Beat Shenmue

[FlagshipFighter]

So yeah, I played Shenmue 1, played the storyline where the protagonist knock off of Ryu in Streetfighter went all "you killed my father! and stole me MacGuffin...I meant grass-green mirror!" and went off after the Ching Chong crime lord.

I'll admit it, I played through the entire game, beat it, forklifts and all. Clunky gameplay, thank GOD this episode is over. Didn't get Mr. Ching Chong Crimelord in the end. Cool. There's a sequel.

Boot up the sequel, WOW! What a world of difference. Much tighter controls, better..just better everything.

[BlueMue]

Boot up the sequel, WOW! What a world of difference. Much tighter controls, better..just better everything.

Yup. Shenmue II has much more improvements under the hood then one might think. You have to play them back to back to fully notice the changes in the controls, camera, capsule toy machine animation and so on.

Also the much more vibrant colors and massively improved sky dome with tons of awesome textures and clouds instead of that flat pixelated panel in the background. People rarely mention it but to me this is the greatest graphical advancement from Shenmue I.

You can't read about it and look at pictures to get an impression. These things only give you that powerful impression when you play the game.

Hope you'll enjoy it more then you did the first one.