Visually, it looks pretty darn good, with nice vistas and plenty of places to explore.
Right from the outset, Shenmue III seems like a modern day game lumbered with old game mechanics. Or talking to villagers to find out what happened to missing stone mason, the father of Ryo’s close friend Shenhua.Īs the mystery widens, so does the game world, and as the story progresses, Ryo must piece the clues together to find who killed his father and face the ultimate show down against his arch nemesis.īut, Shenmue 3 is new and HD shiny, right? Which, to be honest, is quite a pedestrian affair, restricting you to the village to carry out fetch quests. The opening few hours take place in Bailu village. To fill you in, if like me, you didn’t play either of the previous two games. Set in 1987, Shenmue 3 follows on directly from the cliffhanger ending of part two, and sees the return of Ryo Hazuki. There’s a lengthy catch-up video.
#SHENMUE 3 RATINGS SKIN#
I’ve decided Shenmue 3 is a strange mix of old gaming mechanics wrapped up in a modern, shiny new skin – and I’m not sure it works entirely well in today’s modern gaming landscape. I never played the original Shenmue, released 18 years ago on the Dreamcast, nor did I play Shenmue 2, so I went into Syu Suzuki’s (crowd funded) third Shenmue game (Shenmue 3) without rose-tinted glasses on or a feeling of nostalgia.
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