History VideoGame / BaldisBasicsInEducationAndLearning

* {{Retcon}}: Baldi screaming "GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!" after collecting all 7 notebooks (or the 8 notebooks in ''Plus'''s Full Game Public Demo) is altered in ''Classic Remastered'' to where [[spoiler:it's actually NULL saying the line. After defeating Null in his boss fight, it's revealed that what Baldi actually says is "Find a way out before I catch you!", and when Plus finally added Baldi shouting to the player in version 0.4, it went with the latter voice line as an indication that Null is nowhere to be found in the game.]]

* {{Retcon}}: Baldi screaming "GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!" after collecting all 7 notebooks is altered in ''Classic Remastered'' to where [[spoiler:it's actually NULL saying the line. After defeating Null in his boss fight, it's revealed that what Baldi actually says is "Find a way out before I catch you!"]]

The full game, called ''Baldi's Basics Plus'', entered early access on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Itch.io, and Game Jolt on June 12th, 2020.

On October 21st, 2022, a [[VideoGameRemake remake]] of the original, titled ''Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered'', was released. It implements the quality-of-life features introduced in ''Plus'' such as the Baldicator and stamina meter. A "Party Style" mode is also included, which replicates ''1 Year Birthday Bash'', and a "Demo Style" mode that incorporates elements from ''Plus'' into the original map.

The premise of the game is rather simple: the player is a student at Baldi's Schoolhouse, and their goal is to collect and fill out seven notebooks scattered about the campus (with each notebook containing 3 math problems). They need to collect these notebooks for their friend that left them in the school and cannot retrieve them himself due to "eating practice". The only problem is that a few questions are unsolvable BlackSpeech ([[EverybodyHatesMathematics like in real life]] but genuinely impossible to solve), and Baldi gets so mad over failing students that [[DisproportionateRetribution he feels the need to hunt them down like the survival horror monster he really is with]] [[DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff a ruler in hand with your butt's name on it]]. Meanwhile, there are other entities in the school that try to hinder your progress, such as a jump-roping girl, the school's principal, a giant talking broom, a bully, a sock-puppet, a hug-loving {{Cyborg}} on wheels, a cloud creature, a chalk drawing, a boy who loves bubblegum, a head in a shoe, and a creep in black. The game can be downloaded [[https://mystman12.itch.io/baldis-basics from here]].

** Certain Kickstarter backers have donated enough money that posters based on them can be found in the game, one of which is [[WebVideoRandomEncounnters the Beard]].

''Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning'' (often shortened to ''Baldi's Basics'') is an indie horror game that made its initial debut in 2018 as part of the annual itch.io Meta Game Jam contest. The original version made for the competition was hurriedly slapped together in a couple of days, and it shows. But despite this, the game exploded in popularity upon its release, won second place in the contest, and almost immediately gained a cult following for uniquely utilizing an [[StylisticSuck intentionally terrible]] [[{{Retraux}} yet nostalgic]] theme lampooning low-budget ‘90s edutainment games as well as the general tropes of indie horror titles. After receiving a ColbertBump from several famous YoutubeLetsPlayers, it wasn’t long before fans of other cult indie horror titles latched onto the game as well, further skyrocketing its popularity to viral levels. In response, game creator Micah [="Mystman12"=] [=McGonigal=] greatly expanded upon it with a content update.

* NintendoHard:
** Since there's so many enemies you have to juggle, the game is remarkably hard, even after the update.
** The Secret Ending requires the player to get ALL problems wrong. Baldi is already a LightningBruiser at 6 incorrect answers. Imagine him at ''21''.
** Then there's the BrutalBonusLevel of ''Classic Remastered'', [[spoiler:especially with the unexpected BossBattle thrown in.]]

''Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning'' (often shortened to ''Baldi's Basics'') is an indie horror game that made its initial debut in 2018 as part of the annual itch.io Meta Game Jam contest. The original version made for the competition was hurriedly slapped together in a couple of days, and it shows. But despite this, the game exploded in popularity upon its release, won second place in the contest, and almost immediately gained a cult following for uniquely utilizing an [[StylisticSuck intentionally terrible]] [[{{Retraux}} yet nostalgic]] theme lampooning low-budget ‘90s edutainment games as well as the general tropes of indie horror titles. After receiving a ColbertBump from several famous YoutubeLetsPlayers, it wasn’t long before fans of other cult indie horror titles latched onto the game as well, further skyrocketing its popularity to viral levels. In response, game creator Micah [=“Mystman12”=] [=McGonigal=] greatly expanded upon it with a content update.

On October 21, 2022, a [[VideoGameRemake remake]] of the original, titled ''Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered'', was released. It implements the quality-of-life features introduced in ''Plus'' such as the Baldicator and stamina meter. A "Party Style" mode is also included, which replicates ''1 Year Birthday Bash'', and a "Demo Style" mode that incorporates elements from ''Plus'' into the original map.

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--->'''Baldi:''' I GET ANGRIER FOR EVERY PROBLEM YOU GET WRONG (when you get one or two questions wrong)
--->'''Baldi:''' I HEAR MATH THAT BAD (when you get all 3 questions wrong)

* CanonDiscontinuity: [[spoiler:The notebook from [=mystman12=] in the DeveloperRoom following NULL/Glitch mode]] reveals that the versions of the game prior to the 1.0 version of ''Plus'' will not be canon to the final version of the game, due to the story of the prior versions of the game being “too unruly” to reconcile with the story that the final game will tell. [[spoiler:However, the story that started with the first version of the original ''Baldi’s Basics'' does still get a proper conclusion with [=Filename2=]/NULL being defeated once and for all and the game being freed from his influence.]]
* ChallengeRun: April 2020 saw the release of an update that introduces three of these; the first one is "Speedy" (no other characters aside from Baldi are present, but both he and the player move extremely fast and the player must collect 25 notebooks), Stealthy (the premise is that the player is sneaking into the school after hours to collect 7 notebooks and must avoid being seen by multiple Principals or else lose instantly, as Baldi is waiting in detention), and Grapple (the player must collect 7 notebooks, with the catch that they can only move via an infinite use grappling hook, as well as deal with Gotta Sweep, It’s A Bully, and Mrs. Pomp).

** The Secret Ending: [[spoiler: If you escape the school after getting ''every'' problem wrong, rather than cutting to the usual AWinnerIsYou ending, it cuts to a screen showing Baldi frowning and the message: "You Won! But there's room for improvement, though...Go see Baldi in his office for some tips!". At this point, though, you still have control of your character. If you turn around from the message, you can see a door labeled: "Baldi's Office". If you go in, you'll find a skewed and distorted Baldi in the middle of the room, and a strange distorted image of a man T-posing behind Baldi's desk. If you get close enough to the desk, speaking in extremely low-quality distorted audio full of scratches and beeps, the man very awkwardly [[BreakingTheFourthWall implores the player to destroy the game]], passive aggressively insists through SuspiciouslySpecificDenial that the game didn't [[TrappedInTVLand suck him into it]], and that it ended up "[[GameBreakingBug corrupting]]" him upon doing so. He continues to incoherently blather on in a comedically stilted way about how the player needs to destroy the game before the game abruptly crashes.]]
** The 1 Year Birthday Bash ending blows the original version's Secret Ending out of the water: When you get all seven notebooks and try to escape the school, all of a sudden you end up in the cafeteria in front of the giant birthday cake while surrounded by Baldi and the rest of the characters, who seem to have thrown a surprise party for you. Baldi invites you to blow out the candle at the top of the cake. If you take the lift up to the candle and blow it out...[[spoiler:suddenly the building goes dark and the characters float up to the ceiling, and things get ''[[MindScrew weird]]'' with a capital W. A hallway appears in the wall. If you "walk" from the lift across thin air to it, you'll find [[MinusWorld a completely screwed up version of the school]] with things in places they shouldn't be, deformed and almost zombie-like Baldi clones floating around like balloons (along with clones of some of the other characters), and a bizarre (yet harmless) ''thing'' that looks like a hideously deformed version of Baldi's head roaming the halls. If you wander around long enough, you'll find a room encouraging you to count the "balloons" (i.e. the floating miscolored Baldis) along with two more notebooks that serve no real purpose (but have distorted Baldi voices playing over them). If and when you put the amounts of the balloons in correctly, a new room opens up, containing a bunch of desk chairs and a chalkboard reading: "Whoa, you are smart!". Then a bunch of red distorted Baldi clones that seem to be made up of corrupted Baldi faces begin spawning in the school and homing in on you, and continuously do so until you can no longer move, at which point the screen fades to a deranged "Thank You!" screen with equally deranged versions of the cast on it.]] If you [[spoiler: find [=Filename2=] during this sequence]], he once again bunglingly rambles to the player through extremely compressed audio about how [[spoiler: not destroying the original game when you had the chance per his warning from the original version]] [[MindScrewdriver resulted in this all happening]], but still, just...''what?''

** The glitchy, static-y noises made by [[spoiler:the red Baldi "balloons" that bum-rush you during the ending of]] the 1 Year Birthday Bash version, as well as the buzzing noise made by [[spoiler: the giant floating Baldi head]] and [[spoiler: the corrupted Baldi voice clips playing over the three Think Pad sequences]].

* NonindicativeName: Even though it's Baldi's Schoolhouse, he's not the principal.

--> '''Baldi:''' I HEAR EVERY DOOR YOU OPEN.

--> '''Playtime''': Oh! That makes me sad!

** [[spoiler: Null's dialogue from the hidden ending]]:
--->[[spoiler: '''Null''': Oh jeepers, you found me. Good job, I'm glad you found me, because I have something kind of important to say. *beep* It's about th-the game... Don't, *beep* Uh, Eh. Don't *beep* Don't, just, [[LaughingMad *laughter*]] this is... This is probably looking pretty ridiculous. *beep* Don't tell anyone about this game. You wanna... don't - don't bring attention to yourself. Destroy it, destroy the game. Destroy the game. Before it's too late. *beep* What i'm saying is... is [[CallBack get out of this, while you still can]]- *beep* Just, don't... don't know that you probably know [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial I'm not saying that I'm trapped inside the game, no that would be ridiculous]]. No I'm... *beep* I can't... this is... I'm not... the game was... kind of... *beep* [[AndIMustScream I got really corrupted]]. Yeah, I... *beep* I don't know what to say. Just... Just trust me. We gonna... *beep* *This isn't... This seems... I me-I mean it seems...ohh. *beep* They'd know I... They intentionally... that's... I guess... I can't- They can't tell you, and some... stuff is classified. I can't say it. *beep* I wish I could say more. I can't talk normally. I-it's corrupted. There's... *beep*.. Yeah... *beep* Just... close the program. Destroy it. Never come back. *long beep*]]
* WhamShot:
** At the end of the 1 Year Birthday Bash version, Baldi and the others throw a surprise birthday party for you, giving off the impression that the game will end with the characters [[GoKartingWithBowser burying the hatchet with you long enough to celebrate the game's anniversary]]. Then you blow out the candle, and [[spoiler: Baldi and the others suddenly float up to the ceiling and a new hallway appears in the wall. It turns out the game isn't quite over yet...]]
** [[spoiler: [=Filename2=]/[=NULL=] suddenly closing the last exit in Glitch Mode can also count.]]

* ZergRush: [[spoiler: What happens at the end of the 1 Year Birthday Bash ending if you don't find Null beforehand; if you enter the correct number of "balloons" in the balloon room and open the secret classroom, you get swarmed by red "Baldloons" and the game ends. In Classic Remastered, however, they just float on their own accord, destroying any chunks they collide with.]]

* TrivallyObvious: When you get all problems right in the 1st notebook, the YCTP says "WOW! YOU EXIST!"

The premise of the game is rather simple: the player is a student at Baldi's Schoolhouse, and their goal is to collect and fill out seven notebooks scattered about the campus (with each notebook containing 3 math problems). They need to collect these notebooks for their friend that left them in the school and cannot retrieve them himself due to "eating practice". The only problem is that a few questions are unsolvable BlackSpeech ([[EverybodyHatesMathematics like in real life]]), and Baldi gets so mad over failing students that [[DisproportionateRetribution he feels the need to hunt them down like the survival horror monster he really is with]] [[DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff a ruler in hand with your butt's name on it]]. Meanwhile, there are other entities in the school that try to hinder your progress, such as a jump-roping girl, the school's principal, a giant talking broom, a bully, a sock-puppet, a hug-loving {{Cyborg}} on wheels, a cloud creature, a chalk drawing, a boy who loves bubblegum, a head in a shoe, and a creep in black. The game can be downloaded [[https://mystman12.itch.io/baldis-basics from here]].

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Null, while well meaning and wanting to ensure no-one else meets the same fate he did, is more than willing to use unsavoury means to make the player stop playing Baldi's Basics, even having his own dedicated mode where he chases the player and fights a BossBattle against them at the end of the mode just to make them leave. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard This unfortunately means that doing so too much and not keeping his cool causes him to be wiped out of the game]], [[RetGone never to be seen again under normal circumstances]].]]

* PowerUp: The "Energy Flavored Zesty Bars" refill the player's stamina, with the added bonus of giving them infinite stamina for a short time.

** As of an update to both ''Classic Remastered'' and ''Plus'', when you're playing Playtime's jumprope minigame, each jump can move you in a given direction slightly, meaning you're no longer completely helpless against anything else.

* AfterHours: The Free Run mode of ''Classic Remastered'' is set up like this, seemingly set at the end of a school day with Baldi having gone home, allowing the player to gather notebooks without him present. The sunset skybox exclusive to the mode also reflects this.

* BaldOfEvil: [[MeaningfulName Baldi]] only has a single strand of hair on his head, meant to represent an [[IdiotHair ''ahoge''.]]

On October 21, 2022, a [[VideoGameRemake remake]] of the original game was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} titled ''Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered'', which implements the quality-of-life features introduced in ''Plus'' such as the Baldicator and stamina meter. A "Party Style" mode is also included, which replicates ''1 Year Birthday Bash'', and a "Demo Style" mode that incorporates elements from ''Plus'' into the original map.

* AbnormalAmmo: During [[spoiler:the boss fight with Null,]] you have to throw objects at him ranging from chairs to potted plants to ''bananas.''

[[caption-width-right:350: Education, learning, fun and [[BreadMilkEggsSquick unadulterated horror]] all in [[RhymesOnADime one!]]]]

* GuideDangIt:
** The BrutalBonusLevel of ''Classic Remastered'' really lives up to its name. [[spoiler:While there aren't any math problems to solve this time, you've got [=FileName2=] constantly on your trail, who, initially, moves like Baldi, but without making a sound other than occasionally taunting the player or opening doors he passes by, and can even smash through windows to cut the player off. And if he succeeds in catching you, he'll not only tear the world around you apart, but force-close the game for good measure. This escalates further for the BossBattle, with him getting faster on every hit, blocking off corridors with random objects and the only way to hurt him is throwing floating furniture at him. Needless to say, it's very difficult to beat this, so much so that even [=Mystman12=] admits in the DevelopersRoom that it was the stupidest challenge he made yet. It'll be likely one will resort to trying to use Debug Mode just to help beat the fight. [[NoFairCheating But that isn't a good idea...]]]]

-->'''Baldi:''' Problem three! [[SensoryAbuse *loud static noise*]] plus [[HellIsThatNoise *loud static noise*]] times [[RuleOfThree *loud static noise*]] equals...

-->'''1st Prize:''' I am programmed to desire your image.

-->''Baldi's fog machine malfunctioned again! Ack! Hack!''

* PunchClockVillain: Some of the characters are this. The Principal is just there to enforce the rules, Gotta Sweep just cleans the hallways, and the only reason why It's a Bully attends Here School is because "[[NecessaryEvil every good school needs a good bully]]."

* TheStinger: [[spoiler:NULL is erased from the game for good after clearing Null Mode, but should a rare crash screen be encountered, it triggers a rare cutscene. It appears to be a lake, where NULL then emerges, flickering and flashing different layers of himself, whether it's showing how he got trapped or if he's not really dead is unknown.]]

-->'''Baldi:''' Congratulations! You found all seven notebooks! Now all you need to do is... '''''GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!''''' [[MoodWhiplash Hahaaa!]]

-->'''Mrs. Pomp:''' '''WHY WEREN'T YOU AT MY''' '''''CLASS?!'''''

* TranquilFury: In ''Classic Remastered'', [[spoiler:[=FileName2=]/NULL undergoes this at the final part of his exclusive mode, engaging the player in a surprise BossBattle and relentlessly chasing them throughout the schoolhouse until he finally falls. His hatred towards the player, however, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard ends out being his undoing]].]]

* MultipleEndings: An inclusion of the update. The player beating the game normally equates to the infamous default ending. To get the Secret Ending, they must intentionally provoke Baldi into going maximum speed by getting ALL 21 problems wrong.

%%* CreepyChild: Playtime and Beans fit this trope to a T.
%%* DarkHumor: Quite a lot of this throughout.