> pretty clearly shows that you can wave dash faster than you can run, which gives you greater mobility.
If they did show that then they showed it without even pointing it out. I do remember them saying something about a jump and a slide, but that part was very fast, and even after looking at that bit again i can't see where they show the comparison to normal running.
> this is shown by not only the side-by-side comparison
Again, only shown for an extremely short time. By the time i figure out which one was showing the L-cancel they were done with it already.
> They don't explain why it's called "l-cancelling", but that's not going to add more information to the explanation of the utility.
You think that. I do not.
> It's a documentary, not a tutorial.
There can also be a middle ground. This documentary utterly aims at one extreme though.
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More importantly note that these two things, and the explanation of the percentage, are the only times they actually bother to explain anything about the game in the first two episodes.
12 minutes into the second episode when they're talking about Ken vs. Chillindude, and Chillindude starts talking about his strategic decisions: "The [strategy] is simply this: you throw them upwards, and then hit them with an up-air."
If you don't like it, that's fine; your complaints about gameplay footage are all completely valid. But if you feel like they're not giving you information about the game, I'm not really sure how much attention you're paying to what they're saying.
edit: especially because some thing you're explicitly saying you want (e.g. what breakthroughs are made) are given (l-cancelling and wave dashing, for example) and then you just totally discount them because I guess you're looking for frame by frame analysis in a documentary.
edit 2: 22 minutes into the second episode they go over Directional Influence. That's more systems information for you and another example of a technical breakthrough that changed competitive play. If you don't like the videos that's fine, but you should probably watch a video fully before you make complaints that are provably false.
Sorry if it appears like that. I didn't express myself clearly enough.
I wasn't discounting those, but instead expected more explanations of the basics. Without understanding of the basic movements and abilities of a character (the only nod towards that is the breathless "you can control every movement of your entire body"), no meaningful understanding of the impact of the special techniques is possible. (Note how i can't even tell the difference between the speed of a wave dash and normal running because they never once showed normal running in isolation.)
Note specificially me saying in the bit you refer to:
>> what you were expecting?
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> What's the normal gameplay,
> how does competitive differ
They could've easily done that with a short 10 minute segment where they only go over the basics, maybe even make it optional. Or heck, a link to a tutorial they deem useful. Or at the very minimum a warning going "if you don't already know the game, nothing we talk about will make any sense".
If they did show that then they showed it without even pointing it out. I do remember them saying something about a jump and a slide, but that part was very fast, and even after looking at that bit again i can't see where they show the comparison to normal running.
> this is shown by not only the side-by-side comparison
Again, only shown for an extremely short time. By the time i figure out which one was showing the L-cancel they were done with it already.
> They don't explain why it's called "l-cancelling", but that's not going to add more information to the explanation of the utility.
You think that. I do not.
> It's a documentary, not a tutorial.
There can also be a middle ground. This documentary utterly aims at one extreme though.
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More importantly note that these two things, and the explanation of the percentage, are the only times they actually bother to explain anything about the game in the first two episodes.