51:00 Characters confirmed to have fucked 1. Ken 2. Dhalsim 3. C. Viper 4. Hakan (a bunch of times) 5. Guile

Necalli died on his way to his home planet.

I love how Necalli is so mysterious and menacing, looking all edgy and shit just to get his ass kicked badly every single time he appears and melt away like a T-1000

This is the game where Vega and Balrog secretly go around, obtaining signatures for their "Bring Sagat Back" petition.

In a weird twist of fate, Bison finds himself running for election to be supreme leader. "Some people say using 6 moons to destroy the world is too many...I say its not enough!"

Remember story mode writers: Any time there is a simple misunderstanding between characters that can be solved with a few words, you have to have the characters fight. People love it.

19:50 this is my favorite moment of the entire story mode because no matter who is playing it or which version Ibuki's purse is flying around with reckless abandon and it's never been fixed

The problem with Necalli is he seeks to KILL and CONSUME his opponents, and unlike MK, SF characters aren't dying left and right. There's no one he would be allowed to actually consume, not even Dan, so he has no choice but to job constantly.

F.A.N.G is quite literally the flunkie who keeps trying to sit at the jock table with Bison, Vega, and Balrog because his dad coaches the team.

The weirdest thing about Rashid is that his dialogue all feels like it was written in English, run through a translator to maybe Japanese or something, and then run back through to English. It all feels weirdly stilted and inauthentic.

1:03:10 We need to talk about how Zangief was hiding this all important doomsday mcguffin inside his chest hair.

That wrestling match gives mad “when are they gonna get to the fireworks factory” vibes

This story mode, especially the ending, is one big episode of the Street Fighter cartoon.

The only two things I like about this story mode is Urien showing up out of nowhere, and the punch in the gut when it shows that Nash’s final sacrifice attack did fucking nothing.

It cutting away from the wrestling match and Matt’s anguish cracked me up

I'm absolutely flabbergasted by this story mode

I find it kind of hilarious how little they gave Alex any significance here. He’s just there practically as a cameo. Given that he was originally supposed to be the *star* of Street Fighter 3. The storyline to follow. Then again, unlike King Of Fighters, Capcom did have a hard time truly transitioning lead characters for Street Fighter.

Capcom really tried on this but as with everything with SF5 (up until recently) it was a very misguided attempt. ono should've realized that with their budget it was going to be impossible to deliver a story mode that would look good to audiences at the time, MK set the bar to "your story mode should be a full blown hollywood movie". This is why would tour is such a stroke of genius for them. They still can't compete when it comes to presentation and budget but now they can instead deliver lore and single player content through RPG gameplay instead of a directed beat-to-beat linear story with high production values The future looks exciting for this franchise with the people currently at the helm.

One of the big draws to fighting games for me as a casual kid was unlocking cool cutscenes for each character when I beat the game with them. Getting just a bunch of still pictures and maybe some in-game animation never cut it for me.

As one of a dozen F.A.N.G apologists out there, your feelings on him are completely valid. It definitely seems like A.K.I in SF6 is being set up to redeem his concept at least! I wonder if she's going to flap her arms like a bird and shit out poison for her Level 2... More seriously, A Shadow Falls really fascinates me because as you noted, they really did try. It is neat on some level to see Street Fighter characters exploring locations and interacting in real time, but... the writing, and specifically the reduction of almost every single character in the cast to a single dimension makes it such a hot mess. I'm... glad that we got it, but I'll never accuse it of being good.

I love how R. Mika wears her more conservative outfit (relatively speaking for pro-wrestling) at the beginning of the story, but when she joins up with the gang to save the world she decided that she needed both ass cheeks out. It just adds to the unintentional hilarity of the story mode.

That thumbnail, though. Ryu: "...I forgot to turn off the oven!" 😧

Matt talking about wanting a new Saturday Night Slam Masters made me think that since Haggar isn't mayor of Metro City anymore having him become the new head of the CWA would be a great way to continue his character.

Man, the hair and cloth physics in this game are just all over the place aren't they?

I'm still mad about all the new Dolls being unplayable.

28:30 Best part is they gave her model a totally Liefeld-esque pouch on her leg, but didn't take bother animating her using it.

Bad or Good, it's always kinda refreshing to see fighting game characters doing things other than fighting.

I have a few fixes that would make this a lot better. 1) Give it a three-act structure with the first all the setup and terms. 2) Have the first act be a tournament. It's weird SFV doesn't have one. 3) Have Necalli kill Bison at the beginning. This makes him a real threat for Ryu to beat. 4) Only attack the Shadaloo base once at the finale. It is bizarre they go there three times.

23:10 looks like Henchmen 21 & 24 before they joined up with The Monarch.

F.A.N.G. and Ibuki confirmed to have a higher body count than Akuma

Necalli is such an absolute waste of a character despite all the hype teasers arround him. The arcade hints being this prophetic beast consuming strong warriors to then the story is just a filler villain getting punched everywhere he goes.

I completely forgot how awful Kolin’s face looked in the story mode. I’m so glad she got a new model when she became playable, she looks soooo much better.

It bothered me how the made Guile look like a armed security guard.

Man it's a good thing Juri learned how to travel by map, she'd have never been able to ride her motorcycle from Brazil to England otherwise.

Why is Karin portrayed as the leader? She is supposed to be a prodigy in martial arts and well, everything. In earlier games she was portrayed as being full of herself but still a prodigy, in 5 she is shown to be more mature but still very cocky and equally capable. Her rivarly with sakura stems from those qualities because sakura is also naturally gifted.

This was an ambitious step for the ClayFighter series. ... W-wait, this is what Street Fighter V looks like?

Charlie has now become a modern day Frankenstein's Monster.

F.A.N.G should briefly show back up in a Street Fighter game only for Dan to Raging Demon him (in his own goofy way) then perform the legendary taunt in celebration.

The best way to describe Necalli is to compare him to the Ultimate Warrior. Our expectation is that he would be like the Warrior from WWF Golden Era where he is this unstoppable madman who kicks ass and goes over ALL the big name stars to show how badass he is. But instead its WCW Warrior who is just all hype and just fizzled out when the big match we all wanted to see him in doesn’t live up to the expectation.

Just gonna say it, this movie felt like Capcom trying to tell a story on par with Street Fighter the Animated Series but with their established universe.

"I see you haven't forgotten your Air Force training." Lady here has a highly unclear idea of what an air force is and what it does.

I just now noticed that they misspelled Gill's name in the credits lmao

This is definitely their take on Mortal Kombat’s story mode. With its cinematic style of cutscenes to its character chapters, but the World Tour of SF6 looks dope as hell.

Coming back into this story mode made me realize that Marvel Infinite did it better

I said similar when Max did his replay but goddamn, the localization (or more accurately, the LACK of it) kills so much of this mode. Like, it still wouldn't be GOOD but a decent localization would make everything feel more energetic and maybe you could enjoy the silly stupidity of it all instead of just being irritated by its clunkiness. Even the ones who are actually trying to put in extra effort in their performances (F.A.N.G., Rashid, and Juri's being the highlights) can only do so much with what little they're given. Also: CHESS! PIECES! NOT! "THOSE"! "PIECES"! THEY ARE CLEARLY CHESS PIECES! GODDAMNIT!

1:36 Hell yeah, the esteemed Mr. Swint is the shit!

1:00:35 Zangief's friend from India is Darun Mister from SFEX (yes, that is canon, it was a information in the CFN website)

the fact that there's a world threatening event happening and it's up to a group of stupid martial artists to save everyone is bonkers. also how did we go from hosting a fighting tournament for a story to whatever this is? a group of professional writers made this. incredible.

Man, I'm 1 hour and 30 minutes into this 2 hour, 30 minute long anime and not ONE. SINGLE. THING. has happened to advance the plot.

I actually like them not doing something like the NRS chapters, since it helps keep characters actually doing something as one of the biggest flaws in NRS is "You play as this guy for 4 fights and now they'll barely do anything and/or be a jobber." Plus, it usually resulted in the story having to be written around the structure rather than the other way around. And we actually got to play as the villains here rather than them being jobbers. Like, I don't get why we shouldn't do that. It actually helps establish themselves as threats, which is why I like you get to play as Bison.

Looking at this I realize F.A.N.G. should have been in more scenes, and any time he wasn´t on set all the remaining kings should have been asking "where is F.A.N.G.? We need our best friend F.A.N.G. to be here." The story should have been all about him. I´m sure Street Fighter 6 will correct that mistake.

Bison is like hogan, booking himself over everyone

Street Fighter Alpha 3 has a very complicated story, but through arcade modes there are basically 3 tales to tell: - Ryu is infused with Psycho Power to make him the new replacement body for Bison. Akuma fiddles with the Dark Hadou, both attempts fail, he breaks free and with his friends defeats Bison. Bison uses the Psycho Driver to regenerate. - Chun-li, Charlie Nash and Guile raid Shadaloo to destroy the Psycho Driver. They do so and defeat Bison, freeing the dolls from his control. Nash stays behind to make sure Bison doesn't recover before the base collapses, killing him but saving Chun-li and Guile. Bison barely manages to regenerate, but is much weaker. - Rose finally gets to kill Bison once and for all... but Bison uses the last of his power to possess her. Guy finds an unconscious Rose and brings her to a hospital. He saved Rose, but he also saved Bison. Once Shadaloo builds a new body, Bison sneaks off to start Street Fighter 2. It CAN be done, and some arcade endings obviously don't make sense (every character somehow beat Bison?) But there is a story in there. SFV seems to just be "things happen: the movie" where there's no cohesion. People just drive across the Atlantic Ocean from Brazil to UK. Or the camera pulls back and shows another character who was just... there the entire time. Ugh. MK9 set such a high bar for story modes, no fighting game has managed to reproduce it. I don't think they should; Boon has always had a knack for movies and flexed way back in 2009. That's his skill. Subspace Emissary from Smash Bros. Brawl is the only story mode that has come close (or surpassed it, depending on your opinion.)

Leave an "F" for Cafe Eliza. Gone too soon.

1:52:44 She called Birdie a "big fat sack of merde" (merde being "shit" in French)

2:29:27 ~ I vote that if for some reason F.A.N.G. is brought back into Street Fighter 6 in some capacity (even as just a little cameo), Matt needs to be the new VA for F.A.N.G. 😁😁😁

Its so refreshing to find someone online who still loves Mummies: Alive!

unironically love this story for being the worst best thing ever

I feel like SF5 exists as it is so Ono could showcase his self-insert OC to the world. I can imagine him running around the Capcom offices with those big dumbass Ryu hands on while flapping his arms.

Fighting game stories are kinda fucked doing these cinematic story modes. You either tell a coherant story and ignore most of the cast, like T7, or you jam 20+ characters into a 3 hr story and it's a total mess like this and the later NRS games. It sucks that the better option seems to be ignoring 70% of the cast or relegating them to cameos/side stories.

This Story mode makes me feel like someone in Capcom was watching a lot of Channel Awesome Movies.

Necalli is The Satin Hammer of video games.

I am genuinely blown away at how terrible this is. It's almost impressive how structureless and limp everything feels. Why is there no music? Why are any of these characters at any of the places they randomly appear? Why are so many of the fights completely pointless? Why does no one talk like anything even remotely resembling a human being? Seriously, the whole thing feels like somebody wrote an outline intending to flesh it out later, but then a deadline happened and they had to hand it in as is, and whoever was in charge was just like "eh, whatever, this is good enough."

I can't agree more about FANG. I haven't even played this game that much (A3 is still my fave SF) and I still instantly thought "who the hell is this goofy guy with a weird taffy face that looks like someone pulled on it from both ends?" I don't know exactly what they did wrong either since I typically like more comedic troll/pest characters as well... including BoRaiCho. ;)

Just 30 minutes in and this already feels like a monkey's paw situation

01:09:54 "THROW A COUCH AT THIS BITCH" If there was a cut scene skip in the form of Chun Li getting fed up and throwing couches to interrupt monologues, it would unironically fix most of the story. No awkwardly watching characters posture over nothing to make everything worse, just couch.

So Necalli feels like someone at Capcom played BlazBlue: Chronophantasma, really liked Azrael and said “Yeah, I can do better” but he couldn’t

52:57 - 53:10 I'm not British but let me say this, the Street Fighter devs keep forgetting Eagle exists (before anyone tells me anything, yes I played Alpha 3 Max, yes I remember CVS 2 and yes, I saw the SFV concept art. What I'm saying is, I get the point but that's besides the point).😑

22:40 That is an Unintentional Street Fighter: The animated series reference and no one can tell me otherwise.

Necalli might as well be New Generation Lex Luger. Dude got pushed as this central character but was quickly pushed aside. He stinks.

49:54 some time later in the SF6 comic, Mel resents his dad for taking him everywhere. Ungrateful brat. 😂

I like that comparison between Rashid and Silverbolt, they really are kinda misplaced joke characters. Also, eyy Beasties

17:20 is basically "They never made it to the fireworks factory!!!" Also Necali's story is similar to Akuma's from the cartoon.

Street Fighter 5: A Hair Moves

This is the Citizen Kane of goofy nonsense.

Every scene has like 17 characters appearing from nowhere.

Jesus, they gave the black doll tribal markings, a hunting spear and a pet monkey? Why not go ahead and give her Sheva´s alt costume as well?

1:43:47: Any 80s and 90s kid like me can really appreciate that Reading Rainbow reference... ...but you don't have to take my word for it! (Ba-dun-dun!)

2:16:12 Bison laughed because he knew he'd be back as DLC in 6.

My personal thoughts on the story mode: -An attempt was made. I will not take that away from the team. -some good additions like Rashid, Laura, and seeing the fighters interact outside of a fighting context (whenever the story let it happen). I loved the little hands on top of each other with Ryu Chun-li and the gang later in the story. -Horrible misuse of Necalli, as others mentioned in earlier comments -Dialogue can be too stilted. -Nowhere near enough interaction between Charlie and Guile -I know people wanted Charlie/Chun-li/Guile to take on Bison, but...if I recall correctly, Rose predicted Ryu taking on Bison? I may be wrong. -F.A.N.G on paper does offer a good contrast of personality to Vega/Balrog, but in execution just annoying. -Rashid is a gem, and I can see why people see him as the main character of SFV (I do too). SFVI is over a year into its existence but I think they shouldn't shy away from trying another story mode. You can improve from the messups.

YAAAAS. this is perfect! thank you Matt!

SF5: Where Third Strike characters go to die

woah... I never played this... this is actually like animated series tier...

So how many times is there a gratuitous butt shot in this story mode?

Honestly if Capcom had done this story like sonic adventure or baldur's gate where you experience the campaign as one character at a time, unlock more characters to get more of the full story, it would've been far better.

"A Shadow Falls" was... A journey of sorts? Necalli. "a turd in the wind" as a certain symbiote would say No more Fang, please 🤔 Some new characters work, and some not so much. To be honest, i really wish 6 was 5. We finally have an entry set after 3. 20+ years later. 🤦 But to go forward, you have to go back. I guess? 4&5 was a weird step back. But I understand their purpose.

I love mastering my body after a hard day at work

2:02:14 Great impression of The Fear!! 🕷️

With the size of everybody's mitts in SF5 they all need to give up street fighting and get in on that slap fighting.

I am 11 minutes in and the clothes physics have done but freak the fuck out across the board.

1:41:58 "Who's an actual death?" Dan's dad, lol

Rashid looks cool as fuck in sf6

1:18:25 - 1:18:55 Absolute savagery from our boy MattyFatty

41:15 She's basically the Lili to Sakura's Asuka.

Oof. That was rough. Definitely needed to be better structured and better thought out. Like, you REALLY can't have a plot about heroes teaming up to storm the bad guy's base and then they go there 3 separate times and just leave the first two times to try again later. Then again, . . . again. I do like how apparently Juri drives a motorcycle from Russia to Brazil to England though. Because that's the kind of not giving a fuck about continuity I can at least laugh at.

Don't jinx it. They might pull a Sigma.

1:18:37 for matt having to pause because he's laughing too hard at his own joke

What monstrosity did you make in the SF6 character creator, Matt?

This story mode is such a freak of nature because it was obviously made to ape a standard Netherrealm story mode, but it also does many things in its own way that just so happens to include a laundry list of What Not To Do. It's a soulless, utilitarian affair that was shoved out the door. I won't bother going over shit like characters being stupid/annoying or the absurd instantaneous travel since everyone knows all of that. One thing that particularly annoys me is the generally sloppy writing, like consistently calling the macguffins "pieces" instead of something sensible like "chess pieces" or even just "keys", or refusing to name Rashid's friend, causing everyone to sound stilted when referring to her (I even caught a line where Rashid refers to his friend as "they" cuz I guess not even the writers/translators knew the character's gender when they wrote that part). And when the plot _does_ tease something interesting like Guile and Nash reuniting or Boxer and Ed's deal, it doesn't go anywhere. 1:51:14 Well ackshully, the sword called Murasame is entirely fictional, and Miyamoto Musashi was a samurai, not a swordsmith. The closest Musashi ever got to "making" a sword was when he supposedly carved a wooden oar into a blade and won a duel with it, which also probably never happened. 2:27:00 Ken being stronger than Ryu is unfortunately a relic of the past. Originally Ken was more talented and Ryu was the harder worker, thus leveling them out to be as however equal the writers wanted them to be. But then Alpha introduced the Satsui no Hado plot thread, suddenly making Ryu super special and important instead of just some guy who fights good. To think all this shit happened because they threw in a hidden "Evil Ryu" character for the hell of it.

....Did they get porn actors to perform the voice acting? ....And porn writers to write the dialogue?