haha yeah. I was saying "Damn, that's definitely The Mad Dog" during the episodeThis whole episode i thought about one specific japanese voice, the one of Master Chen
and why it feels like i heard this voice for dozens of hours before, just in a slightly different tone ...
... of course, its Majima from Yakuza.
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I also remember Kuwana from Lost Judgment using a stance similar to Gui Zhang and Master Chen. And Yagami does use the elbow assault lolThis whole episode i thought about one specific japanese voice, the one of Master Chen
and why it feels like i heard this voice for dozens of hours before, just in a slightly different tone ...
... of course, its Majima from Yakuza.
桐生ちゃん!!!
I still think Zhu is the villain. Lan Di joined up with a criminal group to find his father's killer, and Ryo teams up with criminal groups like the Chens and the Heavens to help pursue his father's killer or find leads to him. Duality and all and I think they're both heroes in their own stories.The episode also seems to rule out the possibility of Yuanda Zhu being Tentei, which I’m actually a little disappointed about. It would have made for an awesome twist and is how I’d have like to have imagined the story ending in the event that we never get a Shenmue 4 and beyond. It doesn’t explain why Lan Di didn’t even think to ask Iwao about the Phoenix mirror before killing him either, though does at least justify his immediate return to HK. I just wish we knew who the man he interrogated to find out about Zhu was (this seems to have taken place in Japan, so I’m curious who there would know).
I’ll maybe watch it again to get a better feel for it, but to me it felt like Lan Di was learning about Zhu for the first time in Japan. Of course, his lamented tone could just be because he’s starting to realize that Zhu withheld information from him. In fact, thinking about it now, with Zhu being the former big boss of Hong Kong and Lan Di being ChiYou’s leader for the region, it would be a little odd if Lan Di had never heard of Zhu even without the potential Tentei link.I still think Zhu is the villain. Lan Di joined up with a criminal group to find his father's killer, and Ryo teams up with criminal groups like the Chens and the Heavens to help pursue his father's killer or find leads to him. Duality and all and I think they're both heroes in their own stories.
Also the line 'everything lies with Zhu' it sounds like foreshadowing to me. Shenmue 2 reveals the mirrors unlock a secret treasure and yet they still keep the original lines that Zhu said about them unlocking Chi You. I think that's because Zhu is Chi You's true leader, but hidden from almost everyone, a bit like 'the mastermind' in the Loki TV series. No wonder he would be telling Chen about the entity that he also worships.
Zhu was apparently Sunming's best friend, Lan Di would have of heard of him by all rationale. Unless Zhu was lying about that.I’ll maybe watch it again to get a better feel for it, but to me it felt like Lan Di was learning about Zhu for the first time in Japan. Of course, his lamented tone could just be because he’s starting to realize that Zhu withheld information from him. In fact, thinking about it now, with Zhu being the former big boss of Hong Kong and Lan Di being ChiYou’s leader for the region, it would be a little odd if Lan Di had never heard of Zhu even without the potential Tentei link.
That would certainly explain how Zhu recruited Lan Di to the ChiYou men and is a big part of the reason that I like the Zhu equals Tentei twist. Zhu could have been lying about knowing Sunming (iirc Yu Suzuki has said before that Zhu can’t be trusted), but I’m not sure what he’d gain from the lie. There’s also the possibility that Lan Di never knew that Zhu and Sunming were pals, though if Zhu really cared about Sunming one suspects that he would have offered to take in his son after his murder or, at the very least, tried to talk him out of joining a shady gang. Either way, Lan Di should have already known who he was.Zhu was apparently Sunming's best friend, Lan Di would have of heard of him by all rationale. Unless Zhu was lying about that.
I hope this crazy theory is true. That Tentei is different from the other leaders and has something a bit supernatural about him.That would certainly explain how Zhu recruited Lan Di to the ChiYou men and is a big part of the reason that I like the Zhu equals Tentei twist. Zhu could have been lying about knowing Sunming (iirc Yu Suzuki has said before that Zhu can’t be trusted), but I’m not sure what he’d gain from the lie. There’s also the possibility that Lan Di never knew that Zhu and Sunming were pals, though if Zhu really cared about Sunming one suspects that he would have offered to take in his son after his murder or, at the very least, tried to talk him out of joining a shady gang. Either way, Lan Di should have already known who he was.
Yeah it is. The operator tells you it's in Amihama, and you can go to Kurita-san to find out that that's the harbour. I found this out on my playthrough just prior to Shenmue 3 a couple years ago now.On a side note, is it possible to call 104 to find out that warehouse number 8 is at the harbor? I must have played through S1 10-20 times and have always used the phonebook to look it up, so it would be pretty wild (though not all that surprising) to learn that there’s another possible solution. I did wonder after my first viewing but completely forgot to ask.
Same for me. On first viewing, I felt pleasantly surprised that the scene pacing didn't feel so helter-skelter. I realized, though, that this allowed me the time, mentally, to consider more of the implications of the framing of the scenes, and I didn't really like what I was seeing. (I have no idea what they were thinking with the close-up on Master Chen that cuts off his forehead; I think the simplest answer is that the director really wasn't thinking anything.)For me this is actually the first acceptable to maybe even good episode. I like the pacing a bit more and most of the characters behave in an acceptable way. The dynamic between Guizhang and Ryo is maybe not as strong as in the game, but they still managed to come near it. Something they botched completely with nearly every other characters up until now.
It could also be, that because I actively dislike the first two episodes, my exceptions where decreased to a point, where I`m ok with what I`m seeing now. I`m not sure. But right now I think this episode is pretty good.
The whole peom thing needs to stop though. It`s definitely getting out of hand...