This game was never released on the Dreamcast in North America, the Dreamcast version only saw a release in Japan, and Europe in 2001.

The second game starts of with RyoвЂ™s arrival in Hong KongвЂ™s harbour.

Originally there was supposed to be a game or part of one about the story of RyoвЂ™s trip to Hong Kong on a ship, instead that was released as a manga. The last game leaves off with Ryo heading for Hong Kong, in the hopes of finding Lan Di, and itвЂ™s where this game picks up the story. This prompted Ryo to try to find Lan Di to exact his revenge. The first Shenmue was the prologue of the story where Ryo HazukiвЂ™s father gets killed in his dojo in Yokosuka, Japan by the main antagonist of the series, a high-ranking member of a Chinese cartel, Lan Di. These were all elements that prevented the first game to truly be a more mainstream action-packed fun game for most gamers in my opinion. In my own review of Shenmue I for the Dreamcast, I noted the slow pacing, the inability to save anywhere outside of, the protagonist's (RyoвЂ™s) bedroom, the clunky controls, the different game styles, like forklift racing, that do not work well, the lack of direction, and general tediousness, and lack of story progression. Eventually work was shifted towards the Dreamcast, and the first game was released on the Dreamcast in 1999 (JP) and 2000 (EU, NA) to critical acclaim, although some reviewers at the time, for example, Frank Provo, writing for Gamespot (US) in 2000, noted the problems it had that kept it from being what it was hyped up to be. Work for Shenmue originally started on the Sega Saturn in 1996, and it was conceived at some point as Virtua Fighter RPG by Yu Suzuki. This is a long review! (and may contain a few spoilers) I ended up being pleasantly surprised and IвЂ™m glad I gave this one a chance since it actually became one of my top ten games of all time, though I still consider it somewhat flawed, and perhaps a bit slow paced for casual gamers. Playing through this game was part of my search for games I would consider my favourites and best of all time. Still, although I was reluctant at first, I decided to persevere and give Shenmue II a chance since IвЂ™d heard that it improved on the original in important ways and had a much larger and more vibrant world. A while ago I came back to Shenmue I (after a hiatus), finally finishing it and found it to be highly flawed, which made it difficult for me to enjoy the game. As a big Sega Dreamcast fan, I felt I had to at least try to play through Shenmue I and Shenmue II, even though I wasnвЂ™t too excited about it.

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