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More Shenmue 3 Guides:.Mini-Games is a feature in Shenmue 3 that allow players to complete various events to earn rewards. Clash of crime mad san andreas. Mini-Games can be found on different locations and provide with fun and interactive activites for the player to enjoy.

Below you can see a list of all Mini-Games in Shenmue 3, where to find them and a complete guide on how to beat them.To play most mini games you will need to use Tokens. Tokens can be purchased with Yuan from some Merchants. Once you get enough tokens you can exchange them for different Rewards.Lucky HitIn this mini game you will have to throw a metallic ball through the top of a canvas covered with needles. The bottom of the canvas has many 'landing' spots and some of them are Lucky Hits.

If you get a lucky hit you will earn up to 10x your bet. This game is mostly luck based and you can only control the canvas that you are playing on and where to throw the ball.Dice RollIn this mini-game players will throw the dice against the Merchant. To win the game, players will need to obtain a higher roll than the opponent.

In case of a Tie the opponent will win. This game is based on pure luck and no player interaction is required.Miracle ShooterIn this mini game you'll play Basketball by shooting the ball into a moving target. You will have to use the direction buttons to aim and then press the action button to throw the ball. The ball will fly for a little and bounce, so it's best to aim ahead of the moving target.Turtle RaceTurtle Race is a mini game where players can bet on a turtle race. Players can select the turtle color and then watch how the turtles race.

The player can help its own turtle by pressing the button shown on the right part of the screen. When the turtle bar is filled the turtle will gain a temporal speed boost that increases the players chance to win. In addition to this, players can visit the Sunset Hill, where a fortune-teller will tell you a “lucky colour” or “lucky number,” which will correspond to the winning turtle (colour in turtle racing) or the winning frog (number in frog racing).Flower, Bird, Wind & MoonIn this mini game players will need to choose from one of for different colours (Red is Flower, Green is Bird, Yellow is moon and Violet is Wind). After choosing a colour, players will throw a ball into a plate divided in four equal sections. To win, the ball must stop on the color the player selected.FishingPlayers will be able to rent a Fishing Rod that can be used at the many fishing spots located all around the open world. Fishing is a good way to earn money and be a fun experience at the same time. You can click to see a complete Fishing Guide.Catch The GooseIn this mini game you will be tasked to capture 10 gooses within the time limit.

You will find yourself on an open area with many gooses. Use the directional buttons to move around until you get close enough to a goose. An action scene will play where you will have to quickly press the button shown on the screen. If you do it right, you will catch that goose and you will go back to the third person view. Repeat this until you capture 10 gooses.Nice GolfIn this mini game players will have to throw a golf ball using their hands into a moving target.

The game provides three chances and prizes can be won depending on how many balls the player successfully scored (the prize can be seen on the upper part of the screen marked with numbers). It's recommended to throw the ball ahead of the moving target as it will have to travel some distance before landing.Smart BallIn this mini game players will have to throw balls into magnetic holes to win prizes. Each try will provide with 10 balls.

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You can control the launch force of the balls by using the directional buttons. You can throw many balls in rapid succession which will make them bounce with each other providing with a better spread across the board. You can also throw them alone trying to control the outcome. The prize will be decided depending on how many magnetic holes are filled.Players can choose from different layouts by moving to other machines.QTE Title 2In this mini games players will have to punch pads that raise from the machine. The game is divided in three rounds which gives the player the opportunity to rest between them. In order to beat the game, you need to press the button corresponding to the pad that is raising as quick as you can. Each pad has a fixed button.

Sometimes more than one pad will lift and the player will have to press all assigned buttons to continue the match.Winning this title will award you with Blue Big Wheel TicketPail TossIn this mini game players will have to throw a ball into static buckets located at different distances. Players will have three chances and multiple prizes can be won on the same try.

Each bucket is painted with a different colour which represents the prizes shown on the left part of the screen. Players can use the directional buttons to aim and the action button to throw the ball. It's better to aim to the rear part of the bucket to minimize the ricochet chance.RouletteIn this mini game players will be able to spin a roulette to win prizes. Two spins will be provided with each try.

In order to spin the wheel you will have watch the force bar moving on the bottom right part of the screen. Press the action button and wait for the wheel to stop to see what prize you got. If you land on Bonus you will get the prize shown in the middle of the wheel.Whack-A-MoleIn this fun mini game players will have to press the assigned buttons to hit the moles that come out of the holes. The game is divided in three different stages each providing with increased speed.Winning this game will award you with Green Big Wheel Ticket.Highway StarIn this mini game you will have to use the direction buttons to maintain the car on the track. The objective is to reach 300 miles before the police catches you.

In order to gather miles, you need to move the car on top of the balls that can be seen on the road. You can track your progress at the top of the screen and a light will turn on at each milestone you reach. After some time another light will turn showing the police. If the police catches you before you reach the 300 miles you will lose.If you win the game you will obtain Red Big Wheel Ticket.Excite QTE 3In this mini game players will have three opportunities to quickly press the buttons shown on the screen before time runs out.

As the player advance through the game, the speed and difficulty will increase and the player will have less time to press the button. If the wrong button is pressed the player will lose one life and the game will restart.Winning this title will award you with Yellow Big Wheel Ticket.Chobu Chan FighterIn this fighting mini game you will have to defeat the opponent two times in order to win. You can use the movement and action buttons to control your character.

You can defeat your enemy by either pushing it outside the ring or by draining its health bar to 0. The round will repeat until either you or your enemy wins two rounds.

It’s a good 20 years since the games industry used buzzwords like ‘F.R.E.E.’, which is an acronym for ‘Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment’. I know, it sounds like nonsense, but that was Yu Suzuki’s late ’90s vision for Shenmue. Not content with RPGs where the character would continue its running animation if you held a direction against a wall, he wanted the real deal; for the character to stop, to turn the handle on the door in full 3D, and to walk inside, without pausing to load. And once inside, the ensuing conversation would be fully voiced, and all the drawers would open on all the sideboards, letting you examine the contents inside. Armored core 5 review. Fully reactive entertainment for your eyes, indeed. Well, even though gaming has moved on since Shenmue’s 2000 debut, you still can’t say all the above is true of RPGs, even in 2019.

But hear this: it is true of Shenmue 3.Somehow, in no small part thanks to the massive funding the game received on Kickstarter, Shenmue 3 is both massive and richly populated, oozing detail everywhere you look across its two large areas, namely the beautiful Bailu Village and the city-esque district of Niaowu. And it really doesn’t let on that this is the case for a great many hours. The opening scenes in Bailu village look nice, certainly, and the dialogue has that clunky Shenmue charm, but it isn’t until about 15 hours in that you realise just how ambitious this design is. Quite how it all would have worked on Dreamcast is hard to say, but it certainly does work on PS4. (Image credit: Sega)Release date: November 19, 2019Platform(s): PS4 and PCDeveloper: Ys Net / NeiloPublisher: Deep SilverNow, let’s get this out of the way early on: despite running decently well, Shenmue 3 displays all the idiosyncrasies of the now rather aged Unreal Engine 4. Textures load in after a second or two, water reflections actually ‘reflect’ any 3D object above it on the screen space, shadows and details visibly pop in in the distance, and materials look just a little more ‘matte’ compared to real life. Even so, there are many moments of obvious beauty, with gorgeous lighting and phenomenal detail, and all despite the impressive scale.

You can run across the city in one go and then examine individual fruit skewers on a market stall, all without a loading screen. Given that the game holds up to such scrutiny, the few technical hiccups are entirely forgivable. Somehow Shenmue still impresses even though it’s not really up to the highest modern standards. Maybe it’s because it still feels like a Dreamcast game, even emulating some haze filters typical of first-party Sega titles back in the day, making you feel impressed that Shenmue could look this good. What out for that ouch(Image credit: Ys Net)From a game design point of view, it’s simultaneously facepalm-inducing and a masterclass.

It’s often dull, occasionally frustrating and sometimes even maddening. The phenomenon known as the ‘Quick Time Event’ that the original pioneered has thankfully passed through gaming’s digestive system in the past decade, but is back here, though thankfully it’s used sparingly. Even so, the prompts simply don’t give you enough time to react. You’ll be shouting at the screen “I literally pressed that!” but you’ll still be replaying the sequence, memorising which button comes when rather than reacting to the action. It’s the only time the game really comes undone. Well, that and the animal moves bit. It was never a monkey.Mostly, however, the gameplay is just very mundane.

Your daily life involves saying good morning to Shenhua, the girl from the end of Shenmue 2 who is your companion for this adventure, then heading out into a world that mostly couldn’t care less if you were in it or not. You can fish, collect capsule toys, play in arcades - though sadly there are no Sega classics to play this time, which is a real shame - and gamble tokens on several basic minigames. But where the old Shenmue’s capsule toys meant nothing and money were hardly used, now everything has a purpose and is interlinked. Capsule toys come in sets, and sets can be sold at pawn shops or traded for skill books. These teach you martial arts moves, which must be practiced and mastered at a dojo. Levelling up your Kung Fu works better when your vitality is full, so you need to buy food. You earn money by chopping wood, catching ducks or fishing, but the gambling system uses a separate currency: tokens.

Tokens win prizes, prizes can be sold for money, money buys you moves. So basically all the mundane, apparently extraneous stuff is all channelled back into Ryo’s journey towards Kung Fu mastery. It’s never been so cohesive and it’s brilliantly done.Window dressing?

Pah!(Image credit: Ys Net)Not least because capsule toys aren’t the only thing you can buy. Every single shop sells everyday items you can use, collect in sets or trade on.

Every shop has a shopkeeper with a distinct character, and every character will speak with a decent voice in reply to whatever question Ryo is asking at the time. The sheer volume of recorded dialogue is frankly unbelievable, and the quality of the voice acting is the best it’s been in the series. It was vital that Ryo’s voice actor, Corey Marshall, returned to make the game feel authentic, and he’s put in a stellar performance here.The rest of your time is spent doing some basic, rather laboured detective work, trying to find out who can help with the current problem, usually opening up a new area of the map to explore.

Aside from that, the mini-games are painfully basic and mostly involve tapping X. Even so, they do the job - and in terms of martial arts training, you could argue it teaches discipline and patience. For many gamers that just isn’t enough, but then the venn diagram of that kind of gamer and people who master a real martial art probably doesn’t have much crossover. That said, while the new skill move editor is great, allowing you to map five mastered moves to R2, toggled with L1/R1, the fighting itself still feels lightweight compared to Virtua Fighter. And since Shenmue started life as the Virtua Fighter RPG, that’s not quite good enough. I love Choubu Chan(Image credit: Ys Net)The gamiest element I’ve found is something I didn’t discover until I’d already been running around the second environment for a good 15 hours.

Choubo Chan is a small bird character and there’s a camouflaged Choubo to be found in literally every shop in the city - so camouflaged I only found one before I started looking. Acting as a very fun hidden object game, it makes you go in every shop and examine the wealth of 3D models in the game as you search for him. At last, it’s something genuinely fun and doesn’t involve just tapping X.Without this level of detail, Shenmue 3 just wouldn’t work at all. No other single element of the game is particularly fun. But it’s all wrapped up in this astonishingly rich world that consistently shows itself to be both beautifully balanced and consistently deeper than you expect. Details reveal themselves only when you stop and look, like the in-jokes on the books in the bookshop, or the way Ryo’s One-Inch Punch goes from sloppy Joe to looking exactly like Bruce Lee in tiny increments.(Image credit: Ys Net)Similarly, the way Shenhua will sit and talk to you about Japan and her childhood until it just gets too late to stay up any more is exactly the sort of thing that made the first game so great. There’s a real sense of ‘coming home’, which is then taken away with the culture shock of leaving Shenhua’s house in Bailu village for the hotel room in Niaowu.

But that just gives it something few other games can match; a game world you’re properly invested in. And so when the few big story beats come in, they have much more impact. I even made Ryo phone his old housekeeper, Ine-san, back in Dobuita before a particularly dangerous part of the story, which brought an actual lump to my throat. But this richness is still sadly finite and it’s all finished in 35 hours if you push on through, with potential for easily double that. My advice is to take your time and embrace it all. A fourth game’s existence is still an uncertainty, after all.So many modern reworkings and sequels have ripped up cherished, established canon recently, but not Shenmue 3. This game works because it’s so genuine, honest and feels 100% authentic next to the originals.

You have to take into consideration that this game was literally made for its own fans and in that respect it’s a massive success. Despite its wholly predictable flaws, it’s a better Shenmue 3 than I ever dared imagine and feels like no other game except its own predecessors. Fans couldn't have asked for a more authentic sequel.Reviewed on PS4.