He sounds far more passionate here than years ago, but yeah we never doubted the man intentions, he liked the series a lor, wether we agreed or not with his reasoning is another thing. I'm still sad that we never got a LoS Igavania, imagine if he had made Mirror of Fate, but I'm kinda having the impression Alvarez wanted to be the hero and that's why he downplayed IGA's times and denied any help (even Kojima's help).