Shenmue: Difference between revisions

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* [[Cosmic Keystone]]

* [[Cycle of Revenge]]

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* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Nozomi near the end of Chapter 1.

* [[Determinator]]

* [[Died in Your Arms Tonight]]: Ryo's dad.

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* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Nozomi near the end of Chapter 1.

* [[Duel to the Death]]

* [[Dull Surprise]]: Ryo, all too often.

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* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Joy.

* [[Funny Foreigner]]: Tom, the owner of the hot dog trailer in Dobuita.

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* [[Genre Busting]]: Aside from being one of the earliest examples of a modern [[Wide Open Sandbox]] game, it also touted [[Adventure Game]] mechanics and [[Visual Novel]] aesthetics, [[Quick Time Event]] action sequences, [[Fighting Game|beat'em-up mechanics]] inspired by [[Virtua Fighter]], and plenty of interactive minigames to keep you busy. It was revolutionary enough to be labelled as its very own genre by creator Yu Suzuki: ''Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment'', or '''''F.R.E.E.'''''

* [[Game Within a Game]]: ''[[Space Harrier]]'' and ''[[Hang-On]]'' in the first; the second had those two with ''[[After Burner]] II'' and ''[[Out Run]]''.

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* [[Genre Busting]]: Aside from being one of the earliest examples of a modern [[Wide Open Sandbox]] game, it also touted [[Adventure Game]] mechanics and [[Visual Novel]] aesthetics, [[Quick Time Event]] action sequences, [[Fighting Game|beat'em-up mechanics]] inspired by [[Virtua Fighter]], and plenty of interactive minigames to keep you busy. It was revolutionary enough to be labelled as its very own genre by creator Yu Suzuki: ''Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment'', or '''''F.R.E.E.'''''

* [[Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence]]

* [[Lady of War]]: Xiuying could be a poster girl for this trope. She effortlessly avoids Ryo's attacks, then puts him in his place with a bare minimum of force...all while wearing a stunningly elegant [[Chinese Dress]].

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** Similarly, failing to progress to the next chapter in the second game in a reasonable amount of time would result in a game over as Lan Di's trail went cold.

* [[Old Master]]: Several, in fact.

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* [[Real Place Background]]

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* [[Role Reprisal]]: [[Masaya Matsukaze]] returns as Ryo for the third installment. Corey Marshall, who voiced Ryo in the English dub, has also been confirmed to reprise his role for the third game.

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* [[Run, Don't Walk]]

* [[Present Day Past]]

* [[Press X to Not Die]]: Godfather of the mid cutscene QTE

** And yet, in Shenmue II, it managed to sneak in a subversion; when learning the Wude principle of Dan, {{spoiler|DO NOT press A.}}

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* [[Real Place Background]]

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* [[Role Reprisal]]: [[Masaya Matsukaze]] returns as Ryo for the third installment. Corey Marshall, who voiced Ryo in the English dub, has also been confirmed to reprise his role for the third game.

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* [[Run, Don't Walk]]

* [[Schizo-Tech]]: Ryo owns a [[Sega Saturn]]. The game is set during [[The Eighties]].

* [[Screaming Warrior]]

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* [[She's a Man In Japan]]: Yuan in ''Shenmue II''

* [[Shout-Out]]: German punk band "Schrottgrenze" wrote the song "Nozomis Lieder" (from the lyrics it's clear Nozomi Harasaki is meant).

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* [[Stock Yuck]]: Young Ryu doesn't like carrots.

* [[Snow Means Death]]: It's snowing on the day Iwao Hazuki is murdered.

* [[Stalking Mission]]

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