Although Yu Suzuki's surname is Suzuki, he never drives a Suzuki car.

It is said that the population is hundreds of millions, and there are 10 million people with the surname Suzuki, if not 50 million.

Suzuki is a big surname in this book, but there are not many people with the surname Suzuki who have achieved success.

Coincidentally, Yu Suzuki is one of them. However, he was never complacent about his achievements.

Because although he helped Sega achieve an absolute leading position in the arcade market, Sega has never been the first in the industry in the home machine market.

And he wants to use the brand new game he has made to push Sega to the first place.

The game "Shenmue" has been planned and prepared for three years, and it has been several years since it was produced.

Even because of the replacement of the new console, the game was redeveloped again.

The development cost of this game is arguably the largest ever for Sega.

Not only that, but the scale of this game is also the largest ever in the history of Sega, or in the history of a video game.

Yu Suzuki has a dream, and his dream is to recreate a real world in a video game.

Authentic!

Or is it real!

All he seeks is truth!

He wants his game to be as real as if he were living in real life.

In the world of the game, there is sunrise and sunset, the computer characters have their own lives, and the protagonist controlled by the player is in another world, feeling the charm of this world.

Compared to those small games, he wants to make this game a magnificent game.

There are a lot of things that can be interacted with in the game, and basically the details that can be noticed by people will have a corresponding mini-game.

For example, when two villagers fight crickets, and the player is watching from the sidelines, a hint will appear as to whether you want to participate in the battle or not.

And if you want to fight, you have to have crickets too.

There are two ways to get your crickets, one is to buy them directly from the computer character, and the other is to catch them yourself.

However, if you buy from a computer character, you will generally not buy the best cricket. The crickets you buy can be described in four words, that is, the quality is inferior and the price is high.

And to capture it yourself, you have to do a lot of preparation.

Where there are crickets needs to be found by the player himself by talking to the computer character.

Moreover, because the real world is real, it is impossible to catch crickets during the day.

You have to wait for the night, when the night is closed and the stars are twinkling, to be able to listen to the crickets and finally find out where they are.

The player may have been squatting for a night and finally caught a very strong cricket.

Then take the crickets to the competition to get the ranking and rewards.

The content of the reward is likely to be a key item to trigger another event.

For example, winning the first place will reward a chicken, and this yellow fluffy chicken is a condition for participating in future cockfighting competitions.

As a result, players can raise chickens for two more months and then they can participate in cockfighting competitions.

Although the whole game does not skip the clear main line, there are too many similar detailed tasks to count.

Yu Suzuki feels that this is his philosophy in designing games, bringing joy to players through the smallest details.

However, although his set of theories, persuaded Sega from the top to the bottom. However, the development difficulty and development cost faced by this kind of game in the development process are also unexpected by everyone.

One is the technical problem of the open world that exists.

You know, there is no true open world for video games.

Reeling games like Super Mario Bros. aren't really reels, but stitched together with one separate picture after another.

The same is true for the open world in Shenmue.

The player is the center of the world, and the world is only in motion where the player is.

However, the player is constantly moving, and in order for the player to feel that this is an open world, it needs to be made with a no-readbar effect.

But it's not easy to do that.

It was difficult, at least for Sega, and in the end they did, but in a stupid way.

The first is to limit the player's movement speed, so that it can be more easily overloaded into the screen.

The second is to streamline the elements of the game, so that the content loaded is less, and the scene can be reused as much as possible.

This is the same idea as in "Super Mario Bros.", the grass changes its color and doesn't it mean clouds.

Shenmue also makes extensive use of this technique of changing colors and textures.

However, unfortunately, compared to a 2D game like Super Mario Bros., a 3D game has more information and more possibilities for exposure.

However, even if it is exposed, there is no way.

Limited budget.

Video games are the art of achieving the best possible results within a defined budget.

The game "Shenmue" can be regarded as Yuki Suzuki's view of the whole world.

He actually doesn't like the industrial society now, he prefers the kind of idyllic life. And "Shenmue" is such an idyllic world.

As a result, the pace of the game isn't fast-paced, and the events are a bit cumbersome.

During the production of the game, the project team's confidence in the game was also decreasing.

Although no one will know what a game will look like until it is fully developed.

But everyone is an old man, and they have all made so many games.

Whether a game is a success or a failure, in fact, in the middle and late stages of development, it can already be decided.

Modern video games are getting faster and faster.

The reason for this evolution is simple: because technology is developing faster and faster, and there are more and more ways to entertain.

It's almost impossible to pinpoint players to consoles using the game design ideas of a decade ago.

For example, the "Dragon Quest" series, which was originally a soap opera-style game dominated by housewives, is now much faster.

Games like Shenmue have a sluggish pace and no clear main line. Many people feel that it is going to be cold.

However, although I want to sing a cool song.

But no one took the initiative to say it.

This is the case with this company, where everyone does their own thing within their own responsibilities. is like a male protagonist in a Japanese drama who puts forward opinions at every turn, if the father-in-law is not the president, and he is not the son of the president, it is estimated that he will be able to leave soon.

As a result, a game that many people are not optimistic about, under the promotion of Yu Suzuki, is about to be completed.

It also started to be promoted in the game media.