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Meandering through SHENMUE's wonderfully sedate revenge quest

- Matthew Elliott

A word of advice to any aspiring villains reading: if you're going to smash up a business, choose one whose revenue flow has nothing to do with fighting. If you take a crowbar to PC Gamer Towers, to use an unwise example, it’s less likely that you'll enrage someone who'll spend a lifetime training to defeat you.

I suppose the big difference is that in Shenmue, Ryo Hazuki’s dad gets murdered, which we could consider an additional motivating factor. That makes it sound like