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| Ka-pi96 said: Was Shenmue ever actually good in the first place though? Everything I've ever read/heard about it just makes it sound terrible. It sounds like one of those movies that gets a cult following based on it being "so bad it's good". |
I will explain why, with one moment from the game.
At one point in the game you're looking for a travel agency that happens to be across the street from a lunch stand I believe. If you go talk to the lunch stand owner at this particular segment of the game, which lasts about five minutes really, she will tell you in not so many words, "Idiot, it's right there."
Bear in mind, this was a time at which voice acting was relatively new itself, at least on this scale. And even in text based games, in a similar situation, that woman would have most likely given the same dialogue that she always did. But, in this one, they recorded a specific line of dialogue for this obscure situation, for the one idiot who decides to talk to her to try to find the thing that's literally two feet away from them. Just to keep the immersion going, because, that's exactly what she would say in such a situation.
The attention to detail in the game was absolutely astounding for the time when games like this were almost entirely new. It was kind of mind blowing in 1999. Even playing it today, when in hindsight a lot of the elements don't work, it's abundantly clear that the game was a labor of love, which is part of why all of its little quirks are so endearing.
