Yu Suzuki (2015)

How accurately will Shenmue III be compared to your original vision of the game or will there be major compromises?

Will practicing moves make a return in Shenmue 3 along with the FREE battle system? A lot of fans feel not being able to practice moves was big piece missing in Shenmue 2, and I also personally loved being able to practice and make the moves stronger. It really makes you feel as if you are learning marital arts and then performing them in a skill-based actual battle feels very satisfying.

Will players have access to both the Japanese and English voice overs for the game?

And I wanted to say thank you so much for Shenmue and Shenmue II, it brought a tear to my eye seeing those games at E3 during the Shenmue III announcement, I cannot wait. Those two games are what made me curious about Japan as a child, and I am now trying to work as a Japanese translator!

Will we see Ryo's Journal return? Would be cool to be able to flip the pages using the PS4's touchpad.

Hello Suzuku-san! Will a day-to-night cycle and weather system return to Shenmue 3? They added so much to the atmosphere of previous games. Thank you Suzuki-san!

Will Shenmue III enable PayPal or a means to donate to the project when the Kickstarter ends? Projects like Star Citizen gained tens of millions in donations by allowing this.

Shenmue is a Peach Blossom tree correct? Could you tell us what type of tree exactly?

I would like to plant one.

Will you reassure us that Ryo's face will be changed back to the Ryo we all know and love when Shenmue 3 releases, and not this impostor wearing Ryo's jacket that you have on Kickstarter? That is NOT our Ryo!

Any possibility of a bicycle finally being added to Shenmue 3? Thank you so much again, Yu!

I love the music from Shenmue, if anything kept me thinking about Shenmue from time to time during these 10+ years it was the music. Was is your favorite piece from the soundtrack? Thank you for bringing Shenmue to our lives, I can't thank you enough.

Can we expect more duck racing in Shenmue III? That was the best easter egg I've ever seen in a video game.

Love your work! You are a pioneer in this industry!
As for my question:

How much game elements/features will we be missing in the game if the campaign doesn't reach the $5 million mark?

What do you think of the current state of Japanese game development?

English below! But why learn Japanese if not to try speaking to one of my heroes?

鈴木さん、来てくれたありがとうございます！シェンムーは私の日本に来た理由ですよ！そのゲームに見せた生きている町や人々はそんなに自然でリアルでしたから、自分で日本を見たかったです。それから、今は日本に住んでいるのは4年目です。

聞きたいことは何億円持ったら夢のシェンムーがどんなゲームを作るでしょうか？

そして、何かの気に入った特徴やゲームプレイはシェンムー1か2には出られなかったですか？

(Suzuki-san, thank you for coming today! Shenmue is the reason I came to Japan. Those living towns and people you showed in your games were so natural and real, that I wanted to see it for myself. So, now I am in my fourth year of living in Japan.

What I'd like to ask is, if you had billions of yen, what would your dream Shenmue be?

Also, were there any features or gameplay you liked that didn't make it into Shenmue 1 or 2?)

Will Ryo ever go back to Japan?

Will the gameplay in Shenmue III be more contemporary or will it be more in line with past Shenmue iterations?

Will the band-aid ever come off?

How was it working with mega64?

Have you ever consider telling the rest of the tale for Shenmue in a book if the opportunity to make Shenmue III never came up?

鈴木さんこんにちは！
シェンムー3は、1章と2のように日本語ボイスがあるのでしょうか？
公式サイトで松風雅也さんが紹介されてましたが、主人公芭月涼の声優は1章と2と同じく松風雅也さんなのでしょうか？
キックスターター応援してます！シェンムー3の開発頑張ってください。
（前の記事にも同じ質問をしましたが、もう一度こちらに書いておきます）

鈴木さんの意見で,アーケードゲームの真髄は何ですか? その影響シェンムの中でありますか?
In Suzuki-san’s opinion, what is the essence of arcade games? Are those influences in Shenmue?

I've always wondered, why did you set the game in the 1980s rather than present day?

Our fifty ninth question from the 500k community.
-What Sega console is your favourite and why?

Do you have any more details to share about the stretch goals? It's not clear to me what a "Rapport System" or "Character Perspective System" entails.

Any chance of Shenmue 1 and 2 HD remake or at least ports? Many gamers today never played the first two games and may feel alienated from Shenmue 3

Any info on the stretch goals for Choubu and Bailu village?

How big is Shenmue 3 compared to the first two games in terms of story length and game world size?

There is a strawpoll on the Kickstarter comments with over 2000 people saying they would buy a PS4 psychical copy of the game. Any plans on doing one?

What will Ryo do to earn money in Shenmue 3?

As great and engrossing as the story and gameplay were in Shenmue 1 and 2, I (and many others) really really liked the forklift driving. It was like I could learn a new (video game) skill, get good at it, and putter around the docks like a badass.

Who would win a fight between Ryo and Akira?

Are all the towns listed in the Kickstarter stretch goals in the game already, or are the stretch goals only there as a means to help give them more features and spice?

Do you have any dogs or cats?

Will there be more funding tiers added to the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter, specifically between the $500 and $3000 tier?

Are you still involved in any programming activities?

Will character polls compromise your artistic vision?

Shenmue 3 is just the start. How successful does the game need to be for us to get Shenmue 4 and so on until the saga is complete?

What was your inspiration for the story behind the first two Shenmue games?

Suzuki-San...welcome to the fantasy zone! It's finally happening. Any plans on more arcade games within Shenmue III?

Will there be forklift gameplay in Shenmue III?

1.) Yu, are you really going to be signing your autograph on the illustration for the $300 kickstarter signed collectors edition? So far there is almost 2000 backers, that is a lot of illustrations to sign!
2.) Will you please keep the japanese audio for Shenmue III? A lot of fan loves the Japanese voice overs over the US voice overs.

Yu are my hero!

Shenmue is credited with introducing/popularising the QTE. Given the significant advances in gaming systems and technology over the last decade, are you confident that you can show the gaming world something we have not seen before?

Thank you from all at Pioneer One.

Our fourty third question from the 500k community.
-Given Shenmue 2's ending and previous items found within the series; will swordplay enter gameplay at all? What about the story, can we expect Ryo to use a sword at some point?

Our twenty eighth question from the 500k community.
-Will Shenmue 3 have any sort of multiplayer component? Perhaps Co-op or a versus mode?

Why do you create?

Will we see any capsule toys based on Ape Escape or any of the Sony franchise in Shenmue 3?

Do you play airsoft, paintball, or anything similar?

When creating Shenmue 3, will you use any assets at all from 1 & 2? Or do you have to start all over from scratch because SEGA still owns the first two games?

Who is your favorite Shenmue character?

I only have one statement. I think I speak for everyone here when I say that Shenmue is one of the greatest game series of all time. And one quick question, what can we expect for surprises in the 3rd installment without spoiling the storyline at all?

Will the game take advantage of the virtual reality goggles on PS4 and PC?