10 Best Video Games Of 2019 You Haven't Played

5. Shenmue III

A game with a VERY specific selling point: Being a direct continuation of where a supremely niche product left off in 2001, with not a SINGLE lesson learned about game design in the interrim.

The same awkward voice acting, stilted, dialogue-heavy progression and the same reliance on arcade minigames or interacting with every draw in a cabinet to cement a feeling of immersion.

Shenmue III is steadfast to the version of open-world storytelling creator Yu Suzuki pioneered with the original. It means what is now a trilogy is thoroughly innovative and recommendable as a living piece of gaming history.

It might be awkward, weird, unexpected and intentionally outdated, but Shenmue III feels like revisiting a memory and hugging that old relative in the present simultaneously.