Hello everyone, following our combat system overview, we wanted to give you a preview of our death and aging mechanic. We have received a lot of questions regarding our progression system, and I tried to answer some of them below!
Kung fu or "gōngfu" can refer to any discipline or skill achieved through hard work, practice and patience. kung fu as a martial art carries the concept of endless self-improvement, of a mastery kept alive and relevant by permanent practice. In that sense, a single life is never enough to know, or have, kung fu.
In Sifu, our hero, although they've been training their whole life, are only 20 years old. They are driven by a burning desire for revenge and will have to face a dangerous group of assassins, who have become prominent figures of the city and are based in well defended strongholds. Our young student does not have the luxury of an entire life ahead of them to improve their kung fu, and as they depart on their path of revenge, at dusk, they will have to find and defeat all of their enemies in a single night.
As we have already shown before, our hero has one powerful tool to help them on their quest: an ancient pendant that can heal them back to life. But nothing is ever free. That pendant has to be fueled with life energy, and every time they get back up, they will age.
That means that you will start the game with a limited resource that you must manage carefully if you want to reach the end of your quest. Aging will not make you weaker, but it has a slight impact on your abilities: as you get older, you will trade maximum health for offensive power. Your character's model will also showcase how old you are, and you will be able to contemplate the consequences of your actions. But getting older has no drawbacks on your abilities and you will be able to complete the game at any age.
The ability to rise up after death gives the opportunity for players to get right back in the action, over and over again. Before getting back to the fight, the death screen is actually a good spot for players to take a breather and reflect on their past mistakes. It is where they'll be able to unlock new skills and open more options to deal with the situation that caused their demise. Skills can also be unlocked in the hero's Wuguan, accessible between missions, and in Shrines found throughout the levels.
Shrines will also allow you to improve your character during runs, by giving the player a choice between different perks, each one with different costs or requirements. Along with skills, it will allow you to specialize depending on what you feel you need the most: more health, additional focus charges, max structure increase, weapon durability etc.
Those upgrades are not lost on death, and along with the ability to rise up immediately when you fall, it might give you at first a feeling of invulnerability. But this will not last, and the more you die, the faster you will age. This takes the form of a death counter: the first time you die, you'll age by one year. The second time, by two years, the third by three, and so on. The only way to lower or reset that counter is to use one of the available shrines or beat specific enemies such as the chapter bosses.
Ending a chapter will reset your death counter, but your age will not be affected. There is no way to get younger, you will only get older as you fall and get back up – you can cheat death for a while, but in the end time catches with everyone. Past a certain age, you won't have enough life left in you to sustain the pendant, and you won't be able to get back up anymore. Your ultimate death will translate into a definitive game over.
Although you will lose your unlocked skills and upgrades upon a game over, some elements are persistent. Each time you complete a chapter of the game, it will create a saving point with the age you had when you finished it. You will be able to continue on to the next chapter or play it again to try and improve your performance. Besides save points, you will be able to permanently unlock skills by spending more experience points, making them available right away at the start of a new run.
Finally, the detective board, which illustrates the progress of the main character on his investigation, will retain all the information you've already gathered, even after a game over. Beside keeping track of the various clues and story elements you gathered on your five enemies, the detective board will also show you shortcuts, hidden rooms or doors you unlocked on previous playthroughs, allowing you to quickly get back on track.
These features will help you on your quest of revenge, but they will not replace training and practice.
Do you have what it takes to know kung fu? Find out on February 8, 2022.
Greetings to the PlayStation community! I'm Félix, marketing manager at Sloclap, and I've worked with the team to give you this short overview of Sifu's combat system and a sneak peek into our design choices.
Building on our experience working on martial arts gameplay with Absolver but focusing this time on a single-player game, we wanted with Sifu to offer a unique player experience, heavily drawing from kung fu and martial arts movies. Fighting villains by the dozen in a nightclub, jumping over tables and throwing bottles, we want the player to feel like the main character of a kung fu movie.
In terms of design, it meant for us striking a balance between credibility – realistic combat techniques, faithful animations – and esthetics, with crisp action and immersive camera framings. With Sifu, we wanted to mix the esthetics of classic kung fu movies with the raw close-quarters combat found in modern movies such as The Raid, Old Boy, or John Wick.
The combat system draws from these different inspirations. We want the gameplay to offer a challenge consistent with the kung fu values of training and self-improvement. And we want players to experience a progression, to feel like they are learning kung fu, improving, and progressively earning their power fantasy.
We designed what we called the Structure system, to emulate the real combat notion of impacting and breaking the stance of your opponent, his ability to attack and defend himself. It takes the form of a gauge, for both you and your enemies. If you manage to break your opponent's structure, you will be able to finish them with a powerful takedown, which is the opportunity to display the devastating techniques of Pak Mei. But if your own structure gauge is filled, you’re unable to fight and defend yourself for a short duration and you will find yourself vulnerable to your enemies' attacks.
Blocking attacks will quickly fill your balance gauge, and we've given the players a few more flexible defensive options. Dodges will allow you to create space at key times and can be life savers. But more importantly, parrying hits at the right time will let you deflect the blow, unbalancing your opponent and opening opportunities to counterattack or to throw them down. You can also avoid blows altogether, by ducking under or jumping over incoming strikes. It is particularly useful against strong hits that you can't parry or to quickly recover balance and strike back at your opponent.
The player will start with an offensive kit able to deal with any opposition, but it will take you some time to learn the different properties of the techniques available to you. You can mix strong and fast attacks to build combos, on a single enemy or going from one opponent to the other. And as you progress and unlock new skills, you will have more options available to fit your playstyle and how you like to approach challenging situations. You will be able to knock your enemies down, push them back into their allies, stun them or disarm a threatening foe. It will be particularly useful as you start fighting more and more opponents at the same time.
Fights against multiple enemies are at the heart of the Sifu's gameplay experience. We aimed at finding the right balance between having the player feeling surrounded and challenged, but not overwhelmed by the amount of aggression coming at the same time. We've chosen to use a dynamic lock system for the camera, to allow for quick and responsive swapping between multiple targets. We've worked on optimizing the game to ensure a stable 60FPS frame rate on PlayStation 4, as well as on PS4 Pro and PS5 of course, to provide a smooth and reactive experience. We want combat to feel like a back-and-forth motion, with enemies forcing the players to react, to use a variety of crowd control techniques and good positioning to prevail.
Beside relying on their favorite Pak Mei techniques, players will have to make clever use of the environment to overcome the unfavorable odds they will be facing. We have introduced usable elements to all combat situations, be it furniture you can toss into your enemies' feet, throwable items, makeshift weapons or tables you can leap across. They add options for the players, who are free to approach a given situation from different angles.
Finally, players will be able to rely on precise and powerful techniques through the focus mechanic. Focus is a resource that builds up as you fight, filling up charges that you will progressively unlock during your playthrough. Using a focus charge will slow down time and allow you to choose a weak point of your opponent to perform a devastating technique, disabling or seriously wounding your enemy. Players will be able to access different focus attacks as they unlock new skills, allowing them to adapt to specific situations they struggle with.
This overview may give you an idea of what will be expected of you to learn kung fu and achieve your revenge in Sifu, but nothing replaces good practice.
Sifu releases on PS4 and PS5 on February 8, 2022. Find out more about Sifu's death and aging system in our next PlayStation Blog post, publishing later today.
To mark a period of 21 years since the expulsion of Kid A and Amnesiac from a converted barn in the Oxfordshire countryside into an unsuspecting world we've built… something. We aren’t sure what it is.
To start with, when we first started thinking about it, we intended to build a physical exhibition/installation in a central London location.
It was going to be a huge red construction made by welding shipping containers together, constructed so that it looked as if a brutalist spacecraft had crash-landed into the classical architecture of the Victoria & Albert Museum in Kensington.
This astounding steel carapace would be inserted into the urban fabric of London like an ice pick into Trotsky. Jutting up into the grey English sky. And then – being constructed from shipping containers – we could ship it around the world… New York, Tokyo, Paris…
But then we couldn't fit it at the Victoria & Albert without parts of the museum building collapsing. So we changed location – now it would look as if it had crashed into the side of the Royal Albert Hall. But Westminster council didn't like the idea one little bit. And then Covid delivered the final annihilation.
Our dream was dead. Until we realised… It would be way better if it didn't actually exist. Because then it didn't have to conform to any normal rules of an exhibition. Or reality. Much better.
So…
With Nigel Godrich we have been working on this for about two years, through lockdowns, self-isolations and many very long intermittent Zoom calls. We worked with Sean Evans, a genius video/computer artist who directed it all with awe inspiring dedication and energy, theatre set designer Christine Jones and the game developers [namethemachine] and Arbitrarily Good Productions. And finally persuading Epic Games to help us put it out to the world.
We had one guiding principle, visually. NO NEW WORK.
Because… there was loads of it already.
Like really.
Like a really crazy amount… You'll see.
Everything that we built came directly from what we made 20 years ago, in one way or another.
And we had all the multitrack recordings from the albums so we were able to rebuild the audio from the original elements in a new controlled space which wasn't just stereo. That was a lot of fun.
Working on something as strange as this over long Zoom calls with a large team of technicians all around the world has been one of the strangest experiences we have ever had. Unreal in every sense of the word, especially within the months of almost total human isolation. In all those days of blankness… A small Minotaur sat on one shoulder saying 'This is too mad. This ain't ever gonna happen' And the other shoulder sat another saying ‘Oh yes. It is.’ What we have made is… it’s something like a mutant re-engineering of Kid A and Amnesiac. But that's enough now. Enough!! It's all yours…
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It’s fun to forget the time and immerse yourself in the game or to play against strangers online, but one of the most charming elements of gaming is that you can play together with your family and friends on one screen. Here are 15 recommended titles that offer local multiplayer by connecting multiple DualSense™ wireless controllers to one PlayStation®5. *Including PlayStation®4 games
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles
Tag team with your friend to enjoy 2-player team battle
“Kimetsu no Yaiba”, the popular comic and anime is now a battle action game! In Versus mode, you can enjoy online and local multiplayer battles with up to 2 players in 2vs2 team battle. 12 characters who fought powerful battles in the anime, including Tanjiro Kamado, Nezuko Kamado, Zenitsu, Inosuke, and Rengoku, are joined by 6 characters from the official spin-off, “Junior High and High School!! Kimetsu Academy Story”, for a total of 18 characters to join the battle! Moreover, demons will be added as playable characters in free updates scheduled after release. Show off your ideal teamwork to your family and friends just like those fighting buddies in the anime!
To the forefront of the heated battlefield that unfolds in an unprecedented scale!
The latest installment to the FPS franchise “Call of Duty” which is popular not only in Japan, but all over the world. Whether dogfighting over the Pacific Ocean, airdropping operation in France, defending Stalingrad with sniper's precision, or blasting through advancing forces in North Africa, this game portrays the heated battlefields of World War II in an unprecedented scale. In the immersive campaign mode, soldiers from different countries and regions work together to confront the greatest threat in human history. You can also compete online with players from around the world in Call of Duty’s multiplayer mode and attack the undead horde with your friends in a new Zombies game mode.
The adventure game dedicated to two-player co-op play offers both local multiplayer and online multiplayer features on a split screen. The players will take control of either Cody or May, a couple trapped in a mysterious world. Each stage is full of unpredictable and cooperative gameplay gimmicks. Overcome a wide variety of challenges while helping each other. Embrace a heartfelt story about reconnecting people where narrative and gameplay are interwoven in a uniquely metaphorical experience. Collaborate with friends to enjoy the memorable adventure of Cody and May in the journey to overcome their differences.
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FIFA 22 is the latest version of FIFA, a series of soccer games. The game supports not only online multiplayer, but also local multiplayer for up to 4 players. With the goalkeeper rewrite, true ball physics, and the “Explosive Sprint” that allows you to control acceleration of movements during dribbling and defense more freely, the soccer battle is hotter than ever with additional gameplay functions! The PS5 version uses the newly developed gameplay technology “HyperMotion” to combine mocap data of all the improved teamplays with machine learning. Gameplay enhancements in every match will give you the remarkable, realistic, responsive, and sleek gameplay experience.
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Long-selling, fun games to compete or cooperate with friends
Fortnite
Take on the challenge in 2-player team "DUO" and 4-player team "SQUAD"!
The free-to-play game that is a massive hit all over the world for its unique system that allows you to build with the materials you collected. You can compete in PvP mode with up to 100 people to survive the battle royale or collaborate with your friends to create the Fortnite world you dreamed of. With the split screen function, you can challenge the online battle of two-person team “Duo” or four-person team “Squad” side by side with your family and friends using just one PS5 / PS4 and a TV. The PS5 version allows smooth gameplay with breathtakingly beautiful 4K image quality and 60fps even in split screen mode. Let’s fight to become the last survivor, Victory Royale! *Players must connect to the internet to play Fortnite.
Embark on a great adventure in this 4-person co-op game!
Sackboy, the main character of the Little Big Planet series, has made his way to PS5! Players can enjoy the exciting 3D adventure on Craftworld not only through the single player mode, but also through the local multiplayer mode with friends and family. Up to 4 players can participate and challenge various game stages, whether they are snow-covered mountains, bird-singing jungles, undersea kingdoms, or the outer space. There is also a stage dedicated to co-op play. The various stages are full of gimmicks that both adults and children can enjoy together. The excitement that you feel can be doubled by playing with your friends! Let’s have an adventure in the cute Craftworld together!
Build megastructures with friends and embark on an adventure together!
Minecraft is the adventure and construction game that can be enjoyed by both children and adults. Not only does the game offer an online multiplayer mode, but also a local multiplayer mode that supports up to 4 players on split screen. In this world, wood, sand, minerals, and animals are all made from cubic blocks. Constructing huge buildings together with everyone is super fun, whether it's during the construction works or when it is completed. It is reassuring to have family and friends exploring dangerous caves and travel through the dark nights together. You can also create minigame maps to play tag and hide-and-seek, so let’s find various ways to play with innovative ideas. Whether it’s the building or the adventure, it's more fun if you play with your friends!
Happy cooking with up to 4 players to compete or co-op!
The complete edition that includes the main story of Overcooked and Overcooked 2 and all the additional content released up to date. Join with other 60 chefs to serve delicious food that will satisfy hungry diners. Enjoy co-op cooking action with your friends in local multiplayer and online multiplayer that support up to 4 players. Aim for a high score together during “cooperative play” or compete against rival chefs during “competitive play” in the 29 stages that the Arcade Mode has to offer! An “assist mode” has also been added that allows beginner chefs to enjoy themselves with a peace of mind.
DualSense Wireless Controller 〜Choose your color and play together!〜
The haptic feedback and trigger effect (*1) of the controller react with variable intensity to provide a deeply immersive gameplay experience unlike anything else, allowing you to experience more in-game actions with your own hands (*2). This controller with characteristic design is equipped with a built-in microphone and create button. ＊1 You can experience this feature in a game that supports it. ＊2 In comparison to DUALSHOCK®4 wireless controller.
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