i don't think this year is ending very well for nerf now one could make the informed argument that
the whole year didn't go very well for nerf frankly that's too much to talk about in too much
research i've just noticed a disappointing trend as 2021 draws to a close on a few different fronts
and i thought i'd talk about them because as per usual i'm feeling a bit salty
hello everyone my name is brett and sometimes i wear a beret and a quick disclaimer before we
get started we're talking about nerf if i go back to any video i've made in the past year
involving nerf it has not probably been very positive i do feel kind of bad about that it
does feel like i am on the hasbro hate train and i i swear i don't mean to there are a lot
of things that nerf does that i really really enjoy but i do feel like a lot of my videos are
more critiques on things than things i like so perhaps there is something wrong with me and
perhaps there is something wrong with the fact that i enjoy talking about things that make me
upset when it comes to flinging foam nerf claims to be the market leader
and frankly they have the evidence to back that statement up but as the years have progressed
we've seen them rely on that fact to say that their new stuff is good they make such grand
claims yet they never seem to be able to back them up i swear hasbro if you're watching i do really
enjoy your products i just wish that some of them reflected that number one blaster brand so let's
start with the obvious first category the blasters the toys the things that nerf is known for some of
the stuff recently wasn't that bad fall brought us mega xl and i think overall that has been received
very positively the blasters more so you know positive than negative but just the ammo the
mega xl darts i think people have really fallen in love with those and it's been great to see what
the community of modders has done with them too honestly just getting a dart and throwing it has
been a lot of fun for me the price point is not a huge positive but i think overall that was a good
thing hyper was kind of mixed other ultra blasters have been kind of mixed but i think most people
would agree that mega xl was a good step that would have been a great way to end this year but
there's something that happened as the year is drawing to a close that i just can't ignore
you know what it is i've talked about it a few times it's the mandalorian blaster
nerf limited is here now i can't talk too much in detail about this because
i don't have it yet why is that because hasbro pulse hasn't shipped it yet so hasbro pulse
seems to be still falling back to the 12 30 ship date so december 30th basically end of the year
expected in january but other people have started to receive them if you pre-ordered on amazon it
looks like they are actually starting to ship out early congratulations why can't hasbro pulse
get on that same timeline i understand there are delays but that's so weird that amazon would be
able to ship them out rather than hasbro pulse but the very first of nerf limited is showing up and
the um the consensus is quite mixed this blaster is not looking as good as we would have hoped a
lot of people are receiving their boxes with a shipping label slapped right on there now that's
great when you want a limited edition special box that you say is very special because of the
box the shell plastic quality apparently is also kind of thin meaning that some of the blasters are
a little warped in some cases when you take them out the speakers and leds that the special edition
lmtd blaster claims to have apparently pretty pitiful making you wonder why you wouldn't order
the 50 cheaper orange version from target that will not have those lights and sounds the premium
detailing is also apparently pretty questionable i really didn't believe it at first but some of
these close-ups that people are showing it really does look like silver sharpie and that is just
a choice that they made now the existence of the nerf mandalorian blaster doesn't negate some of
the good offerings they've had this year which there have been but it does leave a bad taste in
the mouth i mean 2020 ended with the reveal of this blaster the reveal of nerf limited
and now here we are a year later almost a year to when i first made my pre-order and man does it
feel like a massive disappointment it's not just a new blaster that showed up a week ago and here
it comes cool 120 dollar premium offering that we have waited for a long long time and it finally
shows up the hype train is finally pulling into the station and it crashes hard i will have an
official review when mine is received and i am not canceling my pre-order because i am seeing
where this train leads that i'm currently on maybe it will arrive in january or maybe it will arrive
sooner you can pre-order it again right now if you want from like amazon oh no you can order it
you can order it from amazon if you order it from amazon right now it will show up soon what the
actual f yet you can pre-order it again from hasbro pulse and it might show up in march
i'm sorry what's the whole limited nature of this thing i thought they were going to have
a window where you could order it and then it would show up later i'll wait until it arrives
but from what i've seen what's showing up ain't cutting it yikes moving on to a different category
entertainment specifically let's focus on youtube because that's where i'm talking to you from and
nerf does have a youtube presence was it ever good i would argue yes they have put out some decent
stuff in the past and now i'm not really sure they released a new series this year called nerf house
showdown which if you've been on my channel for the past year you'll know that there's a special
place in my heart for nerf house in general boy do i love to talk about nerf house i'm weird i
felt that nerf house showdown was a step in the right direction at the very least i did make an
early review about it months back when it first came out and my thoughts were from the first two
episodes it was all right still rooting for brett to win nerf house showdown and if he doesn't uh we
freaking riot i'm done with you nerf you kit you can't pull this on me brett will win nerf house
showdown and that is that now as the series has progressed i will say some episodes are
objectively better than others but you know that's how episodes are going to be the naming
got a little bit weird and i had no idea what was happening and now nerf official only post
nerf house showdown shorts so for the longest time they were posting those episodes in a playlist
and i was following because i was curious what was going to happen they've posted a lot of videos so
i'm glad they've actually gotten their use out of the house out of the people it wasn't like
six episodes that were a minute long and it's done it's like no there's actually something happening
here but where did the videos go like they're only snippets they made a new channel it's called
nerf kids where a kid can be a kid i guess nerf kids is now the channel where nerf house showdown
episodes are posted and it looks like that's the only channel where nerf house showdown is posted
and that's all they post now on nerf officials page they have a playlist that is all the new
episodes for nerf house showdown but it's from nerf kids as well like you can share a playlist
from someone else on your channel but why aren't they just uploading it to their actual channel
am i missing something overall i guess it's not the worst thing ever
you might find some of the episodes kind of cringy but i i don't hate it that said the
only other thing that has been posted on nerf officials youtube channel in the past months as
we're winding down the year was this little video called nerf upload an online youtuber masterclass
and if you want to know what i think about that well i made an entire video response i i don't
get it i don't know why they made that scaling everything else back pushing it to a new channel
but they uploaded that to their main channel i don't know what nerf's doing with their youtube
channel it does seem to be trending downwards not trying to insult them i just don't understand why
they would stop posting what seemed to be their main series on their youtube channel and then
then they did that they taught us how to be youtubers and overall i would say that was a big
and the last area that i wanted to talk about is gaming what nerf is most well known for
oh boy so nerf hasn't put out a video game for some time now one that does come to mind that
wasn't the best but i still had a decent time with was the one that came on wii
and i think oh yeah it's usually on my shelf but it's being hidden by a
mandalorian pez dispenser hey speaking of the mandalorian where's my blaster nerf where is
it one of the most fun gaming experiences i've had with something nerf related in the past year
has been on roblox to be completely honest and it wasn't even a nerf official game it was nerf fps
which was later renamed to foam fps and because there was some heart put into that roblox game
but eventually nerf made their own tie-in game for roblox or i should say nerf didn't make it someone
else made it they got the rights using nurse logo and all their blasters it was another elite 2.0
ultra tie-in i guess now they have some of the dragon blasters too and maybe some other stuff
as well but that was officially called nerf strike and it did seem to siphon quite a few players from
foam fps now called foam fps to their new game nerf strike has unique mechanics like never
having to reload and all blasters feel the same yet you'd only use one or two if you actually
want to be competitive whatever that actually means they have grenades which are kind of cool
smoke grenade dark grenade slow grenade and they also have turrets little vulcan
turret it's different and i don't know if i love it or hate it compared to foam fps
i jump into both to play it's okay but that's not the game of question right that came out
months ago that was like a summer release you know the game that came out recently
oh oh you know what it is nerf legends hell yeah oh god so i streamed nerf legends i think on its
debut weekend i did actually purchase the game on its release night i didn't pay the retail amount
i paid 40 bucks instead of 50. ow that still hurt i wouldn't consider myself to be much of a gamer
but over the past few years especially because the pandemic i have played more video games
nerf legends is incredibly insulting on so many levels it is an unfinished game it is clunky it
is not fun to play single player is a slog to get through yes i have beaten the game at this point i
have put 10 plus hours into this game some of that has been on stream some of that has been on my own
hands down the most fun i've had playing nerf legends was with other people in multiplayer
and that's because when you're doing multiplayer of course things are going to be fun you're going
to be laughing at people even if stuff breaks but holy smokes do not buy nerf legends when we first
jumped on multiplayer on opening night i couldn't find anyone we came to the consensus that there
weren't any servers no it's just because no one's playing the graphics are bad the sound design is
awful we didn't think it was going to be good but this was next level i don't know
what else to say about nerf legends go watch my initial stream if you are really that curious
if it's discounted to like 5 to 10 bucks then it might be worth it because you can play through the
single player and not have to rely on multiplayer only to get your money's worth but even if it's
like 50 off 25 bucks don't do it not even as a joke that's what the ign review said too
not even funny as a joke now i bought it because i'm a nerf enthusiast and it seemed to make sense
for me i can stream it maybe make some of my money back but show other people why this game
isn't worth it yep so 2021's coming to a close but what do i want to see in 2022 on all three
of these fronts what do i hope gets improved well let's work our way backwards on the gaming front
there is a vr game coming out i forget what it's called but it is a nerf tie-in i don't think i'm
going to pick that one up because i don't have anything that would support that game whereas
nerf legends came out for a bunch of different platforms fingers crossed
i hope that that game is decent i sincerely hope that actually makes you feel like you're
playing nerf granted you can never fully replicate that in a game but i hope that that one actually
is worth the money and i also hope might as well i hope that they patch nerf legends
i don't know what that means what does patching nerf legends mean re-releasing the game an entire
update that is the same size as the game i just really sincerely hope that they actually put
stuff out they're proud of because these games feel like they have no heart because again i can
compare to something like foam fps where i know people are working on it and they actually have
heart into this game they put time into it and it shows even if it's not played by the most people
shout out to isaac the pooper and his team i know there are people who put ever into these
other games as well it's just it ain't showing the same way so i'm sorry that that's not the case but
from an honest reviewer yikes on the entertainment side shoot i didn't actually come up with things
i want to see in 2022. um i guess continue nerf house showdown style videos actually having people
which seem like real people not full-blown celebrities playing with nerf i think that's
okay i think that's a good direction to take things no you don't have to reach out to people
who are hardcore nerf enthusiasts we are terrible we are toxic fine you can you can ignore me that's
totally acceptable but real people who are playing with your stuff and you show when things go wrong
i appreciate that level of effort into a official nerf video and not just showing everything that's
100 perfect for that reason um nerf upload maybe you don't do more of that or do it'll give me more
content to react to i know i'm not that big of a channel all things considered but you can reach
out to me reach out to other people fine reach out to other people who have larger channels
talk to them ask them why they made youtube videos involving nerf and what they enjoy
making don't be afraid to work with us i swear we are not your enemies we do want you to succeed
we want you to put out entertaining videos for people to enjoy so that others can see how fun
nerf can be same of course can be true with the gaming and the blasters hey speaking of which
i hope some good blasters come out in 2022 on the nerf limited side gosh i am so concerned about the
alien's pulse rifle on the very last day that was open for pre-order i did put in my pre-order and
i put it on freaking hasbro pulse maybe you'll have issues sorted out by then again i know the
pandemic has impacted this but seriously just it does not look good so i hope that the aliens
pulse rifle comes out on time or at least you give us reasonable updates so that you have a
successful product because i really want that blaster to be good and for blasters overall
i don't know like keep it fun dino blasters weren't super powerful but they were cool looking
and i think people generally liked how that turned out you've introduced so much just in 2021 alone
hyper mega xl expand upon them i hope that they do put out more hyper blasters so that we can see
where hyper is going because if it is going to officially replace rival they're gonna need to
fight for that one and of course on the mega xl side keep making mega excel and if you're gonna
put out more ultra blasters please go forward with the ultra pinpoint darts or should i say
ultra accustrike because those are the only usable ultra darts in my opinion at this point and that's
your best bet for making ultra look good so many different ways you can take it i just speak out of
experience overall 2021 had some ups and downs for sure i just couldn't help but feel that the year
was really tanking good luck to you nerf you did put out some good stuff in 2021 but nerf legends
was not one of those no more nerf legends no no no no no no more uh shout out to anyone who's a
real nerf legend out there subscribe if you're a real nerf legend like if you're a nerf legend
man i hate that game so much thank you everyone so much for watching let me know
what you thought about anything and everything that i just talked about down in the comment
section below and i will see you next time for my in-depth review of nerf ledge the nerf mandalore
you know what just don't come back i'm done i'm canceling the