Highlights
- Yu Suzuki and his crew have began engaged on a brand new recreation, although particulars concerning the venture are nonetheless unknown at the moment.
- Regardless of followers hoping for a brand new Shenmue recreation and Suzuki nonetheless eager to make one, it seems as if he is nonetheless ready for the suitable alternative to take action.
- It appears unlikely that the brand new venture might be revealed earlier than the console launch of Air Tornado on November 10, so followers will in all probability have to attend at the least one other month or so for extra info.
The console launch of Air Tornado remains to be greater than a month away, but Yu Suzuki and his crew have already begun engaged on a brand new recreation. The influential Japanese developer revealed as a lot throughout a latest interview with IGN Japan, although followers of Suzuki’s work might want to wait a short time longer to search out out extra concerning the venture.
The interview in query occurred at this 12 months’s Tokyo Recreation Present, the place Suzuki was in attendance to advertise the console port of his Apple Arcade recreation, Air Tornado. In addition to showing on the Konami stage to debate the upcoming launch, he additionally took half in a particular livestream with IGN Japan, and it was right here that he revealed {that a} new recreation is at the moment in growth at YS NET.
With almost 4 years having now handed for the reason that launch of Shenmue 3, followers of the franchise will little doubt be hoping that Suzuki and his crew are engaged on a sequel, however this does not seem like the case proper now. In the exact same interview, Suzuki was requested immediately about the way forward for Shenmue, and though he confirmed that he is nonetheless eager to complete Ryo’s story, it appears as if he is nonetheless ready for the suitable alternative to take action.
In fact, if Shenmue 4 had been at the moment in growth, it is unlikely that Suzuki would casually announce it throughout an interview to advertise certainly one of his different video games, so something is feasible. Nonetheless, no matter this new venture is, the possibilities of it being revealed proper earlier than the console launch of Air Tornado appear remarkably slim, so followers will in all probability have to attend at the least one other month or so to search out out extra.
Air Tornado is scheduled for launch on November 10 and might be accessible on each present and past-gen consoles. The Change model of the sport was playable at this 12 months’s TGS and appeared to garner a good quantity of consideration all through the course of the occasion. It is extremely accessible, although will probably enchantment to followers of Suzuki’s basic arcade video games particularly, because it serves as a religious successor of types to 1985’s Area Harrier.
With this in thoughts, it is doable that Suzuki’s subsequent recreation may also borrow concepts from his previous, with once-groundbreaking video games like OutRun, Cling On, and After Burner nonetheless fashionable in sure circles and nicely price revisiting. In actual fact, whereas talking with IGN Japan, Suzuki expressed his need to mix a few of these outdated arcade video games right into a set, so followers of his work could nicely have that to sit up for in addition to no matter it’s that he and his crew are at the moment engaged on.
Air Tornado is out there now on Apple Arcade, with PC, PS4, PS5, Change, Xbox One, and Xbox Sequence X|S variations scheduled for launch on November 10.
Supply: IGN Japan (by way of PhantomRiverStone)
