Once you’re ready to head back into battle, you can revive yourself with the caveat that you’ve suddenly aged. Here you can use points you’ve accrued to unlock new moves, combos, and abilities. Every time your health drops to zero, you collapse and enter a kind of limbo. And without a traditional tutorial in this demo, the best way for me to learn was to have the snot beaten out of me time and time again.īut it was through this initial failure in my preview that I got a crash-course on one of the defining features of Sifu – a mystical pendant that allows you to revive after death.
You have light attacks, heavy attacks, parries, dodges, parkour, a bevy of combos, a button to grab objects and another to toss them, and the ability to slow time for focused attacks.
And I’ll be honest – it took me the entirety of my first run through the demo in order to wrap my head around Sifu’s fast pace, sensory barrage, and deep systems. Seconds into the demo, the combat kicks in. Viewing the brutality of combat through this lens almost feels like you’re playing through somebody’s dream. I really dig the aesthetic that Sloclap settled on for Sifu – there’s a painterly quality to the visuals that makes each character and setting pop with expression. This demo sees you infiltrating a nightclub filled to the brim with people who don’t take kindly to your intrusion. Well, after running through a brief 15-minute demo of Sifu nearly half a dozen times for preview, I’m happy to say that it’s delivering on all of those aforementioned inspirations, though the brevity of our hands-on slice still leaves many questions on the table. While this all looked fantastic on paper, the big question was how it would all gel together once we could play it. The reveal footage pointed to a cinematic martial arts brawler that felt like it took the filmographies of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, added the “against all odds” brutality of Oldboy’s iconic hallway fight, and sprinkled in a bit of mysticism with a main character that seemed to age every time they got knocked out. Developer Sloclap’s follow-up to its 2017 multiplayer action RPG Absolver, Sifu immediately made a name for itself last February at a Sony State of Play. Sifu is a game that makes a remarkable first impression.
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