My first play through with this game [that I have been waiting forever to play], and I gotta say I am pleased with the whole package, but it definitely has its flaws.

First of all, the bad, I guess it was the year I am playing this game at, with all these cell processors and hdr lighting I was kind of jolted by the pop up/blurry textures/and slow down with more than 4 people on screen. I found the controlls to be a bit hard to use sometimes [I found ryo walking in the wrong direction in tight places, another analog stick would fix this], I was disapointed by the real lack of Lan Di [a 1minute copper stare off?], I found getting money and fighting those street fighters a real drag. I hated the chawin sign thing that took me forever to do. and I hated those frezze screen and press buttons thing with a passion.

Now what I did like was the whole thing itself, its just Shenmue basicly, I loved the whole start of disc 3 and end of it. I loved the whole story even if its predictable. I liked talking to random people, I liked how you can just buy random stuff at the store, I liked how the normal qte events where handled. the pace of the game was great, altough disc 4 was a big slow down. [that forest went on for forver...]


Now I have to say I enjoyed Shenue 1 more. But this is still a fantasic game.