Shenmue’s Much-Hated Forklifts Feel Revolutionary Today

A surprising amount of that runtime, especially as the game reaches its end, is taken up with sequences of Ryo driving a forklift during a part-time job down at the docks of New Yokosuka Harbor. Shenmue’s forklift sequence operates as the “mechanical” climax of the story, which means it provides the final comment on the melancholic perspective of Ryo’s story. The forklift sequence refutes this implication by re-framing Ryo and the player’s relationship with the world around them.

Source: kotaku.com