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Shenmue 3’s Kickstarter shoots past $2m target in under 24 hours

This year’s E3 has been full of surprises, such as the Xbox One’s backwards compatibility, the announcement of a Final Fantasy VII remake and the fact that The Last Guardian isn’t vaporware. But arguably the biggest among them – the one that brought tears to the eyes of gamers and media in attendance – was the announcement that Shenmue 3 could become a reality.

In a trailer shown at Sony’s E3 press briefing, the series’ creator, Yo Suzuki, announced that he’d launched a Kickstarter to fund Shenmue 3. “The fate of Shenmue is in your hands,” he told fans and expo attendees. He didn’t have to wait long for them to respond with their wallets.

Shenmue 3’s Kickstarter shot past its initial ask of $2 million in roughly nine hours, making it one of the fastest projects on the crowd-sourcing website to reach its target. At the time of this writing, it’s closing in on the $3 million mark. It’s now pretty much a given that the game will go into production and if all goes according to plan it should see release on the PS4 and PC platforms after that.

If you’ve never heard of them, the Shenmue games were a couple of RPGs originally released on the Sega Dreamcast (Shenmue II was later ported onto the original Xbox). They followed the story of Ryo, who after witnessing the death of his father at the hands of a man named Lan Di, pursues him from Japan to Hong Kong on a trail of vengeance. The games garnered masses of critical acclaim and sales for their immersive open worlds, epic plots and engrossing – and sometimes frustrating mechanics.

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