I honestly feel like if I played Shenmue, I would mostly just end up going to the arcades and playing Outrun or the other embedded classics.

That said, is the tone really inconsistent or just not what you expected? There's a certain vibe where wanting revenge doesn't necessarily contradict helping a woman feed her cat. That almost sounds like something from a Miyazaki movie.

Mostly I just wanna play out of curiosity, but I'm not going in with high expectations.