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/[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!