Well, when have stories in movies, game, books, or plays not had plot holes?
As I said, I usually tend to notice them a lot less than other people, so it has to be pretty glaring for me to stumble over it.
Chen knew where the phoenix mirror was and that it existed, that's why Ryo started looking for it in his fathers house to begin with. Chen could have just told him what he knew about the mirror without risking it being stolen by gollum after Ryo dragged it to warehouse 8 from its pretty secret hiding place.
Man, the story does a really bad job justifying to send you on the chase for the phoenix mirror. Hours of digging it out of the secret basement just to be told that it should probably be hidden away. I usually don't have much trouble suspending my disbelief and I don't pick up that easily on plot inconsistencies, but that part is handled poorly.
So, they finally did one of the things Shenmue people were demanding to properly show of the game: looking around the house...and boy that sure was much more exciting than everything else before.
You'd actually fucking go to that TV audition with the tomato store lady if this were a yakuza game...or play a whole chapter about her pop singer career
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