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Eurogamer just posted one of the most epic
interviews ever with Street Fighter superstar Daigo
Umehara, so if you missed it, check
that thing out.

To put it together, they enlisted the help of
our own bi-lingual Shino, who also happens to be a friend
of Daigo. In addition to the questions from
Eurogamer, I asked Shino to include a few extra questions
about his recent meeting with US SFIV champ Justin
Wong.

In the interview
below, in addition to her chatting about Daigo’s
background, the core of the piece is a breakdown on their
championship match, where Justin switched to Fei Long,
with the idea that Daigo (as an arcade player) would not
have experience against the console
characters.

Daigo:
First off, there was one thing concerned me at last EVO.
In Japan, the arcade is the mainstream while the home
console is the core in the US. As a matter of fact, I
haven’t played much of it, and I had never played against
home console characters before. So I was not prepared for
console characters at all.

Daigo talks about what he thought of Justin’s
switch, and more importantly, how he was able to play the
match against a great player using an unfamiliar
character. Great
stuff!

Thanks of course
to Daigo, to Shino, and to Eurogamer for kicking off the
whole conversation!

Hit the jump
for the full interview!