Shenmue II is a 2001 action-adventure game developed by Sega AM2 and published by Sega for the Dreamcast. It was directed, produced and written by Yu Suzuki. Like the original Shenmue (1999), Shenmue II consists of open-world environments, brawler battles and quick-time events. It features a day-and-night system, variable weather effects, non-player characters with daily schedules, and various minigames. The player controls the teenage martial artist Ryo Hazuki as he arrives in Hong Kong in 1987 in pursuit of his father’s killer. His journey takes him to Kowloon and the mountains of Guilin, where he meets a girl who is part of his destiny. Wikipedia
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Lolli, Dario. “‘The fate of Shenmue is in your hands now!’: Kickstarter, video games and the financialization of crowdfunding.” Convergence 25, no. 5-6 (2019): 985-999.
May, Lawrence. “Virtual Heterotopias and the Contested Histories of Kowloon Walled City.” Games and Culture 17, no. 6 (2022): 885-900.
Patterson, Christopher B., and Y-Dang Troeung. “Organic and Inorganic Chinas: Desire and Fatigue in Global Hong Kong.” Amerasia Journal 45, no. 3 (2019): 280-298.
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Shenmue III (1)