Followers have paid for a 15-second advert in the course of New York’s Instances Sq. to marketing campaign for Ys Web to develop Shenmue 4. The probability of ever seeing a sequel to Shenmue 3 shrunk when it acquired a combined essential reception and didn’t promote notably effectively, 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 “assist the continuation of the collection and try and unfold international consciousness to seek out YSNET a possible accomplice for Shenmue 4.” A type of potential companions was Sega, who was tagged in a comply with up Tweet that included a stay stream of the Shenmue 4 Instances Sq. advert.
Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki defined that he “won’t ever hand over alone private journey to finish its story” throughout the credit on the finish of Shenmue 3. Sadly, he then later revealed that the sequel trusted 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 positively attempting 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 assist with the timed mass tweets/posts at present. It was very a lot appreciated and proves that collectively, as a collective, we will unfold the notice that we’re not going to sit down again with out a combat. We’ll proceed to try till Shenmue 4 is a actuality! #LetsGetShenmue4”
Shenmue 4 could be extra accessible to newcomers if it ever did occur. Suzuki has beforehand advised IGN that “a very powerful factor is to make it satisfying with out realizing earlier occasions within the story. I don’t assume {that a} new participant desires 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 principle occasions of the earlier video games, however for Shenmue 4 I wish to combine that half into the principle recreation”.
