Ryo's development from previous games is so nerfed here. With the deadline they got I'm surprised they even got it working at all. III barely even had a tenth of that budget with a smaller team and they have to build almost everything from scratch with a new engine. That's like almost a hundred thousand millions bucks today adjusted for inflation. The last two games have budgets somewhere around 40-70 millions bucks. ItвЂ™s not a dumpster fire, itвЂ™s just an extension of the originals.I mean there were millions of dollars of freaking kickstarter tiers for mini-games and luxurious new systems like Real time strategy/Multi character perspectives/Shenhua's dynamic relationship. S3 is a slightly modernized Shenmue that extends the story. Atleast in IL recreational weed is now legal, maybe thatвЂ™s the missing link for all the people expecting an action romp. The S3 slamming is absurd! More people are gonna buy this game at the end of the year on Steam, and theyвЂ™re gonna wonder why the hell everyone got their panties in a twist about the game. Shenmue 3вЂ™s combat is nice and rewarding. It feels like someone poured molasses into the Virtua Fighter arcade machine and the programmers couldnвЂ™t decide whether they want a 2D or 3D camera, as it literally drifts in no-manвЂ™s land half the time making it difficult to correctly dial moves (like in Virtua Fighter which sticks to a 2D plane). what the hell is with the smackdown 3 is getting? I think 3 is LESS вЂњtediousвЂќ than both prequels.ДЄnd the combat system in 1 & 2 is much worse than I remembered. A lot of individually flawed components come together in quite a fusion of an artistic, stylistic game. Because thatвЂ™s what the game is - an anomaly.

All I can say is the last hour or S2 really opened the floodgates to an otherwise cliche martial arts tale.ДЄnd I criticize it all, but IвЂ™ve been having a blast with 1&2. The story moves at snail pace from the first to second one. This game was always about tongue-in-cheek/inside jokes, having fun with the novelties of simulating the mundane. Then S2 has even more time killers - working the Lucky Hit stand, following people, getting all your money stolen in the first section of the game. It almost feels like the pod racing of Phantom Menace, in how much forklifting there is (5 days of morning races and working a 9-5 shift). Half of S1 is literally forklifting and taking the bus. Good grief I am reminded what actual вЂњgrindsвЂќ the first two were. IвЂ™m kind of hell bent on defending 3, cause I canвЂ™t for the life of me figure out why someone would claim the new one is a вЂњgrind fillerвЂќ while the originals arenвЂ™t. 3rd one is a hair more modernized, more fast-tracking and better controls. And I frankly still enjoyed the first game. after you asked everybody in town about where the sailors hang out. An entire disc of the game was basically spent on finding a mirror in your basement, getting conned out of 60k yen, and taking a bus to the warehouses. My impression is that if you truly dislike this game, you either didnвЂ™t put enough time to get over the slow hump of every Shenmue game, or youвЂ™re just not into the style of game anymore. I also wish a little more was explained at the end, but itвЂ™s a good setup for S4. I didnвЂ™t think it was bad, it was entertaining, good action, but the execution was not up to YuвЂ™s standards - felt rushed.ДЇrankly, the story overall moves pretty well. Was still good, but just felt more like a B-grade kung-fu flick than the paced Shenmue tale. It doesnвЂ™t bother me as much (ShenmueвЂ™s gameplay needs interaction and mini games, you couldnвЂ™t have an empty forest), and Bailu felt pretty real besides for having the arcade/mini-games.Д«ut Niaowu felt more like a HK town than an 80s Communist Chinese city, though perhaps the city is fictional for a reason. Usual sights for Ryo, as if youвЂ™re still in Japan or Hong Kong. Yu didnвЂ™t really make 80s rural, small-town China feel authentic enough. One criticism that is entirely valid but not mentioned enough.

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