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You're a good narrator, and your editing is solid. You definitely have the talent and skills to make these videos work. With that said, I believe the direction you took this video is a bit lacking, to say the least. This entire video is essentially summarizing the timeline that (at the very least) a fair portion of the audience watching this already knows. Most of this video is a recap where you're taking an almost reporter-like approach to discussing this with very little of your own personal thoughts and feelings which would have made it more interesting. Plus, you kind of just shoehorn Nintendo getting involved being the "definitive" thing that killed the scene when it seemed like the Panda situation had more of an impact than that did (and other things). You also neglected to mention multiple important things that I think contributed to this game falling off. - Once again, the whole Panda situation. - The impact of Fighter Pass 2 (You brushed over a decent amount of it without really explaining certain things that you could have expanded on) - You mentioned it, but I felt like you could have elaborated more about the online and its impact, because this singlehandedly turned a lot of people away during the pandemic. - Competitive players thinking the competitive scene and meta were stale - Competitive and casual players not liking a lot of the characters' movesets and thinking the directions weren't good- this is a problem that more and more people are calling out with time. A lot of the characters are stale and boring to a lot of people now. - Time. The game was 5 and a half years old when you made this video. Player bases shrink over time just like how TV show viewership drops after it ends, or movies get less viewers over time on streaming services. It's old, and people move on. I know that's a bit of a boring answer, but it's important, and neglecting to mention this at all feels like a cop-out. Like I said, the way you talk feels natural and nice, and the editing does everything it needs to. It's solid from a technical perspective, and I think summarizing things in a way for people unfamiliar with the game's cycle is fine, but some stuff gets lingered on, while other stuff is brushed over. I'm not saying you had to mention everything I listed, but neglecting to really go into ANY of it while most of the video is a recap just makes for a clunky presentation. Yes, some of them are opinionated, but they're common enough opinions among the fanbase that they're worth considering. I don't mean to sound to negative and hateful, but I wanted to summarize the thoughts and not just leave a comment saying "Video bad because [insert vague reason here]" because I feel like that helps nobody.

If you played reload on xbox you got the answer for free !

Who the hell thinks Smash 4 was the "definitive" and "plain best" entry in the series??? :D

All this game is is "do one combo that's not possible to avoid until you win. And then teabag as if you're good at the game"

no it doesnt, this is in the same ballpark as thinking the last of us needed a remake

13:16 so who is this anime girl, and what is she from?

This went from my most hyped game ever, to a game I soured on in 2020, to a game I quit after smashcon 2022 steve win

Not discussing the Panda Cup and Smash World Tour as a major contributor to Smash Ultimate’s competitive downfall is bananas.

whenever people talk about smash 4 and ultimate, i just think to myself, these arnt different games... smash ultimate is still smash 4, just like overwatch2 isn't a new game either (though, ultimate is actually a valuable upgrade and not a scam like overwatch2)

What's the song that's playing in the background at 3:32

9:27 no one plays fighting games smh

The amount of Smash glazers in this comment section is wiiiild

If paper Mario is Mario then in super paper Mario, Mario, Luigi, peach and bowser all get sent to the under where by dying. If they count as their actual characters then they can be put in the same category as Link, they died but were brought back.

Of course it's all Byleth's fault

Wow a lot of Tendies sure went into full on defense mode whenever someone will say Smash Ultimate is the definition of quantity over quality with the worst netcode along side of a manchild community that would rather be concenred over not getting enough washed up Scrimblo Blimblo slop. Then actually doing something for their massive PDF.File problem that is continuously growing at a rapid pace.

banging vid. Given the title, I expected more time spent on 2020's nightmare of a situation, but it's actually much better that you just glossed over it. would've made for a pretty uncomfortable watch. giving a litttttttle more time to the whole panda situation would've been cool too.

I can’t even remember the last time I played Ultimate specifically, DLC aside there’s just nothing to do in the game and I’m never motivated to play it, however I have been playing some smash mods occasionally.

I think my current distaste for the game comes from my old love for it. It came out in my early highschool years, and I have to thank it for uniting my current friend group. Its a real shame theres just so many issues that added up over time, and the outing of half the scene as creep was the final nail for me.

Still better than multiverse

No mention of the Smash World Tour / Panda Global controversy?

IMO, what made Smash great was the strength of Nintendo first party characters. Back in the day you'd get a high quality Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Pokemon game etc every 3 years or so. You could basically spend your entire life as a gamer just playing Nintendo. Mario Odyssey was 7 years ago. Breath of the Wild was too and while Tears just came out it was just more of the same. Star Fox: 2016. Metroid was pretty dead but has been making a comeback. Still the last game was 2021. Smash isn't exciting because it's hard to get excited about Nintendo characters anymore.

Im just trying to get the last 15 fighters in Elite Smash before 2024 😢

thanks mockrock for bringing me over here!

fuck Steve and steve apologists

Mainly I just think what killed it is having broken trash like Steve

Once again I’m SUPER happy to have worked with you on the thumbnail! Thank you so much for your support!

If they were to remake 4 I’d feel like they’d have to extend it a little bit more. And maybe make the dungeons a tad bit different. At this point rather see persona 6 first but 4 surprised me with how good it was

I think the video was very well put together but i feel like it only mentioned a small part of what caused smash to fade away, Because the fact of the matter is that Stuff like tournaments or covid didn't harm the game too much because most of the playerbase were already only playing online and didn't care about the tournaments. what caused the downfall of ultimate was just plain simple bad desing choices that eventually frustrates a player until they just quit

Id love to experience inaba again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That fan made box art at the end was hilarious😅