A Boy Takes A Gap Year In China

is a game “good” does it have to be “fun” to “play” do you have to “do” things that “are interesting” or “tolerable” to consider it “worthwhile” during our “increasingly short” time on “planet” earth will “ryo”'s quest to avenge his father “consume” him like the endless “cloves” of black garlic he “himself” must “consume” to remain vigilant in his “quest” to avenge “his” father"'s" honor?

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Started playing this as well a few days ago

That fricken bandaid on his face should have fallen off and left a black outline by now

The combat tutorial text is the best ever “Just press [playstation button symbols]” “try pressing R2” … thanks for the help game

I was in the middle of talking to a lady when my mother called, so I pressed the PS button to pause while taking the phonecall and when I came back to the game, Ryo was standing alone in the dark and several in game hours had passed

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It’s the game tutorial equivalent of that art teacher who would sigh heavily with resignation whenever he had to give us a demonstration

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They say just hit buttons and I sure do not understand this terrible clumsy kusoge battle system.

i enjoyed shenmue 3

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i cannot hear that tutorial in anything but a darksydephil voice :pleading_face:

If Shenmue 3 ends up being anything like Shenmue 2 it’ll take me about 18 years to finally sit down and beat it.

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Is he comparing Shenmue to sex?

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I already bloodpotioned this but wish I could give more.

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playing shenmue is better than like, 80% of the sex i’ve had in my life

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I’d say 100% on this end.

But then, of course, sex is gross.

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Yeah I feel like being trans kind of naturally lowers your batting average on that one.

Full-blown anxiety attacks at times. Those are fun when you’re at your most vulnerable.

A very unlucky hit.

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I think the first Shenmue is a very good winter teenage loneliness game.

Are Lonely Games still the thing around here?

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I think everyone’s lonely enough thanks

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Media the catharsis machine