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.: December 29, 1999.: November 8, 2000.: December 1, 2000, Mode(s) Shenmue is an developed by and published by for the in 1999 in Japan and late 2000 in other territories. Directed, written and produced by, it is the first game in the. The player controls martial artist Ryo Hazuki as he sets out in revenge for the murder of his father in 1980s, Japan. Combining exploration, battles and, Shenmue's level of detail was considered unprecedented, with a, variable weather effects, with daily schedules, numerous interactive objects, and various. After developing several successful Sega, including (1985), (1986) and (1993), Suzuki wanted to create a longer experience, and conceived Shenmue as a multi-part epic.
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AM2 began work on a for the set in the Virtua Fighter world. In 1997, development moved to the Dreamcast and the Virtua Fighter connection was dropped. Shenmue became the at the time, with an estimated production and marketing cost of US$47 to $70 million, though development also covered some of (2001). Shenmue received mostly positive reviews; critics praised its graphics, soundtrack, realism and ambition, but criticized its slow pace and voice acting.
Though its realism and focus on mundane detail divided players, it attracted a, appearing in several ' lists, and is credited for pioneering game systems including quick time events and open worlds. Despite sales of 1.2 million, Shenmue did not recoup its development cost and is considered a. After the release of Shenmue II, further games in the series entered. In July 2015, Suzuki and his development company Ys Net began developing for and PC after a successful campaign, having licensed the rights from Sega.
The player must press the A button within the time limit to catch the soccer ball. The player controls teenage martial artist Ryo Hazuki as he investigates his father's murder in in 1986.
The player must explore the game's, searching for clues, examining objects and talking to. The game features a 3D fighting system similar to Sega's series; Ryo can fight multiple opponents at once and practice moves to increase their power. In, the player must press the right button within a time limit to succeed. Sega described the game as belonging to a new genre it termed 'full reactive eyes entertainment' or 'FREE'. Shenmue features a with level of detail considered unprecedented for games at the time. Shops open and close, buses run to timetables, and characters have their own routines, each in accordance with the in-game clock. Though not all objects are interactive, the player can inspect elements including drawers, cabinets and shelves.
Ryo receives a daily allowance which can be spent on items including food, raffle tickets, audio cassettes and. There are several; in the local arcade, for example, Ryo can throw darts or play complete versions of the Sega arcade games and. Later in the game, Ryo gets a part-time job at the docks and must ferry crates between warehouses and compete in races using a.
Described Shenmue as 'a game of middle management, often composed of the unglamorous daily grinds – being home for bedtime, wisely spending money earned from a day job, or training combat moves through lonely practice – that other games bypass.' According to, Shenmue 's appeal lies in 'soaking up all this detail and really feeling like you're in this world. Walking leisurely back to your home as the night draws in, watching the shadows move under Ryo's feet.' Plot In 1986, Japan, teenage martial artist Ryo Hazuki returns to his family to witness a confrontation between his father Iwao and a Chinese man, Lan Di. Lan Di easily incapacitates Ryo, then demands Iwao give him a mysterious stone artifact known as the dragon mirror. When he threatens to kill Ryo, Iwao tells him the mirror is buried under the tree outside. As his men recover the mirror, Lan Di mentions a man he claims Iwao killed in China.
He delivers a finishing blow and Iwao dies in Ryo's arms. Swearing revenge on Lan Di, Ryo begins his investigation by interviewing locals about what they witnessed. As he is about to run out of leads, a letter addressed to Ryo's father arrives from a Chinese man named Zhu Yuanda suggesting he seek the aid of Master Chen, who works at Yokosuka Harbor. Through Chen and his son Guizhang, Ryo learns that the dragon mirror taken by Lan Di is one of two mirrors. He locates the second, the phoenix mirror, in a hidden basement beneath his father's dojo. Chen reveals that Lan Di has left Japan for.
Ryo borrows money to buy a plane ticket from a disreputable travel agency; when he goes to collect the ticket, he is ambushed by Chai, a member of Lan Di's criminal organization, the Chi You Men, who destroys his ticket. Ryo learns that the Chi You Men is connected to the local harbor gang, the Mad Angels, and takes a job at the harbor as a forklift driver to investigate. After he causes trouble, the Mad Angels kidnap his schoolfriend Nozomi. Ryo rescues her and makes a deal with the Mad Angels leader to beat up Guizhang in exchange for a meeting with Lan Di. Ryo realizes the deal is a trap and teams up with Guizhang to defeat the Mad Angels.
Ryo arranges to take a boat to Hong Kong with Guizhang. On the day of departure, they are attacked by Chai.
Ryo defeats him, but Guizhang is injured and urges Ryo to go without him, saying he will meet him in China later. Chen advises Ryo to seek the help of a martial artist in Hong Kong named Lishao Tao. Ryo boards the boat and leaves for Hong Kong. Development. Shenmue was created, produced and directed by Yu Suzuki.
Shenmue creator joined Sega in 1983 and went on to create several successful including (1985), (1986) and (1993). In comparison to arcade games, where the ideal experience is only a few minutes long, Suzuki wanted to make a longer experience and researched (RPGs). To test camera, combat and conversation systems, he and built a prototype game, The Old Man and the Peach Tree, about a young man, Taro, seeking a martial arts in 1950s, China. Taro brings an old man a peach in exchange for information about the grandmaster; at the end of the game, the old man skilfully skips stones across water to hunt fish, revealing that he is the grandmaster. In 1996, AM2 began developing a 3D Saturn RPG with the working title Guppy.
This became Virtua Fighter RPG: Akira's Story, an RPG based on the with the Virtua Fighter character as the hero. AM2 planned a 'cinematic' approach, including voice acting and elaborate combat sequences. After traveling to China to research locations, Suzuki constructed four acts with the themes 'sadness', 'fight'departure' and 'starting afresh'. In this version of the story, Akira would overcome his grief following his father's death, travel to China, defeat an antagonist, and begin a journey with a new friend.
Suzuki recruited a screenwriter, a playwright, and film directors to write the multi-part story, which described as a 'revenge epic in the tradition of '. In 1997, development moved to Sega's upcoming console, the. In 1998, Sega of America vice president told: 'I can't tell you what Suzuki-san is working on. Let's just say that I've seen the project and it's going to rock the gaming world.' The same year, to better market the game as a Dreamcast ', the Virtua Fighter connection was dropped and Suzuki announced the working title Project Berkley. By the time of the Dreamcast's release in Japan in November 1998, the game had been titled Shenmue.
A screenshot of the in-development Shenmue, then titled Virtua Fighter RPG: Akira's Story, for the AM2 focused on developing the game's world, creating a large open environment with minigames and subquests. They worked with interior decorators to design more than 1,200 rooms and locations, and created over 300 characters with their own names, personalities and relationships, some modeled on Sega employees; detailed clay models of characters were produced as animation references. Algorithmically-generated weather and day-and-night cycles were implemented with reference to records of 1986 Yokosuka.
Cut scenes were rendered in, without, and was used to capture the movements of real experts. To fit the material onto a manageable number of discs, AM2 developed a new type of. In 1999, AM2 focused on fixing bugs, finding hundreds each day. At the time, there were no, so the team tracked bugs with spreadsheets; at one point, they had tracked over 10,000 unresolved bugs.
On one occasion, several of the game's became trapped in the convenience store where they had gone as part of their scripted routines; Suzuki's solution was to make the store's door wider. The of the and brands also created problems, as AM2 had to implement them according to the companies' specifications. Suzuki said the project's biggest challenge was management, with over 300 staff and no experience of large projects. According to localizer, Shenmue's English was fraught with problems exacerbated by the project's scale.
Suzuki insisted that the English voices were recorded in Japan, which greatly restricted the casting; Blaustein said 'we hired basically every single English-speaking person that exists in Japan and calls themselves a voice actor.' The scripts were translated by several people, creating consistency problems, and arrived late, leaving no time for rewrites or proper direction. Shenmue became the at the time, reported to have cost Sega US$70 million. In 2011, Suzuki said the figure was closer to $47 million including marketing.
Development also covered some of (2001) and groundwork for future Shenmue games. Promotion and release On November 27, 1998, Sega released the Dreamcast in Japan., also directed by Suzuki, included a preview disc of Shenmue featuring FMV scenes and an interview with Suzuki, but no gameplay footage. On December 20, 1998, Sega unveiled Shenmue at a conference at the Yokohama International Assembly Hall and demonstrated its clock, weather and quick time event systems; fans could watch the conference online. Initial reactions were positive, with describing the game as 'what could be one of the most ambitious and important video game endeavours of the decade.' It was planned for a Japanese release in the second quarter of 1999. At the in March 1999, Sega announced that Shenmue would span multiple games and allowed the public to play the first game for the first time. At a Japanese consumer show on May 3, 1999, Sega demonstrated the facial animation and announced that non-player characters would have their own daily routines.
Later that month, Sega showed Shenmue in America for the first time at the 1999. It was playable the following week at the trade fair in Los Angeles. At a Japanese consumer conference on June 1, 1999, Sega announced a Shenmue promotional campaign to coincide with a Dreamcast price drop. Sega distributed a limited-edition video, What's Shenmue, with Dreamcast consoles and games, and a playable from August 1. The 'spoof' demo has Ryo search a small area of Yokosuka for Sega CEO and protect him from a gang of thugs. On June 22, 1999, Sega announced a ' Shenmue Subway Tour', showing playable demos at Japanese train stations that August.
Spent six months with the development team and broadcast a making-of documentary about the game before its release. Shenmue was released on December 29, 1999 in Japan, November 8, 2000 in North America, and December 1, 2000 in Europe. Sales Shenmue sold 1.2 million copies and became the Dreamcast's fourth-bestselling game. However, its sales did not outweigh its development cost and it is considered a major It followed years of declining profits for Sega and contributed to the company's exit from the video game console market. Wrote that though the sales 'would have been considered a victory for Sega in any other case, the game's massive budget — now just a drop in the bucket compared to what's spent on — ensured that only an impossible amount of profit would have made Shenmue's production financially worthwhile.' According to GamesRadar, ' Shenmue's ambition totally outshone its host platform's ability to support it.
Put simply, the Dreamcast didn't sell. Every DC owner would have had to have bought Shenmue twice in order for Sega to turn a profit. So ironically it probably did as much to kill the Dreamcast as it did to cement its reputation.' , then-president of Sega of America, said Shenmue sold 'extremely well' but could not make a profit due to the Dreamcast's limited installed base. Localizer Blaustein said: 'This is like the videogame equivalent of that famous western movie,. Suzuki was coming off of huge past successes, and he was the man.
And so this was going be the thing. And everyone wanted a piece of that $70 million, you know?
And of course that's like the worst thing you could do, is to start out a project saying we've got all this money, and then just keep throwing more money at it.' Dreamcast engineer defended Shenmue as an 'investment which will someday be recouped' because 'the development advances we learned. Can be applied to other games.' Critical reception Reception Aggregate score Aggregator Score 89% Review scores Publication Score A+ 8/10 26/30 9/10 33/40 6/10 7.8/10 (US) 8.1/10 (UK) 8.5/10 9.7/10 10/10 A- 10/10 10/10 Award Publication Award Shenmue received mostly positive reviews, with an average aggregate score of 89.34% on.
Many praised its graphics, realism, soundtrack and ambition. Called Shenmue 'a gaming experience that no one, casual to hardcore gamer, can miss'. Eurogamer called it 'one of the most compelling and unusual gaming experiences ever created.'
Wrote that though Shenmue is 'far from perfect' it was 'revolutionary' and 'worth experiencing - provided you have the time to invest.' Edge wrote that though it was not 'the milestone' they had hoped for, Shenmue is 'involving, and ultimately rewarding'. Ed Lomas of the UK said the production values were 'astounding. Shenmue is the most beautiful game ever made, no doubt about it.' Though he acknowledged minor problems with controls, dated QTEs, script and voice acting, he felt the experience as a whole was 'incredible', particularly its immersion and the freedom to pursue the story at one's own pace. The game received the Excellence Prize for Interactive Art at the 2000.
Several reviews criticized the game's 'invisible walls', which limited the player's freedom, the inability to progress without waiting for events scheduled to occur at specific times, excess cutscenes, and English voice acting. Wrote that by 'the time you're driving forklifts and participating in the game's QTE-filled conclusion, hours upon hours of boredom will have taken their toll.' Electronic Gaming Monthly wrote that the story 'lags' on the third disc.
Criticized the game's lack of action, writing: 'Determining your character's next move requires little more than talking to someone, who will then tell you who to see or where to go. All that's left is a guy walking around an amazingly detailed environment. If I wanted to experience that, I could see it in another game with proven endless entertainment value. It's called life.' Influence and legacy Shenmue is credited for pioneering several game technologies.
In its list of 'Top 5 Underappreciated Innovators', 1UP credited it as the original ' city game' before the idea was popularized by games including (2001). Its large environments, wealth of options and level of detail have been compared to later 'sandbox' games including the series, Sega's series, (2008), and (2010). Shenmue is also credited for naming and popularizing the, which was incorporated into games including the, and series.
In 2011, wrote that 'the digital environment created by Shenmue was revolutionary at the time. Even by today's standards, its rich and affectionate vision of urban Japan is inspiring.' In his 2010 book, David McCarthy wrote of Shenmue's 'paradigmatic impact on the entire video game industry'; according to McCarthy, while Shenmue appears 'crude and blocky' compared to modern games, it 'recreated the real world with.
Attention to detail that has never been rivaled.' If the Grand Theft Auto games have been vilified as crime simulators in which you can press a button to buy a hooker then run a hooker over with a car, Shenmue is a game where you can press a button to politely ask directions, then combo into cherishing your elders and always remembering to recycle. Instead of giving us a city to be tested and battered against in all directions, Shenmue builds you a world and asks you to follow the rules rather than break them. Brendan Main, The Escapist, December 21, 2010 The game's emphasis on mundane details divided players. In a 2014 retrospective article, Edge wrote that 'some were entranced by the game's abounding atmosphere and visual detail. Others left frozen by clumpy interaction with an unthreatening, almost rustic world. Where they'd wander the districts of Yokosuka while asking unusual questions to pensioners and hairdressers.'
In a 2009 IGN retrospective, IGN Xbox editor Hilary Goldstein praised Shenmue for its 'great ideas', but said it was 'ultimately uninteresting', and IGN Nintendo's Matt Casamassina felt it was 'more of a than a coherent game'. However, IGN UK's Martin Robinson described it as 'a deeply personal game' that 'opened my eyes to a whole new world for video games, suggesting that they didn't have to be about shooting aliens in the face, rescuing the princess or slaying orcs for hours on end – they could be about real people in a real place. It's the mundane moments that gave Shenmue its poetry.'
In 2014, the Guardian wrote: ' Shenmue's pacing might be glacial compared to the rollercoaster tempo of, but slowing things down allows for a greater appreciation of everything that Suzuki and Sega's AM2 department achieved here. How everything is held together remains quite exquisite, under the closest scrutiny, even by 2014 standards.' Shenmue attracted a, and has been included in several ' lists. Edge placed it number 50 in its list of the top 100 games of all time.
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In 2008, it was voted #25 on 's 'Greatest Games of All Time' reader poll of over 100,000 votes. In 2006 and 2008, readers voted Shenmue and #81 and #63 respectively in IGN's 'Readers' Choice Top 100 Games Ever' list. In April 2011, Empire ranked Shenmue the 42nd best video game of all time. In April 2013, ranked Shenmue and Shenmue II the joint-best Dreamcast games.
In September 2013, readers of the German games magazine M! Games voted Shenmue the best game of all time. In October 2013, UK named it one of the 20 best games of all time. In June 2014, Shenmue was ranked #71 in 's list of 100 Greatest Video Games of All Time. In August 2014, Empire ranked Shenmue the seventh best game of all time.
Sequels In 2015, Suzuki said he planned the Shenmue story to cover at least four games. Was released in 2001 in Japan and Europe and 2002 in North America, but was also a commercial failure and entered a period of lasting over a decade. In 2004, Sega announced a for PC set in the Shenmue world, but it was never released. In 2010, Sega announced another spin-off, a for the Mobage mobile service, but it was shut down in 2012. In September 2011, Suzuki left Sega to focus on his development studio Ys Net. At the conference on June 15, 2015, he announced a campaign to develop Shenmue III with Ys Net for and, having licensed the rights from Sega.
The campaign reached its initial $2 million goal in just under nine hours. On July 17, 2015, Shenmue III became the fastest-funded and highest-funded video game project in Kickstarter history, earning $6.3 million.
It is scheduled for release in the second half of 2018. Other media Sega released a soundtrack album, Shenmue Orchestra Version, on April 1, 1999, before the game's release.
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Yu Suzuki's cinematic masterpiece returns to the Dreamcast with more spellbinding adventure and an even more immersive world. The epic continues as Ryo Hazuki arrives in Hong Kong on his quest to avenge his father's murder by the warlord Lan Di and unravel the mystery of the Phoenix mirror. Set in Hong Kong, Kowloon, and Guilin, you'll travel through breathtaking scenery, rich with mountainous wilderness, traditional Taoist temples, and stunning tropical landscapes. As you move through massive, highly-detailed 3D worlds, you'll interact with almost every facet of your environment as well as a whole new cast of characters.