I played maybe ~5 hours of shenmue 3 and thought the core gameplay loop actually seemed pretty fun

The problem arises from all the bullshit they strung along it

Like how you have a set amount of energy you can use each day (which I like) combined with how you can spend that energy to run. This results in you being heavily incentivised to walk around at a snail’s pace for most of the early game at the very least

The game had so many design choices like this that were just baffling