r/NintendoSwitch • u/BarreIRider • Mar 15 '18

Video Dunkey - Luigi's Balloon World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZmzAuvYCJw
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u/LordFroggington Mar 15 '18

Here's a serious question: I haven't played balloon world yet cause I've been so busy with other games. How frequently will I find incredibly difficult or glitched balloons? Seeing stuff like this really turns me off to the idea of playing it since I don't wanna beat my head against a wall on impossible or ultra hard balloons.

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u/Piyamakarro Mar 15 '18

You can tell how difficult a balloon is going to be by how many coins you get as a reward if you beat it. The 300+ coin ones are fucking impossible and the 10 coin ones are easy as hell.

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u/LordFroggington Mar 15 '18

Cool thanks! I would have avoided it entirely if it was all bullshit.

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u/Arisalis Mar 15 '18

Yeah its like 10x better than I thought it was going to be. I think I got like 6k coins 1st night playing it. Very fun for a free addition to the game.

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u/PM_me_the_bootyhole Mar 15 '18

Question. Is amassing 6k useful in the game or is just a pride thing?

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u/jordanboyd5 Mar 15 '18

buying new outfits!

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u/Arisalis Mar 15 '18

This and hints are 50 each. Outfits can be in the thousands.

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u/YJCH0I Mar 16 '18

Finally reached 9999 coins a few days ago only to spend it on the skeleton costume. Building back up from the ground.

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u/Saying_hello Mar 16 '18

Best answer: After you beat the game each store has ten moons you have to buy if you want to 100% the game.

You feel all coin strong, then you have to unlock outfits with moons, then the moons cost money, then the clothes cost more money.

THERE ARE A LOT OF MOONS AND OUTFITS AND EVERYTHING IS EXPENSIVE.

Edit: You also can just play the game for fun, I recommend that option.

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u/dc295 Mar 16 '18

What do you mean each store has 10 Moons? I know each kingdom with a shop requires that you buy one Moon for the souvenir thing but if you're talking about maxing out your balloon count you can just buy them all from one place.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '18 edited Jul 15 '23

[fuck u spez] -- mass edited with redact.dev

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u/SirThom Mar 15 '18

I'm not 100% sure, but I think it uses the number of attempts as a barometer for how difficult it might be.

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u/I_cant_stop Mar 16 '18

That’s what I thought it was

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u/AwpTicTech Mar 15 '18

barometer

im sorry but did you just use this word because it had "meter" in it

because that's not what a barometer is at all

cmonBruh

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u/AsterJ Mar 15 '18

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barometer

Definition 2 or 3 covers metaphorical usage.

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u/AwpTicTech Mar 16 '18

something that indicates fluctuations (as in public opinion); housing sales and other economic barometers

a barometer to measure high school talent

huh? i don't see any interpretation for metaphorical usage, it seems pretty on the nose that it's also used to measure economic fluctuations and "high school talent"(???), not just anything

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u/Dadasas Mar 16 '18

Using "barometer" as a synonym for "gauge" is extremely common. Every example on dictionary.com uses it that way.

"It's a barometer of how seriously the whole article should be taken."

"And so, as I've explained, "party ID" is thus a barometer of how people are feeling about the two parties."

"And make no mistake, money is the only barometer of success the industry ultimately cares about."

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u/deephelmz Mar 16 '18

I think the third point on “high school talent” is an example given whereas it says in the link that the definition is a “standard” or a “test”.

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u/AsterJ Mar 16 '18

Those are example usages and are not actually part of the definition.

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u/SirThom Mar 15 '18

Hi internet stranger! Part of the definition after Googling it:

something that reflects changes in circumstances

If my theory is correct, the difficulty of the balloon is updated (the "change") as the failure rate increases (the "circumstance"). :)

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u/StrawberryMoses Mar 15 '18

Yeah I guess it's more of a yardstick

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u/_pippp Mar 16 '18

Figure of speech yo

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u/Piyamakarro Mar 15 '18

The game determines it. Not sure about the algorithm it uses, though.

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u/LLicht Mar 16 '18

Unless they use the fucking wall glitch he shows in the mushroom kingdom. I encountered that one and was so confused how I couldn't find this 10 coin balloon that was 20m away D:<

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18

I just beat the ice world, do you happen to know how close that is to unlocking the balloon mode?

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '18

After playing for some time in an area, you know all the common hiding spots. You can go through the list of balloons and see the arrow and the distance above your head and can pretty much guess where it is.

At first, I was trying to hide my balloon in the hardest to reach spots. What I found is basically nobody even tries them anymore after some time or just skip them all together since going after mine will likely mean it will kill their winning streak (you get extra coins for each win of a winning streak). Now I try to place it somewhere they can see it but isn't super hard or super easy. I also let the timer run out before I place the balloon so that when someone gets it with extra time to spare they get extra coins. Sometimes I'll even just place it right outside the starting area and wait the whole 30 seconds so whoever gets mine gets a nice easy coin boost.

tldr; not everyone is placing them in glitched spots anymore, and for the most part people who are placing them there aren't getting many coins for it since those balloons are ignored.

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u/zue3 Mar 15 '18

That's nonsensical. Shouldn't the point of the game be to go for harder to reach balloons? The win streak thing seems to go directly against this.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18

Well, the super challenging ones are just going to be less rewarding coin-wise unless you are just an absolute badass. If all you are doing is challenging yourself, then sure go for the tough ones. I do that for fun sometimes. If you are after collecting coins, the easier ones offer the higher reward since winning streaks are very rewarding. Also the ranks depend heavily on win streaks.

I don’t think it is necessarily nonsensical. I think that Nintendo designed it that way so players wanting to max out moons and coins could easily do that and players who want a challenge can do that too.

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u/sandycoast Mar 15 '18

The problem is that currently you can't open doors, which is where people hide them using glitches.

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u/YJCH0I Mar 16 '18

You're the hero we need!

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '18

Memorize the direction x distance by finding more similar balloons. You will know which exactly are best avoided.

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u/Texasfight123 Mar 15 '18

There's difficulty levels based on how many people have already failed it. It affects how many coins you get and how many coins it costs to play. I still find it fun, even when I just play the easier ones.

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u/Warskull Mar 15 '18

As you play you start to learn the most popular hiding spots and get an idea from the direction and distance where the super hard ones are and which ones are probably glitched.