After watching the Project Berkely Promo Video it really got me thinking about the tone of the series. So far it has been pretty grounded. We play as Ryo a normalish enough lad with natural martial arts skills. Well in that video it pretty much hints at a confrontation between Shenhua & Lan Di. Where Shenhua summons some mystical power.
How do you feel on this?
My thoughts are while I can't see it being exaggerated to DragonBall Z proportions of epic flashy anime battles. I do still worry about it. The main reason being I don't want Iwao's death sequence at the start of Shenmue 1 to be compromised. It's a key event within the series and the catalyst for Ryo's adventure, if the notion of spirituality goes too far and we get characters floating in magical aura it will really make Iwao Hazuki seem like such a push over. It just changes the tone for the whole story, I can't see Ryo returning back to his forklifting job after that...
Project Berkely Cinematic - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ6-QRThA8A