Hello everyone ! How are you ?
Today, I have something special to announce so I hope you will all take some time to read it. Thanks !
Last year, I had the chance to meet Yu Suzuki and interviewed him regarding Shenmue and Shenmue III . My best pleasure was to share with you all the latest informations I could get and many of you really appreciated my work, or atleast, that's the feeling I was getting from your messages. Never felt so much love and can't thank you enough for that.
During the Kickstarter, I was going to pledge 2000 dollars because that's the maximum I had, but during the last days I've decided to reduce it to 600 dollars. The reason I've reduced my pledge is because I had another project in my head and wanted to get it done for me and for you. And this project was : a new interview with Yu Suzuki !
Yes, since it's official now I can finally announce it : I will meet Yu Suzuki on september in Japan. It wasn't easy to do as I had to cut my pledge, sell some of my rare video games gems in order to gather enough money for the flight and any fees I will have to pay in Japan, but I am glad that it was possible.
Meeting Yu Suzuki once again is something I am really looking forward to. I will bring in my own questions. However, since I've also been doing this for you, I am going to ask YOURS. Of course, I might not be able to ask all of them but as always, I will do my best.
So here we go :
What kind of questions would you like me to ask ?
What are you looking forward ?
Anything that comes through your mind, even if that's not a question, I'll try to turn it into one.
You can either answer directly through comments or you can send your questions to :
[email protected]I cannot provide details about the day of the interview and when it will be published on Shenmue 500k , Shenmue Dojo and Shenmue Master , but whenever I am allowed to do so, you'll be the first to know.
My dream of working as Shenmue III Community Manager is far ahead and It's highly possible that It'll never come true, but that's as far as I am willing to go to show my motivation and how much I am into this to make it happen.
Thanks for your continued support, it helps me a lot.
Best regards,
David
Please ask and advocate for the option to play with Japanese audio and English subtitles. Will it be possible to play the game this way?
Please express to Mr. Suzuki that a huge proportion of fans played Shenmue II this way, preferred it, and want to play Shenmue III this way, and are passionate about this to the extent that they even made a mod for the first Shenmue with JPN audio and English subs. But mods are buggy, and since these are people who've been into Shenmue and waited this long, and the Japanese audio and English subs would be produced anyway, it doesn't hurt to put the option in- the amount of money in filesize it would save not to include audio that has already been recorded that many fans strongly prefer wouldn't be worth how upsetting it would be to fans who have already been waiting over a decade for their game.