Shenmue Dojo

Favourite game... I think I'd have to say Shenmue just because it was so different to everything else before it, and so immersive. I got completely lost in its world. Hated writing about it though because I had to write something like 10 pages and I put it off and put it off so I could play it more, and was eventually so late filing my review that I had to wake up at 6am one morning and write the whole thing, which was thousands and thousands of words, before work.

Yes, I met Yu Suzuki a few times. He was awesome. Super-chilled, really cool. I interviewed him in Tokyo when he was first revealing Shenmue and he spent ages explaining it to me while chain-smoking cigarettes. I've still got a Shenmue promotional booklet that I got him to sign that day. I remember asking him whether he was going to do a new Outrun at any point and he said he was talking to Ferrari about getting their official cars in it because he was a massive Ferrari fan. It was then another year or so later that he did that serious Ferrari simulator, and many years more before the new Outrun came out - it had real Ferraris in it too, didn't it? Anyhow, he was cool.

It's nice they're doing Shenmue 3. He obviously had such grand plans for the series at the start that it would be a great shame if they never got to complete it, especially since so many people are into it now. Personally, despite loving Shenmue I hardly played Shenmue 2. I remember getting a boat to somewhere, and there being a city and never really getting much further than that. I didn't review it and didn't have the spare time to invest in it, so I sort of fell out of sync with Shenmue as a whole. Maybe if Shenmue 3 turns out to be great I'll go back and do Shenmue 2 so I can join in.

Amir wrote:

Personally, despite loving Shenmue I hardly played Shenmue 2. I remember getting a boat to somewhere, and there being a city and never really getting much further than that.

Amir wrote: Just realised it was our own Mr357 who posed the favourite game question