And counterbalancing the Martial Artist’s improved ability with their advanced age is clever. Every ten years, your damage increases and your health decreases. It can be a frustrating mechanic, losing over and over as you see your age ticking ever higher and your Martial Artist growing older. You start the game at age 20 and each time you die your years advance by the corresponding number of deaths you’ve suffered. This creates a sense of oneness with the environment. Similarly, the Environment Mastery skill allows you to swiftly kick objects into opponents with R1, throwing them off balance or knocking them down. When you go to use them, time slows to a crawl so you can pick your moment with precision. These are short special moves which are executed by holding the L2 button and serve to stun your opponents. For example, as you progress, you can unlock “Focus Attacks”. None of the unlockable skills break the rhythm of your standard attacks – they only enhance them. But it gives you a flavour of what’s possible in Sifu. After this intro section, you predictably start from scratch and have to unlock everything. Here, you have access to all the kung fu skills the game offers. The various combos and fighting mechanics take a while to get to grips with, but the game’s prologue section serves as a great introduction. As mentioned, these can be chained together into combos with devastating impact. On PS5, you press square to execute a light attack and triangle to perform a heavy attack. All this comes together to create fight scenes that would rival any classic kung fu movie. The audio design makes attacks feel stiff and precise. Each hit carries serious impact (something that is only enhanced by the PS5’s DualSense controller). Every animation is silky smooth, making combos a joy to execute. The hand-to-hand combat in Sifu is some of the best you’ll find in any game. Enter a new level and fight everyone on your way to a boss encounter using your uncompromising kung fu skills and various melee weapons. Sifu‘s core gameplay loop is straightforward. It’s elegantly told and I found myself craving vengeance as the Martial Artist. Eight years later, the child has become the Martial Artist and is hellbent on taking revenge on Yang and his crew. Yang then orders Fajar “The Botanist” to kill the master’s child who is later revived thanks to a magical talisman. He and his gang attack a martial arts school where he confronts and kills the school’s sifu (master). In the prologue, you play as “The Leader” Yang. Sifu‘s story is typical of martial arts movies. However, its brutal difficulty can impact the fun factor and will likely force many to give up. If you can master it, Sifu is every wannabe martial artist’s dream. Because Sifu delivers what matters most: satisfying and breathtakingly fluid combat. Thankfully, Sifu‘s promising kung fu beat ’em up premise generated considerable interest and propelled it to become something of a surprise hit. A relatively small studio like Sloclap releasing a new IP alongside giants like Horizon Forbidden West, Dying Light 2 and Elden Ring was a risk. This Sifu review is of the PlayStation 5 version.įebruary 2022 is packed with big video game releases.
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