![]() Speaking of Bailu, both the village and the city of Niaowu look fantastic. ![]() The worst parts of the game were whenever I had to look for herbs to exchange for skill books in order to upgrade Ryo’s attack power or participate in fighting tournaments in the hope of being awarded a skill book. On paper, this upgrade system seems like a great way to immerse players into the role of a disciplined martial artist like Ryo but in practice it acted as a roadblock multiple times since you’re basically forced to grind until Ryo’s stats are good enough to beat up enemies and progress the plot. These can be bought from pawn shops or exchanged for sets of specific items such as capsule toys and herbs. At first, Ryo has a few default moves that he can practice to raise his Attack power but you’ll eventually run out of moves to practice and will need to acquire skill books. The Endurance stat can be leveled up with endurance exercises but the Attack stat won’t improve unless Ryo practices fighting moves in sparring sessions. Ryo also has Attack and Endurance stats that you’ll need to upgrade throughout the game. Whenever Ren and Ryo are paired together, Shenmue 3’s dialogue actually becomes unironically entertaining since these two polar opposite personalities bounce off each other so well. Other characters are similarly uninteresting aside from the mischievous thief Ren, voiced by Greg Chun. Instead, he insists that she’s been doing enough already despite all evidence to the contrary. Eventually, Shenhua tells Ryo that she plans on working to help him raise the money he needs but he then tells her that she doesn’t have to work. Since Shenhua is a character with very little agency, her relationship with Ryo ends up feeling shallow and Ryo barely has to interact with her throughout the game.įor instance, there’s a late-game plot beat where Ryo needs to raise an exorbitant amount of money in order to buy an old martial arts book. It’s honestly bizarre how poorly the game handles their relationship. When the two are together, their dialogue often lacks any chemistry or spark due to how perfunctory and bland their conversations are. ![]() Meanwhile, Shenhua, voiced by Brianna Knickerbocker, is a passive, unmemorable character who spends most of the game just sitting around and having Ryo do everything despite her missing father’s life possibly being in danger. The game is a disappointment, Yeah, buy the game at full price because I want to see Shenmue 4.Ryo, voiced by a returning Corey Marshall, is as dull and monotone as he was in previous games and only occasionally shows actual personality. There's a lot of more cons, I won't spoil the plot. No character development (Ren barely says anything) A lot of grinding (need 5000 yuan to buy a scroll late in the game) A bunch of AIs with no useful information or anything. There's a ton of shops that sell this or that, but they are totally useless, they are just there. Third, that you need to grind some attack and endurance meters to become stronger, in the first two games you just fought, and it depended on how good you were at dodging and calculating the AI movements. The game added features that the two games did not have, like the draining of health while running, and you need to eat food to replenish it, second they lowered the time that Ryo needs to go to sleep from 11pm to 9pm. The story is ok nothing to say, at least the game tells you that you are about to end this area and won't come back. Shenmue 3 is a niche game, it means only those who played the first games know and why people wanted it. Waited for 22 years to play the third game, and this third game is a total disappointment. When I first played the first two Shenmue games I was amazed how spectacular they were specially how improved the second game was and was saddened when I knew that the third was canceled by Sega I personally was angry.
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