Perhaps the most striking thing about Shenmue III is the fact that it apparently succeeds at its goals, and yet in doing so has attracted a great many tepid or negative reviews. It's never been so cohesive and it's brilliantly done." "So basically all the mundane, apparently extraneous stuff is all channelled back into Ryo's journey towards Kung Fu mastery. Tokens win prizes, prizes can be sold for money, money buys you moves. You earn money by chopping wood, catching ducks or fishing, but the gambling system uses a separate currency: tokens. Levelling up your Kung Fu works better when your vitality is full, so you need to buy food. These teach you martial arts moves, which must be practiced and mastered at a dojo. "Capsule toys come in sets, and sets can be sold at pawn shops or traded for skill books. But where the old Shenmue's capsule toys meant nothing and money were hardly used, now everything has a purpose and is interlinked. and gamble tokens on several basic minigames. "You can fish, collect capsule toys, play in arcades. "The best way to continue to move ahead is to check literally every single possible option for information, which is quite the chore" Polygon But Justin Towell argues that it isn't just that Shenmue III is so detailed it's that those details form a more cohesive experience than even its two predecessors. GamesRadar+ draws similar conclusions to Eurogamer, and offers its qualified praise - the gameplay, it proclaims, "is just very mundane" - at a similar pitch. It's a game that has you running in circles, but one that rewards the repetition too as you check in on people and learn more of their story and character and maybe even run errands for them a hyper-real Animal Crossing more than a GTA, really, with a rhythm that's soothingly sedate." "Villagers run their own routines as the clock winds on, each with their own stories, their own faces and their own names. and it conspires for a world that feels very alive. "Some of that detail is enjoyably pointless. "The pastoral haze of Bailu, the density of Niawou and further beyond are told with breathtaking fidelity," Robinson writes.
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Like its predecessors, the world of Shenmue III is dense, detailed and full of things to keep you busy Open worlds are now much larger than those in Shenmue III, but few have ever been so detailed. For others, it is a veteran developer delivering exactly what his audience wants to see.Įurogamer's Martin Robinson considers it to be the latter, but he also has unreserved praise for the depth and detail of the world-building. For some critics, this is taken as some kind of failure. Ys Net hasn't rebooted or reimagined its franchise rather, it has made a game as if (for the most part) the intervening years never happened at all.
This is a common sentiment across all of Shenmue III's reviews, both positive and negative. Take Eurogamer's review, one of the most positive currently available, but one that describes Shenmue III as "archaic and arcane," and "completely ignorant of modern trends in open world gaming, or indeed trends of the last 20 years."
While reviews can be invaluable in creating word-of-mouth buzz, Shenmue III's average score of 70 encapsulates a general mood in which even the recommendations are laden with caveats. "A hyper-real Animal Crossing more than a GTA, really, with a rhythm that's soothingly sedate" Eurogamer It is still too early to tell, but publisher Deep Silver may come to regret picking a release window so crowded with AAA blockbusters. Despite the best part of two entire decades elapsing since Shenmue II, the games press evidently couldn't find time with so much else competing for their attention. Look at November 15, just four days before Shenmue III hit the market, and the landscape is busier still Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order has 51 reviews, while the Switch exclusive Pokémon Sword and Shield reached 49.īy contrast, Shenmue III's Metacritic average was sourced from just 20 critics. Need for Speed: Heat, which was also released on November 8, has 53 critics contributing to its score. Death Stranding, which launched the week before, has 99 reviews for its PlayStation 4 version. Metacritic has a few clues that may offer an answer. The term "long-awaited" could have been invented just for Shenmue III - so where is everybody? This game has been brewing in the mind of the venerable Yu Suzuki in some form or another for the last 18 years, and yet its Metacritic page remains sparsely populated for a product that launched almost two weeks ago.
Look around and you won't find too many reviews for Shenmue III.
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