Well that's thirty-five down...

Finished Shenmue II today, and the last section is rather different...

Ryo starts off at a small port village with a population of about a dozen, and then follows a path that should lead to the village the mirrors came from, after that it's just one huge barely interactive cut-scene till the end of the game.

Ryo meets the the girl from the into when he saves her and a white dear from the rapids. Since the girl is from the village Ryo's heading to, they walk together. The game then alternates between sections of walking where Ryo talks to the girl about stuff, QTE sections as they run through the forest, and free walking down narrow paths when they get lost. At this point in the game super natural things start happening, like the girl willing a cloud of dandelion seeds to take flight.

The girl turns out to be the daughter of the local stone smith, and they have the titular Shenmue tree out side of their house (took 2 games to get to it). The father is not home but they find a old diagram of the 2 mirrors, when they go looking for the father in the local mines things really get weird. They find a jewel covered sword left there by the father, and when they put it into a stand it triggers another stand for the Phoenix mirror. This then triggers the sword to start floating and glowing blue as two gigantic versions of the mirrors are revealed. The girl then recites a prophesy that seems to be coming true and the game ends with the ironic text:

"The story continues..."

Too bad it never did. Well maybe since Kid Icarus is getting a 3rd game finally on the 3DS and MegaMan Legends is also finally getting a 3rd game on it too, maybe Sega will get on the reviving franchise for a 3rd part bandwagon and make Shenmue 3D.

One really interesting thing is that beating the game unlocks some production video of when Shenmue was originally a Saturn game. It looks like the development was really far along and that the game would include both 1 and 2 since there were scenes ranging from the start of the first game to Ryo and the girl in the forest at the end of 2.

Tomorrow it's on to Marvel Ultimate Alliance, I've started it previously but only got the first couple acts done and the game is really long. I hope I can finish it by the 10th...