- Joined
- Oct 27, 2019
- Favourite title
- Shenmue
- Currently playing
- Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy (PS4)
i'm working on a big and special project for the Shenmue community. My project is to write 11 books telling the entire journey of Ryo (Akira) with the games, the anime, the concept arts of VF RPG and other informations Yu Suzuki shared all this years as inspiration.
I've always been interested in reading everything that Yu Suzuki wrote for the story back then, with all the places, characters, details and much more, and i feel sad for Yu Suzuki that he had to cut out many places in the story like Miao Village, Suzhou, Baisha and many other places.
I don't know if Yu Suzuki will share the scripts with the Shenmue community one day, and to me the more Shenmue in more media the better so one day i thought... "What if i write the entire journey of Ryo (Akira) in book form? i want to do this for the Shenmue community."
I have other project for the Shenmue Community, the project to do 11 games with the same vision of telling the entire journey of Ryo (Akira), but in this case is harder for me because i don't have much knowledge yet about how to make games, i didn't give up about the games project but my main focus now is the books project.
The cover of the first book will be the first card of the VF RPG concept arts.
This project will have 2 versions, The Legend of Akira version for people that want a VF experience, and The Legend of Ryo version for people that want a Shenmue experience, maybe the Shenmue version will have a different cover, i'm not sure yet, the main difference between the versions will be the names of the characters, for example in the VF version it will be Aoi Umenokoji but in the Shenmue version will be Nozomi Harasaki.
i'm writing the first book, Book 1 Yokosuka.
Maybe i will even do a Kickstarter one day for this project similar to what James did for the Shenmue World magazine, this way people can really have the books, i don't know yet, all i know is that i will release for free the digital version of the books.
I know is an big project that probably will take years for me to conclude, but it is like a journey to me and i will do my best to continue and one day conclude the project.
Like i said the more Shenmue in more media the better, I love writing, i love Shenmue so much, Shenmue is super important to me and i really want to do this project for the Shenmue Community, i will post updates about this project here in this thread, thank you.
I've always been interested in reading everything that Yu Suzuki wrote for the story back then, with all the places, characters, details and much more, and i feel sad for Yu Suzuki that he had to cut out many places in the story like Miao Village, Suzhou, Baisha and many other places.
I don't know if Yu Suzuki will share the scripts with the Shenmue community one day, and to me the more Shenmue in more media the better so one day i thought... "What if i write the entire journey of Ryo (Akira) in book form? i want to do this for the Shenmue community."
I have other project for the Shenmue Community, the project to do 11 games with the same vision of telling the entire journey of Ryo (Akira), but in this case is harder for me because i don't have much knowledge yet about how to make games, i didn't give up about the games project but my main focus now is the books project.
The cover of the first book will be the first card of the VF RPG concept arts.
This project will have 2 versions, The Legend of Akira version for people that want a VF experience, and The Legend of Ryo version for people that want a Shenmue experience, maybe the Shenmue version will have a different cover, i'm not sure yet, the main difference between the versions will be the names of the characters, for example in the VF version it will be Aoi Umenokoji but in the Shenmue version will be Nozomi Harasaki.
i'm writing the first book, Book 1 Yokosuka.
Maybe i will even do a Kickstarter one day for this project similar to what James did for the Shenmue World magazine, this way people can really have the books, i don't know yet, all i know is that i will release for free the digital version of the books.
I know is an big project that probably will take years for me to conclude, but it is like a journey to me and i will do my best to continue and one day conclude the project.
Like i said the more Shenmue in more media the better, I love writing, i love Shenmue so much, Shenmue is super important to me and i really want to do this project for the Shenmue Community, i will post updates about this project here in this thread, thank you.