

Further funding came from Sony and Deep Silver and crowdfunding on other platforms. It became the fastest campaign to raise $2 million, in under seven hours, and ended the following month having raised over $6 million, making it the highest-funded video game in Kickstarter history at the time. They attracted positive reviews and a cult following, but were commercial failures.Īt E3 2015, following years of speculation, Suzuki launched a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund Shenmue III, with Sega having licensed Shenmue to Suzuki's company Ys Net. The original Shenmue was the most expensive video game ever developed at the time, though this development this also covered some of Shenmue II and groundwork for future Shenmue games. The first two games were developed by Sega AM2 and published by Sega for the Dreamcast in 19.

The story continues teenage martial artist Ryo Hazuki's quest to find his father's killer in the mountains of 1980s Guilin, China.ĭirector Yu Suzuki had originally conceived Shenmue as a saga spanning multiple games. It features a day-and-night system, variable weather effects, non-player characters with daily schedules, and various minigames. Like the previous Shenmue games, it consists of open-world environments interspersed with brawler battles and quick time events.
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Shenmue III is a 2019 action-adventure game developed by Ys Net, published by Deep Silver for Windows and PlayStation 4 and produced by Shibuya Productions. Action-adventure, life simulation, social simulation
