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=Beta64 - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate= Beta64 - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the 80th uploaded Beta64 Video, aswell as the 1st Beta64 Video, that was uploaded in 2019 on February 3th 2019 and it is the overall 45th Episode of the Beta64 series.

Description
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate almost didn't happen! Learn how this dream project came to be and how Sakurai managed to get everybody here, even through his own personal struggles. A story for the ages!!

Why it is anything but Ultimate

 * 1) To get the elefant of the room, this episode is nothing like any other Beta64 Episode, as Andrew tried to focus on comedy, rather than any sort of information.
 * 2) *The comedy does also not fit well for Beta64 and has overused Smash Bros jokes, such as: "Smash Bros Ulimate is a Wii U port"
 * 3) The Pre-Intro with Andrew wearing an inflatable mario-yoshi costume is kinda confusing, as it wants us to believe that Andrew ran out of ideas for pre-intros, despite Beta64 Episodes were known for not having any pre-intros at all.
 * 4) The Intro is very bland and generic, as it is nothing in comparison by the 3D Intro from Nicholas Kaighen.
 * 5) Andrew acts way to unnatural and swaying in the live-action parts, instead of quirky yet chilled, which would then make Andrew look like a poor rehash of Scott The Woz.
 * 6) Clickbait: The title of the episode makes you believe that it's a general Beta64 Episode, where Andrew compars earlier content from the Beta Version to the final game or atleast talks about unused stuff, that was found in the game files, but 95% of the episode is actually about the development history and very little footage of actual unused stuff is shown. So wouldn't make it more sense, to call it: "The development history of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate" instead?
 * 7) *Top of all that, not all comparisons from the E3 footage to the final game were shown, since Beta64 wanted to show of the highlights and tell the viewers to go to club.beta64.tv for all the rest, which is very inconvenient since the website is closed.
 * 8) Andrew's voiceover sounds so monotone and uninterested.
 * 9) Cloud chasing: The issue the Beta64 episodes had before, were that Beta64 talked about newer games, rather than older ones. This Smash Bros Ultimate one is not any different, as it feels like it was rushed duo to the hype of the game. Since it was produced very earlier after the game was offically released, it would have been obivous that not a whole lot of Scrapped Content gets discovered after 2 months of release. But Andrew couldn't wait 6 months or atleast almost a year after the release, to then find some interesting stuff to talk about, thus making the episode fastly outdated!
 * 10) *If Beta would still make a video for the hype, it would have then make more sense to make a Smash Bros releated video from that time of release, like a Beta64 episode of Smash Bros Melee or Brawl, as those games are full of interesting Beta Content and could give the fans something neat to see by release.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) It does have some funny moments like at the end, where the reveal trailer of Joker from Persona 5 in Super Smash Bros Ultimate from the 2018 Game Awards gets shown, which then cut to Beta scream-singing the song: Last Surprise, with the text: Joker is in Smash, on the college fields.
 * 2) The Background music is well picked and great.
 * 3) Some Beta64 fans might like this episode.
 * 4) Andrew did atleast listen to the feedback of this episode, as in the following video: "I Heard Your Feedback, And I Agree" basically apologized for what the viewers got and promises to make the future Beta64 episodes more information-based, while holding the comedy on a lower level, since it was in Andrew's words "an experimental video".
 * 5) *The next episode: "Beta64 - Super Mario Galaxy with guest Scott the Woz!" was a big improvement and showed that Andrew did learned from the mistakes and now know how modern Beta64 episode are supposed to be done.

Reception
The Beta 64 episode of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has received mixed-to-negative reception. While it was mostly well recieved by the Beta64 fans, it was more criticized by the general audience. Since of that feedback, the episode got 23k Likes with 6k Dislikes, which doesn't only make it the most disliked Beta64 episode, but also as one of the worst received Beta64 videos ever.

Trivia

 * The intro was based of the Hatsune Miku music video: Electric Saturator