The implications of what games could be in the future, and what this game was for its own time, were among the first things to attract me to this Dreamcast gem. Living in this world with an in-game clock, NPCs with a schedule going about their lives, all whilst investigating the death of our father like an amateur sleuth trying to piece together the info was an exciting thought for me. I'm only sad that, after all of these years, I've never played the sequels and I know that the story isn't resolved in Shenmue 3. I want some closure!