This is great!

I have some more scans of articles from Japanese magazines around that time, if any translators are interested. I posted them in large format 600 DPI in this thread:

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Miles Prower wrote: Notice the 'Magic Maze' system is mentioned in this one
http://i.imgur.com/PzfD3aN.jpg

I noticed that too. I wonder if the article says anything about what was planned for those scenes and if it turned out differently?

Here are some articles that I found recently. I don't know enough Japanese to translate them, and they don't appear to contain anything we don't already know, but I thought you guys might enjoy them anyways. Maybe someone out there is making an online scrapbook or archive of Shenmue articles? That'd...

I was about to start a new topic for scans of Shenmue content from old Japanese magazines, but I suppose I can start posting them here? Here are four pages from Sega Saturn Magazine, October 30 1998. http://imgur.com/a/nlALB My knowledge of Japanese is less than a first grader's so unfortunately I c...

My impression of the Shenmue fan base is a group of people who have waited so long for something that they will literally accept anything. He could abandon the whole kickstarter and use the money to fund an amateur play with elementary school props and you'd still have a bunch of fans curious saying...

Who is in charge of pricing these reward tiers? Those busts should have been three times as much. There are people paying twice as much for a bag of knickknacks. The difference in that kind of money is somebody's salary on the development team.

I've been told this repeatedly recently as I would be either stupid or willfully ignorant not to acknowledge this. I have also been called cynical for expressing my dislike for the out-of-place-cheap-looking magic in the pre-alpha-still-in-development-proof-of-concept-totally-having-nothing-to-do-wi...

I'm going to be paraphrasing because I won't be able to look for video footage of this, but I remember if you get through the conversations with Shenhua after the dandelion scene, Ryo says something along the lines of "when I used to play with the dandelions, I would pick them up and blow on t...

If anyone else would like to say that dandelion seeds doing what dandelion seeds do naturally by floating on air currents is "clearly supernatural" and "obviously Shenhua's ki" I'll nod politely toward you as well. OK, so you choose to interpret it that way. Dandelions floating ...

MiTT3NZ wrote: Someone's genuinely dropped their pledge over it?

I said I was thinking about it and was accused of intimidating others and threatening behavior.

Oh yeah and I was told I was the only overreacting.

You keep saying to people that disagree with you that you'll 'maybe just drop your pledge'. It's intimidating as it might put people off voicing their disagreement with you. Either drop the pledge or don't - we don't need to know and the fact that you keep feeling the need to announce it makes it s...

It's a WORK IN PROGRESS.

That means that they are WORKING ON GLOWING THINGS and RURAL CHINESE GIRL BUTTS.

*Glowing butts* okay? Stop being so negative!

Hey, Phong, do what you want, but I think you're being super irrational. The game isn't coming out for at least two years and it's still pretty much by the same creative geniuses who brought us the first two games. If you have that little faith in the project, then maybe you've just outgrown Shenmu...

Himuro wrote:Oh yeah, man. Shenhua having magic powers is totally new and it could not ever appeal to any Shenmue fan ever.

There's especially not a part in the second game where she literally blows Dandelion seeds with her ki.

I am done.

No one's gonna disagree with you about the Shenmue II version's superior art direction / pace (it truly is one of my favourites from the game). But don't forget, Yu Suzuki oversaw that scene too - doesn't this man deserve our faith and patience? As for cheap - well, yes it is mate... That's why we ...