Seventeen-year-old Ash has many identities, he is the son of his father and his mother, he is also a student of school, a student of his teacher, and at the same time he is also a gamer, a player who loves games.

He was born into a peasant family.

Farmers may not seem to have much money, but they are not exactly like that.

Those who have land, in all dynasties, will not be poor.

What's more, in a country like Ben that has very strict agricultural trade protection for agriculture.

Ash, who has a large piece of land at home, naturally has no shortage of money to play video games.

The price of a console is cheap for him. A watermelon from a watermelon vine is worth more than a game console.

Therefore, he has always been the dominant player in all models.

When others were still arguing about who was better, whether it was Nintendo's N64 or Sony's PS1 or Sega's Saturn, he had already discharged his three consoles in front of them like a big amount of money.

For those guys who are fighting for the upper reaches of the chain of contempt, he has only one word to describe it, and that is - poor!

However, even if the family's field can grow a lot of watermelons, Ash still develops a good temper after the beginning of this generation.

It's not that he has good cultivation, but since Saturn and PS1 adopted optical discs as storage media, the time to read discs is simply death-like.

When he first got the machine, Ash thought his machine was broken.

However, now he is used to it.

Put the "Shenmue" he just bought into the optical drive, close the lid, and Ash picked up the "Weekly Shonen Jump" he just bought and looked at it.

"Hey, why is "Full-Time Hunter" out of publication again? It's better to watch the man of One Piece......" Ash picked and read the manga on "Weekly Shonen Jump".

He doesn't know how other people read comic magazines, anyway, he always picks and chooses to read comic magazines.

After all, there are new serialized comics in every issue, and there are comics that are cut in half in every issue. Even those comics that can be serialized normally may not be to his taste.

It's not like those poor guys, who save a week's pocket money to buy a comic, and when you read the comics, you can't wait to read it, otherwise you will lose money.

Ash thinks his time is worth a lot!

Thinking that his time was very valuable, Ash raised his head and looked at the Sega Saturn that was "sizzling" with dissatisfaction.

Sega Saturn, this machine, he doesn't like it very much, it's because he takes too long to read the disk.

No matter how fun the game is, the reading time can be as low as three or two minutes, or as heavy as one or twenty minutes, which is too disappointing!

It's like a bunch of young men and women, the boys are already in a hurry to do something, but the girls are procrastinating for dozens of minutes.

If you want to maintain a consistently exuberant mindset, you need to mobilize your emotions when you need to.

After fifteen minutes of waiting, the noisy optical drive finally read the data from the disc.

Looking at the title of "Shenmue", Ash's heart did not fluctuate.

He tried to get his emotions pumped up, after all, Sega's hype said it was the ultimate video game.

But maybe it's because he has been reading for too long, and he's still a little tired.

Pick up the controller and enter the game, starting with an opening animation.

The level of animation is very good, almost on par with Hollywood blockbusters in the cinema. This made Ash focus a little.

The game has officially begun.

This is the story of the protagonist on a brand new road and constant adventure.

Ash embarks on an adventure, and the newbie village has plenty of interactive elements.

Whether it's fishing, or your milk, or picking up eggs, it's all a novelty.

In the past, these very detailed life contents are rare in this kind of role-playing games. And games like "Ranch Story" seem to be missing something.

If you're not careful, these mini-games can cost Ash hours of his life.

When he came back to his senses and walked out of the newbie village, intending to venture into the larger world, he encountered a problem that he found embarrassing.

He was supposed to find a computer character to talk to, but by then it was dark and the computer character went home to sleep.

The computer character went home to sleep, and Ash couldn't submit the task because he couldn't find anyone, so he had to stand here and wait for the computer character to get up.

He looked at the moon hanging high in the sky, and suddenly the ground, the unparalleled day and night system, was useless at all.

Finally, when the computer character came out, the computer character gave him another task, which was to catch fireflies.

But it was just daylight, and it would be thirty minutes before it got dark.

Oh, my God!

Kill me!

Ash put down the handle in a fit of anger and continued to read the comics.

I don't know how many days and nights passed.

Ash picked up the handle again, and it happened to be night at this time, and after catching the fireflies, he received a new task.

In the course of this game, he discovered a problem.

It's just that "Shenmue" is not as free and open as advertised.

Whether it's fishing, milking cows, or catching fireflies, it's not really doing it, it's a mini-game instead.

To put it bluntly, Shenmue is a collection of mini-games.

In addition to playing mini-games, it also makes people feel a little bit of a sense of crisis and a little exciting, and most of the time, "Shenmue" is the kind of very lukewarm rhythm.

It's not exciting, and it's like reading the kind of manga that doesn't have much interest at all while waiting to read the plate.

Although while playing, there are one task after another that forces you to complete and force you to keep playing.

But once you put it down, you feel like you don't have a reason to pick up the game again.

Even, the propaganda of the free game, in front of one task after another, is to slap one's own face.

Where is the freedom?

It's just a big map for the player to run around.

Thinking of this, Ash took the disc of "Shenmue" out of Saturn's optical drive, put it back in the box, and put it on the shelf dedicated to the game.

The games on this are either the games he has played, or the games he never wants to play again, the games he is playing, he will not put on the shelf.

In other words, he won't be playing Shenmue anymore.

At the same time, countless players like Ash are playing the game Shenmue.

Despite the previous publicity in magazines, players now finally know what Shenmue really looks like.