“Are you watching Sega?”
“Shenmue fans do some insane things to try and get recognised… are you watching Sega?”
reads the social post from Shenmue Dojo.
Plenty of other fan accounts have also shared images of the billboard as part of the campaign.
It’s no surprise that fans are passionate enough for another sequel.
The first two games, originally released on Sega’s Dreamcast, were cult favourites that underperformed commercially.
Creator Yu Suzuki turned to crowdfunding for the third game, raising atotal of $7.1m from 81,087 backers.
On Kickstarter, it raised $6.3m to becomethe platform’s highest-funded video game project.
“Shenmue is currently an unfinished story with Shenmue 3 ending on a cliffhanger following its 2019 release.
Yu Suzuki has an overarching 11 chapter storyline which is currently around 40 percent completed.
He feels that he could condense the next remaining chapters/story into two games to give a fulfilling conclusion.
I don’t think that a new player wants to know 100 percent of the story.
20 or 30 percent could be enough.”
One consideration would be a prequel, as withYakuza 0.
