Sifu

Battling with your fingers of fury

- By Oscar Taylor-Kent

INFO

FORMAT PS5 (reviewed), PS4

PRICE £39.99

ETA Out now

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PLAYERS 1

LENGTH 6 hrs min

ACCESSIBILITY Subtitles; in-depth control remapping; adjustable camera speed, shake, and smoothing

Seek revenge and you should dig two graves.” Confucius may have got that right for most of us, but what he didn’t expect was a magical talisman that’d allow you to rise from one of those graves, albeit older with each resurrection. In Sifu, your vengeance is more likely to come to a premature end when you simply give up in frustration and walk away – this brawler is brutally punishing.

Having spent eight years training to exact revenge on your father’s killer, you’re now ready to bust into five lairs to take down each of his henchmen, then the man himself. But it’s not as simple as ticking off five levels of rhythmic combat – hitting r with w combo finishers, holding o to block and parry while tilting the stick to evade. Beating opponents once isn’t enough, as you need to stay young to survive, forcing you to run back through levels to try to get your overall age down.

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