Chapter 565: My Feelings
The dissatisfaction of Shigeru Miyamoto, which was thus caused, was the key to Jester's success.
And Yuki Suzuki ......
Jester shook his head again.
Yu Suzuki's current position at Sega, especially in terms of game development, is like his own entertainment on Mars, basically, what he can give him, Sega can give him, and Sega is now definitely full of confidence in the console battle for the next era.
However, in Jester's memory, Sega focused on the processing of 2D graphics on Saturn, which made the game on Saturn reach the peak of 2D graphics.
It's too hard......
Jester sighed again, although he knew that the possibility of getting Yu Suzuki was very small, but he still didn't want to give up, if he couldn't let Yu Suzuki join Mars Entertainment, then could he invite the other party to participate in the production of this game?
As soon as the idea came to Jester's mind, it grew uncontrollably wild.
But soon, Jester shook his head.
This game, the research and development time he prepared for him is four years, and if you want Sega's ace, Soul, to spend four years developing the game with herself, it goes without saying that Yuto Suzuki disagrees, even if it is Sega, it is absolutely impossible to agree.
However, it is not impossible to ......
Jester's heart moved, he did have an extremely crazy idea, but this idea was not yet mature, and it needed to be considered in the long run.
So, Jester continued to write on the paper.
Another very influential aspect of "Shenmue" is its original soundtrack, yes, the original soundtrack.
This is the first time in the history of gaming that game music has been treated as cinematic music, and look at the names that made the soundtrack to this game, even decades later, still shine brightly.
Especially the erhu solo of Jia Pengfang, a generation of erhu masters, and those tunes that are unforgettable even if they are ten or twenty years.
Even Jester now.
As long as you close your eyes, it is as if you have reached a certain mountain peak and a clear place on the lake, take a boat, row to the center of the lake, and a song "Lotus Flower" will echo in your ears, or a song "Jiang Qingri Hug Flower Song". Then I remembered the boy who embarked on the journey, has he fulfilled his wish? Looking at the green screen and the dancing birds and butterflies, I found that a wisp of incense in Shenmu was mixed with resentment and sorrow, and for many years, it had dissipated in my heart.
In retrospect, from a gameplay point of view, the core advantage of the Shenmue series may be reflected in the game's truly immersive experience, allowing the player and the protagonist to become one.
In fact, at that time, "Shenmue 3" announced its resurrection, and the metaphor of Jester having a friend is very vivid.
Whenever other people don't know why Shenmue 3 can be so exciting, Jester will always explain it to them, and then see that they will have long mouths and look at you with a look of disbelief, can it be so analogous?
"That is, it is equivalent to Cao Xueqin getting up from the grave again and saying that I am going to finish writing the last forty times of "Dream of Red Mansions", you should quickly crowdfund me!"
Why is this so?
Jester involuntarily recalled Shenmue's plot, thinking that time was too long, so he couldn't remember many details clearly, but he still remembered the essence of the game.
In that era when everyone was still ignorant, as soon as "Shenmue" appeared, it did give people a strong feeling of "I dripping a day, the correct way to open this world turned out to be like this".
The impactful camera language, the gameplay that makes people feel empowered, and the graphics are like technical textbooks. Every detail makes people feel as if they have consumed something in advance, and it is only when they watch similar games a few years later that they suddenly realize what a terrible storage they were exposed to back then.
Although many people would have said that games were another fantasy world of life, compared to Shenmue, there is finally a game that really connects reality and fantasy so closely that people are curious about every detail of this world.
An experience like never before, the infinite possibilities of video games are once again validated, and the final form of the work offers so much to learn from the era that follows.
I don't know when QTE became the standard in many games. But the real first large-scale use was not the amazing God of War, nor the imaginative Prince of Persia, but the repeated use in Shenmue.
The tough combat in the action style and the sense of cinematic narrative shots are not new now, but in the era when "Shenmue" was born, probably many people would sincerely think that this thing was really powerful, and even had a feeling of worship.
The lifelike heroine and several character models are exceptionally beautiful in the appreciation mode, and everyone who saw the picture at the time exclaimed in disbelief...... And so on and so forth. Although these are still the tears of the times, they are already tears with a certain sense of pride. After all, no one has ever been so serious about a game before, and no video game has ever tried to express the layers of life.
There have been countless times when people have asked, for example, about works like "Shenmue". When it comes to quality, it may not be as refined as many future 3* titles, but what is so good about it? The answer is actually quite simple. Although "Shenmue" is much more delicate in style, it is still a work that continues the spirit of SEGA.
This spirit is the courage to forge ahead.
Future vendors talk about the creation and continuation of each IP, and all kinds of data are piled up, and the business prospects and feasibility are carefully discussed. In order to take care of the surrounding area of the industry, the story of the final work has been changed again and again, and the content is also controlled as much as possible. It seems that it is a good thing to be reasonable, well-founded and modest, but it can't make amazing works.
RPG into FPS, adventure into FPS, zombie survival into FPS...... Video games are the ninth art, and some people say that they are saying that year after year, but how many works have actually done it?
Jester is reminiscing about "Shenmue" and wants to use "Shenmue" as his role model, not only because of "Jiang Qingri's Song of Holding Flowers", but also because of the beautiful Lingsha flowers. It's because there are people who treat video games as works of art, pay for their reputations, and gamble their fate.
Even if it is broken bones, it will not hesitate. When it comes to SEGA's legacy to fans, this spirit may be the essence of it.
In the years when "Shenmue" disappeared, "Like a Dragon" as the successor actually still interprets the spirit of SEGA, the white suit Kiryu Kazuma stands on the street where he has been behind for ten years, running around inopportunely, in order to have a thought in his heart, Kiryu Kazuma in the first generation of "Like a Dragon", just like SEGA standing in the torrent of the times, the young man is no longer young after the tempering of time, and he still has to face this changed world in his own way.
In the eyes of many people, since the "Like a Dragon" series has been a great success, perhaps the world no longer needs "Shenmue", right?
Not really.
Jester added very firmly in his heart.
Yu Suzuki finally left SEGA's own company because of the huge loss of "Shenmue", although there were a lot of unpleasant things in the middle, whether he himself or SEGA still hopes to continue the series, after telling the story is an explanation to the player, making a good game is an explanation to himself, the fifty-seven-year-old Suzuki Yu is standing here unconvinced, telling the world that I am back, this is not a continuation of the SEGA spirit.
At that time, Jester saw the title of "Shenmue 3" again on E3, and many people screamed and even burst into tears.
The donation page on KS has broken the limit of two million US dollars in a single day, which seems magical, but it is not surprising if you trace it carefully, the authors who have created heart-warming stories, the artists who have left people with childhood friends, their fans have never forgotten these people.
At this E3 launch, the power of time hit everyone who had ever had a memory. Shenmue may not be the best game, but it is the most beautiful game in the minds of many people. Those bits and pieces of feeling back in their hearts may make many people feel in the mood to regain the handle.
The meaning of playing the game has been replaced by a number of other things. It is the addition of memories and youth, and it is also the precipitation of years and history.
When Yu Suzuki created a work full of oriental culture, he even did not hesitate to visit the master of Bajiquan, and even invited Jia Pengfang, who was popular in Japan at that time, to play the erhu. These fragments of details form a map in the sea of memories, which is a small world that belongs to the old players with great nostalgia and affection.
Halfway through the story of Shenmue, what about the lives of these players? Life is too much and comes to an abrupt end, and it is enough to be happy enough to have the heart to finish the story. Perhaps this is the real reason why many fans are willing to give Hiroshi Suzuki applause and tears. More than ten years of history has constituted the most important time in a person's life. During this time, your friends come back to play with you, would you like to look back on that good time with him?
For those who still love video games, the answer should be yes.
It's hard to imagine, actually.
In the entire history of video games, it is ironic that one of the most popular games made by a country is not made by a person from China.
But fortunately, there are still people in this world who can make such games.
Despite the fact that he is a Japanese.
Look at those foreign players who are crazy about "Shenmue 3", what kind of Chinese feelings, what chivalrous feelings foreigners, can't understand, this is complete bullshit, if you can make a game like "Shenmue", then nothing is impossible. R1152