There are also various evasive tactics, where you can lean out of the way with precision. These are good set pieces, don’t get me wrong, but there’s also great satisfaction in taking down 8 guys in a room with nothing but your feet and fists.Īttack combinations are useful, and you’ll unlock more of these over time. The main objective of each level is to beat everyone in your path to get to the boss fights. The difficulty of these classic titles is there for sure and also learning the attack patterns of the enemies in your way. While Sifu is set in full 3D, and the environments look gorgeous, the game reminds me of simpler times like running through Double Dragon. There are stools you can kick into opponents, making it much easier to take down that big lump in front of you with their fists raised. But when you unlock the environmental mastery, many more options open up around you. You can pick up weapons, bats, and pipes, which really help you out in battle. For example, environment mastery is one that you want to pick up early. Unlock these upgrades five times and you get them permanently. As you make your way through the levels various power-ups can be opened up through collecting XP. The key to this is the upgrades that can be unlocked. Sifu compels you to come back time after time to take down that enemy who stood in your way, at first they were hard as nails, but eventually, you’ll be disposing of them in seconds. On the surface, this is a 3D brawler, but the intricacies of the mechanics are more akin to a fighting game like Street Fighter. At first, this seems impossible, but keep plugging away and the game starts to click as you find your flow.įor all the frustration that can come with fighting, and dying over and over, Sifu is an exciting game with some of the most fluid mechanics I’ve encountered in a fighting game for years. Therefore you have to go back to the previous level and do your best to get through and come out the other side as young as possible. The first time I got through the club level I was around the mid-50s, meaning I wasn’t going to last long going forward. Once you reach the end of a level you have a new death counter and then you can move on. The game wants you to take on enemies head first, learn the attacks, defense, and evasive moves to work your way through. You can unlock various shortcuts in the game, although the shortcut in the second level is fairly comical as it isn’t much of a shortcut at all. The only way to get through the game is practice and repetition. As you make your way through levels you can lower your death counter by killing certain enemies, but the overall objective remains the same, stay alive. The objective of the game is to get through all levels and 5 bosses, without dying of old age. Once you get too old, you’ll die, and you’ll have to try again. The more you die, the more years get added to your death counter, which means dying repeatedly over and over again in the same place is a quick way to age. You have a magic pendant, which brings you back to life right after you die, but at a cost of years being added to your age. When you die, and most likely this will happen a lot, you age by at least one year. When you first load in there’s a decent tutorial and you can always train with some AI in the starting area before you head out into battle. There are basic attacks like punches, kicks, and sweeps, but there are also combos and much deeper attacks and defenses. Sifu is a kung fu fighting game at the very core, and it’s got some of the best hand-to-hand combat I’ve seen in a game. In theory, you could run through the whole game in a few hours, there’s just the tricky matter of fighting your way through levels of enemies with your fists and feet, wielding bats and pipes. Sifu itself isn’t a large game, there are 5 bosses with areas leading up to each boss. It’s fairly shallow, but I did like the presentation and the style, and there’s also room for expansion later on. The story itself is well presented, although it’s not very deep. Sifu uses repetition as a tool to teach, so you are going to be getting to know the levels very well. It sounds straightforward, but it’s anything but that… and it’s very likely your going to be going through the levels over and over. We then cut to about 10 years later where we’re 20 years old and we embark on a journey of revenge by killing a series of bosses. Bad guys have killed your family during your childhood and left you for dead. Sifu is fairly straightforward in terms of backstory for the game. It’s also pretty tough and had deep fighting mechanics. This one reminds me of my Double Dragon days, but instead of a side-scroller this is in full 3D and has all the bells and whistles of a next-generation game. Sifu is a new stylish, kung fu action game from SloClap.
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