^^Does that mean debugging is the last thing left if they are in main production? What they do in main production? Main production is primarily building the game that will eventually ship. Pre-Alpha and Alpha software states basically. Some of that is done in prototype, and we saw a lot of stuff li...

Suzuki San may be present for the "business" day before the public opening of the GAMESCOM. If meetings and interviews with the media take place, they'll need to announce it somehow before the event, even if there's no meet & greet this year. We'll see... as you said, August isn't tha...

Let's say that if Suzuki San attends Gamescom as he did last year, we could expect some update by... the beginning of July? (Gamescom 2017 plans were revealed on June 30th last year) Maybe, if they intend to have another meet and greet. If not, then I could see it just being radio silence until the...

Yeah that's pretty on the nose, and hopefully remains accurate. It's not a huge wait until late August.

I wonder what phase of development the game is in at this moment. It's real difficult to say. If I had to guess it looks like it's in the function testing phase at this point. https://i.imgur.com/c4FNfw0.png We're in Main Production. Function testing was the accumulative work done through late 2015...

You are assuming Choubu and Baisha are in Guilin, Ryo could very well be travelling across China's regions in Shenmue 3. They might be assuming that because of Shenmue III's Japanese sub-title seemingly being "Chapter 3: Guilin". That said, it's not very clear cut what the situation is ri...

KidMarine wrote: I wonder why they decided to name it Choubu and not just keep it as Fenghuang. I mean they didn't rename Wan Chai or Kowloon.

That's a good question. Maybe if there's another opportunity to pose community questions to Yu someone will ask this.

Might be a bit of artistic licence going on?

I remember Spaghetti saying there was another Great Wall in the south, but I couldn't find any pictures for it, If it resembles the great wall in the Shenmue 3 screenshot, then I guess there goes my wild theory :D It's not 1:1 with what we've seen of Shenmue III's great wall but you'll find some im...

I think you might be getting confused with the character perspective system there. That system is supposedly only for a single event in the game, where you can switch your character and effectively have the rules of the game world change because you're playing a different person with different solut...

That wasn't Bailu though, was it? I thought at some point it was reasonably assumed to be the Miao Village (which we know about from the unused loading screen) cut from the Guilin section somewhere between it starting, and Ryo meeting Shenhua? Either way it does look like they're carrying over a lot...

Didn't Shenhua state in Shenmue II that Bailu only had around 50 people? I can't remember if Yu has talked about the size of Bailu in any interviews. I can't remember the interview he said it in, but I think Yu compared it to Dobuita. Whether he means the singular Dobuita map, or the whole of that ...

It's a video game. So no the sky is not falling. There is slight concern. Don't be hyperbolic. SEGA should have gone with M2 however as they are excellent and have always done amazing with these collections. I don't particularly see how I'm being hyperbolic. I'm just cautioning about this issue spi...

No, but they're not particularly comparable considering the NPCs in either of those games are largely just crowd filler you can't really interact with outside bumping into (Yakuza), or tackling for funsies (Sleeping Dogs).

Yu has said Bailu and Choubu will reflect the map scale of Shenmue and Shenmue II respectively. Personally I think Matsukaze-san is speaking metaphorically - commenting on going from bustling urban areas in Yokosuka and Hong Kong, to small villages and towns in China; but still having a wealth of ch...