

Having encountered mysterious girl Shenhua during the events of Shenmue II and aware of their mystical connection foretold in the legend, Ryo and Shenhua depart together on the quest to finally avenge the young man’s father. He arrives in Bailou Village in Guilin, China.

Shenmue III is set one year after the events of the first game.

During the course of the first two games, Ryo becomes closer to discovering the truth behind the artifacts and his father murderer, Lan Di, ultimately leaving Japan for China. Swearing revenge, Ryo decides to investigate the reasons the Chinese mafia came after his father. Ryo tries to intervene but is unsuccessful and Iwao dies in his son’s arms. The man demands Iwao reveal the location of an artifact hidden somewhere in the dojo.

After returning to the dojo one day, Ryo witnesses his father being confronted by a group of Chinese gangsters, led by Lan Di. Shenmue 3 follows the story of Ryo Hazuki, a teenage martial artist and son of the dojo master Iwao. At the time of its release, Shenmue received widespread acclaim but never reached the necessary commercial success to recoup the invested money. The first game set the then-record for the most expensive video game production of all time, with development and marketing costs capping between 47 to 70 million dollars. The Shenmue series, the opus magnum of Yu Suzuki, gained fame for its ambitious approach to interactive world-creation introducing a truly open-world and portraying the everyday life of the Japanese, and overall Asian people in the late 1980s. The player once again takes control over the fate of a young martial arts student, Ryo Hazuki, whose father was killed by the Chinese Triad. Shenmue III is an action-adventure video game developed by Neilo and Ys Net and published for various platforms including Windows by Deep Silver, as a second sequel to the acclaimed 1999s original Shenmue game.
