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The environments look fairly beautiful and detailed, but the faces have the nostalgic familiarity of a Shenmue HD remaster with slightly smoother edges. The two characters wander into a nearby rural village, and suddenly IвЂ™m back in the world of Shenmue, a world that has apparently not been touched by any of the past 15 years of mechanical advancements in game design. Shenmue 3 begins literally the moment after Shenmue 2 ends, with Ryo and his new partner Shenhua Ling, a young woman also tied into this prophecy, trying to discover where LingвЂ™s father has been taken after a kidnapping that seems tied to the murder of RyoвЂ™s own father. It was a hell of a cliffhanger, especially when you consider how many years it took for there to be any payoff. Shenmue 2 ended with the revelation that Ryo was part of an ancient prophecy, possessing one half of a pair of mirrors which, if united, might cause the end of the world. Ryo takes to the streets with his martial arts skills, and a willingness to move crates with a forklift to pay the bills, and tracks his fatherвЂ™s killer across the world to get revenge. I play as Ryo Hazuki, a teenager living in Japan whose father was murdered.

ItвЂ™s a game that spends all of its time looking backward.

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What it doesnвЂ™t do is move the series forward, nor does it seem interested in looking to the future to see what Shenmue might become. Faithful to a fault, Shenmue 3 feels like a time capsule of a game, flooding me with nostalgia while also reminding me just how far games have come since the original two Shenmue games. Shenmue 3 is, for better and worse, exactly what I expected it to be, based on the original two games in the series. Usually thereвЂ™s some gimmick added, or an aspect of the design modernized, but thereвЂ™s almost always something unexpected to shake up the formula, to add something to our understanding of what the series can be. When playing a game like Shenmue 3, a sequel that has almost two decades of expectations, hype, and pressure riding on its shoulders, itвЂ™s rare for the end result to be exactly what one would expect.