by MiTT3NZ » Mon May 19, 2014 4:35 pm
I think that VF RPG was more about Akira/Ryo's journey, but the transition into Shenmue made it more about the mysticism behind the mirrors, ChiYou, etc., so a lot of the tiles could, potentially, be obsolete. The ones your mate mentions towards the end are probably the most relevant to the current incarnation.
You only have to consider the fact that these are eleven chapters. Eleven chapters became sixteen, then back down to eleven. We're already up to chapter 6, meaning we only have five remaining (or seven, if this is excluding 2 & 5)
Tile 1 is Chapter 1
Tile 2 is Chapter 4
Tile 3 looks like Chapter 7; and (strangely enough...)
Tile 5 looks like Chapter 6.
With so much chopping and changing, adding and subtracting, we can't really put too much stock into these. Especially considering a recent Suzuki interview (and when I say recent, I mean in the last few years) has essentially revealed that he's constantly working on it, conceptually.
Where's the important white leaf? Where's the Dragon Mirror? Why so much of Ren and only one shot of the Phoenix Mirror? To me, this just says one thing... VF RPG is not Shenmue. Not in story, at least. Enough focus was shifted to add more, which means that there was enough to subtract too. In my opinion, at least.
But yeah, thos tiles your mate mentioned seem like the only ones that would definitely be included in the Shenmue story. Everything else just seems a little... out of place.
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MiTT3NZ on Tue May 20, 2014 3:10 pm, edited 1 time in total.