BlueMue | Shenmue I & II - Nozomi's Flowers @BlueMue | Uploaded July 2022 | Updated October 2024, 26 minutes ago.
One of Shenmue's neat but easy to miss cutscenes. This happens when you go home and visit the altar room after talking to Jimmy about the Hong Kong ticket.
When you go to Fuku-san there is also a conversation that he will initiate himself. After looking at the flowers you can talk with him some more. And then you can give Nozomi a phone call.
Getting her to pick up the phone is not guranteed. During this part of the game her grandma likes to nag you by always picking up the phone. Not sure about all the things that can cause this but in my case I had to cheer up Nozomi in Sakuragaoka Park first, as it was already after christmas in the game.
One of Shenmue's neat but easy to miss cutscenes. This happens when you go home and visit the altar room after talking to Jimmy about the Hong Kong ticket.
When you go to Fuku-san there is also a conversation that he will initiate himself. After looking at the flowers you can talk with him some more. And then you can give Nozomi a phone call.
Getting her to pick up the phone is not guranteed. During this part of the game her grandma likes to nag you by always picking up the phone. Not sure about all the things that can cause this but in my case I had to cheer up Nozomi in Sakuragaoka Park first, as it was already after christmas in the game.
![Shenmue I & II - Duck Race in 31:10 [former WR]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/p8ECAWGboz4/hqdefault.jpg "Shenmue I & II - Duck Race in 31:10 [former WR]
Using a carefully trained duck to go for nothing but the fastest time. The penguin is in there just to have a more consistent starting grid with regular ducks, raising the odds at a good start.
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https://www.speedrun.com/shenmue2/Duck_race
Slightly brushed against corners twice but this didnt really hurt the time. After the first hit I had to slow down for the upcoming corner anyway and the second one didnt seem to affect my speed at all. Also had some drums in the way that actually helped me maintain a tight line and stamina for the final stretch.
Careful training means avoiding contact with other ducks and thus raising Guts. Ducks are limited to a combined stat total of 800 and for the fastest time you want as little Guts and as as much of everything else as possible.
All it does is allow your duck to not stumble when hitting stronger ducks. Unfortunately you cannot gain absolute no Guts as it will always go up by 1 no matter what you do.
The result is Speed: 255, Stamina: 229, Guts: 57, Turn: 255
This isnt perfectly optimized but pretty close to it. Was tedious enough to train it to that since I&II doesnt have the stats display from the original. I had to save and quit every now and then and peek at my save file to see the values and monitor the progress of my duck.
The time can only have a 0, 3 or 6 at the end so I got WR by just 2 frames.
Noteworthy times I got on the way there: 31:46, 31:36, 31:20
Like all my Shenmue I&II footage, this is recorded with Widescreen Mod and Audio Restauration Project active. These mods only affect aesthetics and give no advantage to the gameplay.")
