by swimingdeer » Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:41 pm
Do we know how the story was supposed to be split while it was planned on the Saturn ?
And, if they were building the concept at the time, the idea of "Shenmue n" doesn't really means anything.
(From all the insistance from Yu Suzuki about using the agile methodology.)
From what I remember of the Saturn prototype video in SH2, there was :
>Scenes similar to ones in early and middle of SH1
>a part with the tape investigation that was featured in SH2
>a part in some woods (maybe experiments for guilin forest areas ?)
My guess is that they were trying out assets and basic engine to be used for the whole saga.
With maybe more emphasis on the beginning,
but maybe there's also some undisclosed development part for latter in the story.
We may never know, yet I'm fine with this.
After all, nobody would harass a writer to have his whole drafts and notes log, isn't it ?
So, I guess we will only get parts that the Dev. team feel fine showing us.
And, once again, I, for one, I'm fine with never knowing anything more about the Saturn prototype.