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At the very least the save can be marked "Cleared" (and unplayable) when the user decides to embark on the boat. The game should give him time to prepare for the journey and only leave when he's ready.At the end of the first game Ryo enter in a ship so he can go to Hong Kong, doesn't make any sense load the cleared save and appearing in Yokosuka again as if nothing happened in relation to the ending, Ryo in a ship to Hong Kong, because as i said Yu Suzuki idea for the game was about realism, as far as i remember this was his vision for the game, Pokemon is about realism? no.
And if Shenmue was about realism it wouldn't put you in a fist-fight against 70 men and win.
The crime is not that the game lacks NG+ or that it forces a pace onto the player. The crime is that it offers so many collectibles and side-content: a whole raffle sheet full of toys! Minigames that allow you to get rare collectibles. It dangles all this in front of the player but doesn't give them time or money to enjoy those things. It dangles it, cuts your time short and then destroys your save file. Chrono Trigger and FF doesn't have 100 collectibles and mini-games, and the ones it has it allows you to obtain and enjoy.A game without this feature means that this is a bad game design? it is wrong doing a game without this feature?
Old Final Fantasy games are RPG like Chrono Trigger but this games don't have NG+. this means that old FF games are inferior games? In my opinion no. A lot of J-RPGs don't have this feature and this games are good games in my opinion.
That explains a lot about this game.Yu Suzuki literally does not play games
The game doesn't let me do the side stuff because I get 500 yen to spend for the day. I blow that on 5 toys or 3 raffles in 1 minute. Once the game gives me a job and money I have very little time to spend it before the game ends. What am I supposed to do for 8 in-game hours of waiting with 500 yen?THIS is the reason I couldn't ignore this thread.
You are moaning about having to wait around and not enjoy the bonus material when you are DOING HOUSE CHORES, instead of using this free time to play at the arcade, the slot house, the cat and collect and enjoy capsule toys... What?!?!?!?
The game didn't give me a choice. I wanted to stay on shore--that's the way I wanted to play it-- but it FORCED me onto a boat and said bon voyage.Don't blame the game for the way you played it. The experience was relevant to the choices YOU MADE.
Shenmue is crafted to be different for every player every play through.
The game wants you to do Back, X (Punch), A (Kick). But "Master" Chen clearly does a grab before the kick, he doesn't punch at all! So I'm sitting there spamming "A" and "B" for what's clearly a grab... Even when I spoiled myself and saw that a punch is required the timing was so hard to get down I spammed the buttons until the game let me get on the damn boat.Master Chen explains the form TWICE!
PS: I didn't realise L trigger can be used for walking. Then yes you can walk and look around, cool to know. But then it feels more like controlling a vehicle than a person :S