Sega's Beginner Video Tutorials for Final Showdown

I never commented on these videos and foolishly hoped they remain unnoticed As far as Vanessa is concerned, the moves showcased, particularly the OS portion, is rather misleading:

Players new to Vanessa should not be considering OS or strings; they will get them killed since they are high-high and mid-high-high strings. Why not showcase her mixups, that are actually useful due to the possibility of a mid followup? The combo on display is also misleading: yes it is "max damage" vs Akira on NH (the video has the knee land on CH btw) but ending with or is the better option unless that extra 2 damage kills he opponent.

The DS part is not ideal either: DS is duckable - the real mixup string being ; the combo proposed for is suboptimal. There's a passing mention of but not of her other sabakis (if you're not planning to use these then why are you playing from DS?); instead there's a showcase of her "sweep" (a horrible move to recommend to new players! please use instead) and a combo showcase for (sure, it tech-crouches and I learned to love the move but, being slow, it frequently lands on recovery hit, which doesn't yield a combo).

So, overall, lovely initiative but could have been better, content-wise, as far as Vanessa goes. I cannot vouch for other characters' content, however, she does share her video with Akira, and although I am not an expert in that character, I am pretty confident that mixups are not very high on Akira's top ten moves - so maybe more time could have been spent on his shoulder ram, or maybe his complimentary semi-circular moves?

Revisiting them many years later I do have to acknowledge that the overall good production values are good and they did a fancy splitscreen to show the 50-50 options out of Akira's . I will add a link to Vanessa's wiki - they are official SEGA material afterall.

And the first three vids are a must-watch, IDK if @Myke would like to link them to the main wiki.

 

Oh wow I didn't even know this! With what little info that they had i would say they still did pretty good.

 

@Myke lol, good thing I didn't bash the videos, I dodged a bullet there

Really though, as I said, I was foolish to disregard them back then, my Vanessa-related nitpicks were trivial compared to how well produced these videos are, and how efficient they could be for luring-in new players.

Why not do a retrospective on that whole experience? Besides, I snooped around the main page archives and couldn't find a post where all of them were collectively posted.