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Shenmue (1999).
Despite the terrible voice acting, It's what gives this title it's unique charm. Nostalgia at it's finest. Looking forward to the forklift racing.
Ryo is at the Yokosuka harbor looking for a job.
After receiving a compliment from the Tomato convenience store clerk, Ryo gives her the best response that I've ever heard him give any NPC.
The boyfriend/girlfriend relationship in this game is a bit peculiar. Sometimes I even question their relationship. Playing as Ryo Hazuki, the player invests more time in avenging his father's death and playing darts rather than spending time or even speaking to Nozomi. Now she's moving to Canada.
I'm a massive fan of the Dreamcast and of all the games Shenmue stands out as the most ambitious. But when playing this game I was not to realise that the watch used by Ryo Hazuki to ensure that he doesn't get home too late (or he'll get an earful from Ine-san) is loosely based on a Timex watch released at around the time of development. What adds confusion to that is that the game was developed over many years in the mid 90's. The game is based on the 80's meaning that this watch would not have existed in the game's setting!
I picked this watch up on eBay with the band in bad shape but the watch itself functioning rather well. I've since bought a replacement band as close to the original and proud to say this is perhaps the nerdiest item in my collection.
It doesn't get much bigger and better than Shenmue...
I remember when I was about 12, writing to some magazine like "Gamesmaster" asking someone to make a game were you could walk around a city, doing day to day life things, but having the ability to get into fights, and interact with loads of stuff. The letter didn't get printed as far as I know, and by that time Shenmue would probably already have started internal development in Sega.
Shenmue pretty much turned out to be the game I had asked for, albeit much better and much more fleshed out than anyone could've imagined. I only got to play Shenmue about 2 years after it's release when I finally got a Dreamcast, and it still blew me away as much then as it could've done at release. It was pretty much a cross between an interactive movie, and playing an alternate life.
Working a day job, wasting money, killing time with random distractions, annoying people/ getting annoyed by people. It was LIFE!!
(Shout outs to Yu Suzuki's 'FREE' genre).
I got way too much fun out of working a forklift job, and spending money on Space Harrier in the arcades, never mind the great story and character building.
Shenmue should have been the thing that not only saved the Dreamcast, but it should've launched it into the lead if you ask me (and many other Dreamcast fans). A game that Sega spent a reported 70 million dollars making, and it goes to show in the finished product [ESPECIALLY IF YOU PLAYED IT AROUND IT'S RELEASE].
Yu Suzuki is an absolute legend in the video game industry. Creating many of Sega's finest arcade games such as: Space Harrier, After Burner, Super Hang-On, OutRun, Virtua Fighter and several others...yet without a doubt Shenmue is the culmination of his extensive career. It blended several genres and experiences together and just blew away those whom got deep into the Shenmue universe.
Shenmue 2 was just as amazing follow up (that we Europeans were lucky enough to get on Dreamcast), although we knew in advance of Shenmue 2 that we were due more...yet it never came :(. It's been over 10 years since our Shenmue 3 dream was first killed, and it's only in recent months that we've heard that Sega will allow Yu Suzuki to go ahead and make the 3rd instalment. I can only hope that whilst no Shenmue 3 is confirmed right now...that Yu Suzuki is still at least adding notes to a notebook on a regular basis with inspirations and ideas for when he pitches Shenmue 3 to Sega :).
Vengeance will be served Lan Di!
Oh, look at what I found...
The joys of living the life of Ryo Hazuki as you fight your way to the Yokosuka Harbor. To do what, exactly? Yes, more fighting. As you battle against sailors, the 70 man gang rumble and lastly, against some dude that looks strangely like Golem from the Lord of the Rings movies. Upon losing your plane tickets to a thieving employee at the local travel agency, you attain boat tickets to travel to Hong Kong as you continue your hunt for the man that had killed your father.
Of course, avenging the death of Ryo's father will never happen. Why not? Because there hasn't and perhaps will never be any new installments to the series. Very dreary, indeed.
But wait.... Forklift racing? Yes. Forklift racing is incorporated into the game. Aside from that, Shenmue does include, Darts, space harrier, capsule toys and the occasional Quick time Event that makes this horrid noise whenever you miss the correct button.
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