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Shenmue
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Sega AM2 · Sega

Shenmue

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Open-world adventure set in 1986 Yokosuka, Japan. You're Ryo Hazuki, a teenage martial artist hunting the man who murdered your father. The game unfolds in real-time across a detailed recreation of a Japanese port town—shops open and close on schedule, NPCs follow daily routines, weather shifts. You'll question hundreds of townspeople for leads, practice martial arts moves, work part-time jobs to earn cash, and wait. A lot. Days pass as you chase fragments of information. Combat uses a fighting-game system for scripted encounters. The pacing is deliberate: some clues only surface at specific times or after certain events trigger. It's less about constant action, more about inhabiting a place and methodically pursuing one goal. If slow-burn investigation in a mundane setting sounds tedious, it will be. If it sounds meditative, you might get hooked.

Developer
Sega AM2
Publisher
Sega
Release
Dec 29, 1999
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147 ratings
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90/100
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Time to Beat
~80h
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PS4XboxDREAM
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