Murata-san worked with Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki and says this ‘unofficial’ game is ‘substandard’. He’s ”certain” Suzuki-san wants it on next-gens.
”I have complicated feelings about Shenmue appearing on Yahoo! Mobage. I actually worked on Shenmue, working quite a bit with Yu (Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki). However, Yahoo! Mobage is being started up by a friend of mine,” wrote Murata-san.
”What makes this complicated for me is that Yu has lowered the quality. Shenmue above all else required top quality. There was no compromise for quality in Shenmue, and if there was compromise, Yu would get extremely angry as us.”
”It was by being tossed around by this that the creativity of my current self was born. When I think about the current state of Sega and Yu that required Shenmue to become a light game, I have complicated feelings,” he said.
”I’m certain that he wanted to release Shenmue on PS3 or Xbox,” he later added. This Yahoo! Mobage is not up to Suzuki-san’s standard of what Shenmue is meant to be about Murata-san comments. ”This is definitely not how Yu feels about Shenmue.”
”The sound of the bikes, the sound of glass, the facial motion of kids, how the flags were made to stand, the walking motion, the running motion, the pursuit of beauty for the female characters. He worked so hard even if he would collapse or get sick.”
This Shenmue City is apparently not officially recognised by SEGA according to Murata-san, as he’s spoken with developers over in their camp. ”The Yahoo! Mobage Shenmue is not Sega. I’m not sure what will happen at the time of formal release, though. If it looks like it will sell, Sega will probably make it official,” he said.
SEGA has previously said that Shenmue III could happen if a platform holder was willing to pay for development costs in exchange for exclusivity.
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