9, and probably Unsung Story: Tale of the Guardians.
I had been burned by crowdfunded games before. Fast-forward to 2015 and the announcement of Shenmue III. This was mostly summed up with the phrase, “I don’t get it.” But I ignored them.
They watched me play the game with a mix of confusion and dismissal. For a poor kid living in a trailer in West Texas, getting to wander the virtual streets of Yokosuka, Japan was something special. And Shenmue scratched that itch amazingly well. This was at a time when I was really into anything Japanese. I put a ton of hours into the first game on my Sega Dreamcast. I was both excited and extremely apprehensive to play Shenmue II I. Where to Buy: PlayStation Store and Epic Store I think there's good reason to rejoice in that.Available on: PlayStation 4 and Windows PC But it looks and plays like a Dreamcast game that's as off-kilter, maddening, magical and majestic as the Shenmue and its sequel, both all-time classics. Yes, Shenmue 3 can look and play like a Dreamcast game. "A more astute critic might point out that the performances are uneven, the character models sometimes look wayward, you're kind of limited as to what you can do and nothing of note really happens," he wrote in his Recommended review. But was it worth the accumulative 20 year wait?Įurogamer's Martin Robinson, a long-time Shenmue fan, certainly thought so. Watch on YouTube Shenmue 3: The Digital Foundry tech review.ĭeep Silver successfully managed to enflame matters further by refusing to refund those backers that didn't particularly want to wait an additional 12 months for a key to play the game on their platform of choice - although developer Ys Net ultimately backtracked on that decision.īackers that did choose to wait it out for a Steam release will now see their patience pay off on 19th November - which marks exactly 12 months since Shenmue 3's Epic Games Store and PS4 arrival.
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