer buy games, because DRM means you won't be able to 'register' the game in the future

[@superocker06]

Yeah we own a top10 popcap games copy it might be the same as yours idk, but i have played this for like 7-10 years

[@120Luis]

"Tiny little mushrooms that do hardly any damage" Bruh, those things are the most broken plant in the game

[@alex2005z]

Because they are free

[@ewanayres9576]

Yes but your able to just use them on all the night levels with nothing else to help

[@Scout_from_deep_rock_galactic]

Yep. Only reason the game is beatable without sunflowers

[@thebaronlouis8619]

They're necessary to beat the game because it takes so long for sunshrooms to get going but the limited range and low damage is too much a sacrifice for them to be OP. Later in the wave you end up using them as meat shields, spamming them out when their cooldown completes while your peashooters do the real damage. The tiki torch, that is the most broken plant in the game.

[@someguynamedsteve203]

At night There God Zilla and in day it's fortnight as you build walls of puff shroom

[@kaleido.]

watching spiff completely avoid making anything symmetrical is making my brains explode. I don't even need to protect from the zombies anymore.

[@honeydew1254]

Fun facts: The landmine needs at least 4 tiles between an average vombie to fully arm A default peashooter needs to hit a single default zombie 10 times to defeat it 20 for the conehead and 30 for the buckethead Sunflowers can function as quick in and out wall-nut in a pinch

[@stofoi5362]

"the sound of peas hitting zombies is the same of slapping a wet raw chicken" No chickens were harmed in the making of this video.

[@kim-hendrikmerk4163]

I am quite sure he did not say that

[@atsil8498]

@@kim-hendrikmerk4163 2:44

[@supernenechi]

This version of the game was the best. It had to actually buy the game on mobile, something unheard of today, and you just got everything, something also unheard of today. Literally no microtransactions. Absolutely glorious

[@benjoda7335]

So is anyone going to talk about how fast Spiff got the jackpot? It can take me hours of playing that mini game to get it… Spiff truely is perfectly balanced

[@quentinbonafede4237]

I love that he like... while being gloriously British, he also acknowledges how fucked a lot of British history is like "having no moral compass"

[@JarmamStuff]

*history

[@quentinbonafede4237]

@@JarmamStuff Yes, that is how it's spelled. Do you... wanna reread my unedited comment? Or maybe use more words if that's not the problem?

[@karkitty202]

Wish we could do that in America instead of crying about it

[@quentinbonafede4237]

@@karkitty202 Agreed

[@pseudodachi4406]

Have you met the british? We do it all the time! We make fun of ourselves and our history because we can! It's our history we're gonna laugh at how horrible it is.

[@frederickthesquirrel]

"If money exists, then I can have it." Best Spiff quote I've heard so far, hehehe

[@h4t3_]

No game, no matter how old it may be, can escape from Spiff.

[@thespiffingbrit]

Pong Is perfectly balanced

[@h4t3_]

@@thespiffingbrit Lmao now I'll ask for that video

[@timomajere]

@@thespiffingbrit You clearly have never played Pong , my friend.

[@devilsmessanger]

@@thespiffingbrit pls do Stellaris next !

[@SharkFin87]

@@thespiffingbrit YES

[@Cronauron]

I played through on the DS version. I appreciated that you could do multiplayer with only one copy, even if it did take forever to transfer the data.

[@nolanlikestovibe3181]

I loved how he called the walnut a potato

[@kiwidemon8555]

This man should be hired before any game release to find the gamebreaking bugs.

[@troydowns7748]

But then we wouldn't get these videos anymore!

[@alex2005z]

Finding bugs is easier than fixing them, so companies dont want to know about them

[@kiwidemon8555]

@@alex2005z well yea but some bugs are so obvious and broken yet devs seem to release game anyway

[@SymbioteMullet]

He's made a few vids where developers have given him early access just to see what happens.

[@caveymoley]

These days, there would be no new releases....

[@_KlootMalloot_]

I was just playing this last night. This exploit is gonna make it so much easier I got a nostalgia crave for it about a month ago, and now i am like 130 hours in since last night. Still an awesome game, just like feeding frenzy 1&2. You can't change my mind

[@IronPugsome]

Those feeding frenzy sound effects are permanently stuck in my head those games were so much fun!

[@CASyHD.]

Ey bro I love you, cause of you saying feeding frenzy it clicked in my head and the farming game name i was thinking jumped back to my mind. Farmig Frenzy. Im gonna relive some memories tonight.

[@blackover2190]

DANGIT I was just trying to remember the name of this game a little while ago!! This is so unexpected to find it in randome youtube comment, but thank you anyways!

[@hamburgerman805]

you shouldnt need an exploit to beat this game

[@_KlootMalloot_]

@@hamburgerman805 i know, but knowledge not used is knowledge wasted

[@Deadman2716]

Spiff: This game is nostalgic! (Rewarded a Walnut Shield) Also Spiff: We’ve unlocked the shield, otherwise known as a potato! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@nikefimov3987]

It is a potato 🥔

[@patricklloyd1797]

I first played this in 2009 and I have believed until this moment that it was a potato

[@thecheesewizard3391]

It’s called a walnut for a reason 🙄🙄💅💅

[@Bleed1987]

its a wal(l)nut

[@muslumvural8263]

@@thecheesewizard3391 cring

[@drunkmonkey9561]

7:58 best Spiffing remark of all time “the land mine can jump over the potato but we can still kill him”

[@AeroLXI]

The nostalgia of it all is beautiful, I love PvZ, I played it a ton with my grandma years ago! Seeing all the misplaced plants tho hurts haha 😅

[@blunderingfool]

"The potato" Actually a wallnut. Which is a type of nut and not a vegtable.

[@justanaverageferret]

To be fair, despite the name, a lot of people called it a potato. It really do look like one.

[@specimen057]

Fun fact nuts fall under the category of legumes which themselves fall under vegetables.

[@philmianus614]

i was cunfusion as he said that... for me it has always been a nut

[@navarog152]

@@philmianus614 indeed and everyone I know also never called it a potato

[@alex2005z]

I read the name and still called it a potato

[@cameronjobling23]

I remember playing this in the computer lab at my school and always switching tabs as teachers would walk by so I could keep playing. I think I ended up beating it after enough time, but that was back in 2010

[@houstongoodman8165]

12:39 Seeing Spiff get that jackpot hurt me so deeply because I spent 20+ hours trying to get it for the achievement.

[@yeetboie64]

That’s a less than 1% chance it’s crazy how lucky he was

[@StarStalker28]

Now you have enough money to put the zombies through middle school so they can finally learn how to spell

[@samk8905]

My family was absolutely obsessed when this game when it came out. We played it over and over. We used to have a computer and two laptops - me and my mum on the laptop and my dad on the PC. all playing this game in the same room

[@alexandrepaulo266]

Spiffing is a brilliant and perfectly balanced man of a man.

[@thespiffingbrit]

Awww thanks Alexandre

[@rutiacotheyuty3045]

I played this when I was 3-5 and just again played it recently, the wave of nostalgia was strange but incredible

[@lupusthefurry7012]

5:13 wallnut

[@Nedyarg1100]

Tons of fun memories playing vs mode on ds with my friends :) if only popcap hadn't been ruined by ea maybe we would still be getting great games like this and bejeweled...

[@elliotloranger437]

and insaniquarium 🤣

[@arlynnecumberbatch1056]

and feeding frenzy and bookworm adventures

[@Nedyarg1100]

Bookworm is a very underrated game definitely very fun though I'm not much good at it lol

[@davy2305]

Ahh Plants vs Zombies the good old days.

[@thespiffingbrit]

If this was released now the mini-games would be dlc

[@povotaknight2063]

@@thespiffingbrit each level would be dlc

[@davy2305]

@@thespiffingbrit Sadly true, the second Part was really big a step down from the first one.

[@leestefanko9141]

Seggff

[@juliamavroidi8601]

@@thespiffingbrit if you play the mobile version you have to purchase them with ingame currency

[@laurettadelmar2781]

God I used to play this all the time when it first came out! Can’t believe it’s still kicking around. I love it so much. The art has always been amazing

[@dannydumlet]

Genuinely...I thought it was a potato. You blew my mind! I remember playing this game a lot between classes in college on my old (now dead) laptop. A classic

[@yvelteam730]

7:57 "You see the landmine is able to jump over the potato" - The Spiffing Brit 2021

[@Misteramen]

It is so fun we can spend 20 minutes or more without realizing that it's just one level... Kinda sad that EA took over only to make PvZ worse...

[@thesungameplay574]

Better

[@namelesskat4814]

I wouldn't say worse, I mean they bought Popcap in 2012 and since then PvZ2, GW1, GW2, PvZ Heroes, and BFN have came out and all of them have been pretty good especially GW1 & GW2.

[@justas423]

@@namelesskat4814 Problem is all those games have massive P2W elements with Lootboxes that give you actual benefits (PvZ Heroes being the most obvious example). Without those elements, the games could be pretty damn amazing.

[@namelesskat4814]

@@justas423 That I would say is just something you gotta live with when playing these games made by major game companies.

[@manachromeYT]

In twos case that was popcaps idea for mincrotranactions and lootboxes. I'm betting you anything it would have been worse nowadays as they would have instead of making shooter would have just added and added more worlds to two without even a conclusion today

[@johnlouie5088]

When he called the WallNut as Potato made me rethink my childhood

[@theintrovertedphilosopher1579]

Ah the good old days where everything in this game is well... free/easy to get. Sigh...

[@thomasneal9291]

Popcap went into full money grab mode with the sequels, sadly.

[@coreypatterson5827]

That's what happens when you sell out to EA.

[@nathanisgaming9185]

7:55 you see a land mine is able to pogo over a potato 😂😂😂

[@Hahejo]

This game was my entire childhood right there. I went through the game dozens of times then had fun with cheat engine to mess with the game and now I'm doing a nostalgic run of the game, though I might try this exploit on a separate copy just to see how it goes.

[@GaudyMarko]

i remember getting hundreds of levels into endless mode by using the poison mushrooms that deal penetration damage, effectively making the increasingly difficult waves meaningless because all enemies on screen would take damage simultaneously ragardless of how many there were.

[@hoodiegal]

ah, the good old days when there were still games on mobiles that weren't just complete soulless cash grabs.

[@romaneskew4571]

7:58 "yes you see that landmine is able to jump over the potato so that makes him a nightmare." LMAOOO this is gold

[@DarthRevan42]

I beat the entire game back when it came out! sadly no exploits... absolutely love it!

[@therealdude8998]

The fact that he got the diamond jackpot on his first attempt meanwhile taking everyone 10 hours is such a spiffing brit sort of thing to happen

[@mufasa8956]

I'm still proud that i managed to beat it without dying (the second playthrough) as a kid. Now my question: was this a good achievement or is the game just easy?

[@thespiffingbrit]

I think if you did that as a child you should be proud of your achievement!

[@blockbertus]

@@thespiffingbrit how wholesome of you to say.

[@alexvallejo3851]

Can't wait to see him exploit poker

[@aseldesu]

That's a pretty good achievement, even as an adult I struggle to keep a perfect record on the roof levels

[@MrGhosta5]

The roof can be really difficult because of all the different zombie types you need to be able to deal with, you have limited space and the roof is slanted so only certain plants can attack the zombies.

[@lukalissimo]

"Oh you glorious, explosive, suicidal boy" 8:10 Sounds familiar LOL

[@charlestitor2288]

Not gonna lie, exploits aside. Seeing spiff have fun playing one of my favorite game of all time was the best part of this. Thank you

[@jjjogos6751]

Your commend had been officially stolen by @Nikolai

[@charlestitor2288]

Man, these bots really like my comment huh

[@SomeSelfYT]

Spiff: Ah the tiny short-range mushroom that do hardly any damage. Anyone who has any knowledge of the damage of the plants: It does the same damage as a peashooter.

[@Tree_-wp5zn]

What?

[@alex2005z]

I refuse ro believe that

[@SomeSelfYT]

@@alex2005z Believe what you want

[@SomeSelfYT]

@@Tree_-wp5zn The damage of the puffshroom and peashooter are the same

[@charlieackroyd3243]

Damn really?

[@DavidWasTakenSoNowIHaveThis]

I remember playing this in 2012 on the ps3 with in 2 player mode with my friends. We completely maxed out the wisdom tree and zen garden, effectively 100% completing the game.

[@mikeanco]

I played this game in secondary school, the pain of never being able to take your save files between computer meant that we always exploited the heck out of it, I remember the fun of discovering a new exploit and being smug while you spread it around, only for someone to take what you found and build on it to make some very stupid combos

[@sotoro2154]

PvZ was literally my entire childhood. I made an entire clay model set of every single plants in the game when I was 12 and only my parents know that since I didn't wanted to risk them getting messed up by my friends at school. Little did I know that my mom thought I used sculpt clay and put them all in an oven. That's one thing I'll never forgive her for.

[@dany_fg]

every time I hear "this game is a decade old" I'm thinking that in a few years some modern video games will be 2 decades old and flash will be a distant memory

[@DioBrando_Sama]

4:50 Sir, that's a Nut.

[@nagitokomaeda161]

But what about these?

[@dustinm08]

I remember playing this game as a small child. One of the best games of the time. It's amazing seeing the game again after all this time

[@alloounou6900]

So this guy has a dirt patch of a yard, zombies do not walk on dirt. Guy rolls out grass for zombies to shamble across and get shot at. Gladiator levels of entertainment.

[@mistadip42]

5:54 my mum when I sit on the couch for 12 seconds

[@Whistlingduckpro]

The moment I saw you placed the double line of Sunflowers I knew you too were an OG PvZ player. Well played good sir, well played

[@kirkjones4311]

Except his plants weren't symmetrical

[@meatkirbo]

I love how he explains how you play pvz. As if there are people that haven’t at least heard of it

[@nolovekitten]

7:58 “the land mine is able to jump over a potato”- a Brit on too much tea

[@asgarion9938]

Spiff who just forgot all concept of plants, zombies, and reality: "Yes, you see, the land mine (athlete zombie), is able to jump over a potato (pea shooter), which makes him a nightmare"

[@Bolo-Guara]

spiff is so fixated on potatoes that he's starting to sound like an irish man

[@carmacarmody]

What a game. I remember absolutely binging it when it came out. Running through endless having a full map with 4 or 5 or those tactical corn missiles mashing them on cooldown

[@hoisoynono]

I thought the wallnut was a potato for a decade. Not gonna change it now. I stand with you Spiff

[@grilledflatbread4692]

Garden Warfare was seriously one of the best shooters out there - asymmetric factions, fun levels. The "kiddie" aesthetic tended to drive away teenage tryhards which was a plus

[@WarmishTextbook]

I always loved the VS mode on the Xbox 360 version. Playing as the zombies and just spamming Waves is of course Perfectly Balanced.

[@shimonz4660]

"The land mine is over the potato which makes him a nightmare" he says as the pole vaulter jumps over a pea shooter at 7:57.

[@SkilledNub]

Spiff turning into DemoFlower in the thumbnail lol

[@xai38-809]

The ds version is more broken there is a glitch where u can place more than one plant on one tile

[@Mac_Omegaly]

I own that version, in my collection, but never gor around to playing it. I would love to know how it works. XD.

[@edwardhaybell1938]

I remember pirating this game in 2009, back when "getting" a video game means "downloading them from a suspicious site". Ahh, the memories... I think I still have the hard disk of the old computer I installed it in stored somewhere

[@professorcoms2481]

I played PvZ back waaaaay back in my early computer days. I didn't have it on steam at the time, I think it was on some other kind of website as like a half-gameplay demo sort of ordeal. Eventually got it once I got steam a year or so later

[@sparkselm173]

Spiffing Brit; *calls a walnut a potato* My brain; AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[@chessbergen]

Ahh, yes, I played this game back in the day with my Irish friend... and yes we both thought they had 2 potatoes

[@berlin_actual]

Here’s a fact, you should plant potato mines 3-4 spaces away from a normal zombie (bucket or cone works too) as that’s how long it takes for it to get ready.

[@owobby3686]

7:57 "Yes, you can see the landmine is able to jump over the potato..." I know it was a mistake, but I died laughing at this

[@tempes_spyro711]

-The landmine is capable of jumping over the potato. 😂

[@dakotashroom5401]

It's a shame there was never a Tea Plant in this game. If there was I think I know exactly what it would do. It would be a support plant. Let me explain. The Tea Plant would heal adjacent plants over time and, while being healed, they would increase their shooting speed by 50 percent. However, Chompers would increase how fast they digest a zombie by 50 percent. This would mean you could place down a Tea Plant, that could be called, Healing Tea, to increase how many strategies a player can implement. Let tea drinkers have Healing Tea in Plants vs Zombies! There's a coffee bean so let us have tea!

[@manachromeYT]

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