Dude, you're not the only one. Before the HD collection I hadn't played Shenmue II since 2002 on Dreamcast...and I swear I saw a scene where Ryo stops and quietly looks up at an airplane high up in the sky (much higher than the one in Wise Men's Qr.) similar to when Tom left in the first game. I thought it happened just outside of Man Mo Temple but I guess it was a false memory.Never remembered it being so low. I thought I thought it was a call back to Shenmue 1 where there is Tom's (supposedly) plane flying overhead. If that actually happened and I am not just getting confused.
Dude, you're not the only one. Before the HD collection I hadn't played Shenmue II since 2002 on Dreamcast...and I swear I saw a scene where Ryo stops and quietly looks up at an airplane high up in the sky (much higher than the one in Wise Men's Qr.) similar to when Tom left in the first game. I thought it happened just outside of Man Mo Temple but I guess it was a false memory.
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You are welcome~I just shared some thoughts on this one, some interesting memory ! Sometimes we had to covered our ears if the engine sound is too loud or annoying when walking on the street, having lunch or even during the class~^^20 years later... And I just discovered something special about Shenmue... OMG thank you....
You are welcome~I just shared some thoughts on this one, some interesting memory ! Sometimes we had to covered our ears if the engine sound is too loud or annoying when walking on the street, having lunch or even during the class~^^
Exactly, I had this experience only twice since I was little at that time. Some children liked to get closer to those planes by going upstairs to the rooftop of mansions just as my classmates did~this is also an interesting scene ! Also due to the extremely close distance between airport and residential area, it was very convenient for tourists since you were already at the center of Kowloon when stepping out from airport. You can access lots of restaurants by just several minutes walk. It's quite difficult to imagine nowadays~^^A friend of mine grew up in Hong Kong (& Macau) and he used to tell me about the airport there being one landing/taking off strip in among all the buildings. He was used to it as he had been flying in and out since he was small but he remembers people on the flights who had never been before, being truly petrified during the experience.
Yes, that's exactly what I thought when I found this plane scene in the game ! Therefore to me it's just an in-game Hong Kong experience and got nothing to do with any hidden story or gameplay elements.I've met two people who have visited Hong Kong and both of them commented on how low the planes fly, how close they are to the buildings. I assumed it was a very unique and memorable thing, a very "Hong Kong" experience for people who were visiting from outside the country, and so Suzuki put it in there.