Today, at the French convention Magic 2019 held in Monaco, the first gameplay trailer forShenmue 3was finally revealed. This is the first time we’ve got a look onShenmue 3’s gameplay since the game’s surprise announcement at E3 2015.
Yu Suzuki mentioned it is a “short version” of the trailer, meaning a longer version should be coming soon. The trailer shows some dialogues, story events, and battles. Yu Suzuki also mentioned that more gameplay trailers will be coming in the following months.
The gameplay trailer was revealed during the “Shibuya Productions Crazy Time”, which is basically the last biggest event of the Magic convention, where event organizer and Shibuya Productions' founder Cédric Biscay reveals new details on the company’s projects, which of course, includesShenmue 3. As a side note for fellow anime fans, while new exclusive visuals were shown for Shibuya Productions’Astro Boy, the newCobraanime had nothing new shown, but Biscay assured they’re hard at work on it. A French comic adaptation ofCaptain Harlockwas announced as well.
A few hours before the gameplay reveal, Yu Suzuki also held a conference at Magic 2019 where he explained the new additions inShenmue 3’s battle system, the fishing system, the inventory and item system, shops, and a few other tidbits as well. you may read all about it with oursummary of the conference here.
LatestShenmue 3screenshots featured some of the iconicmini-gamescoming back and the most recent screenshot featuredLan Di.
You could sayShenmue 3was the project Kickstarter was destined for. The game reached 7.2 million dollars at the end of its crowdfundingin November 2018, and it’s one of the most, if not the most anticipated game of all time. Funnily enough, while I’m part of the lucky individuals who playedShenmue 1and 2 back on Dreamcast, I lost all hope about the series ever being continued in the late 2000s, and my love for it was only rekindled with theShenmue I&II HDin 2018. While on the technical side the remaster is far from perfect, watching a friend play through it remembered me everything I love about the series, and how ahead of its time it was. I can’t wait forShenmue 3to release.
You can find the trailer below courtesy of Shenmue Dojo.
After multiple delays, first tolate 2018and then to2019,Shenmue 3’srelease date as finally announced atGamescom 2018.The game will launch this year on August 27 for PS4 and PC.
Update:Here’s the official upload of the trailer from the Kickstarter page.
https://ksr-video.imgix.net/assets/024/344/344/9d694cafd5e8d5fd08f88300cf169ac1_h264_high.mp4
