Shenmue (PS4) - airwalking at Yamanose
6We played some Shenmue with Kazooie and found a number of strange glitches. I guess airwalking is as good a place as any to start unpacking all this bizarre phenomena.
Note: this was played on the unpatched PS4-version.
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I'm not deeply familiar with existing Shenmue speed tactics or glitches, but I do know there is something called "Disc 1 skip" that involves starting an airwalk at a specific staircase thanks to a collision flaw.
But so far there hasn't really been a tactic that would allow you to start airwalking at any staircase around the game... until now? We only tried this glitch at a few stairs around Yamanose so far, but it should work elsewhere too.
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Instructions:
0:12 - you need a set of stairs that is at least 6 steps long. Step on the stairs to buffer stairs climbing animation and open menu at same time.
0:14 - when you use the watch, it makes time run inside the menu, thus overlapping the climbing animation and menu. Wait a set amount of time, then exit the menu.
0:19 - that should shorten the stairs animation, leaving Ryo standing mid-way the stairs instead of fully exiting them.
0:23 - doing regular sprinting while standing on steep collision like the staircase makes Ryo detach from ground and begin the airwalk automatically. Sadly, the collision all around the game is really high and you can't easily go out of bounds even with all this extra height.
1:00 - the setup wasn't caught on video, but here's an example of airwalking from a smaller staircase. Your timing and positioning have to be extra precise, though, to get Ryo standing inside the stairs area instead of exiting it.