If Street Fighter and Sekiro had a baby, then Kill Bill and Deathloop had a baby, then those babies grew up and had a baby, this would be that baby.

Sifu is a great game, unfortunately not for me.

My problems with Sifu are the same as my problems with fighting games in general. My fundamental problem with games like this is I do not enjoy the expert timing required. Invariably I will input the correct combination of down, up, power attack only to be slightly too slow or slightly too fast, resulting in my on screen actions not meeting my intended actions. All the while I'm needing to pay careful attention to the enemy cues to expertly time my party moves to throw my enemy off balance or decide if I'm juking high or low to dodge their power attack.

The game is beautiful and runs amazingly, I'm compelled by the story but ultimately I returned the game after reaching the ripe old age of 50 in chapter 2.

While Sifu isn't for me, I have no problem recommending the game if the mechanics that failed to resonate with me, instead resonate with you.

I can recognize that while not for me, the game is still deserving of praise. I'll just watch someone good play it online!

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. - Sifu after watching Bruce Lee in 'Longstreet'