This is the scene I`m referring to with the appropriate time-code embedded:
I didn`t really understand why the scene with Shenhua and Ryo interrogating the thug at hermits nest was like it was. I`m not sure if I missed something but this is how I saw it:
I think the way the scene was handled was by far the worst scene in the game and nearly killed Shenhua as a character for me. It doesn`t help that she is nothing but a side character in Niaowu shortly afterwards.
Back to the original subject though:
I think the way Shenhua is portrait in Shenmue 2 is that she is kind hearted, kinda naive at times but also very determined and strong at others. I also think that the way she used her power on the flower pedals to make them float was like it is normal and not out of the ordinary to her. It showed that she doesn`t seem to be fully aware of her special powers. This is also manifested in Shenmue 3 when she tells Ryo about her talking to or understanding animals.
Now this scene has three things that potentially rub me the wrong way when it comes to her using her "power":
1. If she physically harms the thug, it would be very hypercritical, because she literally and multiple times stops Ryo from doing so and all Ryo does is threaten him. It isn`t even said that he would go through with it and hurt him. This would mean she prevents him from potentially doing something, assuming she finds it unethical, but just a few moments later does it herself. Very hypocritical! But unlikely I`d say.
2. If she uses some sort of psychic power on him it would be weird because it would tell us that she is more aware of them then she kinda made Ryo think, which would be calculated and deceiving. The hypocritical part mentioned above would carry over because the result is the same. The guy was trembling because of what she did to him. So this option is even worse. Weirdly she didn`t want them to see it, too. Like she was hiding it, which as mentioned above she didn`t do before.
3. The third option is that it was just a anime-esque comedic scene. In that case it was just very, very, very poorly directed, especially because of the close up on her eye with that menacing music and the reaction of the thug, who was very distraught! Though the conversation of the thug, Ryo and Shenhua after it happened makes this a real possibility because it sounded like they were joking about it after a few seconds even though she threatened him again...
So either way I hate this scene and it just shows facets of a characters that go very contrary to a girl that jumped into a muddy river to save a goat!
Did I miss something or what happened in that scene?! Did something awake in her for a moment because she was frightened for what could happen to her father. If that is the case it didn`t seem to be a temporary state, nor was it very sudden.
I didn`t really understand why the scene with Shenhua and Ryo interrogating the thug at hermits nest was like it was. I`m not sure if I missed something but this is how I saw it:
I think the way the scene was handled was by far the worst scene in the game and nearly killed Shenhua as a character for me. It doesn`t help that she is nothing but a side character in Niaowu shortly afterwards.
Back to the original subject though:
I think the way Shenhua is portrait in Shenmue 2 is that she is kind hearted, kinda naive at times but also very determined and strong at others. I also think that the way she used her power on the flower pedals to make them float was like it is normal and not out of the ordinary to her. It showed that she doesn`t seem to be fully aware of her special powers. This is also manifested in Shenmue 3 when she tells Ryo about her talking to or understanding animals.
Now this scene has three things that potentially rub me the wrong way when it comes to her using her "power":
1. If she physically harms the thug, it would be very hypercritical, because she literally and multiple times stops Ryo from doing so and all Ryo does is threaten him. It isn`t even said that he would go through with it and hurt him. This would mean she prevents him from potentially doing something, assuming she finds it unethical, but just a few moments later does it herself. Very hypocritical! But unlikely I`d say.
2. If she uses some sort of psychic power on him it would be weird because it would tell us that she is more aware of them then she kinda made Ryo think, which would be calculated and deceiving. The hypocritical part mentioned above would carry over because the result is the same. The guy was trembling because of what she did to him. So this option is even worse. Weirdly she didn`t want them to see it, too. Like she was hiding it, which as mentioned above she didn`t do before.
3. The third option is that it was just a anime-esque comedic scene. In that case it was just very, very, very poorly directed, especially because of the close up on her eye with that menacing music and the reaction of the thug, who was very distraught! Though the conversation of the thug, Ryo and Shenhua after it happened makes this a real possibility because it sounded like they were joking about it after a few seconds even though she threatened him again...
So either way I hate this scene and it just shows facets of a characters that go very contrary to a girl that jumped into a muddy river to save a goat!
Did I miss something or what happened in that scene?! Did something awake in her for a moment because she was frightened for what could happen to her father. If that is the case it didn`t seem to be a temporary state, nor was it very sudden.
