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Original story: The movies Oldboy and The Raid come to mind as the most obvious recent(ish) reference points for Sifu, a kung-fu brawler announced during a PlayStation stream today. The grimy hallway in the trailer above looks pretty familiar, for example. What's really exciting, though, is not just that Sifu is reminiscent of some cool movies, but that the developer behind it is well-equipped to nail the material.


Sifu is the next game from Sloclap, the studio behind under-loved fighting game Absolver. There are a lot of ways Absolver is good, but to me, its best feature is the ability to customize your fighting style, mixing and matching moves to design your own complex rhythm. As a fan of 1978 Jackie Chan movie Drunken Master, I spent a long time developing my skills with Absolver's clumsy-looking Stagger-style moves, and had just as much fun testing my abilities against other players as I did experimenting with movesets against AI fighters.

Unlike Absolver, Sifu doesn't appear to have a PvP element—it might, but Sloclap hasn't mentioned one, so I'll have to ask. The focus of the trailer is all on the singleplayer story, which seems to have a roguelite structure of sorts. The premise is that we've spent our lives training to take revenge on the assassins who killed our family, but have to do it in a single day.