Shenmue III Game Review - NovaGames

Back in 1999, Sega released the first Shenmue and with a huge budget it became one of the most successful game of that time. Shenmue was something never seen before with completely original ideas and an open world game in which you would simply walk down the street and talk to anyone you want. With Yu Suzuki’s ambition, the Shenmue III will bring you the same feelings as the classic did.

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While Shenmue was an influence for the next 20 years of game design, at the time, there was nothing like it. There was a real-time changing of day and night, with characters living their lives and on schedule and changing of the weather. Before you could indeed find one of those things done separately in the game, but Shenmue brought them all together for a fulfilling ensemble of a living world.

If you are new to the series, we strongly recommend playing the first two games before immersing into the third one, since everything is connected and only then you will have the whole story in the line.

For of players that did the whole journey with Ryo, the thirds installment feels nostalgic and almost as if you were to step back in a time machine. The experience will be astonishing with preserved faithfulness. Introducing a fresh new chapter filled with new adventures, Shenmue III picked up right where we left of in the second game.

At the end of Shenmue II, Ryo was trying to find the trail of his father’s killer, Lan Di. In China, he started to unravel two mysterious artifacts which were phoenix mirrors and the dragon. Those were the main answers to finding out where the hidden treasure is and once revealed, Lan Di would be granted great power. The part two ends with Ryo in the cave learning more about mirrors’ seemingly magical powers and at the beginning off the third game, we are meeting Ryo in the same cave.

In Shenmue III, the first part takes place in a village of Bailu, where Ryo is trying to find clues and find the father of Shenhua, which is a person who helps him out. It is not filled with amazing battles and wonderous side-quests, so get prepared to interrogate villagers and help out local markets while scratching for some clues of the greater plot. To progress you must talk to the right person and get the information you need and unlock more clues. In some cases, you will be unable to find key characters and you can see them later in the evening and just then check for certain information. Shenmue III is a where the most interesting part of the day is when you can enter the conversation with a friend.

After confronting local bandits and failing to defeat his leader, Ryo finds a way to defeat him. The clues he found, led him to abandoned temple, which is now a home to a kung Fu master. Ryo was catching chickens and finishing mundane tasks, instead of learning a new technique on how to defeat the enemies. Eventually, Ryo is sent to acquire master’s 50-year-old liquor, so he searched through the village only to discover that it costs 2000 yuan. unable to purchase it, the player is left with a few hundred yen and the rest he must decide on how to collect on its own.

This game is packed with plenty of side activities, so you can generate cash however you would like. Choose to chop wood or spend a day or three catching fish and then later make profit. You might also collect capsule toys and sell them to a pawn shop, and gamble with a fortune teller. Overall it is an amazing game with wonderful backgrounds and even better story if you finish the first and second part before this one. Shenmue remains an exquisite series but it’s hard to say what will actually happened in the very end.