Not even a magic talisman can save you from being over 70. Your age carries over between levels with no way to undo it, and once you hit 70, that’s it, your run’s dead.
You start as a 20-year-old, and after every ten years of artificial aging your health bar diminishes, while your damage goes up (presumably from having taken a shortcut to increased mastery over kung fu). The more you die in quick succession, the faster you age. The only catch is that every time you revive, your age increases. Whenever you die, your aforementioned talisman brings you back to life. You technically have to complete all five levels without dying, but there’s a massive asterisk attached to that. Your aim is the same in every level: keep moving forward, defeat anyone who gets in your way, and kill the boss at the end. Eight years later, it’s time to hunt down the original five assailants and exact that revenge.Īs a story, it maps perfectly onto the structure of a segmented video game, and each assassin, now equipped with their own form of magic, becomes a separate level for you to play through. Luckily, our unnamed protagonist possesses a magical talisman that has the power to bring them back to life, and as you’ve probably guessed, they choose to dedicate the rest of their existence to training in kung fu for revenge purposes. One of the victims caught in the murderous rampage happens to be our real main character, who was 12 at the time. You rock up to a kung fu school with four of your best buds, kill everybody you run into, and then make like a tree and get outta there. It’s raining ominously for one, and (maybe more immediately noticeable), you’re not playing as the guy on the box art. When Sifu starts, though, something feels slightly off. It looks at the classics, then the modern descendants of that style, and finally puts its own unique twist on the whole thing. It’s a passionate celebration of what makes the genre so good. It’s not a tired bundle of tropes packaged together with an ironic detachment. You don’t need to be a kung fu film fanatic to appreciate this action game, though.
Well, with Sifu, my childhood dream is now a reality. Not the actual guy, but the version of him in those movies, where he could clear out entire rooms using luck, martial arts and whatever he had within arm’s reach. A rewarding and excellently made third-person action game with fantastic level design, and plenty of passion for kung fu.Īs far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be Jackie Chan.
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