Whew. Ok.
Honestly, I was beginning to think this whole thing was cursed after the problems I've been having. I had most of it edited together, and then found a few factual inaccuracies. I rewrote much of the script, and then got super sick to the point where I couldn't record my voice anyway. Then I went on vacation. Through all of that, I'm still waiting on YouTube to approve my Membership Programme status. Strange times.
Anyway, this episode was more or less an information dump. Most of what was said here wouldn't comfortably fit into character eps, so I had to stretch out the attract mode for more than 10 minutes, which is why you're seeing yet more random match footage. These are captured online, incidentally, so if you're a little upset that it's not high-level play, well, it's because I just felt like using Sean. Also, I'm only really an above-average player at best. Now you know.
The primary sources for this series info are interviews I've compiled from various online sources, art books from over the past two decades, and Japanese game magazines and strategy guides. Much like the Annotated SOTN episodes, you'll hear me reference back to a few specific things more often than not. The CFN interview with Sadamoto is a good starting point, so we should run into that quite a bit for specific characters. What's important, though, is that I show as much of the game as I can, which is symbiotic to interviews and references, so this episode was primarily used to get some general things out of the way before we get into specifics.
Obviously, accuracy is key, and occasionally, that takes some time to really nail down. Case in point are the Judgment girls, which many believe to be specific to a character's stage. I have found that they are not. This took a little longer to get right than I though, too.
I hope you enjoy the episode all the same. I'm already deep into the script and recording for Alex, and we should see that in a few weeks.
Thanks again for watching!
