Sifu - Easy Allies Review
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- Sifu is a challenging game that rewards perseverance with a combat system for the ages.
Written by Michael Huber
Video Edited by Don Casanova
Reviewed on PlayStation 5
Available on PC, PS4, and PS5
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Feels like I've been on a journey with Huber as this review came together.
Did Huber beat the game? Was it part of a stream? I'd love to see that moment
@@trulydeadly he did! 2 parts up on Easy Allies Plays channel, check em out!
This is one of the most complete, tough, rewarding and brilliant experience i had so far in the year, is amazing how this little game offers so much more than AAA games.
Glad to see Huber finally got to become a true Sifu to get the review going 👍
This game is something real special, and it feels so good to have been excited for this to come out and have it meet all my expectations. They wanted this game to be an homage to kickass action/martial arts flicks, and I think they delivered in full.
It's a brutal, relentless journey without mercy, but it's a blast the whole time. I FINALLY beat The Club this morning, so I'm looking forward to... eventually beating this game!
Best indie game since Hades IMO. Had a fantastic time learning and mastering the mechanics. Finally beating Yang under 25 is so god damn satisfying
I am still stuck with getting under 50 even 🥲
Phase 1 is easy now though
First review that recognizes the game’s featured martial art style of Pak Mei Kung Fu = 10/10. Pak Mei (also known as White Eyebrows) Kung Fu, was also featured in the Kill Bill films. I also heard a Cantonese VO track to Sifu is coming.
Glad to see you guys enjoyed it. It's tough but rewarding. One of the most interesting games on ps4/5 :).
Review well worth the wait. Excellent work as always Huber L&R!
nailed it with this review.
Many heavy hitters this year, I sure hope Sifu won't be forgotten by the end of it.
Good on you Huber! Glad you went from intimidated; to full rocking kung-fu badass.
As a competitive fighting gamer, I wish more action games put as much effort/challenge into their 1-player combat systems as Sloclap and Team Ninja do.
Great review Huber as always. I wish they did the camera better, seriously. Sometimes it's so distracting to me it's immersion breaking. But otherwise, this is some pure gameplay experience.
I think the camera works well for this kind of game. A challenging experience where your camera placement and control are part of your skill in it and detriment if your bad at it.
@@zackrose6261 I disagree. I NEEDED to get used to the camera. That shouldn’t even be a thing in any video game. The camera needs to be designed such that it assists you in combat by giving you 100% situational awareness most of the time from the beginning. That wasn’t the case here, chiefly being if the camera hits a wall and gives you too much of a close up you can’t see everything anymore. I needed to develop an intuition for when the camera was going to hinder my combat and adjust it accordingly, taking up some reaction time that could’ve been spent avoiding a fatal blow. That’s a design problem that they didn’t solve.
Granted, I don’t know what they could’ve done to fix this issue as the camera being all over the place once it hits a wall has been an cardinal video game issue since the dawn of all video games, but they still should’ve done something in this regard somehow since this game is very demanding gameplay-wise. Still though, for me critically the game is 8/10 due to this camera issue. It didn’t hurt by the end, even though it should never have, so it’s not a huge problem in the grand scheme of things.
@@yoloalchemist Personally, a camera should be of two things. it either assists, or works as a tool the player has to master as well. I personally don't feel like a game like sifu should have a camera that just assists the player in surrounding awareness.
@@yoloalchemist Yea, I don't think that camera issue with walls will be fixed for a long time in video games. Some games have some roundabout ways of fixing that by just having the spot disappear for the camera, but that can lead to other issues.
@@yoloalchemist I agree. The camera is my only genuine criticism of the game. Everything else is just damn near perfect
I loved Sifu. I'm usually not huge on DLC, but I'd honestly just love more content for this game.
Great review. I’m waiting for physical copies (release in May) but it’s nice to see a brawler-martial arts games like Sifu again. I hope it’s inspired more devs to do more brawler-martial arts games. Man i missed Jackie Chan stuntmaster, Sleeping Dogs, Urban Reign, God Hand, and the old Yakuza pre-Y7 😔
Can I just say for future reference: I don't care how long it takes for you guys to review games. I understand that most times, it's better to get the review out early at launch to catch traffic, but at the end of the day, I appreciate when I don't feel like reviewers rushed through a game or didn't finish it and gave an opinion. It creates a sense that they aren't being thorough enough. As was the case with some Horizon Forbidden West reviews. So I'm glad you took the time to finish the game Huber, and Easy Allies will always have my views.
Sifu reminds me of Golden Axe, both being very fun games I will never beat lol
Actually Huber showing his pain but perseverance for this review shows anybody can do it, but just like real martial arts... it takes time and effort.
@Nigel Smith really, golden axe?all of them?even in co op?that helped or I use cheat codes
@@quanticprophecy yeah, that's why I'll never beat it lol, I hate perseverance
@@paulsmith9192 my brother and I played the game together, but neither of us were very good. Maybe older us are better at the game though
@@NigelMelanisticSmith Fair lol, But at the end of the year we know Brandon gonna have to go in on that easy mode and there is absolutely no shame in that.
This game is true epicness holy shit... I'm on the final level age 30 but man is Yang a demon
Age 30 is a great place to be. You got it, just a couple tricky attacks to learn.
Dodge dodge dodge raining strikes repeat
Awesome game, I’m on the last boss. 1st and 2nd level I finished while being 22. I always dodge, I never parry. These fighting mechanics are something else 👌
I've been favoring easy mode for a long time. But I can appreciate games like Metroid Dread, Sifu, Demon's Souls. Games that offer varying levels of greater difficulty for the reward of repeated play and mastery.
I also give it a 9/10. Effing fantastic game!!!!!
thank you for not putting any of the side-scrolling segments in this review
you can't really "spoil" a game like this, but the side-scroll section in the first level had me shouting, and the fact that i didn't know it was coming amplified its effect
as someone who grew up adoring Jackie Chan and practically everything Raymond Chow touched with Golden Harvest, this game is absolute bliss
great review, huber
Sifu is a very fun and challenging game
I loved listening to huber on frametrap or the pod getting little updates on his progress haha. Great review!!
Your review of this game is words put to my feelings on how I feel about this amazing game. Thanks!
This is my GOTY so far. I can't stop playing.
So Huber finally managed to finish it then, good going Huber L&R, i can't get past the second level so i'm having a little break and trying to pass Camellia's What the Cat on Normal on Beat Saber and that's tough as well i can't do the last 30 flipping seconds :'D
No wonder Huber liked this. The main gameplay mechanic is bascially hand-to-hand Sekiro. Its truly a great game.
Glad to finally see this review! I stopped playing cause it has felt so difficult for me lol i cant even get passed the second level without going over 40
L1 and back on the stick are your best friend! Learn his patterns!
I hope you go back to it. Failure isn’t a bad thing. It’s part of the experience.
As someone who studied ACTUAL Kung Fu for over a decade, it’s al the same thing. Success and failure. It’s just about where you love the “doing”.
Keep trying, I believe in you friend.
I stopped too after getting to the final boss. Just wasn't enjoying the repetition.
Really wanted to pick this game up but I couldn’t afford it because I had to buy forbidden west and Elden ring Day 1… but hey I’ll come back to this later for sure
3:54 damn.... I felt that
Nice!
I'm so hyped for this game. But I'm waiting for my physical copy. And saving myself for Elden ring. 😍
Supported them before the review dropped. Games like this have been a rarity from the days of Jackie chan stuntmasters. Hope they make enough so we can see what they do next!
A truly masterful game, and I think this might be my favourite Huber review, nailed it.
The best game review channel period.
For the record this is a timed exclusive it will be coming to xbox later this year prob on gamepass.
Ha ha Before watching this, I thought that in this game when you get older was because after you lose, you run away to train a few more years then come back for another shot and for some reason those enemies are still stay there waiting for you. I guess magic amulet that revive you makes a lot more sense.
The animations are pretty clean. Kinda has my attention.
watched fistful of vengeance yesterday, the fighting is basically this game, reeeealy well done Slowclap. Next, a muay thai game based in thailand with only leg kicks and sweeps.
Great review. Couldnt agree more with the score.
Good job Huber and Don
the only sifu review that matters!!!
Excellent game and an excellent review - probably the best I’ve seen for the game so far. Well done!
as a fighting game player this game was a blast
but i can totally see how people outside of the genre run into a wall of frustration
luckily it was popular with streamers so they could learn that way how to play
it doesnt really accommodate absolute beginners
game so good I already spent like 50 hours in it....guess I need a life...or a DLC :)
just bought it on xbox for 16 bucks. im not in love with it, but i guess it was worth 16 bucks of microsoft rewards points so basically free. glad theres an easy mode, where each death is only 1 year cus i was 50 something by the end, i havent played normal yet and dont really want to cus id probably be like a lot of ppl stuck on level 2 forever lol
lol you never know why Huber gives games 9/10 rather than just 10 because his reviews are always so glowing.
I think a 9/10 is fair. Sifu was really good but i think they could've added a bit more content or options for replayability (harder difficulty, different enemy placements, maybe some challenge modes). I think for me personally, that would've made it closer to a 10.
Might pick this up, but I REALLY prefer Absolver.
Well done huber the review was worth the weight.
I’m still stuck on level 2..😁👍🍺🇦🇺
"To showcase elegant brutality", love it!
I know its a beat em up,aka final fight type,but wish had better story and characters like npc I can interact with.I hope in 2 they can have better story with combat.plus,dont make sound effects sound like I'm hitting a pillow
The sound effects are kinda realistic. Ever hear a person get punched in real life? It's nothing like the loud noises in movies or fighting games.
Great job Hubisoft ^^
Cool review!
You did it Huber! 🥳
Great game. Great review. Thank you Sloclap. Thank you Easy Allies.
How long is this game? Is it worth the price
I don’t know if this is for me
Strike First Strike Hard
*NO MERCY*
Can’t wait for this to make its way to Xbox in the future when the exclusivity ends
So true, this is by far the best beat em up that truly gives us something new, I love my old schools including the upcoming Tmnt game but this is what I've been craving from the beat em up genre.
Goty for me. Just amazing.
Great review guys.
And to think that someone gave it 4 or 5 because it was too hard. Jesus Christ, don't review hard games if you simply cant play
Good job Huber.
Love the graphics and gameplay, they should release this for n switch too.
Nice one!
GOTY Contender
This would've been so fun with multiplayer.
The final boss is kicking my ass
Dodge dodge dodge raining strikes repeat
@@paullucci I beat him yesterday I’m so happy now just waiting for Elden ring
9.0 ? Its a great game ^^ !!!
Its a good game but I personally think its more of a 7 than a 9. Too many issues with the camera and too many inconsistencies when trying to read enemy attacks really hurt the game for me (for instance attacks that you have to parry glow the exact same way as attacks that you are required to dodge, which is just weird). Overall its a step forward from Absolver, but the developer still has a lot of work to do when delivering satisfying mechanics.
You don’t have to parry anything and you can parry almost anything
@@paullucci What I meant was that there are certain unblockable attacks, and some need to be parried while others need to be dodged. The problem is that they both glow the same way. This makes some fights very hard to read, particuarly boss fights which i dont think are that well designed in general.
is the gameplay mechanics and learning curve similar or very different compared to sleeping dogs game ?
Far better than bugrizon fogbidden
as awesome as the gameplay is i wish the story/lore had more substance with better voice acting
I wish you’d said “challenging” instead of “hard”. “Hard” is more of a judgement call and up to individual perceptions. Meanwhile “challenge” is what built the industry. The original NES was sold as the “Challenge Set” and the box for the original Legend Of Zelda lists “challenge” in it 3 times as a selling point.
While the industry has “grown” by courting more passive players who want less activity and challenge, but those of us who like challenge are still here. We never left. And it’s unreasonable for the industry to now act like WE are the strange ones and weird niche.
Amen
Sifu, the Dark Souls of Beat-em ups, heck .. I don't think even Dark Souls is this hard XD
It just looks like it plays like Batman Arkham games on hard with Mark of Kri graphics
You get a bird in this too. It’s basically just Mark of Kri
Excspt the protagonist here doesn't fly around like a ping pong ball hitting enemies 15 feet away from them to continue their combo.
@@JackHarlowComboMeal So it's a less fun version of Batman. Gotcha. Sounds great....
This game legit ruined all other 3D brawler for me. Sleeping Dogs, Arkham, Mad Max.. all feel like child's play now.
It requires smart play and total mastery from the player, things that those other games severely lacked.
This game falls in a different category really. Those games are more about freedom and accessibility, Sifu is about unadulterated challenge.
While I think the commenter above me is super right, I do agree with you on Sifu replacing all other 3D beat-em-up brawlers for myself.
I went to those games for my doses of rad melee action, but now, Sifu really does feel like a sort of culmination of the genre. That, or at least a revitalizing of it.
Now that this game is out, Midnight Fight Express should be on any 3D brawler fan's radar. Much more in line with Sleeping Dogs/Arkham with its counters and crazy animations (all mocapped!), but still looks like a really sick brawler game.
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This game has a "check me out on Gamepass" written all over it (even though it isn't there......yet...) I can't see much in the way of replay value in this game...
I'm man enough to admit that I gave up
😱 why would they put easier and harder mode....the game difficulty is perfect.
L&R
I feel bad for those allergic to Sifu!
You don't have to be so shy with 10s! Sifu is an early GOTY contender!
Great review and fun game. Though it's disappointing as an Asian person to witness how many people are inured to orientalism that they simply can’t tell when something is gross exoticism
Better late than never, probably.
I feel like your video reviews are a little too spoiler-y. For example in this video you dropped 2 bosses on us without any warning. It wasnt a total give away but seeing their design and the arena you fight them in is part of the surprise when playing. Anyways…………. just throwing it out there.
It's a video game review. We have to talk about and show bosses. Not all of them or the final boss of course, but it's part of what we need to discuss. -Bloodworth
I'm drunk (apologies) but my god. Stop this awful format of members of the crew writing the review and Jones just read it as a manuscrript. Its soo fricking dull and done before since Gametrailers. Its also sped up for some reason. Its robotic. All of it, IMO
So you don't want members of the crew writing reviews? Or you want them to read their own reviews instead of Jones doing it? Pretty sure a lot of people like Jones' voice a lot and that's why he does it.