6/27/2023 0 Comments Sifu platforms![]() The main gimmick of Sifu is the Age system, which is one of two ways for you to use the experience points you gain from defeating enemies to gain new skills (The other are Jade Dragon Shrines found randomly through each area). At the basic end of things, Sifu plays like a good solid action brawler… Shame that everything else takes the fun away. Even the Focus attacks, the high-hitting special moves, are amazing to watch when you pull them off. Check out this scene from the movie for proof) or harken back to the old Bruce Lee days. While you only have a couple of buttons available to use for light and heavy attacks, the ease of which things can be chained together will make you feel like Donny Yen in Ip-Man (If you haven’t seen Ip-Man, I highly recommend it. When the combat actually works in your favor, you feel like a badass. Those of you who don’t like getting your ass kicked because a gage says you can’t block, or a button press isn’t timed to the millisecond (Yep, counters are in a 0.01 range to be successful) for you to counter is going to turn you away from Sifu faster than I’ve seen people rage quit any other game from any genre. Those of you who like games where you are, more often than not, in a corner with no way out will love Sifu. I don’t know how many times I put down the controller and walked away from Sifu out of pure rage around how punishing the AI is. One of the big gimmicks in Sifu is that you only have a limited amount of block available, and once that block is broken… You’re done. The difference here is that in Sifu, you do not have any indication of when an enemy is going to attack, and most of them will attack within seconds of each other, leading to you getting your ass handed to you more often than not. The gameplay in Sifu will have you having Batman: Arkham Asylum/City/Knight flashbacks, as you’ll be fighting groups of enemies at once in close combat. Each stage sees you taking down waves of thugs while working your way to the boss of the level, which is themed to each one of the bosses aliases (The Fighter, The Botanist, The Artist, and The CEO), before dispatching them and moving on to Yang, the leader of the group and the one who defeated your Father before having him killed.Īnyone who spent time reading Keith’s preview of Sifu will pretty much not have to read any further… But for those of you who didn’t, here’s the scoop. As you progress (HA! Progress, good joke there Sloclap… See Gameplay section below) through each of the five stages in the game, you’ll be collecting evidence that links each member to each other, their crimes, and to the murder of your Father. ![]() You play as an unnamed boy/girl (Your choice) who is seeking revenge against a gang of former Students of your Father, the previous Sifu, whom they murdered in front of you. Sifu is one of the most generic Martial Arts stories on the planet. The Most Basic of Martial Arts Stories… (Story) Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 I’m not sure what this sudden trend in overly punishing games is about, but it looks like Sifu has joined their ranks. Sifu is a game where the concept is great, but the execution comes off as something Dark Soul-like (I hated having to say that). This concept alone was enough for me to put Sifu on my Top 5 games to play in 2022 list in the number 3 spot… Man, do I regret that now. A game where you age when you die, but also grow stronger as you age. Sifu is a very interesting game in concept.
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