Followers have paid for a 15-second advert in the midst of New York’s Instances Sq. to marketing campaign for Ys Web to develop Shenmue 4. The chance of ever seeing a sequel to Shenmue 3 shrunk when it obtained a combined crucial reception and didn’t promote notably nicely, however this hasn’t stopped fan web site Shenmue Dojo from beginning its marketing campaign.
The Shenmue 4 Instances Sq. advert was to get Sega’s consideration
The marketing campaign from Shenmue Dojo goals to “help the continuation of the sequence and try to unfold world consciousness to seek out YSNET a possible accomplice for Shenmue 4.” A kind of potential companions was Sega, who was tagged in a observe up Tweet that included a reside stream of the Shenmue 4 Instances Sq. advert.
Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki defined that he “won’t ever hand over by myself private journey to finish its story” throughout the credit on the finish of Shenmue 3. Sadly, he then later revealed that the sequel relied on the gross sales of Shenmue 3 and whether or not developer Ys Web may discover a publishing accomplice. Whereas Shenmue Dojo can’t do a lot to repair the primary half, they’re undoubtedly making an attempt to assist with the second half.
The location did have some success as its advert was sufficient to get #shenmue trending on Twitter for a short while. It concluded with the message: “Thanks to everybody that helped to indicate their help with the timed mass tweets/posts at this time. It was very a lot appreciated and proves that collectively, as a collective, we are able to unfold the attention that we’re not going to take a seat again with no combat. We’ll proceed to attempt till Shenmue 4 is a actuality! #LetsGetShenmue4”
Shenmue 4 can be extra accessible to newcomers if it ever did occur. Suzuki has beforehand informed IGN that “crucial factor is to make it pleasant with out realizing earlier occasions within the story. I don’t assume {that a} new participant needs to know 100% of the story. 20 or 30% may very well be sufficient. In Shenmue 3, we carried out a digest film that teaches the participant the primary occasions of the earlier video games, however for Shenmue 4 I wish to combine that half into the primary sport”.
