On Shenmue's defense...

There has been a campaign to attack Shenmue 3, from trolls giving ridiculously low scores and certain websites making ridiculous assumptions. Not going to mention any names, but one of those sites is an integral part of the word IGNorant...

People were expecting a Triple A game from a mostly crowdfunded game with an Indie game budget. While, yes, 20 years ago Shenmue was a cutting edge game, it was a Triple A game developed by SEGA. Now that is NOT the case. Nowadays, Shenmue is barely a Double A game, MAINLY due to budget restrictions... other issues are based on DELIBERATE choices to keep the game feeling like a part of the series.

Which brings my next point: SHENMUE has always been an acquired taste and not for everyone. Some of these reviews complain about Shenmue 3 being too Shenmue-like...

Exactly... A sequel trying to keep the familiar feeling of its predecessors is a bad thing now?
The "bad voice dub" IS INTENTIONAL, YOU FRIGGING MORONS!
The stiff animatioms are partially due to budget AND KEEPING IT SIMILAR TO THE ORIGINALS...


So, what I'm trying to say is:
The game is not perfect. It's flawed, but a game of this caliber CANNOT BE fairly compared with games that have 50 times the budget of this game, or even its AAA predecessors. Also, this game was practically made BY the fans, FOR the fans, and not necessarily anyone else.
Shenmue is Shenmue... it's not trying to be RDR,COD, GTA, or Fork Knife.

On the other side of the coin, fans giving the game EXTREMELY HIGH ratings, y'all are making us look bad. Just BE TRUTHFUL in your reviews. I know you love Shenmue as much as I do, perhaps even more but; a white lie is still a lie.