Jigen
Man Mo Journeyman
Describe your typical playthrough style, I'll post mine later in a new post.
Always wanted to learn Japanese, I tried in High School, but had a poor teacher and found it very difficult. Good to know you introduced someone else. one of us, one of us...Well, ever since I got Shenmue II back in September 2001, I would always binge play Shenmue 1 and 2 since I always saw that they were one considering you can use your save file from Shenmue 1 can be carried over to Shenmue 2 on the original Dreamcast releases.
I really wouldn’t know how to explain a “typical” playthrough. But when I first got the Dreamcast version of Shenmue on New Year’s Eve 1999, I was 15 and I was taking Japanese lessons at the high school I was going to in Arizona, and just a mile away from my home, was a video game store that sold imports and they got the Japanese Shenmue when it came out.
When I was studying Japanese between high school and college, I just used Shenmue as a barometer of my studies and abilities. I always had my notebooks, textbooks, and dictionaries on me as I played. If I couldn’t find anything, I’d ask my Japanese teacher the next day. My younger days of playing Shenmue was just me trying to study Japanese lol.
After six years of studying and nearly living 12 years all throughout Japan (I now live in Yokohama, but I have also lived in Hiroshima, Ibaraki, Kagawa, Ehime, Niigata, Saitama, and Tochigi), I just play it “naturally,” if that means anything.
My wife, whose mother is from Yokosuka, has become a fan because of me and she plays the PS4 version every now and then lol
Always wanted to learn Japanese, I tried in High School, but had a poor teacher and found it very difficult. Good to know you introduced someone else. one of us, one of us...