- Joined
- Mar 11, 2020
- Favourite title
- Shenmue II
- Currently playing
- God Slayer
Which one is unabashedly “Shenmue”? That one.Would you rather play a design-reconsidered Shenmue series that contains the entire story (so, I guess to S7 as per Suzuki) or the trimmed story version (up to S5) that Suzuki seems to be holding out for?
Tbh, I’m not really opposed to YS going back and just redrafting his plans for ‘The Old Man and the (Giant) Peach,’ or even taking a swing at some of the later plans for VFRPG, if that were something he really wanted to do. If it’s Shenmue IV, I just want a FREE game, with all the baggage that comes with it. That’s what I play Shenmue for: To get neck deep in a confluence of about two decades of arcade and home console game features. The story alone is just going to be better in a novel format; It’s a better medium for that.
If there’s one thing that makes me somewhat hopeful, it’s that he probably has some level of confidence that he still has a chance to make Shenmue IV his way. If not, I feel like we probably would have seen a novel at this point. Time will tell.
Never mind. I’m not really interested in litigating this. I thought you were implying that Baisha wasn’t in scope for the project when they set out to make it, but it seems you were just saying they wouldn’t have been only working on Baisha after finishing Bailu and Niaowu.I remember seeing the footage you're talking about but to my knowledge that's all that was ever shown of it, which only cements my suspicion that it was cut relatively early. If it progressed to anything approaching final art stages, it would definitely have been featured in a trailer or screenshots.