#Sifu developer free#

Set in modern-day China, players control the child of a martial arts school's sifu (master) who seeks revenge on those responsible for their father's death. But if you're looking for a balanced and polished experience or anything that allows you to have your own playstyle, then look for something else.Sifu is a roguelike beat 'em up video game developed by French studio Sloclap. Some people will jump in for the challenge given by the difficulty, which is also a very valid motivator. Some people will jump in because the level of mastery it takes to beat the game, and yes mastery is indeed a very valid motivation. But in this case, there is nothing for me that makes me want to face that difficulty and progress further into the game. The difficulty isn't a problem -lots of people like it. The camera is too often taking weird angles, obscuring your view, enemies glitches inside of walls, the auto-lock system is fussy and the game does a terrible work at explaining you how the controls work (I still don't know why sometimes my character leaps back before a heavy attack, but sometimes doesn't).

The game is NOT a roguelite by any mean, there is no randomness in builds, enemies or level design. I won't talk about the story because there's none.Īging doesn't actually do anything more than a limited continue system would, except for locking you in a glass cannon build, whether you want it or not. Yes my nerves go the better of me, shut up. The stages are pretty and feel lived in, but the enemy's lines will make you want to actually slap them across the face after the first half hour. Where are the disarms, throws, why can't I launch an enemy into another, why can't I parry into a lock, why can't I grapple? In short, why do I feel like I have less options in this game than in Street Of Rage 2?Īlso, stuff like dodges that leave you open in the last frames or having to hold a button to beat on a downed enemy (when it works) are terrible design options in the sense that they bring neither realism nor spectacle to the mix. The game is bland, with shoehorned mechanics that bring nothing to the table and other defaults that should absolutely not be there.Ĭombos are few and far between, attacks that actually let you control your range are grind-locked and don't really offer variety.

#Sifu developer free#

Still they made Sifu a playable product and added free content. So the developer didn't feel like the one to trust from the very start. And Sloclap Studios attitude to Absolvers community even became a meme. Developers just decided to make it as hard as they can so you wouldn't notice lack of content while replaying the same levels again and again.Ĭore mechanics are mostly a clone from the studios first game - Absolver, which they abondoned. And it's nothing really special except for this makes the game harder to play while it already has it's own difficulty system without which you would beat the game very fast and forget about it. Bad crowd control mechanic is still too essential and makes controls feel not really responsive. A grindy, repeatative, short game, with critical issues at release, some of which made the game unplayable like sometimes not even launching. But the bad taste still remains, because this product started horribly. Rehabilitated itself after lots of patches and additional content. Beat-'Em-Up game, overhyped at launch to make you buy it.