2026-09-06 · blog
Shenmue II (2001) — a 90% game that arrived five months after its console stopped being made
Episode 49 of “Today Is Release Day”: Shenmue II, released on the Dreamcast on September 6, 2001 — exactly twenty-five years ago today. Sega had left the console hardware business and ended production of the machine five months earlier. Famitsu’s four critics gave it 8 apiece; the English-language average was 90%. Japanese sales still came to a third of the first game’s. North America never got the Dreamcast version, and the finished English build only surfaced twenty years later.
