Parrying and dodging thus become essential, with the former interrupting your opponent mid-flow, and the latter leaving them open if you can bob, weave, duck and jump on the spot to have them swinging at fresh air. Taking cues from Sekiro, you can easily block attacks, but too much blocking will fill your ‘structure’ gauge and break your guard, which generally doesn’t end well. A leg sweep sends another crashing to the floor, where you pin him down to deliver your follow up punches.ĭefence is equally important, and exciting. A heavy low punch might visibly knock the wind out of one, teeing him up to be thrown with a crunch into a nearby wall. Flurries of fist stabs leave a foe bewildered. Your offensive options are simple, swift and effective. It’s not enough simply to ‘git gud’ – you have to get better.” “Sifu, like a strict teacher, demands perfection, punishing you until you become a true kung-fu master. Your character is a kung-fu acolyte of great poise and confidence, intent on revenge against five powerful figures who killed their father, largely silent aside from grunts of effort as you decimate anyone standing in your way. The foundations are built on Sloclap’s previous game, Absolver, but have evolved here with a mesmerising smoothness of flow. Now you get to play out facsimiles of those scenes with fluid, precise, powerful hand-to-hand combat that turns every minor encounter into a cinematic performance. It unearths your inner child, the one that used to watch Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan films in awe, and maybe perhaps sometimes mime their kung-fu moves.
#Sifu kung fu movie
When you’re in the midst of the action, not worrying about your age, this is about as close to starring in a martial arts movie as you’ll get. Thankfully, there are plenty of reasons to persevere – if you can make peace with Sifu’s methods, it’s actually quite brilliant.
When you’ve made it to a new stage fair and square, you want to get stuck into it, not take a step back. This seems like a big gamble for developer Sloclap, and at times it makes you wonder whether it’s worth the hassle. It’s not enough simply to ‘git gud’ – you have to get better. But Sifu, like a strict teacher, demands perfection, punishing you until you become a true kung-fu master. The bosses in particular in Sifu are tough customers, so it would be nice if simply beating them felt like it mattered. If that sounds demoralising, well, it certainly can be. Of course, in later levels, such feats become far more difficult, and it takes more attempts to keep the years from piling up. Then the magical fourth triumph – no deaths at all – we remained a fresh-faced 20. A second successful run saw us finish it at 37. The first time we finished the opening level, for instance, our character was 73. In practice, then, you’ll need to repeat every stage a lot.
The only recourse then is to restart the previous stage, do it more clinically, fail less, and then move on when you’re in decent shape. And since, naturally, there’s no way of reversing the aging process, that means if you complete a level after a bruising battle, barely scraping through, you’ll be too old to survive long in the next.
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