Absolutely developer Sloclap has announced its next game, Sifu, Thursday during PlayStation’s State of Play event. Considered an artistic and faithful Kung Fu game exploring themes of revenge and redemption, ‘ Sifu plans to release on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 and Windows PC (via the Epic Games Store) this fall, Sloclap said in a news release.
The trailer for Sifu reveals the main character, a muscular Kung Fu student, who bends and stretches in front of an altar. Then it cuts to uninterrupted action sequences that show the martial artist jerking and kicking through a hallway filled with opponents.
Sifu looks like challenging martial arts fights along with the themes and style of classic kung fu movies in a single-player game that tells a revenge story: The student spent their life training for a day of reckoning after the brutal murder of their entire family by a mysterious assassination group, according to the news release.
Here is more from Sloclap’s description:
Sifu‘s unique gameplay sits at the crossroads of two established and popular genres, stamping out the intensity and timeless excitement of beat em ups with the gripping design of 3D character action games. Against a detailed backdrop of a fictional Chinese city, you will discover an ancient mystery via a series of difficult confrontations that will test your skills to the limit. To overcome the chance that is strongly stacked against you, you must rely on your mastery of Kung Fu and on a magic pendant that will revive you to death. However, the cost of magic is expensive, and you will grow significantly older when you become alive again: time is the price you will pay for your revenge.
Both the hand-drawn art style and battles depicted in the trailer look like the first project of the Paris indie studio, Absolutely, which was released in 2017. Sloclap’s first game brought a martial art to the Dark Souls formula. Sifu is one of the many games supported by investment fund Kowloon Nights.