Spaghetti wrote:jcjimher wrote: My main conclusion after watching the video is that, if they are remaking the scene with Ryo jumping the rocks, they are probably remaking or re-telling Shenmue II Disc 4 (Guilin chapter) in its entirety.
So, the game will start with Ryo arriving in Guilin and meeting Shenhua, not inside the cave where we left.
Mm. I've seen this theory a few times before, and it's certainly got some strong evidence backing it up. Still, there's always a chance they're including the sequence for nostalgic reasons, but I definitely wouldn't shoot down the idea that Shenmue III opens with a quick recap of Disk 4.
What if next year's backer trial is just all of the content that they recreated from Shenmue 2?
When I watched the video this morning, I was kind of annoyed that they included the stone hopping QTE from Shenmue 2. Only because they re-created the exact same scene for the kickstarter announcement, so it didn't seem likely to me that they were actually working on that scene but rather just showed it to avoid showing spoilers. Probably not true, but I'm glad we at least got to see the rock scene as something new.