Famed British political figure Count Binface has issued a public demand to Sega to quit horsing around and finish Shenmue 4, and suggested the company may be nationalized by the UK government if it doesn’t move with sufficient haste.
For those not in the know, Count Binface is not an entirely serious political figure: He’s really more akin to Darth Vader with a giant trash can for a helmet, whose policies include things like banning loud snacks from movie theaters, a price cap of £1 on croissants, nationalizing Adele, and “the hand dryer in the gents’ toilet at the Crown & Treaty, Uxbridge, to be moved to a more sensible position.”
The Count—writer Jonathan David Harvey in his unbinned form—is a novelty politician, but he does run in actual elections in the UK, and he’s been in the news lately for facing off against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, best known as one of the leading figures of Brexit, in the ongoing by-election in the riding of Clacton. As such, he’s a busy guy, but he still has time to share thoughts on the state of Shenmue.
“I need to say a galactic ‘hello’ to Sega on behalf of the Shenmue fans,” Count Binface says in the clip. “Now, I’m not just saying ‘hello,’ Sega. I’ve got a little bone to pick with you, because the fans would like to campaign for an update from you, Sega, about Shenmue 4.”