You see, while the Chinese version of PvZ 2 definitely has more content (a lot of them I wish we had in the international version), the developers behind the Chinese version prioritize quantity over quality even more than the international version, so a lot of the exclusive content feel very rushed and unfinished, especially the worlds. If you want more details about this version, I'd recommend watching a few overanalysis of the exclusive Zombies and Plants done by Flag Zombie.

I'm hoping you decide to continue this as it's own series, I would love it if you did

this would be really cool just as it's own series along with the normal pvz2. I've played the pvz games since they came out and I've seen so many different versions, but this would make for a really interesting series in my opinion. small edit: the matching mini-game used to be in the normal version as well but got removed for some reason. I always thought it was pretty cool.

Hey Matt - you'd be surprised by how much more content the Chinese edition holds. Each plant has 5 tiers and each tier unlocks a new ability that makes the plant more powerful! The translates are pretty accurate so I'd recommend spending some time looking through them as money can buy you A LOT OF OVERPOWERED STUFF in this version of pvz2. Once you complete Ancient Egypt, you'll unlock a ton of new content including a place where you set up your own "garden formation" and invade other player's gardens with your own zombies and win lots of prizes! There are also plant comboes in this game, so you're absolutely right about how it's similar to battle cats! Try not to miss daily login rewards as those give you lots of free gems and goodies :D

Fun fact: the camel-matching minigame (aka Mummy Memory) used to be available in the international version of PvZ 2 before it was removed and became exclusive to the Chinese version.

here are some translation notes! though you could get around this game using just google translate with no problem lol - google slightly butchered the 'good things' part in the first dialogue, i think what dave's saying is 'perhaps we can find a lot of good stuff here‘ to which penny says 'i don't know if there's good stuff (here)' - the travel log is called travel Log (原木, literally 'raw wood'), so the pun there is fully lost - omg the monkiwi!!! the name of the unit is just kiwi in chinese, which is literally 'monkey peach'. the design is based on the monkey king sun wukong from the classic novel 西游记 (xīyóujì, Journey to the West), specifically the animated show depiction, with that headband and the red staff with yellow ends. every chinese person under 25 has probably seen that show as a kid hahaha

Wow, I remember years ago looking up plants vs zombies 2 and came across the Chinese version and I was shocked by the thumbnail because the plants looked so different, so I was curious and found myself seeing this version as a such unique and diverse version to what is available to us here in the US. I would love to see you play more of this version and unlock the unique plants, level them up, and see the different abilities they can do as it gets pretty wild, and what you saw was only the tip of the iceberg. If you can't though that is completely understandable, but awesome videos nonetheless, now I wanna watch more PVZ 2 Chinese edition videos. Haha. 😅

while not being Chinese, Pvz2 CN was also a part of my childhood (international ver too before the mess they added after modern day) I just revisit this game a week ago and I must say, this version nowadays is very new player friendly "new player friendly" for being generous with giving out strong plants and gem, back then, they didn't give us free Cactus like nowadays anyway, you might notice the plant has a color frame, it's actually their tier Gold > Purple > Blue > Green > Gray and Cactus is a Gold plant, he is very strong as a starter as a Chinese "gacha" game, the good thing is as long as you spend time, you can get everything for free for example, every plant can be unlocked with 10 puzzle pieces, you can get the puzzle pieces from the "loot box", event or daily login you can also exchange 2 to 5 pieces for a different higher-tier puzzle piece (although this is RNG, I was able to unlock a Gold tier plant using this) --------------------- also, this game did change a lot of the plant power and ability for example, Electric Blue Berry is pretty weak in this version, while aloe is much more powerful than international And my favorite thing is, Costume isn't useless it gives every plant a unique buff (mostly changes their plant food power)

Wasn’t expecting you to do this, nice!

Matt, you should for sure play more of this! It has alot more content and is more difficult at times than usual PVZ2

I was waiting for you to do this video

This game is actually really different from the normal version. For example costumes actually aren't purely cosmetic, they can buff stuff.

you do this right after i get addicted to your old pvz vids ty

I SUBBED MATT

I always wondered what the Chinese version of pvz2 is like and this is so cool! I would definitely watch a series of this. Tbh you are also tempting me to get into battle cats.

Please do more episodes of Chinese PvZ! I am a fan of your battle cats play through but I love this now too!

2:23 Dave: "[???] is Egypt? I've heard that the [pharaohs] have countless [???]. Maybe we can find quite a lot of good stuff!" Only one character of "pharaoh" was showing but judging by the context, that should be pharaoh. Penny: "I don't know about good stuff, but there are quite a few zombies. Prepare for battle." 2:48 Sun is a necessary resource for the production of plants. Tap on the sun to add it to your bank! 3:06 Tap on the bouncy Energy Beans. It should be able to help us! 3:25 Let's see what effect the Energy Beans have on the Peashooter! 3:36 You can dig up plants with a shovel, to make space for plants you want to plant. ("Want" and "think" are the same word in Mandarin, unlike in some other Chinese languages like Cantonese.) Penny: "Well done! There is an infinite supply of Energy Beans on this level. Now beat the zombies into the ground!" 9:54 The "gorgeous" is referring to the way in which you killed all the zombies. 11:20 No, Travel Log does not work in Mandarin. 19:13 You've already obtained this plant. The reward will automatically be converted into 10 plant shards (= seed packets?). 19:37 Matt: "Now there's things!" The things are "Electric Spines" and "Tactical Training" 19:47 Electric Spines Gives a lightning effect to the Cactus' spike attack. Has a chance to paralyze zombies.

Matt I am proud of you for doing this because I tried this before and I know how hard it is to get the game running.

This as a stand alone series oh man would be hyped everyday and wait for u to post a video of pv2 Chinese versiom

Awesome, I can't wait to see what this series has in store!

It's insane what you had to do to get the game running. I did stuff like that too a couple of times, just to get what I really wanted from where I live. Still can't believe I did it, lol. Right after getting the job done, my brain is like "Naaah, someone else did it, I'm not that smart"

Hey Matt, just wanna tell you that when I played this, peashooter + torchwood was my main strat, level 4 peashooter was nothing to mess around with in this game

Dude thank you so much I play most of the games you do plants vs zombies in Battle cats and your videos help me so much! Thank you for making them

You can play PVZ Heroes, not only do the have Cattail, but they got Laser Cattail. It’s like Cattail, but laser

Damn.never thought I’d see Matt Shea play pvz2c one day😳,as someone who used to play it it’s a shame that a lot of new contents are really hit or miss,on one hand you have kung fu world,one of my most favourite pvz2 worlds(even compared to the pvz2 international ones),but on the other hand you have something like steam age,which is just a buggy mess of unpolished mechanics…nevertheless it’s still interesting to see how Matt would react to all the new plants and worlds! Btw,pvz2c is kinda notorious in the Chinese community for having a lot of ridiculously hard stages compared to the international version,so Matt if you want to continue playing pvz2c you might wanna consider start grinding plant pieces or cosmetics…

the Hard Mode of many levels in Adventure mode is extremely difficult to impossible without leveled up plants watch out for Dark Ages, that's where it will really start ramping up also, I recommend unlocking worlds in the order on the world map, and don't unlock them until you've just about finished all the levels you can, you'll thank me later.

I love how you play this before finishing the main game 😂😂😂

Of course, they do. I wish the English version was the same as the Chinese version.

In the Chinese version of PVZ2 they kept some of the past updates like the matching and the stars of difficultly

Since you enjoy seeing differences between versions I'd recommend you try out Plants vs Zombies 2 version 1.6, the world structure is very different

There’s some exclusive time periods in this version, neat if you checked em out

I was just thinking about PvV2 China when I saw this lol

18:15 I still remembered this minigame was in the PVZ 2

Please make this a series! Your videos are great and they always make my day man.

bruh I love how the lootbox system actually gives you premium plants pretty easily, in the international you had to get 250 or 100 to unlock most of them😢

Fun fact the matching game was actually in the original PVZ 2 but I guess they took it out since I payed last

As a Chinese, I'm glad people are enjoying the Chinese version of the game :) you should do more of this series Oh and just so you know, there will be WAY more ways to get plants from that point on (there's also a custom level creator lol)

Dear mattshea I would love to see you finish PvZ2 International and pvz2 china as series PvZ 2 international has new events and plants PvZ 2 china has a star system with three challenges per level basically tripling the game length, BETTER PLANT LEVEL UP SYSTEM which actually changes plants and skins that IMPROVE PLANTS! And I think 5 new worlds! FIVE

USA PvZ devs really did us wrong man! Respect for all the work you had to do to get the China version lol.

15:52 that plant is a monkey the plant was supposed to reference the 孙悟空(sun wu kong) which in turn makes this plant a monkey/kiwi hybrid

18:08 fun fact this "minigame" was in the international version until popcap removed it for no reason

Matt, the Vase breaker thing you saw isnt actually vase breaker. Its a luck based mini game where you can break 1 or a few vases at once and then have to wait a bit until you can do it again, its a really good way to unlock rare plants though.

When are we getting Canadian pvz

The match 2 level was in the international version at one point. I remember playing it around the games first release and I completely forgot about it. I don't know why it was removed

There's a lot of new plants and zombies hope you play more

I always wanted to play this and Matt there is also a 5 in 1 toy and the pack have the five bosses like the Egypt boss, pirate boss, prime gargantuar, space time boss, and Wild West boss

Matt! you should play this on stream so people can translate stuff for you!

hell yeah hes palying the good version

The matching minigame gave me so much nostalgia. Too bad it isn’t in the current version of the English pvz2

If there *IS* a mod that allows you to have Chinese Plants in the International Version, Matt's gonna go crazy.

I have been feeling sick for the last while today was well not great and this helped make my day a little better I know you probably won’t see this but thank you

In pvz2, blover got a HUGE buff, being that knockback plants like levitater and chard guard exist. If you time a blover placement correctly, you can insta-kill any zombies that are being knocked back. THis is best used with levitater because when you plant food levitater, it lifts all zombies on screen. P:S: the correct timing is when they are nearly on the ground.

Thought it's heavily different than base PvZ2 but it seems just to have more content. Seeing China got PvZ Online as well, tower defense is probably the genre that they like the most and a money naker for EA licensing. No wonder Arknights can find success there since they can offer some kind of twist in their local tower defense market

I can only speak a little bit of chinese and I can assure you, penny is calling the lawn beautiful. And not you. Her words, not mine

I haven’t played any version of pvz2 yet, but from what I heard the China version is very different. Same goes for pvz1.

Hope u make a series of this

I love how so many different games have coo little easter eggs than the global or North America Editions. Like Terraria in China did a collab with KFC

The kiwi is a reference to sun wu kong a character in one of the most famous Chinese novels journey to the west

Cattail got deleted in PvZ 2, cause it's already changed to homing thistle in PvZ 2 and cattail only capable to plant on water in PvZ 1 while homing thistle can be planted on earth but can't be planted on water which make homing thistle better than Cattail, cause the world that have water is only BWB(Big Wave Beach) in PvZ 2 which will make cattail not worth it in PvZ 2, so the point is Cattail didn't got deleted but it got changed to Homing Thistle and if you look at how Homing Thistle works, it works the exact same like Cattail, that's why there's no Cattail in PvZ 2

Chomper in pvz 2 china has a sick ability

Just finished the video and have a nice day matt

LOVE YOUR VIDS MATT

I completely forgot about the card matching game. I remember it was in the normal version of pvz2 when i played it... I guess they took it out.

The match 2 one used to be in the original pvz2 ejypt but they removed it for some reason

Good job love your content

Let’s gooooo we got matt to play PvZ Chinese 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Ah yes another Mattshea video that makes my day!

There is a very well made level creator that you should check out and if you're having trouble learning what the plants and zombies do you should watch flag zombies over analzing China video on youtube

they even have a Chinese world in the game (and a bunch more islands than the English version )

The matching game on then Chinese version was also on the regular game but it got removed I remember playing it

Hello Matt! How did u assess pvz2 china version?

The "kiwi" is most Likely the PvZ equivalent of sun-wu Kong a Chinese character in their mythology

Matt you should do the same thing with My Singing Monsters. There're some cool monsters

The plantern is for the dark ages there is an thief zombie thing and is infisible but only the plantern can make him visible. And the shooting aspergus is one of the plants for sky city. I had cattile but i cant play it anymore becouse i must be login... 1 tip the stars are inportant you must in the worlds all stars to fight dr zomboss

If you’re curious what both plantern and coffee bean do, here is what they do, info was stated by flag zombie Plantern: Reveals all bandit zombies close to the plantern (bandit zombies drink an invisible potion upon entering the lawn and only plantern and one other plant can reveal them and the bandit zombie is exclusive to just pvz2 Chinese edition dark ages and plantern is unlocked in dark ages) Coffee Bean: Wakes up all plants in a 3x3 area (plants fall asleep from another exclusive zombie in the dark ages which is the archmage zombie which puts all plants in a 3x3 area to sleep and sleeping plants do nothing until killed or woken up, coffee bean is unlocked in dark ages)

The Kiwi is actually a reference to the Monkey King who uses a staff to fight

Wow, you are good.... Love it. Nice video bro.

I played pvz2c its fun but its more challenging so i recommend to do more lets play of it

Tip: if you want the cat tail, but also want to actually understand whay they're saying, play the mod pvz2 reflourished, its a pvz2 mod that currently has expansion levels for all (international) worlds where you can unlock a few premium plants for free, 1 new world (holiday mashup) where you unlock arena plants, and 1 pvz2 chinese world (steam ages) which is currently unfinished, but has 2 pvz2c exclusive plants, the fanilla, and your boi the cat tail.

Im very very late, but fun fact: Day 7 of Ancient Egypt used to be in the international version. I miss that match gamemode

Pls more than this it's funnier than regular pvz

Huh I can't believe matt actually checked this version out! Matt if your listening overall yes this game is better than pvz 2 overall its more f2p and more generous i would say and the plants level up system is just amazing and also there is like hell of a plants and special event that i don't want to spoil...;) You will figure out the rewards and how to get them after you get used to it non english pvz. the only problem this game has is no sounds sometimes,animation lack,quirky bugs and CN ID if this game was patched or just like fix those problem i think this version would be better than the original... (My one of fav thing about this version is also no ads!) Edit:you wanna definetly check out chomper secret level up ability if you do a future video

I love matts videos they are always a banger

What is matt playing this on? Bluestacks or some other service?

This youtuber is a true CHAD for getting rid of the dislikes this man represents the term GIGACHAD mad respect

Love your videos

Fun fact, the match two camel zombie level used to be in the north american version of the game, before it was removed!

make sure to not skip worlds, or else the youll get overwealmed by the zombie levels in hard mode. try to exploit cactus as much as possible, its the most broken plant you can have at the start. make sure to take part in event.

Plantern reveals invisible bandit zombie,removes fog in fairytale forest.When he is fed plant food he will light the whole field,when he wears his costume,when fed plant food he will stun all zombies for 3 seconds. And coffee bean wakes plants up in 3x3 range when archmage zombie puts them to sleep.

Nice video Matt! Here is a tip: When you open a crate/chest, we see a certain glow in the card! If it's a gray shine, it's a common card, green means it's uncommon, blue is rare, purple is epic, and orange/yellow is legendary, so for example, you already got a legendary card! And lastly, the color of the chest means what rarity you can get! The bluish gray chest is a common or beyond, purple is epic or legendary, and orange/yellow means it's mostly just a legendary. The final bow chest is a chest that I sadly don't know how to explain.

Matt did you know that George fan The creator of Plants VS Zombies is Chinese-American which explains why there is Chinese versions of the Plants VS Zombies Franchise.

I would love to see more of Chinese version!

Also this plant 15:46 is an easter egg to a chinese show called Journey To The West

I would like this to become a series. But if it's gonna be difficult to run the game then you don't have to.

You should play the oldest version of normal pvz 2 cause its quite different

Man pvz 2 China version is way better than I thought I wish, I could do this this, one is way cooler.

Matt, you should def plat mote of this.

8:36 ”My pickel is on fire” 💀

Please make this a series!

Hi matt! I love your content and videos! Keep it up! raboo daboo :0