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- Shenmue II
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To tell you the truth it is being reviewed bombed.
Sure it is, there are people out there low balling it, but I still wouldn't give it much more than a 4 or 5 out of 10 having actually played it. The story really is rubbish and considering it's a game you're playing mostly for the story then yeah, it kind of makes the gameplay feel absolutely redundant.
After 10 hours of this, I begrudgingly finished it. I hated playing it. The story was just frustrating to me and wading through 17 or 18 hours of one stealth set piece after another got real tiring . Outside of a couple of scenes here and there that help break up the repetitiveness, I just found some of the stealth areas tiresome after a bit.
I have SO many issues with this game that I could keep going on. But I won't otherwise I'll be here all day. But yeah, I legitimately think it's worthy of a low score. Outside of visual and technical presentation which is typically first class, I just don't think there is much else here holding it together. The gameplay winds up being a chore and the story is so badly written that it feels like it was a first draft that had no polish applied to it.
I feel it had nothing of interest to say even though it thinks it's deep and profound. When in reality, it's about as deep as a puddle. It's marred by characters that feel badly written, marred by characters who are so woefully under developed and marred by a non linear narrative that doesn't add up to much of anything. And yet, within there are momentary flashes of something that could have been greater. Everything involving Joel and Ellie is wonderful and should have been what the game was about. Everything involving Abby just left me cold and indifferent. I did not care about her. At all. I was so apathetic towards her no matter how much they tried to make me like her.
In fact, outside of maybe Jesse or Dina, everyone in this game was such a piece of shit that it was hard to like any of them.
Look what they did to Tommy. At the beginning of the game, he is actively trying to talk Ellie out of revenge. But then he goes off looking for revenge on his own leaving Ellie behind. Yet by the end of the game, he starts laying the guilt trip on Ellie to finish the job? The writing was so fucking bi polar and inconsistent that it just became laughable.
Anyways, I honestly think it's a complete mess from a narrative perspective at least.
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