Shenmue (1999) (VG)

Director:

Yu Suzuki

Writer:

Yu Suzuki (writer)

Release Date:

6 November 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Adventure | Action | Mystery

Tagline:

The Saga Begins...

Plot:

Ryo, a respected Japanese student sees his father killed in front of his own eyes. He sets out to find the man in charge of his fathers death and the mystery of who and why? |

Plot Keywords:

Lottery | Telephone Booth | Map | Tuna | Bum

Cast

Hiroshi Fujioka	...	Iwao Hazuki (voice: Japanese version)
Massaya Matsuzake Ono	...	Ryo Hazuki (voice: Japanese version)
Corey Marshall	...	Ryo Hazuki (voice: English version)
Robert Jefferson	...	Iwao Hazuki (voice: English version)
Ruth Hollyman	...	Nozomi Harasaki / Kayoko Ito (voice: English version) (as Ruth Hollyhan)
Paul Lucas	...	Lan Di / Chai (voice: English version)
Terry Osada	...	Ine Hayata / Megumi Mishima (voice: English version)
Eric Kelso	...	Masaya Fukuhara / Gui Zhang Chen (voice: English version)
Dennis Falt	...	Chen Yao Wen / Keizo Oishi (voice: English version)
Ryan Drees	...	Tom Johnson (voice: English version)
Jerry Ledbetter	...	Mark Kimberly (voice: English version)
Alex Hayns	...	Smith Bradley (voice: English version)
Eric Jacobson	...	Charlie (voice: English version)
Rob Croker	...	Terry (voice: English version)
Ann Slater	...	Xia Xiu Yu (voice: English version)

Also Known As:

Shenmue (USA)
Shenmue Chapter I: Yokosuka (Japan: English title) (complete title)
Shenmuu (Japan)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

USA:T

Company:

SEGA/AM2 Company

Trivia:

This Dreamcast video game cost over $20 million to develop and is the most expensive Video Game ever developed. The project took seven years to complete by Sega's game-development AM2 division. For this feat, it has a place in the Guiness Book of World Records.

Quotes:

Iwao Hazuki: That boy you fought with? What was he to you?
Young Ryo: A friend from school.
Iwao Hazuki: What is a friend?
Young Ryo: A friend is a friend.
Iwao Hazuki: That's right. Just as a parent is nothing other than a parent. A friend is nothing other than a friend. Friends that you can trust are TRUE friends indeed. Ryo, parents often die before their children. Even if I'm gone, you still have your friends to treasure. Cherish your friends, Ryo.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#25.4)" (2001)

The best game I have played (one of them).

Shenmue is like playing a game and watching a film at the same time,in fact,it is like living real life.You play a man who after watching his father be murdered,goes after the killer.

You interact in different locations in your home village and you have to keep asking round to get information.This isn't everything,as you go along,people will start fights with you and you might have to solve puzzles to resolve the mystery. Shenmue is like living real life,everything seems real (except time which travels by quickly).You can do almost anything,whether it's going to the arcades,talking to another person,spending and limiting your money,working on a forklift.All these are actions of real life. As you immerse more into these activities,you become more in danger with different gangs and different people. If the game lacks anything,it would have to be the shortage,you just can't seem to get enough of it.Apart from that,the game is excellent. Soon I will play the sequel which is set in Hong Kong. The fight scenes and battles are brilliant (especially in the end),there are two types,QTE and just normal beat em up battles.On the QTE,a button combination appears on the screen and you have to hit buttons on the pad before they dissapear.The other mode of fighting is just the same as a fighting game (only better).I strongly reccommend this game to anyone.No regret.I rate 10/10.