Death of a Game: FusionFall 

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FusionFall still stands as the coolest thing Cartoon Network has ever released and we'll probably never see anything like it be done again.

Seeing all my favorite Cartoon Network cartoons teaming up together to fight an unstoppable threat while you could join them was the coolest thing EVER as a kid.

The deep lore with Fusionfall Retro is that it was shut down because one guy contacted a CN Lawyer to get the servers shut down because he was upset that the developers didn't want to add crafting to the game.

This show consistently reminds me about games I forgot even existed.

This game existed at just the right time, that 10-14 area when I was REALLY invested in looking "grown up" and expecting the things that I loved to "grow up" with me I have now reached the point of realizing that I do not care about "growing up". I have my whole life to act my age and it's not a damn lick of fun, so I'm just gonna take the things I love as they are instead.

I think the real win of Fusionfall was how detailed and jam packed of stuff to look at the world was, so many good zones and so fun to explore

I remember coming home from school every Friday and booting this game up on the Family Computer. The framerate was trash for me and the game kept crashing, but the concept of it made me keep playing. Good times.

That's such an appealing art style that has aged incredibly well considering its age.

My old ass footage from 2017 (or 18, idk) made it in here I am forever winning. Amazing video dude!!!

I enjoyed Fusionfall, but are we not gonna talk about how dark it all was?! Ed and the Kankers were missing, The moon base has fallen leaving the knd without their supreme leader and down potentially thousands of operatives, At least one of the powerpuff girls was missing Fosters was turned into a fuse nest to say nothing of the friends inside, Megas was turned into a modern art piece, The omnitrix was busted leaving Ben largely powerless, Most of this was in the future timeline yes, but the implication that a good chunk of your favorite characters were either dead or worse was pretty freaky. Hell, I probably Missed a few things! This was when CN properties were very aware of each other, so it was probably worse!

This one hurts but thankfully there are many fusionfall fan projects that are receiving development

This game will never leave my heart. It had so much to offer to those who were growing out of their pre-teen phase, that it was my first exposure to non-asian anime-style games. I don’t even remember when I even discovered Fusionfall as I live in the Philippines (possibly the old trailer on RU-vid), but I was so hyped that I pushed myself to play the free trial multiple times just to experience it. I looked up the website on the old CN Asia for info on FusionFall, which lead me to a coming soon page for South-East Asia. This game influenced me so much that my internal mindscape was build on the world it, which has since become an original concept for a story I write. Heck, my Avater is based on my initial Custom Character.

This game was my first mmo and holds a special place in my heart. Thankfully i can still play it, despite some versions being taken down

The memories are always never last forever for FushionFall

As a kid, I was a huge fan of the early 00s 'Cartoon Cartoon' shows like Dexter's Lab, Cow and Chicken, Ed, Edd, and Eddy, and Powerpuff Girls. But i was unaware of this MMO with some of those characters in it. I didn't have a pc at the time but this seems like it would have blown my mind back then. lol

I have vague memories of seeing the character redesigns online all the time, but I never checks it out because I didn't have internet to play MMOs at the time.

man I vaguely remember playing this for a few weeks back as a kid. Seeing the slimes just unlocked memories

My childhood, I've been waiting for you to cover this forever No one else remembers this game

I forget it sometimes now, but this game was really a big part of my childhood. I couldn't boot it up on my home computer, so I always had to wait until I was at my Grandma's house to play it. Redeeming all the codes for the in-game outfits, sharing my excitement over getting Dee Dee to my confused aunt, NEVER getting the fucking Numbuh 4 Nano. Seeing the game again, it really did have some great art design, and the work they did reimagining those classic Cartoon Network characters is so nice. RIP FusionFall, man. Thankfully it's still somewhat alive, which is better than you can say for some of the other games on this series.

This was my first real MMO I played as a kid, I remember daydreaming at school of the wacky guns and the whole KND vibe the game had, man the nostalgia is real! Gotta play retro or restart at some point!

Yeah I remember really wanting to play the game in Europe, but they never released it there. Its a shame, cause the unified anime visuals for all the different shows was ingenious and forward thinking, seeing how Japanese styled animation is now dominating the industry and influencing western animations.

Taking a line from Stitch, the FusionFall community is "little and broken, but still good. Yeah. Still good." Through all the hardships, the ups and downs, the victories and setbacks, the community is still there to ride it out. I had hoped that seeing all these fangames would make Cartoon Network's big wigs look into trying their hand at another MMORPG, but that's most likely wishful thinking on my part. Until some divine intervention happens, and CN opts to try their hand at FusionFall 2 (or something in its spirit), I'll happily play on the fangames which are done with love and respect for not only the game that brought many of us together, but to the legacy of Cartoon Network.

It amazes me that with all of the episodes so far theres so many factors that lead to a games death, yet to my memory this is the only case where the death STARTED with the studios demise, really makes it feel like anything after that point was just funeral preperations.

As my first ever MMO I ever played, this game was truly something else and so glad the fans are keeping it alive long after it went offline

I never got to play this game, we just didn't have internet or cable back then, but I would always catch it in commercials when I visited people that did have cable. And of course it just let my mind burn with creativity as I had never seen something like that ever before. Frankly we don't think we ever will to be honest, but I'm glad the spirit of it continues on.

Damn, this hurts.

I'm so glad you chose to cover this game!! I recommended it a while back and haven't been able to connect as personally with some of the DOAG's in the series but this one I played with my friends at over my grandparents' computer when I was a kid and it just brings back memories seeing it. Thank you!!

It brings me great joy and sadness that you covered this, joy cause I love Fusion fall and sadness because this was such a fun-looking game (I never got to play it) and the idea of it sounded awesome! Shame about what happened to it , you will be missed Fusion fall

FusionFall will always be one of my favorite MMORPGs. The game was released on my birthday and for me, who was and still am a huge fan of CN's cartoons, it was a huge gift. I will always support fan projects to revive this game and every time I get to play it these days my inner child jumps with happiness and nostalgia. I feel warm in my heart remembering the moments I lived with this game and a time when I was happier and I can't help but smile while playing and dancing in my chair listening to the soundtracks

Jesus seeing that old CN website, the schedule on the side, the show tabs at the top, the Megaman NT warrior ad, it's like a concentrated blast of nostalgia. I think that was just before they tried bringing live action shows into the mix.

Believe it or not, my dad was one of the project leads of fusionfall. So, fairly recently (2-3 months ago) he talked about how he occasionally watched videos like this, and this one in particular, unlike most videos talking about FF, is largely accurate. He also expressed a disdain towards the ending part of the script, primarily for the criticism of the heavy copyright enforcement from cartoon network. The primary reason CN shut them down was actually due to usage of ripped assets from base fusionfall, which although legally sound, I personally think your argument of it being kind of an asshole move to be wholly fair. Regardless, seeing someone talk about something my dad tells me about in stories from his past from another perspective is extremely interesting. Good video 👍.

Thanks man for making this video, fusion fall was by far my entry into mmos as a kid

Every time I think about this time in my life it brings back so many memories. Our childhood was lit😂

Hey! I'm a member of the community formerly known as Poppleworks. I've since left the community but I wanted to add some further detail to help out this story, as I'm a huge fan of this series: So on the topic of post-Grigon content, it's worth mentioning that the CN devs really did attempt to add what they could to the game. There were six key aspects: 1. The Academy was this insane move pulled by the dev team, ripping out the entire first four levels of the game and changing the way players leveled up. It used to be that each Nano received would grant you a new level, but in the Academy era you could pretty much receive any Nano at any point, with the first four being distributed to later parts of the game. Buttercup, for example, used to be the first- now, she's available at level 15. The Academy was also rather exposing, as it showed it was mainly a marketing move for the network's current programming. Whereas older/ending shows were featured prominently in the Future, this new take featured Ben 10, Generator Rex, Adventure Time, and the tragically short-lived Sym-Bionic Titan. This was the first time you saw the effect of not having Grigon, as most new characters completely lacked cel-shading. It also sort of messed up the game's plot but justified it being an MMO, if that makes sense? The idea behind the Future was that you were this "chosen one" who could save the world by going back in time, but the Academy was written to take place after the chosen one already did that, and your training was a result of better planning by the Guides. Super weird lore detail there, but now it made sense why there were so many other people around. 2. With a looser Nano system, leveling became way easier. Like, you could grind for a bit in the game's first few levels and be able to dominate probably the first half of the game's combat. But it also resulted in code Nanos, where you would have to type in a code on the website to redeem them in-game. These Nanos also lacked cel-shading, but were themed to shows not actually present in the base game- Gumball and Regular Show. (Adventure Time also had code Nanos but their characters were actually added in.) 3. The Birthday Bash was this big anniversary celebration for the game, sort of a tease for what was to come- though, in retrospect, it seems they were simply offloading models they didn't have finished. They placed a giant birthday cake structure in a central hub and had a ton of new NPCs standing around. These NPCs all had official 2D art done, but again- no cel-shading on most of them, and some even lacked voice lines. It was even at the point where some lacked animation entirely. The Bash came and went, but a few characters were placed in their spots- though they lacked any purpose whatsoever, as their missions never made it into the game. Johnny Bravo, Zak Saturday, and the Sym-Bionic Titan got Nano missions though, so that's something? 4. Code items were done weekly, many of them existing post-Grigon. You'd see a code on the website's main page advertising something like the newest episode of Ben 10, and the item would be related to that. Again, not everything was cel-shaded. Though Firebreather had a really dope dragon costume. 5. The FusionFall Adventures were the content drops the devs felt comfortable doing, but they were admittedly not great. They were three show-specific mission lines themed to Adventure Time, Chowder, and Ben 10 Ultimate Alien. Lots of really cool ideas, but the missions were tragically harder than they needed to be. It really felt like the new devs were trying to work with a system they didn't understand, from both a platforming and combat perspective. Flapjack got something akin to this, but they never finished his plotline past one mission. 6. There were some other content drops, particularly for Ben 10, Johnny Test, Johnny Bravo, Toonami, and Adventure Time, but one of these missions (a Nano mission for Ben 10's Rath) was infamous and set a low standard for these. Bravo and Test both got Nanos but outside of special events they were kinda useless. The AT and Toonami stuff were truly just items. In other words, once Grigon was out the game fell apart and the team was basically saving face by pretending they had more in the can than they actually did. That's when Devan, the leader of FF Retro, began working on "Project: Revive." Project R was a pitch to save the game, essentially, and it damn near worked. This guy built a huge reputation learning how to hack the original game, and used that knowledge to create test builds for new weapons, outfits, and areas. There was a dev in contact with him who wanted to give him a chance, but ultimately that ship sailed and Project R had to be shelved. Then, of course, it evolved into FF Legacy, a republishing of the original game with some added content. Then FF Retro took that spot, allowing Legacy to become this distinctly unique take on FF built from scratch with both games developed under the same team. The DMCA hit them roughly *eight years* after Project R, pretty much the same year they aimed to release a Legacy demo. After Legacy, there were many attempts to continue the concept with new teams. Very few still exist. I was part of a project called Rebirth, but our project leader was revealed to be a [not-nice person towards minors] and we kicked him out publicly. We changed the name to re:SPAWN and I ended up becoming the project head through process of elimination. I was very clueless (I was only head writer prior to this with no development knowledge), and after over a year we collectively decided that my ideas were way too big for a small team to handle. I left when another team member threatened to quit, and I haven't touched it since. Unfortunately that team eventually disbanded themselves, though most joined another project: Devan's team had nearly brought on a super talented dude named Soul prior to the DMCA, but were not able to in time. This kept him exempt, and he was able to start up a brand new team of artists. Unlike us, they kept their presence basically unknown- with access to assets from Legacy, they had a bit of a template to base original content off of and blew us out of the water, quite frankly. There was never exactly nice relations, I would say? We were going to collaborate but the project head before me refused, and after that a few of their current members just came at us personally in various ways. Most of them are super wonderful people but equally disappointed in those few. Still, the game looks to be coming together nicely. Soul's game began as "Worlds Collide," which was the title of a mange used to provide backstory on the beta build of the game. It was pretty much outdated for the game's public release, since Ben had to be aged up for marketing. Anyway, MultiVersus comes along and uses "WORLDS COLLIDE" in a trailer, and suddenly they need to call themselves something different. After all, a huge theory for why Legacy got DMCA’d was because CN was trying out a new branding for their older shows, “Cartoon Network Legacy.” And that's how Saturday Morning Invasion happened.

Also, another comment hi, im gonna point out some mistakes and some other stuff in the video, for the comments here > There were NOT 40 nanos AT LAUNCH, but rather 36 nanos. As the game updated the roster did rise up to around 50+ nanos, and in Retro, there are 40 nanos. Speaking original game however, only 36 Nanos at launch. > You mispelled XPCGamer´s credit as "XPVGamer". > I feel like a lot of important updates or history from FF is sorely lacking here. Would have been nice to cover those, just a thought. > FusionFall Retro and Legacy were both developed by the same group of fan developers, under the umbrella of "FusionFall Universe". There were no other FusionFall fan projects going at the time. This story alone has a lot of red herrings and history, but case and point CN made a project that had a similar name to FF Legacy and they found the projects that way. > OpenFusion also has public servers online for people to play in, not JUST private servers. It has a version of the game from 2010 and the Academy version from 2011 (which was weirdly missing from here, since it was a big thing that upset a lot of the community, killing it more) > Retrobution wasnt just teased, but its actually out now and you can play it RIGHT NOW thru our discord server. Re:Start is still in development but its looking very promising! Overall though, great video despite the missing or incorrect info. Thank you so much for showing everyone how cool FusionFall is!

I remember going to an endgame area and just exploring for hours and having to slowly make my way back to early areas. Lots of great memories with this game in general

OH MY GOD, YOU MENTIONED "ADVENTURE QUEST!" *A core memory has been reinstated in this unit* THANK YOU

You know with all those 3D models and 3D printers you could print all those models provided somebody fixed them and ported them from the game which is hard but... That would be pretty cool for war gaming someone might be even doing that right now.

I missed this game with a passion. I know I've recent found your channel not long ago, nerdSlayer, but you've covered a TON of fantastic MMOs I've played since teenhood with as much research behind it as you can possibly show. I gotta thank you for helping me keep up to date over what became of some of my favorite games since they seemingly disappeared with no context at all! ☺️

This was the only game my mom let me play online(other than Club Penguin) and god do I love her for it cause I’ve met some of my best friends on it

I'm from Brazil and I got to play this game in 2011, I loved it and I was really sad about it ending... but recently I found out that there were these fan servers!

I remember two of the openings. One was Dexter sending a message to you and others to pthers but Deedee brings you to the future. There was also the whole you were there for the invasion. I also remember why Ben wasn’t allowed to use his aliens was because the goo guys would copy him and a army of four arms is scary

14:33 I was wondering why I'd never heard of this game. Cartoon Network was well known in Canada where I grew up but they never officially launched here, even though we still got all the same shows just on other TV channels.

Probably personal bias but my money’s on performance issues as the biggest thing that killed it. Speaking from experience, i could nag my parents all day long about paying for adventurequest, but i couldnt do the same for a game that i couldnt even get to boot up without melting my parents’ computer.

Fusionfall Legacy wasn't REALLY going to be another server per say, but rather a full on remake of the game with modern character designs, new characters from shows that weren't in the original game, new locations, and new music too, made by the same people who were working on Retro too! I really miss Fusionfall, but the memories I have of playing both the original with my sisters and Retro too will always be there for me to replay constantly in my head.

I had the most crappest computer that made playing this game a nightmare as it would take forever to load up the game. But once i got it working , it made staring at the loading screen worth it this game was a Hella of a drug.

The only reason i knew about Fusionfall was because i was a moderator for the forums for CN asia as my first job. I always thought it was a waste that the game was never released worldwide, as it would undoubtedly have a bigger audience. I loved the designs for the teenaged CN characters (had a huge crush on dexter lol). I remembered that i wanted to collect all the KND nanos but the game sadly died

Weird how disney of all companies was the only company that never tried to take down private servers for their mmos, since toontown is still a thriving game from fans.

As a person from Europe, I was shocked to hear that it was US only cause I had sunk so many hours into Fusionfall as a kid 😅

Oh fusionfall The start of my online gaming, and one I'll never forget. Used to play all the time with friends and I still remember playing on the last day it was online. Too bad so many fan projects have shut down.

My first (and really only consistently played) mmorpg and it was DOPE. Our favorite characters coming together to fight. I loved it!

I was waiting for this one! Also that online Fosters Home for Imaginary children videogame, I remember playing tons of it and then puff offline

I remember playing this game a lot as a kid. For me personally this is the best game ever made.

Oh my god this video unlocked the deepest recesses of nostalgia I didn't even remember I had.

I started playing this back in 2011 and stuck with it until the shutdown in 2013. It's where I met my longest known friend and led me to the people I love to hang around today. Openfusion and Retrobution have done an excellent job at preserving the game and has me excited to see where it leads to in the future, and hopefully someday we may see the earliest gamebryo version of the game be released. Long live Fusionfall!

Thank you for letting me now I can still play FusionFall is still available. I've been wanting to play it for years!

I was waiting SO MUCH for this one, Fusionfall was my top 1 game when I was a child, and the one that made me love MMORPGS, I played so much when it became free cause I coudln't pay for it and would spend a lot of tme in the starter levels just imagining what was beyond, and when I got to it, man was amazing Toontown and that one were my favorite games of all time, is kinda sad but nostalgic to see those here, but oh well, great vid as always o/

Some time ago I stumbled upon your channel and saw some games that I was really invested in and that you covered (namely Guns of Icarus and Hyper Scape) and now, after stumbling again, you have done one on Fusion Fall and I'm just astonished. I should've subscribed back then but now I'm really forced to because of this. Also, I suggested back then on the Hyper Scape video to do one on Roller Champions, which hadn't come out yet. Right now, it has been launched but I sense it's going the same path as Hyper Scape. So I stand by that suggestion. Other than that, thank you for your work and keep pumping out bangers like this one! (even though it's at the cost of some games which I am very interested in)

This game was one of my first obsessions!

Dudde,,, I remember playing this back in the day..... This brings back memories... You made my day, thank you.

finally the video we've all been waiting for!

I never played _FusionFall,_ but I was there, watching the CN website, when it came about and I was intrigued. There's something about exploring the *Cartoon Network* world that fascinates me even now, particularly in a way that had the characters interacting and establishing relationship dynamics. I was quite fond of the art style too; more so for pushing everything to be more visually cohesive, which made it feel like a unique entity. This was also during the time of the _Toon City_ bumpers on CN, which were an ingenious way making all the disparate neighbourhoods feel like part of one whole location. I just have a _love for the mundane in extraordinary worlds_ and having Prof. Utonium search for his car keys, while Ed devours his groceries embodies that notion perfectly for me. 😂

i wish i had been older when i played it bc i took it for granted then. i miss this game so much and would do almost anything to play it just one more time.

Interesting, vid as I had never even heard of this game until now. Keep em coming :D

This is still one of my favorite MMO’s ever, My friend from school would come to my house and we would take 2 Hour turns watching each other play

Loved this game as a middle school kid, it was the first gaming community i participated in through the game itself and its forums. I still miss it from time to time and it’s a shame Cartoon Network made it worse and just replacing it with something lesser.

I've never clicked faster to a video. Been loving your stuff since the essay about SWG. Super cool your work keeps intertwining with my childhood!

Dammit man. You dont have to hit me with the nostalgia

HOLY SHIT. i have been SEARCHING for this game, i couldnt remember the name! my first EVER youtube video was a 10 minute and 15 second gameplay video of this game, however back then you couldnt upload a video longer than 10 minutes so it was never completed and i lost the footage. THIS BRINGS SO MANY MEMORIES

Yeah, publishers be like: "If we can't make money with this neither can you. Even if we will never touch this IP ever again and have no plans to ever, ever, ever, ever revive it."

I remember the game when it's commercial was advised constantly on my tv. To where I then jump on my parents computer with joy to play it during the beta. Boy I miss this game so much, I wish I had more time to play it

Glad you're finally touching on this, while I knew Free Realms and PSO, this was the huge MMO I was there for in all it's big moments. Even for the restorations efforts. FF just never seems to get lucky enough.

YOOOO THIS IS MY FAVOURITE GAME THANKS FOR COVERING IT

I have actually been waiting for this vid fof years. This game was such a big and weird time for my childhood

This game made me who I am today, and it felt like I was the only one that played it in my little'ol town. I am happy someone is covering it!

Great video. I loved this game when it was live and I played Retro when it was up and was bummed when they got DMCAed. Also I must say that I love the Detective Conan music at the end.

I remember playing it a little bit back in the day, but it didn't keep for long, with things like AQWorlds and Wizard101 being more fun to me. I had no friends to play it with at the time as they were on other MMOs, which didn't help. You should do a Resident Evil/Biohazard Outbreak series video as they were interesting games cut short.

Beta FF player here, good video with the stuff you mentioned (such as performance issues, lack of end-game content) definitely hampering it, though there's some things that weren't discussed that I feel are worth mentioning: * Early on in FFs life a system was present to limit how often you played. You'd start out being able to get 100% of Fusion Matter (XP & the currency needed to change a Nano's power) from missions, monsters & Infected Zone races, which would decrease to 50% after a few hours, then to 0% a few hours later. You'd have to wait a couple hours before you could gain full FM again. This might've also applied to Taros (main currency) too but I don't remember for sure. Thankfully this was eventually removed. * F2P players weren't just locked to the Future but also 2 character slots as well, with the final 2 being sub only. * Speaking of the Future on February 16 2011 this was replaced with the Academy, a glorified tutorial area, and a move that was very unpopular with fans (myself included), so much so that FF Retro opted to use the Future instead of the Academy. * Dungeons (Fusion Lairs) weren't repeatable if you didn't have its appropriate mission or weren't partnered with someone who did. This included Lord Fuse's Lair. Because of this many players never turned in the final mission just so they could fight Fuse again.

FusionFall was one of the BEST games i have played that made my childhood. Loved every aspect of it!

Thanks for the video! I had literally never heard of this game until this video appeared.

This was my favorite game as a kid, thank you for this

I remember seeing fusionfall being advertised as a kid, but I never cared enough to give it a shot.

I was never aware of this coming out, i remember all the build up from when i was kid but never saw it being playable

The reason of the DMCA takedown for FF retro/Legacy isn't started by CN. It was from a very heated "fan" that they thought the devs were ignoring his requests for the game despite there were many people wanting other things too. So this fan (I don't know the name of atm) reported several times to CN that the devs were making money off of retro. CN were okay of FF retro/legacy existing along that it doesn't make money off from it and the devs were okay about it. But since this fan lied to CN about it, CN sent a dmca to the team and the rest is history. But the fan is still stalty about the devs and targeted one of them in one of completely different game they were working on. But I haven't heard much about that, but I hope this brings more info for the fan games

cant believe i found someone actually talking about this game in this year omg nostalgia

Didn’t get this in my sub feed, glad I manually opened the channel

I used to love this game to the point where i would sit in front of my pc for 12 hours a day as much as i love the if it hadn’t shutdown i would’ve been an incel

can't believe u covered this and toon town, keep it up. There was an old mmo i played on browser too fogot the name.

Man I loved this game. I never got far I think cause alot of it was paywalled and I had to grind alot. I also remember it being a little too easy to get lost and not find out my quest for what to do next. But I loved just wandering around and talking with people as was it was fun and niche and so cool to me. If a game like this was made today it was no doubt flourish.

i played it back in the day and it is sad how it disappeared

Looked at this video with great joy and pain

An episode on Allods Online would be so great. It was so ahead of its time... So much memories in this game

I’ve got some good memories with this game any mmo I could find as a kid I would play it the early 2000’s had so many

I remember when I first found out about Fusionfall in 2010, I wanted to play it so bad despite not being from the US and my english skills not being that good. I had a netbook at the time so the game screen size didn't work that well for me, I send a email to CN to hopefully be able to play it in the future, fast-forward a month I try to enter CN website and it immediately redirected me to the CN website of my region lol (tried google search, typing the URL and nothing 😅). Now I play Openfusion every now and then and wonder how it felt when there was more people around... Excellent video!! :D

It's funny how if you make a crossover game that isn't garbage it'll sell like hotcakes. But for some reason companies never give them a budget

I loved this game so much ... I still do ... I still feel like this game dying was very unfair ... And that wierd one it was replaced with where you hand to click to move was rage inducing.

Yes!!! Been waiting for this one!!!

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for half of this I was like "Why have I never heard of this game... I used to love watching cartoon network as a kid and this would have been right when I started having my own PC with a internet connection (rather than one the other side of the house from the broadband router (not wireless). "US Only" *Sad British noises...*