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Sifu Switch NSP Free Download GAMESPACK.NET Sifu is a kung-fu-fueled beat-’em up from developer Sloclap, the studio behind the multiplayer martial arts fighting game Absolver. Sifu, however, is a single-player affair that follows a young kung-fu student hungry for vengeance against the five martial artists that committed a heinous act. At a glance, the $39.99 PC game looks like it leverages Absolver’s combat, but the gameplay mechanics are streamlined to be simpler, and overall closer to the PlayStation 2 classic, God Hand. Sifu is brutally unforgiving, with a steep learning curve and harsh retry options that may turn some people away, but folks hungry for a challenge—or have a love for martial arts action flicks—will get a kick out of the game. Your protagonist is on the hunt for a group of traitorous martial artists who betrayed your family and dojo. It’s your typical kung-fu flick revenge plot, though it introduces a few supernatural twists right from the jump. You can check out the whiteboard in the game menu to see the detective-like connections the protagonist makes to get to his targets. This board gives you the basic backstory and character digest, without bogging the game down with excess story scenes or dialogue.TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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In fact, Sifu is surprisingly minimalistic in all the right ways. There are few hard cuts to event scenes, or lengthy pre-combat diatribes; everything you need to know about the game world is presented in-game. Your fists do most of the talking, in any case. You use the directional buttons to ask specific NPCs questions, but you can just as easily crack them in the jaw with a bottle if you don’t care to hear what they have to say. You are on a quest for revenge, after all, and there are a lot of punching bags in between you and your targets. Sifu uses a two-button combo system, with one button dedicated to light strikes and another dedicated to hard blows. Combining these two buttons in various ways results in different attacks, and you can unlock additional moves using XP. There are also a few special attacks that let you vary your assault. For example, tapping back, then forward, followed by a light attack results in a palm strike that shoves your target, which is great for knocking foes into walls or clearing space. The same input with a heavy attack initiates a sweep that drops weakened opponents. You can unlock a sliding sweep to trip enemies while you close the gap, or a counter-punch to use after a successful dodge.

The hunt for your enemies will take you through the hidden corners of the city, from the gang-ridden suburbs to the cold hallways of the corporate towers.

Besides health and damage, you need to manage Structure during scuffles. Structure is a mechanic akin to the posture system in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Essentially, as you deal damage to opponents, you also weaken their posture, which is represented by a yellow gauge beneath their health bars. When this gauge completely fills, the opponents’ stances are broken, leaving them stunned and vulnerable to a powerful finishing blow. The same is true for you, too. If you block too many consecutive blows, your Structure weakens and eventually breaks, leaving you wide open to receive an enemy’s attack. You can parry or block on the defensive side. Tapping the block button parries incoming blows, while holding block initiates a guard. There are advantages and disadvantages to both techniques. Parries interrupt enemy attacks, giving you a window to counter. The timing is strict, so you can easily mistime the deflection and eat a knuckle sandwich. Guarding is a much safer endeavor, but excessively using it rapidly depletes Structure—and that leads to a guard break. You can also evade attacks with a dedicated dodge button.Insomnis Switch NSP

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This is a back-step by default, but you can influence the movement with directional inputs if you wish to evade in a specific direction. Holding down the evasion button initiates a sprint that’s ideal for creating space or setting up a lunging attack. There are downsides to evading, however. It doesn’t give full invulnerability as is usually the case in action games; you can’t dodge through attacks like you can in, say, Bayonetta or Devil May Cry. You cannot dive into a mob and dodge your way out of harm, since you will inevitably get nailed by an errant swing during the animation recovery. The most important defensive tool in your arsenal is also the most subtle: the weave. While holding the block button, you can tap down to bob and weave under attacks. Like in God Hand, Sifu’s weaves grants you invulnerability to high strikes, with the added bonus of preserving your position. As a result, you can counterattack much more quickly than with the dodge. Weaving is a gamechanger, as it lets you defend in an aggressive, pseudo-offensive way that gives you the means to stand amidst a mob and dominate foes in a stylish, thoroughly engaging manner. In addition, tapping forward during a block performs a hop that lets you evade low strikes, but opens you to any incoming high strikes.

For every mistake, time will be the price to pay.

Both of these abilities are integral to Sifu’s action, so mastering them early is vital to completing the game. Admittedly, weaving and countering in Sifu isn’t quite as fast or arcade-like as God Hand’s defensive options, but Sifu is tightly balances the mechanics it introduces. It’s a blast to master the core abilities, especially as Sifu throws increasingly tougher enemies at you throughout the game. Sifu ponders the question: “Is one life enough to know kung fu?” Based on my own battered and bruised experience, the answer is a resounding “no.” Death is ingrained into every aspect of developer Slocap’s latest brawler, as you’ll die, die, and die again before licking your wounds and returning to the fray for another seemingly misguided attempt at emerging from a fight unscathed. Sifu is a punishingly difficult game that won’t appeal to everyone. Reaching its conclusion requires a mastery of its combat mechanics, so those looking for a challenging game that demands skill and improvement from the player will find exactly that in Sifu. It’s an excellent modern beat-’em-up with deep combat mechanics and a fascinating aging system that sets it apart from its contemporaries by altering the way you progress from one chapter to the next.I Was a Teenage Exocolonist Switch NSP

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Before delving into Sifu’s unique hook, it’s worth noting that its combat provides the basis for everything else that comes after. Sifu is primarily a game where your sole focus revolves around not getting hit. You have a variety of defensive techniques at your disposal, with each one proving pivotal depending on the situation. Holding the block button for sustained defence is the simplest way to avoid taking a crack to the skull, but this only works for a matter of seconds. Both you and your enemies have a meter for “structure,” which functions a lot like Sekiro’s posture system. You can block attacks as long as your structure remains intact, but taking too many hits will eventually break it and leave you wide open for enemies to capitalize on your mistake. You can parry attacks to prevent your structure from breaking by tapping the block button before a blow connects, but you need to be aware of when your assailant’s combo ends to have any success of halting their momentum. Parrying the first attack they launch your way won’t leave them open to a counter-attack if they’re going to follow that up with a couple more, so you might have to parry three attacks in a row before you can retaliate with a rapid-fire counter.

Careful positioning and clever use of the environment to your advantage are key to your survival

Being able to recognize and learn the types of combos each enemy type uses is the only way parrying multiple strikes in succession is feasible, which makes it difficult to achieve when you’re first learning the ropes. Fortunately, dodging doesn’t cost anything to use, allowing you to dash out of harm’s way when the situation calls for a little breathing room. This doesn’t muster quite the same level of satisfaction as successfully parrying an assault does, but both techniques also pale in comparison to the pure elation that comes from avoiding attacks while standing in place. By holding the block button and pushing the left stick in any direction, you can use slight body movements to slip punches and duck under head kicks to avoid taking any damage at all. The timing on this is relatively forgiving, so it quickly becomes a crucial tool in your arsenal, whether you’re fighting a rowdy group of enemies or a single, tough-as-nails foe. Being able to avoid an entire combo without taking a step backwards is a phenomenal feeling, particularly when you follow it up with a devastating counter-attack of your own. When you start ducking and weaving to avoid an enemy’s combo and then combine this with a parry to greet their final attack, everything starts to click into place and you really feel like a martial arts expert.

Sifu’s protagonist wagers that revenge against the kung fu masters who murdered their father is worth their entire adult life, and as I fought one of those masters for the 20th time, I couldn’t help but feel like I was becoming the butt of a joke. Was mastering the ability to dodge bullshit spinning trip kicks really worth this portion of my lifespan? Would the achievement notification after I slayed Sifu’s final boss fill me with a profound sense of satisfaction that made it all worthwhile? Well, it didn’t, and the story was disappointing, but at risk of sounding like I’m quoting some misattributed kung fu aphorism, the experience of mastering Sifu’s fighting (well, trying to master it) is enough of a reward in itself. It frustrated the hell out of me, but like the bag of chocolate chips I ostensibly bought for baking a few weeks ago, I can’t stay out of it, especially at around 11 pm, when I know I should just go to bed. That’s down to some of the most intrinsically enjoyable melee combat I’ve experienced—fluid, funny, improvisational—and a devilish structure that taunts me with its contemptible fairness.

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Sifu is like a dickish friend who’s always pointing out that whatever perceived injustice they’ve committed against you is technically not an injustice at all, and is in fact perfectly fair and even generous, if you really think about it. It’s a brawler with just five levels, each of which ends in a two-stage boss fight. Except for the final boss’s slightly annoying immunity to certain attacks, there are no tricks. The bosses can all be defeated just like any other opponent, and the opening credits even show you how to fight them. And when you make it to the second phase of a boss fight, Sifu even restores all your health. It’s so charitable that every time I died, I said a few short words of gratitude through clenched teeth. You aren’t even out of the fight when Sifu kills you (which it does frequently, if I haven’t made that explicit enough). Thanks to a magic talisman, the protagonist can be resurrected on the spot, which ages them by a number of years that increases every time they’re slain (and decreases under certain conditions). That gives them more than 10 chances to finish their mission at the cost of blowing through their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s over a few days. Hey, no big deal—some of those years were probably gonna suck, right?Aquadine Switch NSP

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