Shenmue's sound director Osamu Murata has made some comments on the new social network game Shenmue city.

Murata believes, knowing the series creator Yu Suzuki very well, that Suzuki would not have wanted to take the series in this direction.

He further pointed out that Suzuki was focused on creating the perfect experience and so he would only want to take the series to and to maintain its integrity.

He explained: "What makes this complicated for me is that Yu has lowered the quality. Shenmue above all else required top quality. There was no compromise for quality in Shenmue, and if there was compromise, Yu would get extremely angry as us. It was by being tossed around by this that the creativity of my current self was born. When I think about the the current state of and Yu that required Shenmue to become a light game, I have complicated feelings."

He continued: "I'm certain that he wanted to release Shenmue on PS3 or Xbox. This is definitely not how Yu feels about Shenmue. The sound of the bikes, the sound of glass, the facial motion of kids, how the flags were made to stand, the walking motion, the running motion, the pursuit of beauty for the female characters. He worked so hard even if he would collapse or get sick."

Murata also made it clear that he believed that the new game was not officially SEGA and it would only be made official if it became a commercial success.

With that in mind Shenmue fans will be hoping that this is SEGA testing the waters to see it really is the right time to return to on Shenmue III.

Thanks Andriasang.

By Ewan Aiton