Shenmue 3 Review - self-confident classic

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Shenmue 3 deliberately avoids a revision by bending fearlessly into his past.

It is always nice to see that a serious classic franchise returns for the right reasons, but it is even more beautiful to see a worthy continuation of a story that was left on a cliff hanger many years ago. Shenmue 3 is ultimately both. The long-awaited third part of the series tries to retire the classic franchise, to put it back to the legs and at the same time continue the story that began almost 20 years ago in the unfortunate dreamcast.

The series is now as easy as never before, as the original two games were published last year in a modern collection for old and new fans. I strongly recommend that you play the previous two games before playing Shenmue 3, as the third tranche extends largely assuming that they are very familiar with the story. There is a practical backlog video that you can view Shenmue 3 Lets newcomers not completely in the dark, but recovered immediately after two starts. The more experience you have with the two previous games, the better your experience with the third.

It is difficult to make the game for some of these outdated curiosities, but it is also impossible to have at least some respect for such a conscious devotion to the continuity, the modern expectations are damned.

It does not take long until the game starts when you hatch again in Ryos shoes and race through a small town to ask questions and gather hints. Of course, one hears occasionally to feed themselves and / or add to a game. If you have enjoyed this gameplay in the last two games, then you are exactly right if you dust this setting shenmue 3. Shenmues It feels like playing in the two previous games when you follow a specific brand of entertainment crumbs to move through a story while they occasionally distracted from games or secondary stories. In fact, the same can be said about almost all shenmue 3, except for the shaky voice output, the bulky controls and the long downtime, which only one game may be hoped to get through.

While maintaining the various quirks and tropics, which are known to the shemue games for sure, to limit Shenmue 3 For many new arrivals, it will probably look like you would wear an old, cuddly sweater for those who are dealing with the original two connected, and that is clearly the goal. While many of the core elements of the game in a superfidential way benefit from this mentality, the gameplay will certainly not be particularly favored during the struggle that is from the ground up to stiff and repetitive. It does not help if you are hanging on corners of tables or other objects, ryo often to succumb or if you are trying to navigate in blunt menus. Or if you need to stop and keep the left trigger pressed to increase a herb, press an action button and just take it. And why exactly does R1 have to be the inventory button? Why?

Although it is difficult to have the game for some of these outdated curiosities, it is impossible to at least have a certain respect for such a conscious dedication to continuity, modern expectations must be damned. Ultimately, it is highly dependent on its personal binding to the series, how much they disturb these things and what they expect from them in 2019 shenmue fan himself, as the nostalgia replaced, I personally found that most of these quirks are easy Annoying fueled to become annoying in the worst case. Nothing has ruined my fun of being back in the world of shenmue at the same time, it creates an upper limit for himself by taking not many of the modern ingredients to which Open World Games belong from today to help make everything smoothly expires .

In the first hours of the game, they met some very similar looking environments, but be assured that sometime of a broader world with more variety opens.

Probably the greatest revision of the last two games is the graphics and the visual overall representation, which have turned out to be very well. This is an area in which shenmue 3 I could not afford to support me passively on the two previous games. Shenmue 3 is above all a big step from his predecessors. I'm not sure how much loan the game deserves for it, considering how much time has passed since the last issue, but for what it is worth, it's nice to see how these characters realize on modern hardware become. Many smaller movements with mouths and hands are pretty shaky, and honestly, the game does not look like most of the Current, but the improvements in terms of character spacing, lighting and color depth and so on can not be denied All this brings the experience.

Often it is easy to add a look at the different areas of throwing shenmue 3 for the long list of amusing distractions of the game. Character models can be maintained most of the time, especially for the main characters, although I believe that some of the design styles are inconsistent. The main characters are quite realistic and basically have normal proportions, while the faces of some characters look more like this as if they have been designed _Wir a couple. It is not a big deal, but it can distract a little bit. Apart from that, the graphics is a nice gesture for the series, undoubtedly supported by the people at Deep Silver, which have proven to be quite efficient with the Unreal 4 engine. In the first hours of the game, they met some very similar-looking environments, but be assured that some of a broader world will open with more variety.

Shenmue 3 Sounddesign is also well assembled with some well-known voices and a suitable soundtrack, both long-standing fans of the series respondably, but it is a shame that they have not gone on with no remarkable sound effect work or outstanding pieces of music. It would have been nice to hear during the fighting or even when walking around and recording more subtle sounds, but overall the entire sound that is heard here works definitely in relation to the sound of the previous games, and he calls certainly Right clay, especially with the score itself.

There is not much that can be said about the story without advising the corruption, but it is undoubtedly a shmue history. Information leads to major notes that eventually lead to revelations, and the process repeats during the game. I suspect that the end will not feel so conclusive as some fans expected, but shenmue It has always been a series in which there is more about the journey anyway. Similar to the gameplay and the presentation, shenmue 3 The story is more a love letter to the fans than anything else. And how much they are addressed, depends on whether they are looking for or not.

If you want to play a game that does not want to bend the will of modern expectations to offer a pure, fans-powered experience, whether good or bad. Shenmue 3 has covered you.

Total Shenmue 3 is an experience that fans of the series are likely to enjoy. Will it bring many newcomers? Not nearly so likely. But the game makes it pretty clear that it is not too interested anyway. This is a shenmue game for shenmue fans, and while a large part of the gameplay can definitely benefit from an objective modernization, give so many of the essential elements of the original games that are completely intact, the game makes sense for purpose and character that most Modern iterations of older players have missed franchise companies.

If you are looking for a modern interpretation or further development of an older franchise, you'd better look at something else. But if you want to play a game that does not want to bend the will of modern expectations to offer a pure, fans-powered experience, whether good or bad. Shenmue 3 has covered you.

_ This game was tested on the PlayStation 4 ._

THE GOOD

Shenmue fans will feel at home, good story, great graphics and art style.