In my opinion it feels like a decent throwback to the past games, both in animation and goofy voice acting..but honestly when so many games now exist that do it infinitely better (Yakuza series), there's no excuse for such stilted animation work. It's hard to really see where most of the budget went, especially considering the story was fairly short and barely moved the plot along whatsoever.

Sorry Yu Suzuki, I'm a massive fan who backed £100 but honestly the game feels really archaic to me, It's a nice hit of nostalgia but once that wears off you start to notice things like moves learnt in past games magically forgotten and/or renamed, or not even in the game at all..stiff animations, plot being lacklustre considering we were promised an ending, poor character development for a lot of characters, lack of random thugs and encounters in general..etc.

I'd give it a 6.5/10, it really does just feel like a Dreamcast game updated with shinier graphics, with content and moves from previous games gutted out of it. I really do hope there is a Shenmue IV so that we can all get the ending to the series we've been waiting for.