- Joined
- Dec 24, 2021
- Location
- Lloegr
- Favourite title
- Shenmue II
- Currently playing
- Resident Evil 2
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- LordLudichris
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- NinjaLudovic
Shenmue III is already known to be a controversial sequel. I'm a newer fan of the series and my friend finally lent me his PS4, this means I finally have the chance to play this.
After a number of hours of playing this, I would say that the story progression is pretty much fine, I especially enjoy the conversations between Ryo and Shenhua at night.
On the other hand I find the added RPG elements bizarre but acceptable, and in the battle with the two thugs, I found out the hard way that it is crucial you practice your kung fu moves, took me several tries and in the end it required me to use just one snake power bottle, and subsequently losing the follow up battle. Combat appears to be trickier, at least on the recommended difficulty, I've still refrained from playing on easy at least in the meantime.
I've very much taken the advice to buy lots of garlic to replenish the energy metre.
A bit embarrassingly in the side mission where the kid needs the white lure capsule, I wasted all my remaining day 1 capsule tickets on it, realising how rare it is. So if I try this again I'll need to take the advice of saving before trying, similar to the kowloon lucky hit.
I don't think the time skip feature added was really necessary but I guess Yu Suzuki just could no longer take the criticism.
I still am very keen to playthrough the rest of the game, despite me discovering it to be less forgiving than the previous two games, and I've also purchased the DLCs before starting my new game.
After a number of hours of playing this, I would say that the story progression is pretty much fine, I especially enjoy the conversations between Ryo and Shenhua at night.
On the other hand I find the added RPG elements bizarre but acceptable, and in the battle with the two thugs, I found out the hard way that it is crucial you practice your kung fu moves, took me several tries and in the end it required me to use just one snake power bottle, and subsequently losing the follow up battle. Combat appears to be trickier, at least on the recommended difficulty, I've still refrained from playing on easy at least in the meantime.
I've very much taken the advice to buy lots of garlic to replenish the energy metre.
A bit embarrassingly in the side mission where the kid needs the white lure capsule, I wasted all my remaining day 1 capsule tickets on it, realising how rare it is. So if I try this again I'll need to take the advice of saving before trying, similar to the kowloon lucky hit.
I don't think the time skip feature added was really necessary but I guess Yu Suzuki just could no longer take the criticism.
I still am very keen to playthrough the rest of the game, despite me discovering it to be less forgiving than the previous two games, and I've also purchased the DLCs before starting my new game.