![]() ![]() The protagonist, Ryo, is out for revenge when a mysterious dude named Lan Di kills his father for the Dragon Mirror. The game’s plot revolves around two magical mirrors, a dragon mirror and a phoenix mirror. If we had to describe the plot in brief, it’s like one of those old Chinese movies with the horrible English dubbing that still somehow manages to be enjoyable. If you’ve played the first two Shenmue games, Shenmue 3 continues right where they left off. Here we are, 18 years later, finally getting our hands on the fabled Shenmue 3. It was actually happening, fans were going to get a Shenmue 3, but the wait was far longer than expected. ![]() In 2015, Yu Suzuki, the game’s creator and director would announce a kickstarter campaign for Shenmue 3, which would go on to become the fastest kickstarter to hit $2 million – it took less than six hours – and would eventually sit at a funding north of $6 million. Much like Half-Life 3, many were sure Shenmue 3 would never happen.Įnter Kickstarter. The sequel however, ended on a cliffhanger, and left everyone with more questions than answers. Despite selling over a million units, Shenmue was considered a flop (it had absurdly high production costs), and after the sequel in 2001, then hardware maker SEGA stopped a lot of projects, including Shenmue, before dropping out of the console making business all together. Then there’s also the fact that the term “Quick Timer Event” or QTEs was coined in Shenmue. It was quite the masterpiece for many and developed quite the cult following. When Shenmue first dropped in 1999 for the SEGA Dreamcast, it was lauded for its innovation, for pushing realism in gaming, it’s style of storytelling and a lot more. ![]()
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