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Join Ryo on his journey to become the ultimate martial artist and avenge his father’s death. Shenmue the Animation, a Crunchyroll and Adult Swim Original, begins February 5th!
Shenmue debuted first as a video game by SEGA for the Dreamcast on December 29, 1999. Since then, its captivating characters and riveting storytelling. Now over 20 years later, the 13-episode anime adaptation aims to capture the same essence of mystery and thrilling martial arts.
The fuck is this? Weird. Also, kinda funny how I mostly don't give a shit about this at all now, when in the past I'd have been all over it. (Just for the record, as of the time of writing this post, I still have yet to bother to install Shenmue 3 let alone play it, even though I did eventually buy it a while back. Haven't installed or played Shenmue I & II yet, either, for that matter. Not saying I'll never do so, just saying it's not a priority for me, even a little bit.)
Found out about this via a tweet from Tokoz on Twitter (who keeps her profile protected, otherwise I'd embed it and my replies here). Mostly she and I were questioning the rather... odd directorial choices made with the voices in this. I feel like it has to be intentional, perhaps to keep with the "charm" of the original games, which were notorious for their own terrible voice acting, as well. I mean, surely, something this bad wouldn't have been allowed to slip through by accident, right?
And I was wondering if the animation would also just stop 40% through the story the same way the games do.
Join Ryo on his journey to become the ultimate martial artist and avenge his father’s death. Shenmue the Animation, a Crunchyroll and Adult Swim Original, begins February 5th!
Shenmue debuted first as a video game by SEGA for the Dreamcast on December 29, 1999. Since then, its captivating characters and riveting storytelling. Now over 20 years later, the 13-episode anime adaptation aims to capture the same essence of mystery and thrilling martial arts.
The fuck is this? Weird. Also, kinda funny how I mostly don't give a shit about this at all now, when in the past I'd have been all over it. (Just for the record, as of the time of writing this post, I still have yet to bother to install Shenmue 3 let alone play it, even though I did eventually buy it a while back. Haven't installed or played Shenmue I & II yet, either, for that matter. Not saying I'll never do so, just saying it's not a priority for me, even a little bit.)
Found out about this via a tweet from Tokoz on Twitter (who keeps her profile protected, otherwise I'd embed it and my replies here). Mostly she and I were questioning the rather... odd directorial choices made with the voices in this. I feel like it has to be intentional, perhaps to keep with the "charm" of the original games, which were notorious for their own terrible voice acting, as well. I mean, surely, something this bad wouldn't have been allowed to slip through by accident, right?
And I was wondering if the animation would also just stop 40% through the story the same way the games do.
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Date: 2022-02-06 08:46 am (UTC)From:Haven't installed any of them yet. Knowing in advance that they have S3 end on a cliffhanger despite the original intention of the kickstarter was to bring the series TO A CLOSE kinda ruins it for me. Almost as much as the DLC they released for it.
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Date: 2022-02-07 07:11 am (UTC)From:And yeah, I completely agree that knowing the third game ends on a cliffhanger yet again dilutes my interest in playing it almost to non-existence, at least for now. From what little I've read from people talking about it, though, it's not just that Shenmue 3 ends on a cliffhanger, it's that it apparently also doesn't actually advance the story all that much, overall, at least not until the end when the cliffhanger happens.[1] From what I understand, it mostly just rehashes a lot of stuff from the previous games, for whatever reason. Now, granted, having not played it myself, I might just be talking out of my ass here, taking rando bunk at face value, but it wouldn't surprise me much if any of it was true.
As far as the DLC... yeah, it sucks. It's as if game companies these days feel as though they, like, have to include DLC (or, rather, have to bust their game into chunks specifically for DLC purposes) in their games now, even when it makes no goddamn sense to do so. The love of money and all that...
[1] - Honestly, thinking back on it, Shenmue 2 kind of did the same thing. There's all the shit in Hong Kong, then Ryo goes to Kowloon for more shit, practically none of which I can even remotely recall now, other than that Ryo fights that big fat dude on a roof while Lan Di watches while hanging from a helicopter or some such bullshit. And then Ryo ends up in a completely different area for the very tail end of the game. Hell, if I recall correctly, the mystery girl Shenhua doesn't even show up (in person) until that point, and then there's some big plot dump (of which, again, I recall next to nothing, now), Ryo finds another mystic mirror or whatever, and then the game just... stops. If Shenmue 3 does the same sort of thing, then... yeah... fuck off with that shit. Seriously, it's kind of simultaneously amazing and depressing just how much my view of Shenmue, as a whole, was completely soured by their mishandling of the Kickstarter and the naked greed of all the Epic Games horseshit. I don't even want to go back and replay the first two games again, despite those having nothing to do with that shit, and even though I remember liking them rather a lot (despite the constant cliffhangers).