How would shenmue 4 open

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Should it start with them on the great wall

Or should it go back to them on the boat

I think boat as it really needs to backtrack slighlty and have more conversations with shenhuas dad as he should have many answers to certian things

Like what is the significants of the giant mirrors and how many generations it took to build them who told you the poem hiw did you come to care for shenhua


Also anyone find it really odd that at the end of 3 the conversation ryu has with him is a flashback its such a strange moment that feels more like a random exposition recap scene rather rhan a punchline or a book end statement

Id really love to know what the original intention of the ending was before it was compromised

I suppose they could open it with lengthy scene on the boat that explains a few thing and then it is revealed to be a flash back and they are on the wall

Or i suspect it would open with them on the wall and going foward with expliantions and kinda just move on fron the oddly disjointed ending
 
I'd love it to open with a playable recap and conversation with Shenhuas dad filling in the gaps from 3 before moving things on.
 
The boat could serve in a more organical way as a flashback/recap hub zone. While the Great Wall could also be purposed for this, then the boat would go a little wasted imo. Also, and I'm aware that this is not a widely shared opinion: I prefer recap condensed at the game early compasses rather than along the whole story, interrumpting the current "present" events.
 
I think it could be cool if it was the ending of 3 from Lan Di's perspective and showing him escape the old castle, he has a quiet fury after Niao Sun tried a coup, and suggesting what he has planned next. After 3's quiet beginning, starting off with a bang might be needed to say this game is different.
 
I think it could be cool if it was the ending of 3 from Lan Di's perspective and showing him escape the old castle, he has a quiet fury after Niao Sun tried a coup, and suggesting what he has planned next. After 3's quiet beginning, starting off with a bang might be needed to say this game is different.
You know what thats actually a intresting idea to start from anotger perspective other than ryus mabey even move ut as far back as far as to have him interact with shenhuas father as well as some interactions with mrs boobs and hint at her deception and mabey a fill in a bit of the who the what and the why it went down the way it did as well as alude to the structure of the cheuman but not give it all away .....yet
 
Shenmue 4 could start with a playable recap of Ryo fighting Chai at the end of Shenmue 1.

When Chai falls into the water we follow him until he gets to Bailu village. During the journey he gets swallowed by a sperm whale which explains why he’s not in Shenmue 2.
 
The opening could be:
- open shot of a full moon sky.
- a ship pops out from the frame right down corner and starts crossing the sky in diagonal to the frame left up corner.
- Ripples distorts the full moon sky, as it turns to be actually a water reflection.
 
The opening could be:
- open shot of a full moon sky.
- a ship pops out from the frame right down corner and starts crossing the sky in diagonal to the frame left up corner.
- Ripples distorts the full moon sky, as it turns to be actually a water reflection.
You are a strange dude Seaman but we love you for it!
 
Ryo and Shenhua walk out of the cave and we try again.

lol jk

It would have to either start at the Great Wall or somehow tie into the ending of S3. Thus far Shenmue has never skipped over large parts of the journey except for travel so it would have to be near the Great Wall/Cliff Temple as the next step in the journey because that's where the scroll, Yuan, and Lan Di/Niao Sun have led Ryo.
 
I’m not sure I see the Great Wall segment of the ending as literal, maybe just a figurative expression of Ryo, Shenhua & Ren’s journey through China.

But who really knows, being as the fight with that ugly bloke was originally set there on a trailer or something?

I don’t think the Li Jiang river goes through Suzhou, from the quick arse about on the internet I’ve just done, so I’d guess boat to somewhere, and then after that ideally I’d like the train sequence to Suzhou. YS spoke about the train in an interview a while ago and it was planned from the start, so it must still be on his mind, I’d guess it’s still on the cards, if the games ever happen.

Get straight into madness and story business, similar shift in pace between S2/S2. Is what I’d like anyway. Maybe a quicker paced S2.
 
I would like an action scene on the great wall against the suits of the Chi You Men
I'm guessing the Shenmue 4 demo they're pitching is essentially a playable bit on the great wall fighting Mr. Muscles

Ryo tells him "I booty bumped you once and so help me I'll booty bump you again!"
 
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