Again I find myself apologizing for a long delay, but I think it was worth it this time. I have a new desktop with a lot of muscle, and this made editing the current video a little easier than on my poor, rickety old laptop. The added bonus is that I can work on the desktop at home and occasionally do some things during my lunch break at my 8-5 on that laptop, which can double my output. See? All good things.
The truth is, Ibuki was a hard character to script and just as hard to edit together. Nobody I know plays her with any kind of seriousness, so I needed to look at a lot of footage and supplemental material to be authoritative on gameplay. Her monstrous move set made things pretty challenging, and well, I kind of got a little lazy with the Holidays looming this year. So there you go; in all honesty, this video was hard to make, and I wimped out a little bit making it.
Now that it's behind me, though, I can see why people like to play Ibuki, especially a few folks I know that are hardcore KOF players. But I don't ever want to touch this character again. Not that she's bad, mind you. One of the cooler aspects about fighting games is roster size and depth and how a player gravitates toward characters that they connect with. I don't connect with Ibuki. She has unique qualities, but after busting my hump to get this video edited over the past few days (in between family obligations and watching Coop Cup matches), I'm burned out just looking at her.
But what a time to be an Ibuki fan, though! The Pre-Coop Cup grand finals had an Ibuki team for the first time in the tournament's history, and this video series can help the lay person demystify what they actually saw. Sadly, those brave heroes that made it that far into the tournament with a mid-tier character didn't win it all, but that just goes to show the strength of strong play with a slippery character coupled with intimate knowledge of SFIII's other systems. It was a great tournament this year, and even greater seeing some mid- and low-tier pros get in there and put on a clinic.The next few videos are for Necro and Urien, two characters that also had some nice, crowd-pleasing moments in the hands of a master players (look up that RX comeback over an Akuma that was pounding him into dirt). Look forward to those.
Aaaaand speaking of the next videos, the wait should be shorter for Necro than it was for Ibuki. I'm deep into the editing process for his episode, and about halfway through writing the script for Urien right now. The latter of which is the longest script so far, but that could be because of both my character bias (I play a pocket Urien and so do a few friends) and the fact that he's got a lot more to unpack about his design than a lot of people may realize.
Anyhoo, thanks again for watching these videos and any support you throw me on YouTube, Twitter, and especially Patreon (gotta pay off this new computer somehow). Pretty soon, we'll be getting through characters that I kind of dread and onto ones that I have more working knowledge of (and with much more out there about their design history), so get excited.
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