Many Mysteries Of Miao Village Finally Unfold

[LanDC]

Great post and that makes sense. My memory is foggy but can you remind me where it's indicated Zhu spent time with Iwao and Sunming in China? I know in Shenmue 2 he claims Sunming was his best friend but I couldn't recall of any other information which puts him in China with those two.

Master Chen's "Zhu and your father brought back a certain mirror from China" line is what I'm going by.

 

[hyo_razuki]

So Miao village was never going to be in Guangxi/Guilin but in HK! Still, as was pointed out in here before, I can't wrap my head around the fact that the early Screenshots looked like Bailu

 

[Amir]

ONCEUPONATIME
BEAR_QTE

KUN_LOVE_CHK
KUN_LV1_CHK
KUN_LV2_CHK
KUN_LV3_CHK
KUN_LV4_CHK

"ONCEUPONATIME" sounds funny to me (maybe a fairytale told by Shenhua to Ryo?) and... "BEAR_QTE"!? You have to evade some panda/bear somewhere in the rural areas of Guilin? (unless if "BEAR" ...bears another meaning, sorry for the pun... ) (And seems "KUN" (Fangmei) has 4-5 staged of love for Ryo...) - All such flag's texts can be found here.

Nice find; interesting that that's twice now that they've planned for a bear to appear only to cut it from the final game. At the China conference in 2015 Suzuki showed this slide showing that Ryo was supposed to cross paths with a bear early in Bailu in Shenmue III:

 

[chaikilla]

Imagine using machinegunfist or demon's triangle on the bear...

 

[code l name]

Master Chen's "Zhu and your father brought back a certain mirror from China" line is what I'm going by.

D'oh yes of course. It would be interesting trying to gather a timeline of when Zhu met Iwao and how and when his friendship with Sunming Zhao first started as you would presume some of these events crossed over.

I was also curious in the line in Shenmue 3 when Sunming was attempting to retrieve bother mirrors, it's said the mirrors were "entrusted to him". By who?

 

[Miles Prower]

Where did the general thread for the Game Jam proto go??

 

[spud1897]

Not sure. I will have a look. Could be a bug somewhere

 

[Seaman]

Not sure. I will have a look. Could be a bug somewhere

And now you gonna de-bug it. HA! ha... ha.. ? ...sorry

 

[spud1897]

It's being investigated currently. We may need to go back to a backed up version of the site to see what we can restore. You can see old posts via Wayback Machine in the meantime.