It's coming.

Loving the idea of the fights being like cutscenes, I just hope we can actually control Ryo when in battle.

Otherwise it might as well be called 'Shenmue 3 the movie'. I'm loving the fact that people are really looking forward to Magic in February though. I wonder what we'll see...

^ Lol hopefully man. It would be good to have same battle system but different as well. A change can be good. Well if it's one thing for certain it's that the battle system will be different. This was to be expected. Who remembers that scene with the *blind* man in his room in Shenmue 2? Maybe it wi...

Well if it's one thing for certain it's that the battle system will be different. This was to be expected. Who remembers that scene with the *blind* man in his room in Shenmue 2? Maybe it will be similar to that.

It's interesting but a bit worrying at the same time.

Glad I'm not the only one who has a couple of concerns. Don't get me wrong I'm glad about most of it, it was really good seeing Yu talk about the game. He seems happy with it's current state. Things I liked about the interview or conversation were: - Shenhua's model improvement. Ryo looks fine now b...

Like Hyo Razuki said. You'll be able to download the game on PSN or I'm guessing Steam. Like you I was worried about my copy not arriving and not being able to play the game so I did a back up plan and brought both versions. Physical and digital with two different accounts. If you have already bough...

The_Intruder wrote: I'm really hoping to see a developers progress report update on Christmas. They been saying is in the works in the last 2 updates

That probably won't happen into January because I can't think of anything else they may show before Magic. I could be wrong though...

This is good news. Really hope they are gonna show a lot of the game which will involve a lot of hype just like Gamescom was!
I wonder what we will see before hand
I really hope 2018 will be a big year for Shenmue 3 and the game will be released sometime in November.

An update like this was to be expected.

^ I sure hope Yu Suzuki gets to finish his series before he dies. Shenmue is obviously a big part of his life.

Well said BlueMue. I personally don't think a proper map in Shenmue 3 would work as Shenmue has always been a find your own way, asking NPC's to get to the next point, etc kind of game. The maps in Shenmue 2 were lame in my opinion, they were only there to mark where you were, like a dot in a map. A...

Hazukifc wrote: This is why this game/franchise has so many passionate fans and came back from the dead! Such love and respect to Yu Suzuki only unveils how much we love this saga!!! Thanks for the everlasting fan service towards the game i love most!!! Thank u all!!!

True fans!

Yu Suzuki seems like a good person doing all those interviews despite being very tired and lack of time. Praise to Switch for all his work with translating the interviews and well done to everyone else, Shenmue 3 being a reality does make life better. Can't wait till we see the game again.

I bet Suzuki is getting tired of answering about the facial expressions/animations question..

Excellent update. Ryo looks spot on. Incredible work. There's still work to be done on the eyes, lighting, etc, but those are some very very VERY promising results. The Shenmue comparison to Yakuza speaks volumes. Shenmue 3 clearly looks better than the Yakuza 0 models. Indeed! To me Ryo looks just...