by elfshadowreaper » Tue Dec 03, 2013 11:02 am
Ok, the way I see it is that nothing in my life has left me needing closure like Shenmue. As I go about my life watching movies, reading books, playing video games I've never been left needing closure with anything. And that's mostly because the stories were finished.
Naturally my life didn't come to a grinding halt after Shenmue 2. I've since graduated college, got a job, got married and just this year my wife and I celebrated the birth of our daughter. Nothing can compare to the joy of those last two things. But in the back of my mind there has been a constant nagging reminder that I still don't know what happened to Ryo Hazuki. And that nagging will always be there in some way. If it's lasted more than a decade I think it's probably here to stay.
That being said, I just want to finish the story in some fashion. Preferably I would like a game on par with the first two. I want to feel the immersion I felt when walking the streets of Yokosuka and Hong Kong as well as the rural paths of China. I enjoyed being able to knock at any door, bother any person or just sleep the day away if I wanted to. It was also neat to be able to play a video game inside of a video game. If Sega was to ever completely close the door on the series with no hope of a playable conclusion I would at the very least like a manga or an animated movie or something. It still wouldn't really be Shenmue but at least I'd know whether or not Ryo got out of that cave and who the ultimate villain in the story was.