How I Beat Plants Vs Zombies Blindfolded 

This is genius. You don’t have to worry about seeing an asymmetrical lawn and being morally obligated to constantly fix it even if it’s the wrong move strategically!

As a blind person myself, this was a joy to watch

I love how he does this cuz blind runs are some of the most common ones to fake (and some of the easiest), but he rose above the accusations by just...giving instructions. Like this man really said "I'm not just gonna do it, I'm gonna break it down and show you how to do it."

38:56 This bit had me rolling on the floor laughing. I did not expect this to happen at all, but the fact he jumped out of his camera to berate a sleeping mushroom was gold.

I can't imagine how psychologically distressing it was playing through the entire game without one of your main senses! The part where you got the taco and thought it was a plant was hilarious, as well as at 39:01 where it looks like you are throwing the sun upwards.

I love the fact that on top of a god tier challenge, he gave us a tier list

39:37 You buying rakes thinking it was roof cleaners, then going to buy roof cleaners thinking it was rakes is absolutely hilarious

I feel like Crazy Dave would absolutely recommend the player put on a blindfold either for style or because he thinks it's optimal. Thanks for being a little crazy Sample.

I have a great amount of joy when the games have a "Now you cant see obstacle" in a blind run, also amazing video Sam

The sunflower hater formation is a professional strategy used by many top players!

The song audio cue strat at 7:51 is so GENIUS to me! I love listening to and humming to the soundtracks of all the levels, so using Loonboon's beat drop to time a full screen barage of Wall-nuts is SO COOL.

39:38 made me absolutely crack up with you mixing up the roof cleaners and rakes, yet still getting them both!

39:00 is genuinely such a great moment, it genuinely feels like something right out of a high quality cartoon like Phineas and Ferb or something

Never thought one of my childhood favourite games would be covered years later like this. Congratulations !

About the zomboss fight, it makes sense that planting in a lane that lost its cleaner would cause zombies to spawn there again. The flags that prevent spawning are there to give you some time to replant your defenses after losing the lane, so by planting there it’s telling the game “I can defend this lane now, you can send zombies again”

This is absolutely wild, good job.

Blindfolded runs of video games are always so fascinating to me because of everything required to progress. It’s insane to see a strategy game done blindfolded

38:56 was my absolute favorite bit, I had to rewind that just to figure out what I just saw. I love seeing all the strategies one can make in these kinds of challenges. The fact that each "world" (aside from the roof) made the game easier in different ways was very amusing.

36:57 This is my favourite moment in the entire video. The joke was so simple yet so effective

This video, above everything, shows me how amazing Plants vs Zombie's sound design is. The fact that the big threats have sound cues so that you can immediately react to them, especially.

This man is the absolute RU-vid EPITOME of quality over quantity!! It's always a great day when Sample uploads, can't wait to see what you tackle next dude :D

So I guess Dave was playing conveyor levels blindfolded during "I, Zombie" levels, huh.

This video is amazing. The great challenge, the neat editing, the Danganronpa soundtrack… all is too perfect!

I cant believe Sample has gone from a random "Oh hey, a Kirby video," RU-vidr to me, to being one of my favorites for his unique and intriguing challenge videos. Well done

Is there a word for the opposite of a nitpick? If so, this is one of those: I appreciate that the title doesn’t pretend like this is some journey we’re all on to see if it’s possible or not. I like that you already did it, take pride in that, and present this more as a documentary of your work than a standard challenge run.

I love how the tier names are hilarious, “can cook” for mid tier is inaccurate but it makes it funnier than it should be.

This is my favourite kind of challenge run Doing this with Sekiro was an experience i have yet to complete and it's so mentally taxing that I still haven't finished it after 3 years. But 80% there is pretty good So I can appreciate the immense effort that went into doing this, and of course congrats on seeing it through to the end!

You have quickly become my absolute favorite gaming RU-vidr and it's not a competition. Your videos are a tremendous joy and I've watched them all about a dozen times. Learning about your second channel is even better! More Sample makes me a happy dude.

wow, just wow. A favorite old childhood game beaten in a creative way. Bravo.

Now we know who made the defense in the intro sequence.

You're definitely one of my favorite youtube creators, always a pleasure to see another sample video!

this video is so well edited that moments like 39:00 and how you ranked each plant makes its so unique and fun to watch even a 50 minute video has every moment of your attention. great job dude this is definitely the most sub worthy video ive seen in a hot minute 👌 keep it up

45:07 There it is! The classic strat!

The real reason why playing PvZ blindfolded will be difficult? The lawn won't be symmetrical. True horror.

Spectacular as always. Brilliant strategizing and your perseverance shines through.

Amazing journey. Beautifully told as always and super entertaining. I admire your determination really. Congrats!

I swear there was the collect all sun on screen button with RT or LT. Only marginally helpful I’m sure but I played this too much to know you just spam triggers. Amazing run!

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Sample is the best gaming challenge RU-vidr on the entire platform and it is absolutely NOT close. Honestly, this mf could take some terrible game I've never heard of before and make the weirdest challenge imaginable and I'd still enjoy the video, just because the structure and scripts of these videos are immaculate.

your videos are ridiculously entertaining and high quality. just finished the stardew one (after a stardew youtube challenge binge) and now its time to watch all of your videos. battletoads included

I was so waiting for a new sample upload, you're actually a g for somehow coming up with all these unique challenge ideas

38:58 was so good man, the keying out to do a walk over bit really got me good! no notes!

"As my first step to solving any problem is defining the problem, but if I can't see where this thing is, coming up with the strategy to get around, it was a whole new challenge" -Shovel Knight Sample

This os really cool, also your explanations of how you sopved the levels is spot on!

u rlly made this so entertaining to watch

I saw the notification and bolted to watch. Always excited to see when you upload and this did not disappoint. The commentary was really interesting and funny, and the gameplay was overall really impressive. Your literal blind reactions to things were probably my favorite. Anyways, thanks for all the hard work you put into this to make it entertaining. Awesome video, can't wait to see what you make next.

It’s always a good day when Sample uploads

This was such a brilliant video! Thank you very much for the upload 🙌

Amazing video, gz on the run!

Respect to Sample for doing everything blindfolded, even the editing for this video

Playing blind vs playing deaf is an easy decision. While what you did was way harder, you got to do it while being able to listen to an awesome soundtrack and that killer ending song.

love all your videos man

one of my fav childhood games, super cool to see it covered like this! great video :)

I’ve seen several different challenges videos for PvZ, but with Sample, it hits way different compared to those other challenges. Great video.

9:18 This was way overcomplicated for 1-7. You only need 1 Snow Pea on each lane to beat 1-7 with 0 micromanagement reliably every time, and you can literally afford all the Snow Peas with like only 1 Sunflower. But oh well - it's free entertainment to see people play this game in wacky ways 😅 EDIT: Welp now I ended watching that level I completely understand why that was the case. LMAO

Great video! Pretty interesting how you develop every strat, also, you trying to guess what plant the Taco was made me laugh like little else XD

Your knowledge of gaming music is awesome! It was so lovely to see isaac chibi robo and sonic adventure in one vid

Honestly, regardless of what the big PVZ people out there might think, this is really impressive to say the least

Cant believe sample finally neck revealed

pvz was basically my childhood game so this video intrigued me and then actually watching it was such a blast, this was such an interestign challenge and the way you explained everything was very clear and the editing was phenomenal! fantastic video my friend

I really like this video, I've watched it 3 times. I love how well edited it is and how well you explain everything that you are doing and why. It's so interesting to learn with you how you did something so challenging, and the mistakes alonv the way are hilarious. This is the first video that ive seen from this RU-vid channel, and its made a good impression. I guess i have to subscribe now.

This was fantastic. This game was my entire childhood, and I still have a copy of it on my laptop that I've brought with me through all my computer changes. Awesome to see it still getting love today, it really deserves it. Certified classic.

Huzzah the version of PvZ that actually looks good! Also, for roof levels you can place straight-shooting plants like the peashooter even 2 rows back from the flat section. I think some plants need to be placed 1 row back at max like the starfruit because it's shorter but you still get a surprising amount of flexibility on roof levels.

Great video! I love how this challenge doesn't make any "well I can look for this one level because it is too hard" allowances, even doing the menus blind. It's obvious you know this game really well, and it was a joy to see you take on the seemingly insurmountable odds and win!

The fog levels' whole mechanic being that you can't see half the screen was the funniest attempt at challenging you for this. xD 37:42 You know it's over when Sealed Vessel starts playing.

Sample videos are always great, but this one might just be the best one yet, great job

My favorite youtuber playing one of the greatest games ever made with a unique challenge? YES PLEASE

Lfg new Sample challenge run! Always a treat to see you upload.

Really enjoyed the editing definetely :D Simplistic but also enough humour to not keep it tame!

Congrats on 200k can’t believe it all started with battle toads

3:30 “We know where the Zombie is by subtracting where it isn’t from it is”

your edits and commentary were abs delightful c:

I subscribed cause I like how you sneakily inserted it during the explanation. I appreciate the cleverness lol

15:10 "which isnt feasable with the sun we have" *has 875 sun* lol

Great video! This is super interesting to see the strats being used, including some super creative solutions

This video was so funny and well thought out, I just HAD to subscribe

Loved this video, maybe try doing some other PvZ challenges in future

I'm surprised scaredy was in garbage tier, I would have thought it would be incredible for it's long range, cheap damage. This was a really cool challenge, and it was cool to see speedrun terminology and tech elsewhere in the pvz community! I will say, I don't think 4-10 has less zombies because of the darkness gimmick - it's just that a lot of zombies in that level (buckets, diggers, pogos) cost 4 wave points, and so it's less zombies but, in theory, more "threatening" ones. The wave point system was made with the normal levels in mind though, and so the diggers and pogos are really not threatening if you have a thousand starfruit/split peas, as well as magnets for the bucketheads. Can also definitely relate to 5-5 being the worst level. I think it went better than 3-5 because cherry bombs are very rare in 5-5, but super common in 3-5.

I remember when I played through PvZ without sun-producing plants. That was a tough one, but tons of fun to pull off.

Your editing is so neat This video made me appreciate clean edits and this games sound design Your amazing the strategies are so fun to see

not only was that a really fun video, I also LOVE your music choices! Chibi-Robo and Zero Escape are some based picks, yo

I always get so excited when I see a new Sample video! ✨

Very surprised how he could do this based on how much rng pvz has

The vids are great and keep getting greater. Loving the content!

your channel is seriously so high quality I wish you had one hundred million subscribers

Sample out there keeping the video challenge genre afloat all on his own.

The mobile version would be viable for this challenge too, though violently tapping everywhere to collect natural sun might be tedious lol

This is incredible, i wonder if you developed some crazy visualization skills from this, like some funny plants vs Zombies version of chessvision

I just love these kind of videos!

Another wonderful video from you. I thought when I saw your first video and subbed so long ago, you'd be a Kirby channel. I'm hyped to see you've expanded so much and I've adored every video of yours. Your presentation remains wonderful as ever. You're entertaining, engaging and explain beautifully. I hope you reach 1 mil soon, as you deserve

LEETSS GO SAMPLE

I'm always so happy when you upload

Love your work Mr. Ple!

39:35 task accidentally successfully

5:16 Proof Sample is cheating. He clearly says "I SEE my issue" Thus making this run invalid /s

It’s crazy how good your videos are

Wow that Vid was really good. I can't believe you got this

I think the true blindfolded runs were the friends we made along the way

Watched the whole video NOT blindfolded.

this was a damn good video, props to you

Lmao the bit with the rake and roof cleaners at 39:35