![]() Kickstarter: A place where fans push what they want funding makes Shemue the highest funded video game in Kickstarter history, which topples the previous record holder of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night and its $5,545,991 total. IGN also reports that it took only one hour and 42 minutes to make its first $1 million this latter figure unseats the previous record of six hours and five minutes set by Torment: Tides of Numenera in 2013. After the announcement at E3, it took only nine hours to fund the project at the $2 million mark. The sheer popularity of Shenmue cannot be understated. However, that was the last that fans heard of the series as Sega cancelled then Shenmue III. The first installment, Shenmue I, launched in 1999 and Shenmue II released in 2002. Due to its open world nature, Shenmue featured non-player characters who had their own daily schedule, and the world even had its own day/night cycle as well as weather patterns. Shenmue is described as an open world action-adventure video game produced by Suzuki that featured brawler battles and quick time events. ![]() The Kickstarter for Shenmue III was announced at E3 2015 during the Sony PlayStation press conference with a seemingly modest goal of $2 million, which the game has handily exceeded at closing with $6,333,295 in funding and almost 69,320 backers. In what looks like a massive coup for fan culture and community interest, Yu Suzuki’s newest game of the Shenmue series is becoming a reality.
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