I'll try and get around to reading the entire list one day, but it's great to see
Shenmue ranked so highly. Sure,
Shenmue II is the superior game, brushing up on a lot of the missteps of the original (killing time, etc.), but I think the original was such a smack-in-the-face surprise and is so... special... that it deserves to be ranked higher than the sequel. Kinda like how
Mass Effect 2 is superior to
Mass Effect, but the latter is the one many people tend to prefer, myself included. Same with
Arkham Asylum vs.
Arkham City, etc.
Something I see and hear so very often about
Shenmue is how no other game offers the same level as immersion, and I wholeheartedly agree. I have been playing games for nineteen of my twenty-two years on this planet, and no game has come even remotely close to immersing me as much as the first
Shenmue. It's truly magical
.
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