I guess it’s pretty interesting that it’s being done in 3D over the shoulder style, although it does on one or two occasions switch to a 2D side on camera when it starts to fret that the reference might be going over peoples’ heads. It even ends each level with a colourful boss and litters the environment with disposable melee weapons because apparently the only things people throw away in this world are beer bottles, broom handles and fileting knives. Okay, so it’s a game where you go through a sequence of levels based on urban settings where every single person you meet from junkies to janitors to businessmen to substitute maths teachers is trained to the exact same standard in one highly specific martial art, except for the fat ones who all learned grappling techniques from handling their enormous sandwiches – oh wait that’s not very interesting either, that’s just the bog standard retro arcade brawler template. You play a young martial artist who as a child watched their mentor get killed and who then trains for years before going flip-out spanky-wa – oh hang on that’s not very interesting at all. View Full Transcriptīut anyway, I’d been getting requests for Sifu and finally had the chance to play through it last week, and I’d have to say it is an interesting game. It’s like how it’s easy to lose confidence in your stand-up set if the opening act was a gigantic golden dancing rhinoceros that spunked diamonds at ballistic velocity and killed eleven audience members. I think Elden Ring might’ve frightened everything off. It’s not usually this bad this time of year. They’re so fucking dead they’re planning to start their comeback tour in Sarajevo. Sifu is a third person brawler that came out a while back but holy Jesus human centipeding Christ are new releases dead right now. And sometimes even manages to get through the whole process inside a century, Shenmue. So we did the samurai movie plot in Trek to Yomi, in which the protagonist watches their mentor get killed as a child and then trains for years before going flip-out spanky-wanky all over the baddies responsible and eventually concluding that revenge isn’t really worth it, now let’s turn to Sifu and explore instead the martial arts movie plot, in which the protagonist watches their mentor get killed as a child and then trains for years before going flip-out spanky-wanky all over the baddies responsible and eventually concluding that revenge isn’t really worth it, while not wearing a pointy hat. ![]() We have a merch store as well! Visit the store for brand new ZP merch. Want to watch Zero Punctuation ad-free? Sign-up for The Escapist + today and support your favorite content creators! This week in Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Sifu.įor more major games Yahtz has reviewed lately, check out Hardspace: Shipbreaker, Salt and Sacrifice, Rogue Legacy 2, Teardown, Weird West, and Elden Ring.
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