Shenmue is that kind of game, which not many people have played, but many have definitely heard of it and its fate. I used to be from the first category and I was eager to try this game, but I didn’t have Dreamcast. Fortunately, I had an emulator that helped me to complete the first game twice. Then I completed the remastered version on PC. That’s right, I have completed the first Shenmue 3 times, but still have touched neither the second game nor the third. Shame on me. The first game is a bit outdated in a sense that not every modern gamer will be pleased to spend 20 real minutes to wait for a specific character to move the plot forward (and unlike Yakuza the game gives you very little portions of story) and to find the way to amuse himself, and that’s ok. At least after trying this game a person can be sure that that’s not for him. But in the way of the detailing of the world plus QTE which happen during unexpected and intense scenes this game was ahead of it’s time. The time period feels very realistic (I heard that Y Suzuki used the weather forecast of Yokosuka in the 80-s to make the weather as realistic as possible), the dynamic weather change (Shenmue was released two years before GTA 3), I saw no NPC with identical faces, a bit clunky but pleasant and nice fighting system, mini games, high interactivity (you can touch and open most of the objects), beautiful soundtrack, simple but nice story with memorable characters (except the leader of Mad Angels. I hardly remembered he was in the game). And the game came out in 1999. Keeping that in mind I was blown away with the game, although of course sometimes (especially in the second half) the plot goes too slowly. I still like and respect that game, wishing to complete it one more time, finally complete 2 and 3, and even get the copy of the trilogy. And I hope one day the saga will end in the game format.
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Негізгі бет SHENMUE 1 AND 2 REMASTERED AND SHENMUE 3 for PlayStation 4 (Unboxing)
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