While I didn't find myself thinking Shenmue was the masterpiece I was told it was, I did enjoy my time with it mostly. I found the game to be far more enjoyable when I was "stopping to sniff the roses" so to speak and doing what others would consider to be the tedious and mundane parts of the games. Just walking around and interacting with the environment and talking to all the characters was far more interesting to me than chasing the story beats or getting forced into a fight with clunky controls. Shenmue 2 kinda loses the bit of its character that I adored for me, but I can still appreciate Shenmue 1 for those little bit and pieces outside of the main adventure.