Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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At long last it's time for the finale of the Street Fighter Retrospective... is what I would love to say except that turns out Street Fighter 5 had way more problems than I thought.

Big thanks to Viewtiful Beck for the amazing thumbnail art - twitter.com/viewtifulbeck

If you want more info on the frame delay issue, check out the video that Core-A Gaming did on it youtube.com/watch?v=ap369ES-6Xw&t=198s

If you want to see more of the interviews that BornFree did then check them out here youtube.com/@BornFreeFGC

You can find me around the web at
Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/thorgisarcade.bsky.social
Twitch - twitch.tv/thorgisarcade

0:00 - Intro
2:40 - The Making of Street Fighter 5
21:00 - Street Fighter 5's Roster
32:54 - A Wasteland of Content
43:16 - The Presentation
48:00 - Broken Online
54:15 - Street Fighter 5's Combat
1:20:30 - A Street Fighter for Casual Players?
1:31:30 - The Appeal of SF5's Combat
1:35:20 - SF5's Reception
1:36:45 - Season 1
1:45:20 - A Shadow Falls
1:53:12 - Season 2
2:08:16 - Arcade Edition and Costumes
2:19:55 - Season 3
2:34:35 - Declining Playerbase
2:39:49 - Season 4, Time to Talk about Ono
2:58:40 - Rumors Point to Trouble
3:07:00 - Season 5
3:20:08 - Was Street Fighter 5 a Success?
3:31:36 - Outro