Learning and making full use of dodges and parries is essential to your survival, much like the games that inspired it, such as Capcom’s God Hand. Sifu is tough as nails, there's no two ways without it. It’s a good thing that you are able to come back from death in Sifu, because you will die. The combination of visual and audio effects gives every hit a meaty feel, that really nails that visceral experience of watching the best kind of action movie. Often you take on many enemies at a time wearing down their stun meters allows you to perform a takedown move much like the ones in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. This is what Batman Arkham combat would feel like if it had the mechanical complexity of a game like Devil May Cry. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) You can also back your enemies into walls to make those hits worse, or even throw them off of a balcony or kick them down a stairwell. If you see a stool on the floor, or a bottle on the bar, these can be kicked/thrown at your enemy at a moment's notice. One area where this combat really shines is how it challenges you to have complete mastery of your environment. Lights and heavys can be chained into their own specific combos, as well as specific directional inputs combined with your buttons for certain moves.

You’re equipped with a light and heavy attack, a dodge, and a guard/parry as your core moveset. Sifu takes inspiration from classic films such as Gareth Evans’ The Raid and Park Chan-wook’s masterpiece Oldboy, paying homage to the hardcore hand-to-hand combat scenes from those films. Don't worry, it sounds more complicated than it is.Ĭombat is the star of the show. Once you reach your next decade, you lose access to a set of unlockable abilities for that run (barring the ones you’ve already unlocked, of course). These can be unlocked for a specific run, or they can be made permanent by purchasing them five more times after an unlock (this does not have to be done on one run, however). The game has unlockable skills using points obtained upon death or after reaching a shrine. The older you get, the more damage you take, but you also deal more damage. So what happens as the years pass? Every decade the hero visibly ages. Defeating enemies can reverse this counter to decrease how much you age upon death, though. This culminates with your first death over the age of 70 being your last.

If you die again, your death counter is two and you’re now 23. So, you start the game at 20, you die once, your counter is up one, and now you’re 21. This, however, comes at a price: every time you die, you age another year and a death counter ticks up by one. The core mechanic involves the medallion that revived your character as a child, which gives the Hero the ability to cheat death. Sifu tasks you with making your way through five stages to defeat those involved and eventually find Yang. If you wish to jump to a certain level in your next attempt, be aware of the caveats listed on our How to Replay Levels page.Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) Fear not, you retain any permanently unlocked skills and all collected Board items, but you must begin again. If you die after reaching 70, you hit a game over. The older you get, you also become more of a glass cannon able to deal out more damage with your attacks, but your structure is more easily broken and enemy attacks hit much harder. Lose the bottom charm, the bottom chunk of skills will lock. You'll see that the skill tree is segmented, each one aligning with one charm on the pendant. Also, take note of the fact that certain skills on the skill tree can only be purchased/unlocked if you remain below certain age thresholds. These cannot be recovered for the remainder of that run. As you hit certain age milestones, starting from 20, then 30, 40, 50, 60, and finally 70, you’ll lose one of your five charms on your pendant. Not only does death (and the consequential aging) after your character’s visual appearance, it also has an impact on gameplay. To learn of the various ways you can maintain and lower your Death Counter, check out our How to Reset Your Death Counter page. Though aging occurs very slowly to begin with, a successive number of deaths can quickly age you nearly a decade at a time. Should you die again, the counter will be raised to 2, and you’ll turn 23. You begin the game aged 20, and your first death will add a point to the Death Counter, bringing you to 21.

Sifu girl character