- (children) Kids React to video games!
This episode: Clash of Clans!
(birds chirp)
(thump) - (gasps)
♪ (upbeat music) ♪ - The Clash of Clans commercial!
- Clash of Clans!
- I have that game.
- Level 77 right here. (laughs)
- What in the world? (Barbarian yells)
- (laughs)
- But the game really doesn't look like that.
- I just don't understand why people are obsessed with this game.
- (Archer) We're gonna need more Barbarians.
- (Hog Rider) Did someone say Hog Rider?!
- (giggles) - (hog) Yeah!
- I find that insulting.
- (Hog Rider) Hog Rider? - (Archer) Barbarians.
- They're pretty.
- The Hog Riders are great.
They're, like, one of the best troops of the game.
(explosions)
- Eat that, Skeleton!
- (chortles)
- What? I don't really get this.
- (announcer) You and this army.
- I don't want that army.
- (announcer) Download for free.
- With in-app purchases.
- What was that?
- (Finebros) Let's talk about Clash of Clans.
- This is so amazing!
- (children) Question time!
- (Finebros) Have you heard of Clash of Clans?
- No.
- Nope.
- Yes, I have.
- I have it.
- Yep.
- Uh-huh.
- I play it very frequently.
- My dad got me into this.
- (Finebros) Do you play the game? - Yeah.
- Yeah.
- I'm still playing it.
- No, I don't.
- No.
- (Finebros) Then how do you know about it?
- Because on other games that I have,
they advertise stuff.
- I'm in the middle of playing a game.
And then it just pops up!
- (Finebros) What is the game about?
- My guess: it's like a fighting game.
- You're basically these little cartoons and you just fight.
- To build an empire
and upgrade your Town Halls to unlock more things.
- You are the chief of a village,
and you try and grow your village.
Other people from around the world are mean,
so they rage you and take your stuff.
- It's very strategic.
Giant/Healer strategy.
You could have the Giants to protect your Wizard and such.
I sound really nerdy right now.
- I'm just letting everybody know...
I'm not good at that game.
All they do is come up, destroy all my walls,
take all my stuff from my castle, and then they take all my men.
That's not fair.
'Cause you're not playing to defend yourself.
- (Finebros) And what would you say
is your favorite thing about Clash of Clans?
- The resources.
The money.
- Beating in people's butts!
- "Strategy-ist." Like, you can't just randomly buy stuff.
And you have to have a good attack strategy and a defense set up.
- 100%-ing a base with only Barbarians. (chuckles)
- (Finebros) How much total time would you estimate
you have spent playing Clash of Clans?
- Like, five or ten minutes a day.
- 40 to 60 hours.
- (giggling) 400 hours.
- I don't really play it that much anymore.
- (Finebros) How much does your dad play?
- He plays all the time.
- (Finebros) Let me explain the two primary sides of the game.
One is attacking other players to take their resources.
And the other is setting up defenses
so people can't take your resources.
What do you think about a game that has those two sides to it?
- Sounds interesting.
- So is this like the new Minecraft thing that's going on?
- It actually sounds really cool.
- It's a lot of fun,
because you can't just build up your resources
so you get a lot of stuff,
because people are just gonna take it if you have no defenses.
- (Finebros) So I have footage of one of these battles
so you can see what it looks like in the game.
- I hope it's not my battle.
♪ (dramatic theme music) ♪ - Wow.
- So it looks like a Town Hall 6 with maxed walls.
- All they have is Giants?
- I'm guessing this guy's Town Hall 6,
because he only has level 4 Giants.
- Oh, I see. They use the healing spell from the cannons.
(cannons firing) - Destroy that!
- Oh no!
- Giants are in.
- This game seems hard.
- This is, like, so complicated.
- They're destroying everything.
- All those coins?
- The Goblins are stealing the resources.
- Okay. Now they're going after the Builder's Hut.
(explosions)
- (amused) Total damage: 100%.
- They won.
- That was a strong attack.
- That was a pretty good raid.
But I eat those for breakfast. (laughs)
- I saw the purple stuff, and then I saw the green little bar.
And then I saw the purple bar.
And then it was like, "What's going on?"
- Barely understood what was going on.
All I saw was little people running around,
destroying stuff and... (imitates explosion)
- (Finebros) So Clash of Clans is a free game,
but you have the option to buy things to upgrade faster.
What do you think about games that do that?
- Well, I don't like it because it's just like Candy Crush.
- "Hey, this game's free." And then you're in it and you're like,
"Oh, you have to play this much money in order to do this."
And then you're like, "What the heck?
I thought this game was free!"
- In-app purchases--
like, it's a really good way to support a company.
- They're kinda like lying about being free,
but they're also not lying.
So I don't-- I'm being pulled both sides. (Finebros snicker)
- If little kids play it, they won't know the money.
And so they'll accidentally buy, like,
hundreds of dollars' worth of game merchandise.
- (Finebros) Have you ever paid for something in a free game?
- No, I never pay real money.
- Nope.
- My dad has a lot.
- No, I haven't.
I just try to work with what I have.
- (slowly) Yes.
- Yes, in Candy Crush.
- I spent $5 on my Barbarian King.
Because it took too much time.
- (Finebros) If you wanted to make an in-app purchase,
do you know how? - Well, yeah, I would ask my mom.
I'd be like, "Hey Mom, can I buy this?"
- (Finebros) So you wouldn't just buy it
without asking your parents? - Mm, no.
I did this one time, because I was like--
my first time on an app and then I didn't realize.
- I bought it with my parents' permission.
And of course you gotta ask for parents' permission. Duh.
- (Finebros) Have you ever not asked for your parents permission
to buy something? - (suppressed laughing)
I'm scared. (laughs)
This one will give you at least--
- (Finebros, laughing) So this has been multiple times?
- Well, sometimes I did it.
- (Finebros) Do they know? Do they ever talk to you about that?
- (nervously) They get emails.
- (Finebros) If you did have the password,
would you not ask your parents and just buy stuff anyways?
- No!
'Cause I need to warn them first.
- No.
Maybe.
I don't know.
- (quietly) Is my mom watching? (laughs nervously)
- (Finebros) Another part of the game
is you can join clans with other people
and help each other succeed and even chat with each other.
What do you think about the idea of clans?
- You still have to get your parents' permission for that.
- The kids at school are all like,
"Hey, join Clash of Clans! You can be part of my clan!"
- I'm already in my dad's clan.
- It teaches kids that you can just help each other out,
and that's what you're supposed to do in life.
- It's fun because I don't have a phone,
so that's basically my texting.
- It's cool but it's also dangerous,
'cause you might not know that person
and it might be a stranger.
- There are some people out there that make names
and pretend that they are some people when they're not.
If you're like, "Hey, I'm gonna make some new friends online,"
that's not a good idea.
- (Finebros) Some people say that kids
can't learn anything practical from playing games like this
and it's a waste of time. What do you think about that?
- In some games, you are.
There are some games beside math games and learning games
that you actually can learn strategy.
- I've learned not to waste money and to be careful with it.
- Most games are strategic and help you think more critically.
You're gaining how to use things correctly,
like managing your resources, managing your time.
- (Finebros) Will you continue playing Clash of Clans
for the foreseeable future? - No, I already deleted that.
- I'll probably get sick of it.
- Yeah. Yeah, I will.
- Oh yeah!
- Yes.
- (Finebros) Will you now download and play Clash of Clans?
- No.
- I would like to, and it'd be really fun.
- No.
I don't seem interested and you shouldn't either.
I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
- I'd rather play some board games with my parents.
- (Finebros) But it's free! - No, it's not!
- That brings us to the end of another episode of Kids React.
- Let us know what game we should react to next.
- Goodbye, everybody! Go play Clash of Clans!
- You Clashers, you won't even see what's coming.
My level 5 Archers and Barbarians doe.
(grunts boastfully)
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