A History and Review of EVERY Shenmue Game
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- Welcome to the first episode of my new series, Every Game! Today we will be looking at Yu Suzuki's magnum opus.
Links I mention in the video:
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0:00 - Intro
0:41 - Shenmue 1 History
12:15 - What's Shenmue Demo
26:14 - Back to Shenmue 1 History
36:32 - Shenmue 1 Review
51:59 - Shenmue 1 Beta Breakdown
53:10 - Shenmue 2 History
57:39 - Shenmue 2 Review
1:13:40 - Shenmue 2 Beta Breakdown
1:17:13 - US Shenmue
1:18:50 - Shenmue Online
1:25:16 - Shenmue City
1:28:13 - Shenmue 3 History
1:31:25 - Shenmue 1&2 Remaster
1:34:12 - Shenmue 3 Review
1:53:30 - Shenmue 3 Beta Breakdown
1:54:37 - Shenmue 4 Rumors
1:55:42 - Shenmue the Animation History
1:56:51 - Shenmue the Animation Review
1:59:07 - Air Twister
2:00:03 - Final Scores - Ігри
GAH! Right at the start of the video there's a typo, "Grand Turismo" instead of "Gran." I noticed it right before uploading but I can't fix it because of the crappy video editing software I used for this video, I can't re-render the first half of the video. Don't worry I'm already in the process of switching editing software.
UPDATE: Phantom River Stone has once again made a great blog, this time about Yoshio Goto from 14:20 in this video, the link is here www.phantomriverstone.com/2022/09/who-is-yoshio-goto-whats-shenmue.html
I didn't understand why you even included Gran Turismo in the beginning and the end of your video, what does it have to do with the topic of this video, lol
@@alex.starostin Gran Turismo was included at the start as part of random B-roll of games before the video started proper, then when I got to the end of the video I thought it would be a nice full circle thing if I included the same game at the end, it's got nothing to do with the topic of the video lol
@@supermoe1985 I thought that you love PS1 Gran Turismo games so much that you decided to start and end with it, lol. I love them too, they're great, a Shenmue of racing games in a way
@@alex.starostin I do actually love Gran Turismo 2, I do agree that it shares that same attention to detail that Shenmue strives for.
@Super Moe I just wished u didn't talk soo,softly.I can barely hear u.but,u cant redo it,so I guess dont matter
A superb documentary about Shenmue's history! It's obvious an immense amount of effort went into making it, and you really knocked it out of the park. (Also thanks for the blog mentions! Glad it was useful.)
Thank you so much, I also absolutely love your blogs!
@Super Moe first game to use,qte was dragon's lair
This was absolutely excellent. A metric ton of work went into creating this and you have my respect. Bang up job!
Thank you!!
I had no idea how deep the Shenmue iceberg was.
Shenmue 1 is probably my favourite game, playing it in 2000 was like playing something from the future. I even remember still thinking it looked better than most 360 games until at least 2007.
I had never heard of Shenmue for the Saturn and Shenmue Online so this video was a really interesting watch.
Thank you for all your in depth research, and excellent presentation.
Thank YOU for watching! :)
Yukawa is the reason Lan Di got that scar.
"Brought to you by Sprite. Sprite it's alright." lol
This video may be 2 years old but this is one of the most well-researched and informative videos about Shenmue ever. You really know what you're talking about and understand what makes Shenmue awesome.
Thank you!
@@supermoe1985 np
Just wanted to say thanks for this, it was very well done and there was a ton of things I didn't know. Great job on the overall presentation and pacing.
Thank you, and thanks for watching :)
Incredible video, and a wonderful homage to a project that was ahead of its time but still full of charm and heart. I bought the first game back in 1999 (I still own a japanese Dreamcast) so your video took me on a journey to memory lane ❤
Thank you! I was only 2 years old when Shenmue came out, so I hope future generations will continue to discover this game much like I did.
Surprised no mention of the music from Airing out the books. Man that ish is good, almost euphoric.
incredible video, really well put together and super comprehensive.
Long time no speak - this video looks great, I’ve always wanted to get into Shenmue after playing through the Yakuza series.
They are very different games, but both great! Thanks for stopping by :)
Very good analysis of the different shenmues
you have an opinion that focuses much more on the depth of shenmue
Unlike you, I love the story of Shenmue, the philosophy, the poetry and the quest for revenge that is no longer a quest, and the mystery surrounding the mirrors, but I can understand why you might not be sensitive to it.
concerning the loading, in 1999 on dreamcast, it didn't bother me, I mean the game was so visually and technically evolved that loading was almost normal at the time
especially when you know that even after 24 years the graphic richness and attention to detail of shenmue 1 and 2 have not been equalled
Regarding Yoshio Goto in What's Shenmue, that's the name of the commercial who promoted a big reduction for the price of the Dreamcast in Japan.
and his name was kept, there was even a little music like sega used to do at the time with the saturn and segatenshiro but yoshio goto is much less well known it's more a symbol of an important moment for the reduction of the price of the dreamcast in japan , where segatenshiro was the image of the saturn in japan through advertising and acting.
Concerning Shenmue 1 and 2, there are more than a dozen Japanese guides release back in the dats that talk about a billion little details that no-one has any idea about even today in 2023, and it's quite fascinating to see what Yusuzuki was able to incorporate into his two games at the time.
we're still far from having seen every little detail of shenmue 1 and 2
I just finished replaying the first game on ps4 HD collection. Haven’t played since probably 2000. I used Japanese with English subtitles and really enjoyed it again. On to part 2, which I finally played the first time on XBox in the last 5 years or so.
This was an excellent deep dive. I really appreciated it.
I’d love if sega got RGG studios to do a shenmue 4 with the OG creator as a consultant
15:07 That crouch would come in handy when entering into fighting mode. 😁
Fantastic video, I didn't expect to learn so much more about Shenmue after already being obsessed with it for years!
Wonderful video, thanks for your take on shenmue 3, it was refreshing to hear someone who’s not completely trashing it. I’m playing shenmue right now for the first time, I’m halfway through shenmue 2 and you inspired me to pick up the 3rd installment after i finish this one. Thank you
Thanks! I hope you enjoy it!
@24:00 Fun fact, there's a texture of one of the developers holding a Donald Duck doll hidden in one of the eyes of the characters in the Passport disc.
Oh wow you're right, I didn't know this!
Damn i wished i watched this video sooner i am a fan of the series but never player the games but seen many game play videos of these classics on UA-cam and the anime adaptation for Shenmue we had a couple years ago was also well done.
Probably the best video ever created on Shenmue. Phenomenal job here. Funny how the video dragging Shenmue 3 has like 1.7 mil views. I backed Shenmue 3 and didn't enjoy it at all, this video is far superior in every way. Human psychology is funny, people would rather watch something negative; then learn the history of it.
I suppose this video would have more views if I called it "I reviewed every Shenmue game and it RUINED MY LIFE" :D
@@supermoe1985 lol shots fired.
Great work!! I hope we get the finale to this story.
I think that boosted Saturn upon which the Shenmue protoype was running, the one you mention in the video, is a Saturn with the upgrade card (a wanna be 64x) that was rumored/planned to be release along with Virtua fighter 3 on the Saturn (before it got cancel and moved to the Dreamcast). Am2 at this point was well aware and involved with that device at one point in the Saturn lifespawn, and i'm sure this is the hardware upgrade upon which Shenmue was running as well.
Great video Super Moe!
Fantastic video. Thoughtful and thorough. Enjoyed watching the whole thing. Really enjoyed your take on Shenmue 3 as well. It was fair.
You've made some good Shenmue videos yourself!
Thanks for watching :)
@supermoe1985 you're too kind. Would you be interested in chatting about shenmue sometime on the friendmue podcast? Picking your brain about this series would be really fun.
@@VirtuaBros That sounds fun! Totally down for that.
@@supermoe1985 awesome! Do you have a Twitter or discord I could reach you on to make arrangements?
I don't comment much, but I have to say this is the best video on Shenmue I have ever seen. It's my favorite game of all time and you brought things up I hadn't known.
Great job!!!
Thank you!!!
I remember playing this game as a kid with all my siblings when it was first released back in 1999 😩🙌
We were so blown away with how amazing the graphics were, as nothing like this existed at the time! 😍 So many great memories ❤
Very informative. Love it :)
Great coverage...I've been playing the re make slowly over the past few years since covid and I got platinum on the first and am now playing the second...What a unique release I was around 10 or 11 when the first came out and I remember always loving exploring towns and villages in n64 ps1 games and remember seeing screen shots of the second game and just thinking it looked so much fun and although I didn't get to play the series until the second on Xbox in the mid 2000s I would have loved to experience the first at the pique of the release...
This may be some false info but iirc one of the VAs who worked on Shenmue III said that they was instructed to make the dialogue readings a little clunky on purpose to try and recreate some of the charm of the first two where some of the VAs just obviously couldn't speak English and were just reading lines as best as they could. Going from memory and can't remember where I saw this so take it with a pinch of salt I suppose.
Edit just to add that I thought this was a fantastic video btw, really enjoyed it!
Thanks! And that is certainly possible.
Finally finished it, awesome awesome and you even included Airtwister 😅
loved the video!
AIR TWISTER looks like YuSuzuki's PSY PHI he was trying to release in 2005. PsyPhi TESTED. POORLY at the time, so they CANCELLED IT. but judging by the videos, it was simply AHEAD OF ITS TIME. a touch screen fighting game BEFORE the iphone ---and subsequently ipad--- came out.
Its cool to see something similar out these days
Great video, man. I hope you plan on more videos like this.
Thanks! More episodes of Every Game are on the way :)
Duck racing? Jesus H . . . how many things have I missed in these games?
Thanks a lot for this video. Absolutely love it. Reminds of some videos of Super Eye Patched wolf, which is my favourite YT channel. I'll send this to Mr. Marshall to see his opinion also. Thanks Again.
Awesome documentary. I loved Shenmue series.
Shenmue RULES 🤘😎
Thanks, I love shenmue, and I love this video
Super video from you, Super Moe, really enjoyed it
Thank you! I checked out your channel and you're a super guitarist, very talented
@@supermoe1985 Thanks a million! That's very kind of you. Currently on my first playthrough of Shenmue 2 on Dreamcast. Only played the first one when it came out originally. I've finally managed to get the money together to see Ren... he better be worth it! All the best
@@NeilOBri Awesome! You'll be in Kowloon soon, lots of floors and rooms to explore there.
@@supermoe1985 Nice one. Magic rooms here I come!
This was a good jawn
An hour in now and i must stop for work but i'll be finishing it soon Only game ever came close to Shenmue was Shadow of memories, it's like he took inspiration from shenmue and went wild with it. shame shadow of memories is a forgotten game
That game is on my to-play list!
Hidiki Okumara was a Project Manager and Executive Producer of SAGA who helped develop the SATURN. Hidiki Sato is the owner of SAGA . Yu Suzuki was a video game developer for SAGA and Nintendo he created Shenmue.
*Sega.
Fantastic video! This was incredibly well researched and really fun to listen to! If you don't mind I have a question about how you said you can turn a save file from shenmue 1&2 into vmu data for the passport disc? Are there any guides online about how to do this? I've never heard of that and would love to try it out. Thank you!
I had to ask for help on the Shenmue Dojo forums when I did it, someone made a video for me but now it's privated. Basically you take your PC save file data and a VMU save program that lets you look at and import save files on a VMU file, and import the data. If you can't figure it out then maybe ask on the forums like I did, let me know if you do and I'll try to make sure the information sticks around this time.
@@supermoe1985 Thanks for the info. I'll try and mess with it for a bit. I assume it's just getting the file to import through vmuexplorer, so there's probably just something simple i'm missing. Again fantastic video, I'll be sure to share this around a bit.
@1:20:00 Wow, I remember this guy. I followed his Xanga page for a while, it's since been lost to time.
Dude this is fantastic thank you so much for this. honesty all the other reviews for shenmue 3 only talk about it's issues instead of everything it gets right. The detail you went into actually convinced me to buy and play shenmue 3 and I'm so excited for it. Granted it does still have issues but like you said they're pretty easy to look past when you consider everything it gets right from the world building to the massive amount of mini games and outfits and other collectibles as well as more rpg elements to boot its still a damn good game
I'm really happy to hear that! Thanks for your kind words and thanks for watching :)
1:55 - つめたい (冷たい) means 'cold'. 🤓
No big plot twists?! WHEN I REALIZE REN WAS USING A DOUBLE SIDED COIN ON ME I WANTED TO BASH HIS HEAD LOL
Okay, one plot twist lol, fun fact I figured out right away that it was a double sided coin and was waiting for the reveal when I first played.
@@supermoe1985 lmao mannnnn i was so mad because i was really trying to win a flip . Thats legit one of my favorite gaming moments i was fooled by ren the filthy rascal lmao
Great video and i am glad that you see shenmue 3 for what really is rather just trash it for like and the views...
To me shenmue 3 is better than shenmue 1...
And i love this series soo much...
8:23 - But it looks so _good_ on the Sega Saturn... 😭
I want this version of the game.
Wait- was Shenmue 2 also started on the Sega Saturn?
Shenmue 1 is the best and should be remade with Unreal Engine 1 and be made more alive, especially the cat.
God bless.
@Super Moe actually dragon's lair & space ace were the first to use,QTE
I say "It was the first to use QTEs almost exactly as they would appear in future games" Space Ace and Dragon's Lair both use QTEs as the entirety of gameplay and don't have the same button prompts.
There is a gun on the table and Ryo still bothers with Kung Fu to prepare for Lan Di? really? lol
Anyway, I love the original 2 Shenmue games.
To be fair, in beat'em ups or some kind of brawling game, the characters always just use their fighting skills rather than firearms.
I always thought shemnue online was fan made
Shemue would have taken 8 disc for the SAGA SATURN. With the SAGA DREAMCAST they could cut that Data down to hafe with 4 disc:
Awesome video, but why the whispery voice? Trying your hand at ASMR? 😄
Thanks, I'm a very soft spoken person and this was my first time doing voice over in many years, I have gotten better in my more recent videos.
Love to sleep to this video, lol. 🛌
Supermoe...1985
Loved your video tho I almost stopped watching a few minutes in it's because you talk way to fast like your running out of time or something 😉 apart from that really enjoyed this as a fan who played shenmue when it came out and just falling in love with it this video brought back a load of great memories so again thank you sir
Technically and in detail... I think the Saturn version is better.
I don't see how. It looks a lot better on the Dreamcast.
#unintentionalASMR
FMV games had quick time events.
I say "It was the first to use QTEs almost exactly as they would appear in future games" FMV games use QTEs as the entirety of gameplay and don't have the same button prompts.
@@supermoe1985 Didn't' Die Hard Arcade have quick time events as well?
@@steve5123456789 Yes, I actually mention that in the video when I'm quoting an old article, but it's still not quite the same, the words "push" are listed along with the button and a "failure" message appears when you fail, I'm being pedantic I know, but the point I was trying to make is that future games would end up doing QTEs EXACTLY like Shenmue did it, minus the exact sound effects, setting a definitive standard for how QTEs looked and played, while also coining the term used to describe them up to the present day. I was just trying to illustrate how important Shenmue is to the formation of the modern QTE, even though it didn't do it first.
The inability to pause Shenmue 3 is one of the LEAST problematic things about that game, to be honest.
I agree, my point was that it was the most BAFFLING thing about the game haha
@@supermoe1985 It was totally baffling for sure. I was utterly disappointed with Shenmue 3 and felt that Yu Suzuki completely blew his chance to complete his story. And then blew it AGAIN with the Anime Shenmue by decided to just re-tell Shenmue 1 and 2's story, and failing to conclude it again (and then the anime got cancelled). As someone who backed Shenmue 3, it was a bitter pill to swallow. I never again will support a kickstarter project. Especially not one from a legacy game creator like this.
The anime got rushed at the last two episodes
I loved this video, but I have to say that you were very kind with shenmue 3... Is the worst of the series. Shenmue 2 is better in almost every aspect... That's disappointing
I mention in the video that I still think it's the worst of the series, but overall I don't think it's a bad game, it's just that the previous games are even better.
But thanks for watching :)
I find shenmue 3 is better than shenmue 1...
At least the word is bigger and the activities is larger than shenmue 1...
Shenmue 2 was great but thanks to over large amount of baget unlike shenmue 3 it was consider to be indi game yet still i did better then i expected...
For #3 the 1 thing I didn't like Was eating you have to eat I don't wanna eat an apple every 5 minutes this part of the gamer in the game for me this is not The game series I grew up with
Too much whispering
no
@MidiTemplate you can barely hear him. Hes talking way too low for me.that's my opnion
Agreed
Awsome video. Love shenmue. Thak You very much for doing this! 🫶🏼
Thank you very much for watching! :)
Great video! I loved Shenmue I and II, but Shenmue III was very disappointing.
#unintentionalASMR