7th February 2015, 3:50 AM
Shenmue has not aged well. I appreciate the effort by Sega. This was a pioneer in its time. Still, the bar has been raised with open world games. The game tries to be cinematic but poor voice acting tanks the effort. It's fun to explore and talk to people but this game is more impressive as a technical demo IMO. The story is cliched, hopefully it picks up.
Graphics are good for that generation but look dated now. Ryo's face is well rendered but making him run gives the player a feeling of being a puppet master to a mechanical figurine. That is, they didn't nail down the posture as feeling human. Ryo's footsteps clank like his legs are porcelain.
Still, it's a fun trip down nostalgia lane. For, uh, a game I never played.
Graphics are good for that generation but look dated now. Ryo's face is well rendered but making him run gives the player a feeling of being a puppet master to a mechanical figurine. That is, they didn't nail down the posture as feeling human. Ryo's footsteps clank like his legs are porcelain.
Still, it's a fun trip down nostalgia lane. For, uh, a game I never played.