Shenmue

Just as tedious and annoying as real life.

It's an interesting time capsule into early open-world sims, but that's about all it has going for it. Rarely is it ever fun to play nor particularly relaxing, but it does have good graphics, music and an overall very pleasing aesthetic.

I can see the appeal of this type of game and this is an early example of the open-world-sim. The problem is that all the systems are far too boring on their own and the game shoves all of them down your throat. All the jumps ahead in the development of video games just exist to serve the never-ending tedium that is this game.