Seems as good a time as any to play it again (good time of year to do it, too). Getting waves of nostalgia as I play it, of course. Still remember 99% of it too, unfortunately. I sometimes wish my memory wasn't so good, but alas even all of these years later I'm
still encountering new stuff in the game. Like how I talk to everybody about Nagai Industries and certain characters reveal stuff about Nagai himself which I have never heard about before like Mishima (who stands up for him despite Nagai being head of Yakuza, says that he loves animals like hamsters, that it's the people around Nagai that are the dangerous types when he's a nice guy and was also the guy who paid for the shrine in Yamanose to be built among other interesting tidbits that you don't really need to know about, but screw it, it's Shenmue, such detail, wow) or how even Enoki [big dude who always wears black jacket who you fight in disc 1 all of the time] of all people actually tells Ryo to stay away from them [Enoki showing compassion to Ryo?!] and that they're dangerous(!)
Or get this, after you beat Enoki up in Suzume Park and save Nozomi from him and Nagashima - ring up Nozomi afterwards and Ryo will ask Nozomi if Enoki has been around. Never even knew about this.
I was like, WOW! So much stuff I'm still discovering after all of these years. The game still continues to impress me.
Also still playing Shin Megami Tensei IV on 3DS. Been playing that every night actually and that game is just...keeping me up all night playing. lol. It's definitely nerfed with regards to difficulty though - I'm pretty much one shotting most enemies and 90% of the bosses are piss easy. Maybe it's because I'm so used to the systems in this series now? I have no idea. Nocturne and DDS2 were especially hard when I was playing those, but man this game is a cake walk. The music is really top notch though, the new guy (think his name is Ryota Koduka?) earned his place taking over Shoji Meguro. Has a 90s/nostalgic sound to it and unique, even for SMT. It's that sort of music that I just hit pause to and listen to for a while. It ain't like Meguro is going anywhere anyway.
I do like the smirk system that they've introduced with this game but they really need to implement a counter to it in the next game, I feel, since it's making the game super easy especially for those of us who have the enemy's weaknesses memorized, by this point. Great game.