Snakiest wrote: Yes, but that is all a personal perspective. I am a member of a forum where people write the same thing about Shenmue. Seriously. And I don't argue with them because it is their opinion. All I wish is people were better at expressing their opinions as such and not as if they were facts. Humility, consideration and awareness - all we need.
In Yu we trust.
Well I have no problem with guys saying Shenmue is shit because it can from a certain point of view (and this point of view is often shared by people who watched it on Youtube or played it after 2000's because it's easier to miss the author's point in these postmodern conditions) while I consider that some pieces of art can be factually jokes and impossible to really appreciate if you're built with modern and normal culture (although Yu's culture is maybe more complex and flexible than I think). I'm sure I could develop some scientific storytelling and psychological critic tools to prove it if I would have time.