LittleBoShenmue
What a great time to be a Shenmue fan
- Joined
- Nov 12, 2019
- Location
- Slovenia/Croatia
- Favourite title
- Shenmue III
- Currently playing
- Pokemon GO, WWTBAM app, Abiotic Factor
- Steam
- Dandyruff
Hey @Truck_1_0_1_ , sorry if I couldn't reply to you earlier, I went to bed, as it was 10pm at the time of your reply here in my town.
My thoughts on 3 were exactly how I pictured it: rich with content and side missions, but most importantly: superb writing and action packed gameplay. I had some trouble battling Tsuyoshi Kanda, though. The dude's a major hothead with superhuman strength, not to mention the way he pulled those mouth of truth replicas out of the wall and nearly crushed me with them. Lau Ka was another pain in the ass, as he armed himself with so many Chinese or Chinese-esque weapons, showing just how determined he is to bring me down. The final scene nearly brought me to tears as well, as I got concrete evidence on just how altruistic Kiryu-san is; strangely enough Rikiya gets magically revived in the Premium Adventure mode, and you can use him as a bodyguard forever on.
Since I'm already here, I might do a review on 4 as well. The formula is the same, but getting to play as four different characters really ups the ante and gives us an insight into their lives. Masayoshi Tanimura really stands out as the most ironic character of the four, since he's a police officer in a game where his organization literally puts 100 knives into his back just for the sake of selfish monetary gains. Tsk-tsk Munakata-san.
As for the minigames: as a western fan of the franchise, I had absolutely no clue on how to play games, such as mahjong and shogi. Therefore, Google-sensei and Youtube-senpai are your only hope of mastering the former and the latter.
I'll revisit the thread once I finish 5 as well, until then thank you for your kind words, wear a mask and stay healthy everyone!
My thoughts on 3 were exactly how I pictured it: rich with content and side missions, but most importantly: superb writing and action packed gameplay. I had some trouble battling Tsuyoshi Kanda, though. The dude's a major hothead with superhuman strength, not to mention the way he pulled those mouth of truth replicas out of the wall and nearly crushed me with them. Lau Ka was another pain in the ass, as he armed himself with so many Chinese or Chinese-esque weapons, showing just how determined he is to bring me down. The final scene nearly brought me to tears as well, as I got concrete evidence on just how altruistic Kiryu-san is; strangely enough Rikiya gets magically revived in the Premium Adventure mode, and you can use him as a bodyguard forever on.
Since I'm already here, I might do a review on 4 as well. The formula is the same, but getting to play as four different characters really ups the ante and gives us an insight into their lives. Masayoshi Tanimura really stands out as the most ironic character of the four, since he's a police officer in a game where his organization literally puts 100 knives into his back just for the sake of selfish monetary gains. Tsk-tsk Munakata-san.
As for the minigames: as a western fan of the franchise, I had absolutely no clue on how to play games, such as mahjong and shogi. Therefore, Google-sensei and Youtube-senpai are your only hope of mastering the former and the latter.
I'll revisit the thread once I finish 5 as well, until then thank you for your kind words, wear a mask and stay healthy everyone!