Yeah, this is silly… I luckily didn’t have the huge wait between 2-3 - I had the originals from the DC back when they came out, played them, but for some stupid reason never finished either of them until revisiting them in 2021, loved them that much I went out and got a PS4 so I could play S3. For me it followed on perfectly, I had zero issue with the game - didn’t and don’t get what all of the negativity towards it is.Also, I'm seeing more and more comments from people on social media about how big Shenmue fans they are, but they're still afraid to play their copy of Shenmue 3... Seeing that kind of things drives me crazy. I can not understand it.
I'll never forget the day on November 19th, 2019 when I got home from work and the first thing I did before even changing my clothes was to launch the game. The main menu and the music almost brought me to tears. How these people managed to not launch the game all these years and what are they afraid of?
In any case I suppose the mixed reaction to it is what it is at this point, but the other thing with that is I honestly believe if S4 happens it’ll reverse some of the antipathy towards S3, recontextualise it.