Shenmue: I am Japanese!

Shenmue is a game that you will either love or hate - there'll be no middle ground. You are submerged in an *almost* real-time japanese town. You have to chat with the folk living there to try and find out who murdered your father and seek your revenge. The game progresses in daily cycles. In the morning, its bright and chirpy. At lunchtime everyone goes and gets some grub. Evening time settles in and the you can be dazzled by the neon twinkling through the dusk. Weather changes too! People open shop and close shop at the appropriate times indicated on the front of their shop! If you ever wanted to go to a small japanese town and mull around for a while then this game is for you. You can spend all your time and your savings on the toys dispensed from a street corner vending machine, you gotta collect 'em all! Or you can spend all your time and savings in the games arcade playing button-bashing boxing or other retro favourites. Or you can follow the story plot through and investigate the murder. The plotline information is served up by various characters giving you snippets of information. Invariably the key character to further the plot will be found at a certain place, at a certain time. You can idle until then. In the games arcade. As all gamers probably would in real life.