I was reading the NG247 interview and i have a few questions relating to this specific Q&A:
"Q: Back in the day you talked about chapters – about the Shenmue story being a certain number of chapters. Has that structure changed after all this time? How far along that timeline is Shenmue going to take us?
YS: As you know, I wrote an 11-chapter story as Shenmue’s original story. This is a base of the story, obviously. If I make it, we’d need 11 games – and that’s not going to happen! Shenmue 1 was chapter 1. Shenmue 2… around 80 percent came from chapter 2. The remaining 20 percent was sliced from chapter 4, 5 and 6 – pieces of it. And in the case of chapter 3, that was actually totally removed.
You know, originally I thought… maybe with Chapter 2 and Shenmue 2 we’ll make it open world, big, and then next one is going to do a deep, deep dive into a small area – but make it very deep. That’s the concept I was thinking. Think of it as… the world through a telescope is interesting… but also a magnifying glass on a small area would be different, and fun, and most interesting.
I knew that if we made Shenmue 3, people would be mad if I didn’t make an open world [laughs]. I still have a wish where I’d like to make a very closed world game as well. My definition is not an ordinary closed world… it’d be very, very closed… but very deep."
So Shenmue has 11 Chapters:
And Shenmue 1 covered 100% of CH 1 (This part i understand)
But Shenmue 2 covered 80% of Ch 2 as well as 20% from Chapters 4,5 & 6
Eh? So what was the other Cut 20% content of Chapter 2 of Shenmue About???
Also Yu-san said that he put pieces of Chapters 4-6 into Shenmue 2
So does this mean that Shenmue 3 will continue on from Chapter 7?
If so i am cool but have questions:
How big were Chapters 4,5 and 6? I mean if Yu san put only pieces of them into Shenmue 2, a
rent we missing a lot of content? I mean shenmue ch 1 and 2 were Huge! But then all of a sudden were only getting pieces of the remaining Chapters?
Also did Yu-san ever release the Novel or full story of Shenmue?And does anyone now how big each Chapter of Shenmue is? are they all the size of S1 or varied?Can anyone answer my questions and help me out here?
Oh and before anyone says "its impossible for Yu-san to put in 100% of the content of all Chapters into game form"
believe me i understand that doing that would mean we would need 11 games which is impossible. But i hope we see that "cut content" in other forms like Novels or anime or something along those lines. More shenmue isnt a bad thing at all!