The worst aspects of gaming and the worst aspects of cinema combine to create the painful, company-destroying vanity project of the millennium! Let's hear it for Shenmue, woo!

I feel bad thinking of the people who programmed this, you could go to a store and pick up every single item there, every single one of them. Same with Ryo's house, open doors, check the kitchen. Hours and many sleepless nights spent programming all that, just to have a game that won't let you do anything, won't let you talk to anyone except some annoying characters, will make you wait for stuff to happen, has a hilariously bad script full of akward lines and will never have a concluscion.

Nothing has made me feel like I wasted my life more than the conclusion of Shenmue 2, walking through a forest for 90 minutes.

I still don't understand why anyone would play this. I mean, I barely made it through all that pretentious bullshit dialogue in MGS about what war means without shooting myself.

The game was amazing at the time... there weren't games with the same kind of open world exploration in 1999.
I agree that the english localization for Shenmue left a lot to be desired.

pbf

I knew someone who actually watched the entire thing.

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God this is awful.