After buying the game Thursday along with the new OXM I found that:
-The DVD include of Shenmue 1, is horrible.
-The first 45 minutes of game is filled with you walking 5 steps and watching another cutscene.
-An awesome way to make money is to arm wrestle.
-Once again working in the game is fun, although sometimes tedious.
-You can talk to everyone, but sometimes it gets repetitive.
-Hong Kong is a very confusing place.
-Controls are clunky.
-Unnessecary load times...
The DVD that I was looking forward to, is really horrible. They should've just package the original Shenmue in port form because all the DVD is is the cutscenes from the original and a few fights that some other guy fought.
The first part of this game gets really annoying having to work your way through what seemed like 20+ cutscenes of pure crap that was very unnessecary.
Your first bit of action occurs in an arm wrestling match, if you choose to participate. If not, too bad for you. Its a fun way to start the game.
I got my first job as hauling crates and I can say it is fun, but no where near as fun as hauling crates with the forklift in the original Shenmue.
Everyone in the game is eligible for you to talk to, if you wish. Asking them where to find something or about someone can get repititve as Ryo likes to say the same things. But its kind of cool the first person mode they give you when you are being escorted.
Hong Kong is a very confusing place and I would much rather be back in the hometown of Ryo, and a map would have been nice. I can't find some of the places I need too, but I'm sure if I was a little more attentive I could.
The controls are clunky and will take me some time to get used too, but no one could ever possibly like these when they pick this game up and play.
Load times are frequent and seem very unnessecary after playing the likes of Morrowind which held such a huge world with no problem.
- It seems like Sega failed to make an attempt to change this game or edit the code from the Dreamcast version in the year they had to do so. I was rather dissappointed in this title as I have been looking forward to it since it was announced last year, and it let me down. I know a lot of this sounds bad, but do give it a chance and play it for a little while. The longer you play it the better it gets, honest...
I will update more later...
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