Shenmue Dojo

You might wanna spoiler tag that

This AI battling seems kinda like the new batman and sleeping dogs or it's just me ?

LIke the "rolling" that too human had but with more inbetween animations ?

shredingskin wrote: This AI battling seems kinda like the new batman and sleeping dogs or it's just me ?

LIke the "rolling" that too human had but with more inbetween animations ?

lol, i was thinking the same thing. it seems to imply the battle system will be more advanced than mere QTE. maybe a mixture between batman, yakuza and battle QTE?

i wouldn't be surprised if suzuki has plans for something completely new thats never been done before.
'more cinematic' seems to imply its more QTE heavy than the previous games though.

Thank you for this great interview. Good to hear the summon of the phoenix was something that was made entirely for shenmue online and not for the real shenmue story.

Plenty of useful info all over the interview.

Great job.

Bellator wrote: Thank you for this great interview. Good to hear the summon of the phoenix was something that was made entirely for shenmue online and not for the real shenmue story.

Plenty of useful info all over the interview.

Great job.

i wonder if this means that the shenmue mythology scroll which also appears in that shenmue online video is also non-canonical?

johnvivant wrote:i wonder if this means that the shenmue mythology scroll which also appears in that shenmue online video is also non-canonical?

At this point, I think it’s safe to assume that nothing from Shenmue Online is regarded as canon anymore ;)

And also the ending of SII

Yokosuka wrote:

kuwakodono wrote: On a scale of 1-10, how spoilerific is the spoiler? (still haven't clicked on on it yet)

2/10

It's about the number and the name of the main bosses of the game. And we learnt nothing (as long as you followed the interviews at the E3). The today's Dualshocker interview releases the same info but did not use a spoiler on their side. I'm still grateful to David for having taken no risk for all the fans.

Now you know why I took my time and kept waiting for Yu Suzuki's approval before publishing anything.

I am not sure how DS handed their ITW, but in Japan, you have to show some respect and this time, I didn't feel like posting right away without getting the green light. I once screwed up with the Paypal release date and will do my best to never let something like that happen again.

When you're doing an interview, you always get info that you cannot publish and even tho that's the most rewarding part, it's also the most difficult one because you have to avoid posting spoilers.

I can't thank you all enough for your support and feedback, really appreciated. My goal was to provide new info and even tho I had to do it on my own, with my own budget, I have no regret, it was fantastic.

Next one should happen during Magic Monaco but many people will try to interview Yu Suzuki and I might not have as much time as I had in Japan.

I am waiting for Paypal's campaign to end and I'll probably ask the fans if they want to bring some questions to the table again, just like this time.

Thank you very much for reading the interview. That's by far, my best reward.

Fantastic job on the interview, David. Thank you!

Interesting asking about whether the boat scene would be included in the flashback digest. It's sensible that it won't be as it wasn't seen originally and would use up resources to create. Even in one of the interview articles from 2001 Yu also said he didn't have any second thoughts about chopping out that chapter in order to make the game fit for the release.

Switch wrote:Interesting asking about whether the boat scene would be included in the flashback digest. It's sensible that it won't be as it wasn't seen originally and would use up resources to create. Even in one of the interview articles from 2001 Yu also said he didn't have any second thoughts about chopping out that chapter in order to make the game fit for the release.

I don't feel as though anything's lost by it either. However I wonder (spoilers)

Seems like YS wants to tackle so many new things:

- New battle system.
- Relationships between Ryo and Shenhua.
- New QTE system.
- Some kind of branching storylines (or at least momments) through the perspective system.
- Detail vs quantity (more SI-like).

I'm the only one that is a little worried he may get too carried away ?

Awesome interview DEVILLE David! Thank-you so much for securing it and sharing it with all of us! I've tweeted it and posted it in the Kickstarter comments!

Bellator wrote: Thank you for this great interview. Good to hear the summon of the phoenix was something that was made entirely for shenmue online and not for the real shenmue story.

That does not mean anything for me, we can see this happen in another form or circumstance. Suzuki talked specifically of the confrontation between Shenhua and Lan Di.

Thank you for this great interview David! It was definitely Worth the wait

Lot of interesting questions & answers here. I don't understand why S3 team doesn't describe more and better each stretch goal we are pointing at, especially while the campaign is still ON.
The AI Battling or Ragdoll reaction are both appealing but have never been explained this well until your interview and the DS one... unless I've missed some info of course.

Knowing that Yu Suzuki plans to have Choubu area as big as Dobuita is good news too!

Once again, thank you for this interview (in 3 languages!) David

If the OP has put something in a spoiler, the please discuss it using spoilers.

Thanks