back again with the pro tips because I am the greatest SIFU gamer evar

Brought a stick to fight those two before Sean. They took the stick and beat me up with it.

It’s such a fun game. I expected to get frustrated a lot more but because it’s so damn fun it doesn’t bother me as much to die.

just a tip, if your're having pain from holding down L1, you can change from Hold to Toggle in the controls, that way you only need to press the button once to go in and out of block/dodge

I would like to see DLC for this game that gives you different styles to try, complete with different combos to learn. I feel like Muay Thai would be a great style to take advantage of the game mechanics in SIFU... you spend a lot of the game (at least I did) using your defense to setup your offense, and I think that would translate well into the game, like maybe tapping Guard to check a kick, immediately followed by tapping Strong Attack to follow up with a tepe before launching into a series of Fast Attacks to pummel your opponent. Or using a special move to stun, going into a clinch with the Throw button, and dropping knees and elbows before dropping the opponent with a leg trip. Just my idea, anyway.

Additional taunt/multiplier tip. You can taunt cancel to quickly increase your multiplier. To do this, hold block/avoid and taunt, then as soon as the multiplier increments, move the left stick to avoid and cancel the rest of the taunt animation, then taunt and cancel again. I can often get to x5 multiplier by getting 3 taunt cancels in, in the time it takes to do one normal taunt. You can also cancel the taunt animation with a dodge if the enemy gets too close. This allows you to 'combo' dodging away from enemies and taunting so you can build your multiplier while on the retreat. (for example: taunt, cancel with a dodge backwards, taunt, cancel with a dodge backwards, taunt, cancel with an avoid/dodge then get back into the fight with a x5 multiplier)

I absolutely love Sifu. It's about aquiring skills that take a life time, over the corse of a few hours. Its hard because mastering an Art is punishing. I feel like people thought we were going to get a Bruce Lee Simulator. Badass, power fantasy, breezing through rooms of thugs in an instant. Instead we got a Jackie Chan Simulator. Constantly on your back foot, scrambling for objects and using your surroundings to your advantage. We aren't use to games making us work for our Power Fantasy.

1:32 When you said I could go back to a level to reset the checkpoint of the lives. I found hope of completing the game again thank you. I was stuck on age 73 at the tower and kept dying in a few hits. I went to Sean and beat him easily with my skills so I reset my age from 60 to 30 on kuroki. Beat her fairly EASIER. Now I can do the tower on age 32 instead of 73. That’s all that matters to make the game more fair. Go back and reset your age if you can’t succeed

seriously this game is so cool. i just get mine yesterday. and i cleared the first level (on many runs) at age 20. phew.. and thanks to you, i always use provoke whenever i encounter enemies.

Some really good tips there, I've put a 🤬 ton of hours in to this already.. Patience is necessary less is more. Tip- spend as much time practicing dodging and countering in the training room as you can stand. Its tedious but pays off insanely.

I would say L1 dodging(avoid) is pretty easy in most cases because you can downward dodge almost all attacks..and in a gank, spamming downward avoid can actually save you a lot of damage...EXCEPT in case of special enemies like bosses or long legged girls or disciples who like to spam sweep and palm strike. Sweeps destroy me, I cant seem to learn the sweep patterns so I tend to block em R1 dodge isn't very viable to be honest, as the follow-up/countering options are very limited and it doesn't give any advantage in offense Parry is something that is super-difficult to nail down in this game, and seems to be most rewarding for mini-bosses and bosses. Unlike Sekiro, the timing is very tight and the audio/visual cues of a successful parry isn't very satisfying or prominent to be very honest. I hope I can master parrying at this game, although it looks kinda impossible as of now.

perma-unlock everything. it's a common strat to play an earlier level to beef up your character for whatever is challenging you. If you're doing this you may as well focus on perma-unlocking all the skills prioritizing your most used. finishing Squats alone should grant you near 5k xp when you don''t use the shortcuts, that's perma-unlocking 2 500 point moves or 1 1000/750 pt move baby! and lets admit it, you're going to die of old age plenty of times anyway so you may as well KO as many enemies you can and collect that xp and invest because every time you reach museum or whatever and get your ass kicked and your old man's Life Alert runs out of batteries you can start over knowing you perma-unlocked a handful of moves you don't need to worry about buying anymore. Eventually you won't need to warm-up on earlier levels because you will have damn near everything permanently unlocked and repeatedly playing previous levels has hardened you into a killing machine.

When I was reminded of this Dodge it instantly made the game easier it's so much easier that spam back dodging or trying to consistently hit parries

Sifu dodging in 3 easy steps (PC only): 1. Remap guard to right-click. Heavy attack to the middle mouse button. 2. Hold right-click every time you engage in fighting unless you have to sprint. Move with dodge only to reposition when surrounded. 3. Think of every enemy attack as the blade-dodge takedown from the Arkham games, but instead of letting go of right click you just press up or down. Tap S (down) every time the enemy attacks while holding the right mouse button and you're good to go. Low avoids come into play from the second level, so you need to throw them in by tapping W (Up) when enemies do leg sweeps.

If you avoid attacks by RT dodging away, you will never be in position to counter attack. Use L1 with the stick to duck and hop over attacks while staying in the fray or, parry with L1. I have bad hand pain but that doesn't mean using the right trigger for this will work well. I have to play less and take breaks when it gets bad. The right trigger dash move should be used to dictate your position in battle instead of using it to dodge attacks. There are some exceptions and times when you will need RT to dodge but not many. This seems to be what the devs intend from what I can tell. Good luck.

You can also remap all the buttons if you want, to suit your playing style. Or avoid having sore thumbs and fingers. I have both top triggers as my dodge and dash. My heavy attack is square, light attacks are triangle

I’ve realized combos work like this. The combo only counts as a combo when you land the hit. It’s not like other games where you just input a combo, hit or miss and the combo works. In Sifu attack has to hit for the combo to work.

Never Focus on beating down one guy when you surrounded by group, hit the guy 2-3 times then wait holding parry button, during that small window you can easily see who's coming charging at you 💯

I wish you can select a different opponent in the training mode. 😕

The game is so fun and when you get better it is so rewarding. It gets to the point when you die you know damn that was my fault. I should have did this or that. This vid helps as well. I never taunted. Now I'm taunting all the time lol

Thank you so much for this video I got to the museum at age 70 and there is nothing I could do but now that I know that I can go back to the youngest age and go back through the game hopefully without dying I can get to the museum at a younger age thank you so much!

Personally I prefer to dodge with L1 just because to me it’s actually easier, I have noticed that when you dodge at least one of their attacks it, the game goes slow mo almost for their next attack and then it’ll be easier to dodge the next attack which leads to a punish, also the dodge without the L1 is good to distance yourself but if you accidentally dash to the side the enemy will still continue his combo and hit you rather than L1 dodging you can punish immediately after one dodge

You can use the directional dodge (block + direction) to stop your taunt animation and its till gives multiplier

Jesus dude. Just got done playing for my first time and I’m literally sweating.

i’ve found that the best L1 dodging practice are the first two bosses i can get it right about 80% of the time (it feels like it at least)

in the options you can switch the controls from HOLD type to TOGGLE type. This applies to the L1 dodging and R2 sprinting, I tried it and it was very jarring but I don't know if its a better for someone with hand/wrist issues.

Just before youre about to die hold ps button and close the application on ps4 menu. Now start sifu again and continue and you'll be back before the room you died in with all your points skills and upgrades, also your age before you went in the room will be the same.

U can change the button layout just a basic tip for your advanced tips

You can remap the commands. I much prefer blocking/dodging/parrying with a face button (in my xbox controller I use B for that and Rb+Lb to take downs and weapon stuff

spacing will help help immensely for any struggling (R2) it resets the neutral game with any amount of enemies on the screen

i only use L1 for block not to move out the way they can keep that button

obvious stuff .. i was hoping for PRO tips!

Damn fine tips. Usually these guides have maybe 1 good tip.. this is full

I grinded till I beat the first level at 21

Getting better at this game is a visual progression. The younger you are at the end of a level..the better you must be getting. My first playthrough, I finished the first level at 75 years old. After a few days, I'am now finishing the first level at 25 or a little younger sometimes.

This is on console, but I found the accessibility to be less of an issue on pc (although still there). I bound my parry to shift so avoid became shift + S/W. One problem that I found is that it's a bit hard to do what you exactly want after a parry. I often want to do the parry counter, but I keep holding shift after the parry and results in a staggering blow.

Hi Easynow Cold you explain me please how can I hit a fallen enemy?... I'm near to them and I press all the button but nothing happen

Remapping the L1 evade to R1 helped me because i was having trouble using it too. I would say im getting really good but i havent beat the game lmao. Like ive beaten the first level without dying a few times and im currently working on the second level😂 Edit: R2 is even better for me

how do you throw or push opponents??

It’s true you can switch it to toggle, but you also just don’t have to hold it down. Enter L1 + ⬇️ when the attack comes and it works the same

I built bad habits I think from playing too much absolver, so in this game besides low and high attacks it doesn’t matter which direction you avoid in?? So am I basically doing too much by avoiding in the same direction as the attack? i.e. left n right

if they are gonna make a 2nd game i suggest that let the players choose their fighting style whether its Kung fu,Muay thai,kickboxing,boxing just traditional fighting styles

Im still stuck on the museum boss. Jusr cant seem to hit her

One tip above all learn to parry and perfect your timing that will tqke care majority of your problems very soon

I play on PC. Going to try and see if I can switch for us and block/dodge

After playing for a while and utilizing the environment around me, i must say. It’s quite easy and rewarding now

Thanks

Would love some mouse and keyboard tips

Thank you. Now I think I understand how the death thing works. Sometimes when I play the death counter goes down, is it because I'm repeating that level and died to that enemy on the previous run?

How old was your character when you finished the game?

Thanks for the tips

The first level was fun the second level was ridiculous stick man it's so damn hard

If you had an overlay to show how you're using the controller would be a "game-changer" 🤣🤦😭

I wonder if someone can beat it without moves

so taunting is not useless like other game edit: rebine blocking to L2/LT it wont cause that much strain

Thanks for the vid, very helpful……..made it all the way to the club. 😎✌🏾🥋

I gunna beat the game without dying

If you don’t like the competitive side of the game and just wanna relax and enjoy the combos, just download the God mod for it and the game becomes easy real quick

How to hit the enemy when he is down. I am not able to do it.

My game glitch and now my block get stuck without holding it smh

i dont use l1 i use r2

Im age 22 at the museum on kuroki

I feel like the problem with this game is everything is so goddamn inconsistent. Especially the parry/dodging. Maybe it's just me but I don't know, it's been very off-putting. And some of the boss fights just feel cheap and not fun to fight against.

You don't have to hold L1 do dodge

Im not sure I like that "checkpoint" system very much. The first time i was able to move through the game staying at age 20, I used all the shortcuts. So I missed out on like half the Shrine bonuses. Now im able to move through the whole game staying 20, WITHOUT using any shortcuts and getting ALL the shrine bonuses!! But if I get hit, or if I die because i was experimenting and I restart the level, it takes me back to my checkpointed playthrough with no shrine bonuses. This should be changed. I feel like the playthrough with the youngest age AND the highest score is what should be checkpointed. Or at LEAST make it so restarting the level doesn't take you out of your current run. I Love the game!!! but this feature is a little unintuitive

***hold block/gaurd and spam left and right, rather than up & down and you block a lot more of thier attemps!!!***, does not work on bosses only normal enemies

Some serious skills are needed to make it through mate

how to throw an enemy?

You spelled "EVER" wrong.

Not sure your skill level is high enough to give advanced tips. You can’t even get past squats at 20.

This video said almost nothing useful over the span of 9 minutes… none of this is advanced

This video is the same as every single guide. Nothing new, and nothing helpful.

game sucks