Yo, new to this particular forum, but not to Shenmue. I've been playing the game on my Dreamcast since it first came out. Oddly enough, I can never, ever get enough of this game. While my other games get played a few times, I've played the hell out of this thing all these years and I'm still discovering new things! That's extremely rare to me.
Unfortunatly, I haven't really played Shenmue II yet. (I rented it and got up to a point where you had to raise 40,000 yen to meet someone, but I couldn't save the game and had to return it...) Though I will be ordering a brand spanking new copy soon since I'm dieing to see what's going to happen to Ryo.
Anyways, back to S1. I have two questions.
1. I'm trying to find the free battle where you fight the two thugs to save Nozomi at the park. I read a FAQ that said I go to the park after the Heartbeats Event on the first sunny day. Now, is this when Ryo goes to the Heartbeats Bar to look for sailors? Also, while playing through a recent game, I didn't even run into the thugs near the Tomato Convienance Mart. Odd.
2. What's the name of the song during the main menu? (The mysterious song, y'know, that plays at "Press Start".)
And one more thing, I'm a Flash Animator and have a series called Ghostbusters: The Animated Series over at Newgrounds. (Not that much of you will care about that. ) Well, I was searching through the archives and found pratically no Shenmue Flashes and I thought to myself,"Why not make one?"
I have a philosophy about certain topics in Flash Animation: If you want something done right, get a bunch of fans together and collabrate on a single toon. (It's worked great for my Ghostbusters series so far.)
So I kinda wanted to know if you guys would like to work with me on a Shenmue Flash. It'd be more a comedic approach to Ryo's journey. (Making fun of the dubbing, certain characters, Ryo himself, etc.) I already have a art style set for it. (Chibi.)
So...erhm...anyone interested...?